Great news! Thanks to a old friend from my high school days,I have a place to hunt on private land again! I haven't seen this friend in person probably since we graduated together back in 1973. We didn't really hang out back in our high school days, we were in a big school, over 700 in our graduating class, but we had reconnected thru Facebook and found out we both have a mutual love of hunting. He saw my post about losing the spot I had been hunting the last 20 some years and tonight I went up to his home and he is going to introduce me to some landowners that he currently hunts on, that will allow me, Perry when he is able to come up and Brandy to hunt. I won't name this friend on here, but I could tell from the smile on his face he was getting as much joy out of helping me as I was getting from once again having a place to hunt. I had just about ran out of options, bow season is well under way and as the colder weather is coming it was really starting to hit home that I had no where to hunt. I am going up this Sunday to meet the landowners and do some scouting. This farm is up in prime deer country, less than 30 minutes from my home and has over 200 acres, more than twice as big as the farm I just lost the rights to hunt on and he has other farms in the same area that I can hunt also. I had not seen this friend in going on 40 years and he steps up and makes this offer to me out of sheer kindness. There are good people left in this world and believe me when the opportunity arises to help someone else in need, I will most definitely pay it forward. I gotta believe the good Lord had a hand in this happening and I am sure I don't deserve it, but thanks also go out to the man up above. I feel like a kid at Christmas getting ready to go out and scout this new place. Been a long time since I have had the need/opportunity to do this. It will take me some time to scout it out, find their patterns, but it will be exciting and no matter if I take a deer this season or not, just having the chance to be back in the woods again has this old man smiling again, been a while. Heading to bed now, sense of relief, excitement, and gratitude. I think I will sleep well tonight. Thanks again to an old friend!