Happy Father's Day!!!!

[Travis Mueller]

From everyone at Avery, Happy Fathers Day!!!!!!
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2305/canada047large3fv.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Rob Jepson]

Ditto...! Hope everyone is having a great day!

[iawaterfowler88]

My dad did! He got 6 fullbody active mallards to help round out the spread!

[Rob Jepson]

Very thoughtful Christian...I'm sure you'll get to spend some time hunting over them with your Dad.

[Michael Weiss]

I had no unexpected phone calls or cards in the mail........;)

Happy late Fathers day to all the dads out there!!! You deserve it!!!

[zippyduck]

The puppy completed his first water retrieves. Made me a proud papa. It was almost as good as my sons first deer. A son who hunts with me and a pup that wants to. And lots of friends to shoot with.
Life is good!

[Doug Steinke]

I know it is a day late, but here is my favorite quote about Fathers Day. I know it is golf, but it transends golf to apply to everything special thing a Father and son & daughter can do with one another. My Father and I always seem to be at a walleye tourney on this day and yesterday was no different. Even though we found the fishing tough it was still a great day.



Fathers and sons
By Jaime Diaz, June 2003

Earl Woods on playing with his son.

Earl: "When you're out on the course with the person in the world you have the most influence on--your son--you're each watching the other handle the success and disappointment and unfairness and good luck of the game. You're letting your son find his way, and at the same time he sees that you're vulnerable, that you aren't perfect, that you have feelings and emotions that are human. He learns that even when a man does the best he can, he makes mistakes, and that it's all right. Everything is stripped away on the golf course, and you get closer. I felt that way with Tiger, every time we played. . . . Golf is a great way to just be with your son. And there is nothing better in life than a relationship where you can just be with him and he can just be with you. Just be."

[Jeff Kreit]

This is what father day is all about Rob Jepson took this on a hunt http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/1goose/Brandon11.jpg

[UtahMan]

I agree....http://users.smartfella.com/clhansen/sunrise.jpg

[Scott Turpen]

I got the best present ever a few days before on June 13th. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz. Was a great first Fathers Day for me.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Turpen/DSCN1774.jpg

[Cody Frazier]

Here is a photo of my AWESOME DAD (and me)! :D
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j299/frazier2209/IMG_3194.jpg

He had a great fathers day. I got him a new pair of Burris binoculars. Those things rock

[iawaterfowler88]

Very thoughtful Christian...I'm sure you'll get to spend some time hunting over them with your Dad.

I made him promise that the only way he could use them though would be if he would make the 3 hour drive a few times this fall to hunt with me. I know he will along with his hunting buddy and his son and maybe my girlfriends dad and her 10 year old little brother since they have never had a great field hunt, those are times that I will remember the rest of my life, I'll never forget this past late season where it was my dads first field hunt. We killed 8 honkers in 25 min, he got to watch me flip a banded bird because he was hit so hard and I got to watch him kill his first field geese, a double. He fell in love with field hunting right then and there, bought 3 1/2 doz GHG fullbodies and a Migrator in the following week. I'll never forget that hunt.

[David Ortley]

I spent my first father's day without kids around me. While not as pleasurable as having them near, it was rewarding knowing that they were off in Minnesota pursuing their passions. My dad always encouraged me to shoot for the stars and I have done the same. My 18 year old is at try outs for Junior A hockey and my 16 year old is going to Rochester to compete in the North Star competition. Both are avid hunters and will be for the rest of their lives. When I am long gone they will be sharing stories of hunts with dad with their children.

The influence our dads had on us, and that we have on our children is often subtle. When they grow into young men and woman you get to see just how strong it really is. Being a father is truly a blessing notwithstanding the trials we endure.