ahhh... I can hunt this year.

I did my hunting safety and gun training courses last weekend, a total of 20 hours! I am excited to get into the woods this fall. I figure I'll get out at least 2 - 3 times minimum this year but I'm hoping for a lot more. I'm planning to take my camera with me to get some photos that I might use as reference for painting.

I'd like to get a GPS and a new shotgun. My father gave away my Baikal 12 gauge single shot in the mid '90s when I stopped hunting. I believe I'd paid 95.00 for it in the late '80s... a fact by itself isn't significant until I tell you it was made in the USSR by the "worker" before the fall of communism. The gun could not be bought and brought in/into the United States.