Hunting with Mike

This is my oldest brother Randy, and his deer hunting camp in the Upper Peninsula. Randy is 63 years old, but you’d never know it! He refuses to roll over for “Father Time” and act his age. His little camp sits on 40 acres, and is surrounded by state land. It is in the “boonies,” and that’s just the way he likes it. He has leased this backwoods jewel for 6 or 7 years now, and loves to spend bow and gun season “working” around his paradise! The one room cabin dates back to the 1920’s, and was owned by a doctor at one time. Randy has made the interior, of this little  camp,quite comfortable, but four (4) guys is pushing things to the limit during hunting season. Usually one, or all, of Randy’s three sons spend, at least part of, deer season in camp with him, but Randy has been known to stay there days on end by himself!

Randy is a typical “first born.” He’s a leader, a go getter, a man with vision! He served two tours of duty in Viet Nam, excelled in the insurance business, and is a successful entrepreneur. There is a certain “allure” about “roughing” it that’s right up Randy’s alley. He loves to listen to the sound of the small waterfalls, next to his camp, as he drifts of to sleep each night.

Randy and his son Justin trapped that little creek a few winters ago, and took several beavers. Two of them went over 50 pounds! Justin tanned the hides, and gave them out as Christmas gifts that winter. They eat fresh brook trout from the stream, and partridge and squirrel during season. Bears have come in the front yard, and a few years ago brother Brad filled his bear permit on Randy’s forty. The deer numbers aren’t that fantastic in the area, but Randy’s crew always manages to put a couple deer on the game pole. Randy’s a survivor, a true outdoorsmen, and a man that takes life by the horns and won’t let go. Glad he’s my big brother!

Mike

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