You get these pictures and wonder WOW what I would give to see that buck. This thing is a true Giant.  Look at the mass and the spread.  If you know more about this buck then please post it.  I had not seen it until today.  Here are more pictures of this beast.  Man what a deer ! I know we will be hearing more about him. 

 A former Marine killed a bear with a single blow — by tossing a log at its head.

The bear had snatched the family’s cooler from their campsite in a national forest in northern Georgia. The 300-pound black bear was taking its loot back into the woods when Chris Everhart’s 6-year-old son threw a shovel at it.

Everhart says the bear started charging, so he grabbed the first thing he could find, which happened to be a log from the family’s firewood.

Everhart lobbed the chunk of wood, hitting the bear in the head and killing it.

“(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head,” Everhart said. “I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear.”

The close call earned Everhart bragging rights — and a ticket. Park authorities say he didn’t properly secure his campsite.

When I started out with the WHA everyone kept talking about what an inspiration I am to them and you know what I didn’t get it.  I am just me, the same me I was before I got hurt.  I love my family, friends. the outdoors, just like everyone else does is the way I see it.  So when confronted with being an inspiration it disturbed me;  as I am just living my life the best I can each and every day.  There is no quit in me and that is all I am going to say about anything I do that is special so when I met Ron Stewart who had followed me via the internet I was faced with this again. 

Ron Stewart was hurt in a construction accident and I had never met or even heard of Ron until I started writing on my blog www.hacksstand.com .  Ron proceeded to let me know that my courage in going on with my life had inspired him to go on with his life too.  My god, that hit me so strong and hard as I was getting it explained to me from another man, father, husband, hunter what it meant exactly to him.  You see my accident was immediate and permanent as I severed my spinal cord at T-9 so there was no thinking about it or drawn out pain of seeing it slowly fade away no matter what I did.  Ron’s injury is like that though.  He could still walk although very painful, and slowly it is leaving him as his spine and injury deteoriates.  He is now spending most of his life in a wheelchair each and everyday.

So after reading about me and seeing himself as I am in a chair, he felt that if I can do it then by the grace of god, he would do it to.  So Ron quit sitting around and feeling sorry for himself, thinking that he was being passed by and over by the real world and slowly fading out of real everyday life.  By following my written exploits and the video and articles posted on the internet about me, Ron Stewart was ready to face the rest of his life in a wheelchair.  After Ron explained what I meant to him then I think I grasped the understanding of what I did that inspired him.  You see I truly know I can do anything anyone else can do, I might have to find a different and even harder way but I know I can do it.  I try to not let the wheelchair or my injury affect my family or my life if I can help it and Ron was able to see that and to see that he could anything I can do, maybe even better. 

We exchanged several e-mails and talked on the phone and I feel a real connection with Ron now.  It was one of his last visits to the doctor that he sent me this prognosis.

   Went to the Doc’s this morning, got some disturbing news, the
osteomylitis has completely killed of the marrow in L4 and L5, and the
cavities are replaced with fatty tissue, which is evidence that L4 and L5
are officially dead bone, but hey , I still have all my teeth, so who’s
complaining, I already knew something had changed, I just didn’t know for
sure what.

I hated to hear that as I had held out hope that Ron would not be confined to a wheelchair.  We talked allot about our feelings and the bad days we have.  But the big thing I assured him was to try and be happy .  Find a way each day to do something with your family or for yourself to enjoy it to the fullest.  Not to be down and depressed as your family and friends feed on your emotions too and it sets the tone for their life with you.  That is all I am going to say about the hurt and pain that we share, as the important thing is what lays ahead for us both.

The last few e-mails have dealt with hunting, deer hunting, shed hunting, turkey hunting, the passion of being outdoors that still burns and can be lived to its fullest just as it was before.  I look forward to hearing from Ron Stewart and about how happy his family and him are and what they are doing.  He just found some shed antlers at his home in Pennsylvania and his seeing gobblers and hens in the woods behind his house.  I tell him how I hunt from a Kawasaki Mule and from an Eagle Sports Chair www.eaglesportschairs.com .  I also get up in a tree stand using a pulley and harness, not for the feint of heart or to be tried at home. 

This was one of Ron’s last e-mails and the closing which hits me hard when I read and think about it.

  I’m glad I got to know you Hack, the more I think about it we have
allot in common, more than the average people, and I feel very blessed to be
your friend, hope all is well for you and the family,

     Your friend forever,
                                                                            
                             Ron

This is Ron Stewart and his wife who he loves very much and she supports him and stands by his side through this life altering accident.  God Bless you both.

Jim Zumbo just stated what he truly believed and that statement made publicly in his forum got magnified into such an issue that it cost him his livelihood.  Here is a man that for 40 years has been one of the point men in keeping our hunting rights and gun rights for us all.  So he does not like or believe an AR or AK rifle or weapon has a fit in the hunting world?  I personally see no reason to ever hunt with such a weapon but I do think they are needed for sport shooting and self defense of life and property.  This is America and when someone has an opinion even if you don’t ageree with it so what?  Be outspoken on your opinion but don’t push to crucify someone jsut because they don’t agree with yours.   Our diversity in thinking is one of the things that helps to make our melting pot here in America so strong.  I see it being jeopardized by actions such as this that has cost Jim Zumbo his job, his TV shows and all of his sponsorships.  When we as hunters and gun owners turn on our own it gives all of the anti people a leg up from where they stood a month ago.  Oh the power of the written word is strong and everyone coming out and uniting against Jim Zumbo was really powerful; but I think we killed an icon that meant only good things for us all.  I hope our knee jerk reactions like this in the future can be more controlled and that we all understand what is happening.     

Outdoor Life editor in chief Todd SMith released this information in a statement from Outdoor Life.

 Jim Zumbo has offered to terminate his association with OutDoor Life and they accepted the offer.  That is after his comments in his Feb 16th Blog created such an issue.  Outdoor Life respected his right to Freedom of Speech; but their magazine also respects the rights and Second Amendment rights of others to own, shoot and hunt with firearms of their chose. 

Outdoor Life regrets the turn of events that got set in motion to cause this to happen as Mr. Jim Zumbo has been a lifelong advocate of hunter’s and gun owner’s rights.  His last article will appear in the April issue and then he affiliation with Outdoor life will be over. 

WOW.  Kind of like Woody Hayes, Bob Knight or I can think of several other’s as to when their agenda becomes bigger than the job the hold.  I respect all of those I just named and also Jim Zumbo.  You have to stand for something and take that stand when it is time.  But you also have to choose the right battles or you risk losing the whole war.  I too have been guilty of being wrong and outspoken when my belief does not set well with the majority.   

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up — fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth. However, little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, “My father’s an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear.

Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money.”

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and then took little Justin aside to ask him, “Is that really true about your father?”

“No,” the boy said, “He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get Hillary Clinton to be our next President…

but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids.”

A man riding his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, “Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.”

why she cries, what she means when she says nothing’s wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy.”

The Lord replied, “You want two lanes or four