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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008
Outdoors With Skipper
Husband, wife make great hunting team
W e have attended
church with another
couple, Conrad and
Jean Lively, for the past few years.
They moved to North Georgia
from the Brandon, Florida area
outside of Tampa. My wife and I
had known them from a previous
church down that way. Conrad and
Jean love to deer hunt together
especially on hunting club prop
erty down near Eufala, Alabama.
Their son Dale, from Brandon,
hunts this 5,000 acres with them.
There are only 12 or so members,
thus there is plentyof land for each
hunter. Well, Conrad and Jean
headed down that way the end of
last month to do some final hunt
ing and help Dale, get things in
order to take back home, till next
season. Alabama’s deer season
runs through Jan 3l.
On Monday of that last week,
Jean scores with a nice size doe
to fill the freezer. Conrad’s gun
is unused. It is now evening dur
ing the middle of the week. Jean
is hunting a dove field, sitting
together in a stand with her son
Dale. It’s almost dark now, but
some deer are heading their way.
Dale tells his mom, “one is a nice
buck.”
Dale has a very good scope
that gathers light better than his
mom’s. He tells mom, “You take
the buck.”
The
Great
Outdoors
By Skipper Smith
706-677-1520
She replies, “If I miss, you go
ahead and shoot too.”
The buck has now come within
one 150 yards. Jean pulls the trig
ger on her 308 and the buck drops.
But he’s back up again. Dale now
shoots twice. They watch the buck
run off, as it heads towards a steep
ravine with a creek at the bottom.
They can now hear the buck in
the water. With only a LED light
on a cap and a small flashlight
they take a look quickly, but
decide they had better head back
to camp for help in finding this
deer.
Back at camp, they round up a
four-wheeler from some members
that haven’t left yet, get a hold
of Conrad — who had heard the
shots —and head to where they
figure the deer is. Sure enough, it
is on a small island built by bea
vers, with the water some five feet
deep at one end of the island, and
ice on the ground. A couple of the
braver ones head to a shallower
place to get to the deer. With no
waders, water comes over the
boots, and I know it was cold.
They had to get the deer over
some logs before they could get
it up the steep bank. After that
was accomplished, they were able
to use a winch and cable, off the
four-wheeler, to pull the deer up
the steep bank. It was too steep
and slippery for the hunters to
drag it up by themselves. It turns
out this is a nice sized seven-
pointer.
So once again, Jean scores, and
Conrad’s gun has remained silent.
Now in fairness to Conrad, he did
tell me that he saw some deer, but
passed on them, as he didn’t want
to have to clean them. Well, that
was his excuse.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t tell
you the age of these senior citi
zens. Jean will be 76 this year,
and Conrad is 78, with two hip
replacements. I am sure proud of
these two friends. It gives me hope
for the next 10 years and also for
others of you senior citizens. You
are never too old to enjoy being in
the woods.
Call me with your story.
Skipper Smith is an outdoors
columnist for The Banks County
News. His column appears
weekly. Let him know about your
hunting or fishing adventure at
706-677-1520.
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High School Baseball
BCHS plans dedication for new baseball complex
BY CHRIS BRIDGES
Banks County High School’s new
baseball facility will be on display
this spring and school officials are
planning a dedication ceremony
Friday, Feb. 22.
BCHS varsity baseball coach Joe
Lord said a dedication ceremony
will be held at 4:30 p.m. prior to
the preseason scrimmage against
Flowery Branch. A large list of hon-
orees are scheduled to be on the
field for the event
Dedication
• Friday Feb. 22,
4:30 p.m., prior
to scrimmage vs.
Flowery Branch
including:
•Banks
County Board of
Education mem
bers.
•superintendent
Chris Erwin.
•school system athletic directors.
•BCHS Booster Club officers.
•facility builders.
•BCHS administrators.
•BCHS Jr. ROTC color guard.
•BCHS chorus.
•BCMS, BCHS junior varsity and
BCHS varsity baseball players and
coaches in uniform.
The Rev. Jim McClendon will
throw the first pitch.
BCHS teachers, former BCHS
baseball players, students from the
school system and parents and sup
porters have been asked to be in
attendance.
ALMOST GAME TIME
The new Banks County High school baseball facility is ready
for the 2008 season. A dedication ceremony is set for
Feb. 22. Photo by Chris Bridges
The new BCHS baseball facility is
part of the new high school athletic
complex which also features a new
softball facility and tennis courts.
A new paved parking area is also
available for those attending athletic
events.
The first regular season varsity
baseball game to be played at the
new complex will be Wednesday,
Feb. 27, against Commerce at 5:30
p.m.
The Diamond Leopards are sched
uled to play their first three games at
home this season.
The first JV game will be Monday,
Feb. 25, against Elbert County at
5 p.m.
Rec. Department hosting baseball, softball registration
The Banks County Parks and Recreation Department
will host baseball and softball registration beginning
Monday and continuing through Friday, Feb. 15.
Registration fee for both sports is $40. Age control is
May 1 for baseball and Jan. 1 for softball.
For additonal information, contact the recreation
department office on Thompson Street in Homer at
706-677-4407.
Information is also available at www.bankscounty.
recware.com.
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