Adam Wingler
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Western NC
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Priorities
Why do we do what we do? If you made a list of what matters most (keep in mind what SHOULD matter most), what does it look like?
I write this as ADAM WINGLER, not as anyone else and not to be associated as anyone else.
I hunt a number of things, as I actually believe it's in my blood, and to do without it would be nearly painful. But it's not my life's #1 priority. My biggest trophies and accomplishments aren't win checks, or towers of fake brass, or anything close to that description. My biggest goal in life is to teach and guide my biggest trophies (my kids!!!) into something that respects and can be respected. To be a leader, a follower and above all a good example in everything they do, despite outside pressures. Not win at all costs, not succeed while stepping on someone else. To be just as gracious in winning AND losing. To help a brother who has fallen FIRST, not ask how he fell, HELP NOW, found out why later.
If all of this seems foreign to you reading it, then of course your priority is different and you could be at a very different stage in life and that's fine. But keep in mind we aren't all here for the same reasons, and I can assure you, with all that's in me, I didn't come here to fight nor be asked to fight. And it's a complete waste of my time to mix that in with something I enjoy and I try to use as a fun hobby to teach my kids the lessons I described above. I get to wrestle and argue (in a MUCH more professional manner than this forum) in my chosen career, so the heck if I want to bring that into something I do for fun and in front of my kids. Some of you ridiculed me a couple years ago when I asked if a nite hunt was even inviting to kids. Well, look over the past couple weeks and what's been said back and forth on here. Still think I'm an idiot? And that's not sheltering my kids, they'll learn how babies are made one day but I wouldn't first let them see how it's done. Duh. If you think I'm raising up wimps, come HERE for a hunt, I'll let my 10 year old guide you, I bet you'll give in before he does.
Anyhow, just let us (myself and my kids-and those like us) hunt and have fun. I love to joke around, pick and prod, but in words alone, on a forum, it's clearly too often misconstrued.
And so my closest coon hunting friends are Redboners! If someone wants to talk about my feral cat winning a treeing contest under this subforum, by gosh we will!!! Eli is BEYOND excited for our current and only hound we own, that STARTED HERE with HIM at the lead strap nearly as often as myself. And we ain't near done. See ya around.
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