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Does anyone know of someone, or an establishment, that teaches archery lessons around the Gallatin/Hendersonville area?  I have a friend whose adult daughter would like that for Christmas.   Any help would be appreciated!

I feel your pain. I arrowed one last week. Trailed 2 days. Never found him. Gonna buy some luminol soon. One of those times ya wish ya had a beagle, feist, or mountain cur. Good luck! Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Wow. Just be happy ya weren't sitting in the stand when the branch fell. Lots of widow maker limbs out there. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Alas, after surgery on each wrist, one elbow and a shoulder, I'm stuck with a crossbow for archery....can't even draw a compound, much less a longbow.  I'd try it, but the deer would have to die from laughing at me.  Smokepole is as close as I'll ever get to the old ways.  It'll just have to be Natty Bumppo's killdeer for me.

  Ain't nothing more fun than an iron sighted charcoal burner.  Get to connect just for a moment with really old school hunting.

  If your employer is truly at will, they could fire you for 'anything else' (bad cause, good cause, or no cause at all....as long as it isn't for unlawful cause - Title VII protected class, for example).  They could fire you 'because you wore a purple shirt that day' - totally arbitrarily and capriciously - but have the hidden pretext that it was because you were known to (or even suspected to) have a gun in your car.  In wrongful termination claims, proving such pretext is darned near impossible.  As long as they show that they complied with the at-will statutes, or showed a valid business reason, you would have the burden of proof shift to you to prove pretext.  So....having a protection in T.C.A. that they can't fire you because of violating their parking lot restrictions really would serve no practical purpose.

Got the old TC Hawken .45 ready to rumble.  Iron sights are minute-of-pie plate at 100 using crossed shooting sticks.  Gun's likely much more accurate than that, and if I ran it from the bench it would probably surprise me.

No arrow. Likely either still stuck in him or exited across the ditch. Had a few drops on some small trees. Not much. Seems like the size of the drops on the ground varied from very small to about the size of a half-dollar.The last drops found were about the size of a half-dollar. Did the zigzag, Circle, retrace back to the last blood trail for the last five hours. Checked under logs brush and thick stuff. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

No luck. Combed the thicket. Nuttin. Blood trail vanished. No deer to be seen. Like aliens abducted him. Probably didn't hit him as well as I thought and he ran quite a ways. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Was walking along a logging road about 10:30 scouting. Heard a grunt, so I went to one knee and grunted back. In a couple minutes, here came a buck pushing a couple of does. Mind you I'm sitting out in the open. Well, The does passed me about 10 yards and pay me no attention. The buck crosses the gulley and stands broadside about 15 yards. I let the arrow fly. Thwap. Hit a little further back than I wanted. He moved right when I flung... good blood for about 250 yards, though. Then nothing. He headed up hill toward a thicket. But trail completely vanished. Heading back out to see if I can pick it back up. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Trail leading to clearing. Another trail joins from right. To the left back up the trail three trails join and to the right about 200 yards 2 more join the funnel. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Saw 7 yesterday. No shots though. 4 bucks 3 does. 2 bucks pushing one doe. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Hmmm. Pretty sure attorney costs would eat into that $275/week max UI benny. I'd wait to see if your employer contests your claim. If they do, file an appeal. Often employers don't show up and the appeal is won by default. And if they do show, and prevail, likely having an attorney wouldn't have netted you much gain any way. Likely they won't even contest your discharge claim.

Pearson's r on Nick Cage movies and days I hunt without seeing deer is about .96 apparently.

Hah. Acrophobia. Fear of heights. Not arachnophobia....spiders don't bother me, but standing in a chair to change a lightbulb kinda freaks me out a little.

Lol. Will let you know how I progress. I'm a first year bow hunter for deer and suffer from acrophobia so stands are out unless they are ladders. No opportunity to put a ladder on this property so I'm brushing in and trying not to smell the place up. But I've seen deer. Just no shots yet. This ground hunting with a bow ain't as easy as turkeys. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

A little spot n stalk today. Stand is wherever my butt lands. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Try it now.

Two does. No shots. Hate ground blinds but no other choice with equilibrium issues. Miss the days of tree stands. Butchering syntax with Tapatalk

Very nice.  Not to hijack, but the 'wife's phone' reminded me of a funny story:   Used to live in NY state.  Had a company phone.  Left company, no longer had said phone.  Brother in law (in TN) texts me a photo of his new AR build, but mistakenly sends it to the old company phone number.  Gets phone call from NY State Police investigating harassing pics of a 'machine gun' being sent to a fearful libtard who took my place at the company.

  Dolo -   There's probably a great need for 'PRN' officers, dispatchers, etc....heck, even certified water and wastewater treatment operators, etc. Most cities in TN are fairly small, and when FMLA and other leave situations hit, having a pool of local, certified personnel from nearby cities that are trained, already in the payroll system, and ready to be called in as 'temporary' hires (usually doesn't need city council vote, but only approval from city manager/mayor) could keep overtime budgets to a minimum.....save the taxpayers some $$, even.   I doubt it would be feasible to set it up like a traditional 'staffing' company where you would 'employ' them and 'lease' them to the city (too much risk to insure, there), but you could set it up where you develop the pool of interagency contacts and bill for a 'professional services' fee for managing the emergent processes.   Just thoughts. 

Now THAT is some good information to have!

Not bad if ya cut the glands out of their pits and BBQ 'em. Grew up the son of a coonhunter, and took many a BBQ coon sammich to school for lunch.

Ya beat me to it. Inconceivable!

Sweet!  What part of NY are ya vacating?  Welcome!