Registered: Jun 2007
Location: jacksonville, nc
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Jo Moore died on March 1st. He retired from the marines after 26 years with 3 tours of Vietnam. He was 83. He showed me around when I first arrived here and we hunted squirrels a lot. He had a dog that some of you might remember, a feist named Tippy Toes. Later I moved on the mostly night hunting. He never went with me at night because he was afraid of poking his eye out. I thought that was odd. But we frequently talked about hunting and compared what each was doing. Now he's gone and I don't have anyone with which to share hunting.
I'll share more in another post

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 83

Sorry for you loss. It's always sad when you lose a mentor. Just thank the big man upstairs that you got to share their company and remember the good times.

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Registered: Nov 2015
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Sorry for your loss.
Your memory of your friend not wanting to hunt at night reminded me of my husband's nephew. A few yrs ago, he got a thorn in his eye hunting coons. He almost lost his eye and was off work for months. He doesn't hunt much at night anymore.

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Registered: Jul 2011
Location: tennessee
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iam sorry to hear that.ill pray for his family.

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IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR FRIEND JO MOORE WAS A TRUE FRIEND,SORRY TO HERE THIS ,FRIENDS LIKE THIS IS HARD TO COME BY.. ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO ,I HAD A OLDER MAN THAT LIVED CLOSE TO ME THAT OWNED A WHOLE LOT OF LAND . HE WAS A FOX HUNTER IN HIS DAY. HE HAD WENT BLIND COMPLETELY.I WOULD STOP BY HIS HOUSE MOST EVERYDAY AND TALK WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT PAST HUNTS,I RELLY ENJOYED TALKIN WITH HIM . HE TAUGHT ME SOME THINGS ABOUT BREEDING MY DOGS. HE WOULD CALL ME ON THE PHONE AND ASK ME TO TURN MY DOGS LOOSE BEHIND HIS HOUSE SO HE COULD SIT ON HIS FRONT PORCH AND LISTEN TO THE DOGS RUN AND TREE, I STOPED BY HIS HOUSE ONE NIGHT AFTER HUNTN BEHIND HIS HOUSE ,THERE HE WAS SITIN ON HIS FRONT PORCH WITH A HEAVY JACKET ,HAT PULLED DOWN OVER HIS EARS ,GLOVES ON,I SAID JIM,, WHAT YOU DOING OUT HERE IN 20 DEGREE WEATHER ,,HE SAID SON , IM LISTENING TO THOSE OLE HOUNDS... ITS GREAT TO HAVE FRIENDS LIKE THAT ! i HOPE YOUR FRIEND WAS A CHRISTIAN, I BET HE WAS , YOU WILL SEE HIM AGAIN ONE DAY. I KNOW IM GONA BE SITIN BESIDE MY OLE NEIGHBOR ONE DAY IN HEAVEN AND HE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THOSE OLE FOX HOUNDS OF HIS RUNNIN DOWN THE HOLLOW . AGAIN SORRY ABOUT YOUR FRIEND ,,,FROM THE RIVERBOTTOM,,,RON

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Registered: Aug 2012
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sir, i'm really sorry you lost your friend. i understand,its hard beyond bearing sometimes when you loose a friend like you describe mr moore was to you. makes me think of a best friend i have that can no longer hunt with me anymore. we hd alot of good times together coonhunting and more recently squirrel hunting together that i willnever forget. hurts me now to talk about it. man, we hadsome times together. we use to sit in truck in the ninties listening to hounds un a bad coon track and my friend would reach under seat and pull out a bottle of red wine, and say lets take a drink, maybe it'll help dogs do a little better, and it seemed it usually did some how. he only drank for health reasons ,he'd say. we hunted together for years like that untill he had heart trouble and it stoppedhim for a while. he loved hounds like me. years later on. we both got squirrel dogs and we started hunting together again, he was near 80 then. it was in 2008 then. we had a blast for about 4 more years, squirrel hunting. absolutely one of the toughest, honest,caring, hard hunting men i have ever had the honor to hunt with. he is a ''legend'' in my eyes. he's sick now with altimerzers, but he still remembers. i miss my friend, i love my friend. now i'm going through alot and my hunting has been brought to a halt for now too. i'll endure.its all right, you play the cards you're dealt. what choice do you have? good lord willing, i'llbe back, and when that day arrives, i'll carry my friend to every tree i walk to. my friends name is wink cockrell, and i will never forget.
agin ,i'm sorry for your lose, may the lord bless you and protect you when you're out there hunting. watch out for them bears out there.lol i treeda bunch down there.

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