|
Author
|
Topic: Huntmasters "Inner Circle"
|
TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
Member # 1044
|
posted March 04, 2011 05:59 PM
Who on this forum is in the "inner circle" of buddies with Leonard? I'm just curious. There's obviously some history with a bunch of you guys, and I just wanted to know the history of it, if it's allowed to be written about anyways on here. Gracias amigos. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posts: 857 | From: Alaska | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 04, 2011 06:25 PM
Every single member, (edit: not to suggest that I have actually met every member, although I would like to)...... I have met since they registered. Didn't know any of them previously, except through the Internet.
None of my local partners are members. Actually hunted exclusively with my son and grandson since early 90's. Before that I hunted exclusively with Pat McGee. So, a very short list.
The rest are people that have been to various Huntmaster's campouts. I don't know that there is an "inner circle" since my former BFF( Higgins) is no longer somebody I count among my friends.
But, I get along very well with the Arizona Posse and like hunting over there.
Maybe somebody else knows more about it than I do? Who's Leonard's inner circle?
Good hunting. LB
[ March 04, 2011, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
Member # 1044
|
posted March 04, 2011 06:34 PM
Thanks Leonard, that is helping me piece together the group a bit more. It just seems as though in the forum banter, some people appear to be good buddies, as though they've been friends in the "real" world for years (as opposed to the "internet" world). ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posts: 857 | From: Alaska | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 04, 2011 06:52 PM
That's true, but it's because of personal contact after the computer shit. Mostly via the HM campout. I have been active on hunting forums for about twelve years so there is quite a history with some of these folks. Like Vic Carlson, we go back beyond HM and beyond PM and beyond Posse country and beyond The ShadeTree. We actually met on a board nobody ever heard of, Sporting Adventures, and it wasn't pretty. We met in person at the ShadeTree BBQ in 1998 at Bruce Kennedy's house. Along with about fifty or so other peeps.
Good hunting. LB
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
Member # 1044
|
posted March 04, 2011 06:58 PM
I've heard mention about the Shade Tree before. Who was it that started that forum and what years was that site active? I'm guessing somewhere along the way, Al Gore had something to do with it all.
Posts: 857 | From: Alaska | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
4949shooter
SECOND PLACE HIGGINS (MAGNUM P.I.) LOOK A LIKE CONTEST
Member # 3530
|
posted March 04, 2011 07:04 PM
And here I had thought Leonard and Vic Carlson went back as far as the sixties.
Posts: 2274 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Dec 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
Member # 7
|
posted March 04, 2011 07:51 PM
Geesh, that Sporting Adventures board seems like a lifetime ago. At the time, it was state of the art. If I recall, it had a steaming coffee cup and spoon for an icon, whatever the hell that meant. Must have been about three dozen ppl on the entire WWW at that time. LOL
--------------------
I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
RagnCajn
ADDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Member # 879
|
posted March 04, 2011 09:26 PM
I probably better wait till the whiskey buzz subsides before I answer this one.
If I am even "inner Circle"
Posts: 362 | From: Shreveport LA | Registered: Jul 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
bucksnort
Miss Chris from AZ
Member # 202
|
posted March 05, 2011 04:21 AM
My late husband, Bruce Kennedy, started the Shade Tree. At the time, his board was the latest and greatest in the way it was set up -- like this board. Like Leonard, he met most of the guys on the board and at the camp outs. He was also the one who came up with the Arizona Posse. It's original members were Bruce, Vic, Jay Neistetter and John Henry. We had the BBQ here at the house for people to meet. Leonard and Nancy were here as was Danny B. Gerald Stewart was also in attendance. I was so busy getting food prepared I really didn't enjoy myself but, I understand everyone had a great time. Nancy was a huge help to me -- didn't ask what she could do, just started helping.
--------------------
"There are lion chasers, lion catchers, and lying SOB's."
"Warriors of El Gato - The Lion"
Posts: 368 | From: Tucson, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
csmithers
unknown comic
|
posted March 05, 2011 07:23 AM
Apparently, to be a part of the Circle of Trust, you just have to endlessly bash TA17.
IP: Logged
|
|
TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
Member # 1044
|
posted March 05, 2011 10:15 AM
Wow, thanks for sharing the Shade Tree information and a bit of the history about your late husband, I appreciate it. I'm learning all kinds of new things here.
So what's the secret handshake and codeword to get the fancy T-shirt and hat?
smithers,
I think most on here are in the Circle of Trust with TA bashing. That's almost like the "Outer Circle" of friends, since it's basically open to everyone.
Posts: 857 | From: Alaska | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 05, 2011 10:17 AM
Totally inaccurate, smithers. I have no idea how you arrived at that conclusion?
Yes, the ShadeTree BBQ was fun. Hard to believe how things can change, since then. Nanc is gone, Bruce is gone, Danny is gone. I got some static at work because at the last minute they wanted me to work and I said; "See ya".
Lance, for the life of me, I can't think of the Board with the steaming cup of coffee but it wasn't Sporting Adventures. Seems to me they had a red shotgun shell as a logo?
Good hunting. LB
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
csmithers
unknown comic
|
posted March 05, 2011 10:38 AM
It was sarcasm, Leonard.
IP: Logged
|
|
Okanagan
Budding Spin Doctor
Member # 870
|
posted March 05, 2011 11:19 AM
Yeah, I remember the coffee cup thing and posted there a few times. Still remember a topic or two there that interested me. Seems like there was a gal who posted there quite a bit, or maybe ran the place.
I'm kind of oblivious to circles, unless they become obvious enough to be noticeable, and then they make me wary. There are some good, knowledgeable men here, and women. That's enough.
Posts: 269 | From: 49th Parrallel | Registered: Jun 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Rich
2,000th post PAKMAN
Member # 112
|
posted March 05, 2011 11:21 AM
"So what's the secret handshake and codeword to get the fancy T-shirt and hat?"
----------------------
Tundra,
I am thinking that Leonard would supply all of us with a T shirt and hat if we simply ask him. He is always gracious ya know. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
--------------------
If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Rich
2,000th post PAKMAN
Member # 112
|
posted March 05, 2011 11:24 AM
"Apparently, to be a part of the Circle of Trust, you just have to endlessly bash TA17"
-----------------------------------------
Nope, all he had to do was ASK for it.
--------------------
If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 05, 2011 12:30 PM
Yes, okanagan is right, I believe? I think a female moderated that board? Maybe it was called The Coffee Shop? Not a whole lot of predator dialogue, more guns and ammo stuff, as I recall? But, I think it went belly up or someone just pulled the plug? But John Henry was over there, and Vic, and me, once in a while. But, in those days, yours truly and the future "Coyote Gods" did not get along, at all.
The CSVCA had a message board that I moderated for a while. It got good traffic.
Good hunting. LB
edit: okay, I almost said come to the next campout and get a teeshirt, but nah, we don't do promotions and tempting gear and never will. That's wannabee shit.
[ March 05, 2011, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
DAA
Utah/Promoted WESTERN REGIONAL Hunt Director
Member # 11
|
posted March 05, 2011 12:43 PM
I'm wanting to say your right Leonard. I think it was called the Coffee Shop. Or something like that.
I go way back with this internet stuff, to before there even was a "web" or "browsers". Usenet user groups, you know, rec.hunting.guns and stuff like that.
But I think the first place I ran into Leonard, Vic and John-Henry was on the old Go Go Varmint Go board. Would have probably been about '97 or so? GGVG is still running, still owned by the same two guys. I don't go there much anymore, but do still check in there occasionally.
- DAA
--------------------
"Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em." -- George Hanson, Easy Rider, 1969.
Rocky Mountain Varmint Hunter
Posts: 2676 | From: Salt Lake City, UT | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 05, 2011 12:59 PM
That's absolutely correct, Dave! How I forgot GoGoVarmint Go, I will never know. It's was and probably still is a very good board.
I quit going over there during the phase when they were chipping in and buying deserving people rifles and such. I don't agree with that kind of charity, yet also don't like to be perceived as a cheapskate, either.
The people that I knew on that board were first rate; including DAA. I was always jealous of Dave's rifles!
Good hunting. LB
edit: not jealous, just envious.
[ March 05, 2011, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
Member # 1044
|
posted March 05, 2011 01:27 PM
This "inner circle" thread here is really digging back into some history. I really like hearing about it too, thanks. I'm a young guy in the world of predator hunting, so like to hear it from the guys (and gals) who've been around for awhile.
Posts: 857 | From: Alaska | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Rich
2,000th post PAKMAN
Member # 112
|
posted March 05, 2011 02:30 PM
OK,
When the AZ Predator Posse board crashed and Bob Davis out of South Dakota got it up and running again, what was the board called? Posse Country?
--------------------
If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
|
posted March 05, 2011 03:01 PM
Well, it didn't crash, but happened directly following a trip to Texas with Bruce, Uncle Jay and JohnHenry. Bruce was so pissed off that he shut the board down and created a page ragging on Jay for a very long time. I think they got over it eventually, in fact, I'm sure they did.
And, yes. Bob Davis immediately began work on another board, as did Frank Heartlein. Frank's Board was called Huntmaster's and really did n't do too well, but Bob's board took off and attracted a very large majority of ShadeTree members. That board was called "POSSE COUNTRY" and was a tip of the hat to Bruce's Arizona Predator Posse, which also shut down.
When Will Craig created Predator Masters, he asked me to moderate the Predator hunting forum with Scott Huber, but I never agreed to it, he just drafted me anyway. I broke the news to Bob Davis and he got all pissed off. Due to a series of events, Bob transferred his entire membership list to Predator Master's and shut down his board, and that's how PM became the biggest deal in predator message boards. It was a while after that that I quit PM and took over HM.
So, brief history of predator hunting evolving on the Internet.
Good hunting. LB
PS I left out a few details. So what?
--------------------
EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Az-Hunter
Hi, I'm Vic WELCOME TO THE U.S. Free baloney sandwiches here
Member # 17
|
posted March 05, 2011 03:07 PM
Side note, Bob still has a board, The Texas Predator Posse, it has a faithful following of Texas hunters and others.
Posts: 1670 | From: 5 miles west of Tim | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
bucksnort
Miss Chris from AZ
Member # 202
|
posted March 05, 2011 03:15 PM
I believe Bob Davis did have Posse Country. Bob and several other guys came to Tucson one weekend to hunt. They didn't stay with us but, Bruce did fix his infamous ribs for everyone.
I forgot to mention earlier that Bruce built the Coyote Gods board for JH. I was really glad when that supposed friendship ended. It wasn't pretty but at least JH was out of our lives forever.
Leonard, was it you or Tim Behle that I gave some Shade Tree BBQ hats? I found them not long after Bruce passed away.
--------------------
"There are lion chasers, lion catchers, and lying SOB's."
"Warriors of El Gato - The Lion"
Posts: 368 | From: Tucson, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
csmithers
unknown comic
|
posted March 05, 2011 03:37 PM
You can still go back into the archives on PM and read posts by all these chaps It'd do ya some good to go browse.
IP: Logged
|
|
|
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
