The Now and Afflicted

Hey everybody, Let me talk first a little about what is going on with me right now before I get into something else. After a long season of hunting down whitetails in Pennsylvania it is time for me to get back to work. After I take that last trip into the woods to collect the last of my hang on treestands, it is time to head out west.

One thing I do not look forward to is the "JOB" of cleaning out the house and getting everything ready and packed for the season. With a Beautiful wife and a two year old stud of a son we have alot of packing to do. So once the car is filled to it's capacity we make one last mini vacation to wherever the NWTF convention is. This year it was at the Opreyland in Nashville, TN. We stayed for 4 days with my good friend Corey Ragsdale "Tail Chaser" and My wife's family. My father-in-law put on a good seminar about some calling techniques and I watched Bro in law Cory Gulvas work his magic in the Doubles Contest.

Time to head West.... Well, after a nice stay in Tennessee we are back on the road and bound for Surprise, AZ which is a suburb in west Phoenix. This is the site of the Texas Rangers Spring Training and will be my office for the next 6 weeks. As of now I am having a pretty good spring with a couple opportunities to play for the Major League Team. Coincidently, today was a great day as I hit a home run off of established major leaguer Cory Wade from LA Dodgers!

Enough about that, I want to write about why I love to hunt now. I love to hunt because it is flat out "FUN!" I am an adrenaline junkie I would say so I live for the moment of truth and really enjoy all the preperations that go into that moment. Just walking in nature and seeing all of the good Lord's Beauty is very awesome. Anytime I am in the woods, whether it be sitting on stand for hours or scouting or hanging stands, I can escape to my own little world away from everything. It is a pretty great feeling to get home from a long season of baseball and know that the timber awaits me. The thought of the encounter with Mr. Whitetail and possibly the encounter with some of those bad boys on the trail cam and even maybe "Mr. Buck of a Lifetime" is what drives me to be in the woods as much as I can during our hunting season. This is what Whitetail Affliction is to me!