Ben and His Newfound Passion

Hunting and anything that has to do with it has become his life.

This is basically his first year so he is still learning some things, 

but he still has quite a bit of fun at it.

He practices with his bow as often as he can, and even has

 spiffy little lights on his arrows that light up so that 

you can find them if it's too dark out!

In learning about the different types of bows, he's bought and sold a couple, 

and met some pretty interesting people that come buy them.

But doesn't he look good, though!

The dog couldn't figure out who he was and why he looked like that.

He made this stand in our driveway and then hauled it in the truck a mile away.

The neighbor said he could hunt on their land, so he has a food plot 

and wonderful stand all set up.

He got his buddies, Simon and Fin, to come spend their Sunday afternoon making

 good use of their muscles and helping him out .

This was in the process of getting the weighty thing 7ft up in the air on the posts.

There was much laughter and thankfully nobody getting dreadfully hurt, 

since it rolled back down couple times!

I walked up the as they were partway through and seriously thought someone was hurt because they were bent over laughing so hard.

That stand is up there good and solid now, though :)

Those same sidekicks go duck hunting with him as well. 

Yep. And this is them finding out how to call in the ducks, by watching YouTube videos.

It's nice place to do it since the sun was out at least!

They did this after they went out in the morning and tried but it didn't work :)

They didn't get anything, but Ben has now gotten one duck on his own.

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"He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; wherefore it is said, 

'Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.' "

Genesis 10:9

"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man...." 

Psalm 127:4

Hurray, Ben! Be our Nimrod ;)....Now go get a super big deer. 

Or two. It doesn't matter how many....