The other love of your life

[Chago]

Hey guys,

Apart from my wife and kids and hunting/ shooting/ firearms, the other 2 passions I have is weightlifting and church!

I used to do powerlifting for about 20 years and have competed, but due to injury have had to retire.
But I still train with weights and make sure I'm the hardest working person in the gym.
In fact, in the last week of 2020 I deadlifted 232kg (511 lbs) at the age off 44 - which was a personal best.
So that shows you're never to old!

I've been a part of the church now for about 10 years and before that I was a very different person. You name it I did it and I hung around with a really rough crew. We had absolutely no regard whatsoever for the law...
But I got out, sold my Harley and started going to church... and I owe everything to that decision.
If I didn't straighten up I would have never met my wife, or have my have my job as a nurse on a surgical ward, or have my kids and most possibly have my freedom and my life.
All the crew I hung with are dead or in prison while in contrast I now empty the giving box and bank the money, or organise communion, or volunteer...
The only hint of my past life is my tattoos, as I'm quite heavily covered.

I don't often talk about my journey or my faith. It's not that I'm ashamed - it's just that I don't want to tell anyone how to live their life.
We're all on our journey... and I all hope we make it to where we want to go...

Russ

There is nothing to be ashamed of, as a matter of fact just the opposite. Pride is what you should feel. 1 in every 10,000 come out the way you did.

 

[Red Leg]

You mean Pee Can right??? LOL I have a lot of buddies down in Texas and they sure hate it when I say it like that. I had a dinner with like 15 guys in South Dakota on a pheasant hunt. I ordered the Pee Can pie. I swear to god the entire table went silent lol. The waitress being a northerner, was on my side. The rest of those animals were all from Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee lol

Yankees are truly barbarians. Though I will admit most were born that way and can’t help themselves.

 

[TOBY458]

Is it too early in the night to answer SCOTCH? HaHa!
On a serious note, I'd say good friends are the main thing I'm learning to cherish over personal belongings. I've noticed the older I get, the more minimalist I become. I love simplicity these days. It's the main reason I won't buy a second gun safe, and when I buy a rifle, many times I will sell another just to keep from needing another safe. But with that said, there is no other material thing in existence that comes anywhere near my love for guns. Not even close.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Excellent thought Kevin. For me it would be our farm, my ‘69 FJ40 and my books. I grew up on a farm in Canada, the land my great grandparents pioneered. Every building was built by hand. There’s something about working land and making it better that gets in your blood. I’m always busy with bees, long leaf pine restoration, invasive species control. Attached is a picture of last years controlled burn.

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Land is very hard work, enjoyable, but hard.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

My wife of 26 years
2 Land cruisers 87 and 88 models
Coleman and tilley lamps
Original Dave Oelufsen Skivee 500 boat
Purglas rods originals especially Tiger Specials
Extreme cooler boxes that keep ice for 7 days
Camel thorn, proper sickel bush, mopanie, lead wood fire wood
Donkey for hot water
Kalahari sun sets

Gosh I remember those purglass tiger rods, with the long string binding, and a Mitchell reel, the big one, i thein they were the 700 series.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

I am with Andrew, my land means a lot to me. I take great pride in working it, building onto it, improving it etc. I am actually building a new home right now. I have a hammock under some trees that I enjoy laying in and it gives me a view of a huge portion of the land. I told my wife god forbid I ever get sick and you think its my final hours. At all costs get me to that hammock, say your goodbyes and get out of my view lol.

I have never been a car and boat guy. But I sure do love my trucks. I love my watches. I love my cigars.

And I can't believe no one else said it yet. But I love my taxidermy. When its too cold and snowy to lay in my hammock. Next to the fire under all my trophys is a close second.

Likewise I love my buff trophy, that big head looking down at you. My grand daughter loves it too, takes you by the hand to go and see every five minutes, pick her up and she strokes the nose.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Wife and kids.
Souvenirs from around the world. Things from bumerang from Australia, to waterpipe from egypt, to Venetian mask, etc, etc
Have collection of tribal masks from all continents. South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand...

Have three boats.
Motor boat, for summer cruising.
Rigid hull rubber boat, with outboard, for my diving expeditions.
Wooden boat, built by my grandfather in 1968, I maintain and use for my fishing.
Scuba diving gear.
Fishing.
Black powder.
Morning coffee, before sunrise.
Reading in the lazy evenings.

@Kevin Peacocke
You make most instresting topics! Thanks!

Making a boat is indeed a satisfying thing. Years ago during a varsity vac I made an SAS canvas canoe, used to load it on the top of the old VW beetle 1200. And head out. Three of us in it, rowed to an island on Kariba and camped for a few days. Milimetres of draft, sharp sticks, you think you are invincible when you are young.

 

[Chago]

I absolutely love those African style roof. Unfortunately where I live I don't think it would hold up to carrying 4' of snow lol.

Likewise I love my buff trophy, that big head looking down at you. My grand daughter loves it too, takes you by the hand to go and see every five minutes, pick her up and she strokes the nose.View attachment 383452

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

If not hunting, out for a ride with the better half.

 

[gbflyer]

I see there are more than one of us here with boat or airplane issues. I have both.

Youngest son with one of our favorite toys:

Oldest son with the other:

 

[Tokoloshe Safaris]

True Friends!

 

[WAB]

I see there are more than one of us here with boat or airplane issues. I have both.

Youngest son with one of our favorite toys:

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Oldest son with the other:

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Those are proper toys for an Alaskan!

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

My wife of 45years and sailboats.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

We all love our rifles and guns, but what other posessions do you have that make your heart happy?
i have two, the first is my Series 1 Land Rover that we take on hunts and I drive every day.
the other is boats, fishing boats for Lake Kariba tiger fishing mostly. The flagship is a 22ft Interceptor hull with a Yamaha 250 SHO 4 stroke on the back, quite fast. My daughter drives this one, she has her skippers license and can handle it better than I. The second is a 19ft Falcon with a Yamaha 115 4 stroke. My brother and I use this one. Number three is a Samurai, also 19ft with an old dog Evinrude 150 on the back.
Why so many boats? Because I always fish in s group with family and friends and a dozen people on one boat is a bit much, especially when hooks start flying around!
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@Kevin Peacocke
The other loves in my life in order are
My wife
My family
My friends
And just the sheer pleasures I get from being out bush.
The fact I can still get out of bed each day. At my age I don't bother looking at use by dates on products. I just hope I live long enough to use them.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Besides my bride? I’d have to say my two labs.
Ruger, my yellow guy who loves to hunt and occasionally thrill me by turning black.
And Hogan, my red guy who loves to find strange positions to sleep and snore like a chainsaw.

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@RandyF
How do you tell the difference between a new dog and a new wife?
After 12 months with both when you come home from work at least the dog is still happy to see you.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Wife and kids.
Souvenirs from around the world. Things from bumerang from Australia, to waterpipe from egypt, to Venetian mask, etc, etc
Have collection of tribal masks from all continents. South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand...

Have three boats.
Motor boat, for summer cruising.
Rigid hull rubber boat, with outboard, for my diving expeditions.
Wooden boat, built by my grandfather in 1968, I maintain and use for my fishing.
Scuba diving gear.
Fishing.
Black powder.
Morning coffee, before sunrise.
Reading in the lazy evenings.

@Kevin Peacocke
You make most instresting topics! Thanks!

@mark-hunter
Being a first nations Australian a bumerang must be one of those copies of our boomerangs that was made in China or a boomerang that doesn't come back, bummer.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

 

[sestoppelman]

My only other real hobby/fun? is this vintage CHB trawler (Taiwan tub), called a 34' but actually about 37' overall.
This is for cruising the best cruising grounds in the US, the San Juan Islands which are just a stones throw more or less from home. Comfortable boat with aft cabin, diesel powered, slow but economical (just like its owner!

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Hey guys,

Apart from my wife and kids and hunting/ shooting/ firearms, the other 2 passions I have is weightlifting and church!

I used to do powerlifting for about 20 years and have competed, but due to injury have had to retire.
But I still train with weights and make sure I'm the hardest working person in the gym.
In fact, in the last week of 2020 I deadlifted 232kg (511 lbs) at the age off 44 - which was a personal best.
So that shows you're never to old!

I've been a part of the church now for about 10 years and before that I was a very different person. You name it I did it and I hung around with a really rough crew. We had absolutely no regard whatsoever for the law...
But I got out, sold my Harley and started going to church... and I owe everything to that decision.
If I didn't straighten up I would have never met my wife, or have my have my job as a nurse on a surgical ward, or have my kids and most possibly have my freedom and my life.
All the crew I hung with are dead or in prison while in contrast I now empty the giving box and bank the money, or organise communion, or volunteer...
The only hint of my past life is my tattoos, as I'm quite heavily covered.

I don't often talk about my journey or my faith. It's not that I'm ashamed - it's just that I don't want to tell anyone how to live their life.
We're all on our journey... and I all hope we make it to where we want to go...

Russ

@Badboymelvin.
Russ it's heat to see someone else that has found being a Christian is a good choice. I was in a similar position and some people thought I would be found dead in a gutter somewhere after another bad choice. One good thing I was never into drugs. That was one of the smartest choices I've made in life.
As for powerlifting well done. My body suffered enough abuse thru work and other things. Now I do sit ups. Sit up to get out of bed and finish it when I lay down at night.
My bilateral bicep curls consist of drinking my first coffee left handed and my second one right handed nowdays.
Getting old can be a bitch at times and I'm only 62.
Bob

 

[Newboomer]

Yankees are truly barbarians. Though I will admit most were born that way and can’t help themselves.

Hey! I'm a Northerner--from Maine, about as far north as you can get and it's pe-can for me, too. I think the heat affects you Rebs and slurs y'all's speech.

 

[Beretta391]

Enough said