After spending most of Oct. 7, 2012, cutting up fallen trees, dragging the debris to the woods and decommissioning a storm-damaged stand, most hunters would’ve been happy to spend the remains of the day in a recliner.
Jim Twiggs might’ve done just that, too, if his buddy hadn’t announced that he was going to see the sunset from a deer stand. Once that notion was planted, it germinated in all of three seconds.
Jim’s friend, Ted Galbreath, had brought his hunting gear to the farm, so staying to hunt was an easy choice. Jim, however, had to go home to collect his stuff, and then drive back in order to sit in a tree for a couple of hours.
“Since we had been working on one side of the farm, making lots of noise, we decided to hunt the other side,” Jim said. “The stand I chose was in a wooded strip beside a stream. I’d re-hung it that morning.”
The trees flanking the waterway are just about the only cover on the 300-plus-acre farm, which is next to a very...