Introduction
 

Hello all..

Thought it appropriate to do a quick intro as a newbie. My name is Jamie and I live in Wichita Falls..Grew up in Childress and just moved back to Tejas from Colorado where I've been the last 6 years. I'm a wildland firefighter but work for WFFD as the emergency manager. Traveled alot on a national fire management team during fire season which has never failed to overlap the opening weeks for hunting just about everywhere!:boohoo:

Bought my first bow 6 months ago, Switchback XT..Hunted with it once on the LBJ Grasslands..No luck..

Got my first big game kill this year- a cow elk on the 3Forks Ranch in N Cololado.

Learned a ton on the TBH forum and sure I will here too..

Nice to meet you all!

Oh, and I love Cuban Cigars!

Welcome to the LSBA campfire!! Glad to have you here! Congrats on the elk!

Welcome to the site. This site has has great info like TBH, but without all the bull crap. Let me know if you need anything....

Welcome to the site Jamie. And by the way - if you're not a member of LSBA - you should be.

Dena can give you all the info on membership.

Trailboss

Did not know about the organization until you posted the free hog hunt on TBH, and of course I joined a few days ago..Looks like a great organization and I am looking forward to the fellowship!

Appreciate ya'lls greetings!

Welcome and glad to have you!

Welcome to the LSBA

Welcome to the club, Texas, bowhunting, and of course this site.

Post often, put pics in the gallery, write stories for the magazine, come to the hunts and the banquet, and be as involved as you can.

Would love to hear some firefighting stories around a camp sometime.

Mark

Glad to have you and welcome!!

Welcome to the site

Great to have you!! welcome to our fire

Welcome to the LSBA man

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Learned a ton on the TBH forum and sure I will here too..

Welcome!!!

Welcome to the site and to the LSBA. Come and see us at the banquet in June.

Welcome to the fire. Throw a logs on its wet a cold today..........We need something to warm the bones. How about a good story.

I'm definately not a story teller...And as a new bow hunter and almost a new hunter in general I don't have any cool stories about the one that got away...

I have had alot of awesome experiences in wildfire tho..Seeing some of the most remote wilderness areas in the lower 48...

Three years back I was at a fire called the Blackwater Complex on the Shoshone NF in Wyoming..First time in Wyoming..They flew me into Cody and gave me a briefing then were taking us to the fire which was just outside the east entrance to yellowstone..During the briefing they went on and on and on about the bears..We all had to be training to use bear spray, etc, etc..

No one thought much of it..The next day they took us out to our camp and we all started work..Few days went by and we were making progress on the fire and everything was good..Till the yelling started..First one voice then the next..I was in the command cabin that was the rangers station for the district..I walked outside to hear some people yell in camp but could not hear what they were yelling about or see them cause of the tents..So I eased on over and came around the corner of one of the tents to see a full sized grizzly sow and cub just chilling out in camp. They weren't raising any cane just kind of walking around..OH MY friends..You talk about pucker factor, thats it!

Anyway, to make a long story short the bears were around for about an hour and then just wondered back off...Alot of debate as to whether or not to spray them but in the end they just walked away..Don't think I slept much for the next ten nights!!!!

Ha! And you said you couldn't tell stories. LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE! And you a fireman. LOL


Welcome to the campfire. I have some fond memories of Wichita Falls. I was stationed at Shepard during the Vietnam war. Played a lot of softball, we came in second in city and won regional against Abilene. I also ran a few marathons while in the AF. Lost a lot of weight running 5-6 miles a day up there in August.

Tomme now thats funny..... And you did say you could'nt tell a story. That is a great one to start with... I would love to see a big Grizz up close and kinda personal. I have wanted to hunt them since I was a kid. But I was born poor, a wife and 2 kids later I am still there........LOL

Yeah Birdog, I raised 4 myself and I kept telling my wife that she needed to get a better job so I could afford better hunts. :>)

Was pretty wild..Wish I would have had a camera! I'm not sure if I would want to hunt one..Of all the big game hunting there is something about bears I justydon't know if I could hunt one..Then again, when that bad boy was laying on the ground I probably would not feel that way!

Nice place..An adjustment from Colorado tho for sure! Did you spend any time in CO while in the AF?