Dudleys Diary

next month up in the Texas Panhandle. If everything works out, Dudleys son is going to drive him up to the Shamrock Texas area where he will be hunting on a large ranch. He is going to be hunting with a local outfitter who is going to take Dudley and another disabled hunter who also has Muscular Dystrophy out on a hunt for does and or cull bucks. Dudley is excited as he has never been deer hunting in this area of the state . Dudley is looking forward also to going to Shamrock which sits on historic Route 66. Dudley wants to see the famous Conoco station and some of the other sights on the old "Mother Road." Hopefully Dudley will be able to bag one or two deer and put some venison in the freezer. It sure would be great to go hunting again in God's great outdoors. I hope everything works out as planned. Dudley and son better pack their long handle underwear. It can get downright cold in that part of Texas in December. It is beautiful wide open prairie country. There are a lot of deer, coyotes, jack rabbits and prairie dogs up that way. When Dudley was about seven years old, his father took him on a trip to the Borger/Pampa area for a few days on a business trip. Dudley had one of those little fiberglass bow and arrows and ran all over that country shooting at prairie dogs and jack rabbits. Dudley hit a few of them too but the bow was such a low draw weight, the arrow would just hit the critter and bounce off and they would jump down the hole or bound away unhurt. Hopefully the deer on this trip will not be quite so lucky. Dudleys .243 packs a pretty good punch out to 300 yards. Those deer and other critters better watch out. Dudley and son have been out to the shooting range and we are ready!