New Moderator....Ladies please read and respond.

[ohiodaisy]

Hello Ladies,
My name is Heather and I am the new moderator for the woman's forum. I would like to know how many woman we have here, so if you could please respond and let me know that you are here it would be appreciated. We don't have any way to tell which members are woman unless your username is something that indicates that such as having woman or gal in it, so this is the only way I could think of to find out how many we have here.

I would like to get some threads going here, so us woman can have a place to talk about our outdoor concerns, interests and experience. I know when I started I was a bit intimidated by the fact that the guys may know more than me, but the only way we are going to learn is by just jumping in and participating. Don't be shy to ask questions even if you think it is a stupid question. Just remember no question is a stupid one if you are learning something from it. I have asked many questions lately that I thought were stupid, but the guys here have been very nice to me and very helpful.

This forum is our little piece of nature just for us, lets see if we can't get something going on here. I am also working on researching local woman only outdoor events, so if anyone knows of any by all means feel free to post or contact me privately if you have something that you think might be of interest to other local woman.

When responding please give me some information about you. What type of events and hunting do you enjoy? What do you use to hunt?(bow, xbow, gun) What animals do you like to hunt? Do you fish also? Other outdoor events you enjoy? Organization or clubs you are a member of? Any information you can give me about you would be helpful to me when trying to find us things we can do together.

Thanks for reading all of this, and I hope we can all become friends here and make this a great place to learn and support each other.

Please guys do not respond to this thread! I need to be able to determine which of our members are woman here and if guys post here too that will be very difficult for me to do. Thanks for understanding.

[pschatts]

Welcome Heather, I am glad to meet you again. I hope this works out well for us ladies. :)

Patti

[ohiodaisy]

Thank you Patti,

Nice to see you again! you are in smithville right? I want to keep some information so I can get to know our members and determine where everyone is located, that way if we can't find local events for us ladies possibly we can make our own events. Just an idea I'm working on.

What type of events and hunting do you enjoy? What do you use to hunt?(bow, xbow, gun) What animals do you like to hunt? Do you fish also? Other outdoor events you enjoy? Organization or clubs you are a member of? Any information you can give me about you would be helpful to me when trying to find us things we can do together. (I added this above too, sorry was something I just thought of that would help us get to know each other better.)

Thanks again for responding, and if you have any ideas that will help get this going for us feel free to let me know your thoughts.

[ohiodaisy]

HMM looks like maybe We are the only two woman on here Patti! Or at least the only two active woman anyway. If you know any other outdoor woman(this goes for you guys reading too) invite them to join us. Wives, girlfriends, coworkers are all welcome. And I have a list of ideas here that I am working on that will be fun for us woman to do together, just waiting for more woman to join us. First event I have found is scheduled for February so hopefully we will have some more members by then, I am working on it.

[HighCountry2]

Hello Heather, I just introduced myself and am checking out the site. I enjoy target practice whether it is gun or bow. Our neighbor owns a gun shop with a great bow course and has tournaments for both men and woman. It is real life, challenging, and fun! I would like to do a "cowboy" shoot someday at Tusco rifle club. I prefer to shoot for fun and not to kill. However, that turkey is dead! See ya around the site.

[ohiodaisy]

Hi Shelly,

I'm so glad to see you here. :bouncy: and hope you enjoy yourself. Let me know if you need help with anything or if you have any suggestions to get this place more active would love to hear them.

[rugercaptain]

Hi, Heather:

I'm Tamie. I've been hunting since '99, most of which is deer hunting on a place I own in Monroe County. My avatar is of an 8-point buck I took on my land during last year's muzzleloader season. He was the third deer I tagged last year--took two does with my crossbow.

I camped a lot when I was a younger woman, but my older bones don't do so well anymore after a night lying in a sleeping bag on the ground. Funny story...very first year I deer hunted, and right after I bought my land, two of my coworkers and I tent-camped for the first couple days of deer-gun season in '99. On the top of a hill. In temps that dipped below 20-degrees at night. Without the proper and necessary cold-weather gear. :coco: Anyway, opening morning I was up at 4:30 am--I couldn't sleep 'cause I was too damn cold. I saw that one of the guys had slept in his bag next to the campfire, although it was now more of an ember pile. I walked over to his very-still form and tried to determine if he was still breathing. Crap, he looked dead! And double-crap, as a paramedic and his fellow firefighter, I would be obligated to do CPR on him! :yikes: Thank god he moved a little--saved me from sucking face with him. :biggrin:

Well, that's about it for now. I've been shut-out this season, and with classes at Akron I won't even have time to gun-hunt this year, except for the extra two-day weekend in December. :mad: Sure hope this master's degree is worth missing deer hunting...

Tamie

[Steve]

It's great to see the ladies making themselves at home around here.

[ohiodaisy]

Hello Tamie,

Nice to meet you! I am so happy to see we are getting more ladies in here. Thanks for the story, and keep them coming.

[rugercaptain]

Hello Tamie,

Nice to meet you! I am so happy to see we are getting more ladies in here. Thanks for the story, and keep them coming.

Since I'm doing everything I can to avoid writing my paper, here's another story...

I try to visit my place at least every other month or so--have to keep up on the maintenance, mowing, wood-cutting, etc. One July a couple of years ago a friend and I spent a week down there, and she helped me cut and stack wood--well, she stacked the wood after I cut it up with a chain saw. Then it happened--crap. That damn saw kicked back and sliced (what I thought was) my left thigh. I immediately turned off the saw and grabbed my leg, putting direct pressure on what I was sure was a life-threatening injury to my femoral artery.

My friend turned around and just looked at me, confused as to why I suddenly stopped cutting. In a panic, I let go of my (imagined) wound and tore off my jeans right there in the woods--she thought I'd lost my mind! Thank God, there was no cut and no blood! But that chain left a line of holes in my jeans about a foot long. I still don't know how it didn't at least rake my skin. :confused:

I still wear those jeans, just to remind myself not to be a dumb ass when I'm alone in the woods. If I would've cut myself, and been alone (like I usually am down there), you guys would've read about me in the papers months later when they found my remains. :yikes:

Tamie