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LAST EDITED ON Mar-11-10 AT 02:32AM (MST)[p]I met, drank, BS'd, swore, laughed, and hunted for a couple weeks with an old boy that went by the name of Charley Hawkins bout 20 years ago. We had a hell of a great time. I think often about that trip long ago, him and his pard, went by the name of Jones, could be found hardly ever without each other, on most afternoons in the Bar in Bieber, Ca.
Jones had a irrigated Alfalfa field out behind his house along the hi-way to Adin. On meeting these two guys, Charley is a big ol boy now and i'd been warned that he rather enjoyed fighting, I introduced myself and told them that i had a antelope tag, tuff draw area 5, and that they were supposed to be the guys i needed to talk to. Ol Jones spoke up first, "you say you got a tag? I got one goat that i want $3000. for and another on my place that i'll take $1500."
"Hold on boys" i said, "you got the wrong guy." I bought their drinks the rest of the evening and we made plans to meet up the following evening to go take a look at lope bucks, a scouting trip. This was about a week before the season opened. Every evening, we'd load my ice chest, a bottle of Segrams VO for Jones and one of Christian Bros brandy for Hawkins, maybe the other way around wouldn't bet on it either way, and a few beers for myself. We covered a big chunk of that country and those boys could put away some booze i'm telling ya.
That's all it ever cost me, money wise, we went out ever night and by the time our scouting week was over, i had permission to hunt for free on about a dozen different ranches. I had sore cheeks, from smiling so much, and a bunch of memories of a super great time. The lope hunting was only fair, I killed a good buck on the last weekend but never could get the drop on the one huge lope buck i'd found off the beaten path up north and back around some. Anyway, i may be heading up that way again and can't help but think of ol Charley.
If he's still breathing, i'll wager he's still hunting that country. His trophy room is one of the best i ever saw of just Calif bucks. Anybody heard of him or know how i could get ahold of the man? If you know him, tell him "Joey from Chester" is looking for him and i'm a gonna kick his ass!
Thanks!!
Joey
Jones had a irrigated Alfalfa field out behind his house along the hi-way to Adin. On meeting these two guys, Charley is a big ol boy now and i'd been warned that he rather enjoyed fighting, I introduced myself and told them that i had a antelope tag, tuff draw area 5, and that they were supposed to be the guys i needed to talk to. Ol Jones spoke up first, "you say you got a tag? I got one goat that i want $3000. for and another on my place that i'll take $1500."
"Hold on boys" i said, "you got the wrong guy." I bought their drinks the rest of the evening and we made plans to meet up the following evening to go take a look at lope bucks, a scouting trip. This was about a week before the season opened. Every evening, we'd load my ice chest, a bottle of Segrams VO for Jones and one of Christian Bros brandy for Hawkins, maybe the other way around wouldn't bet on it either way, and a few beers for myself. We covered a big chunk of that country and those boys could put away some booze i'm telling ya.
That's all it ever cost me, money wise, we went out ever night and by the time our scouting week was over, i had permission to hunt for free on about a dozen different ranches. I had sore cheeks, from smiling so much, and a bunch of memories of a super great time. The lope hunting was only fair, I killed a good buck on the last weekend but never could get the drop on the one huge lope buck i'd found off the beaten path up north and back around some. Anyway, i may be heading up that way again and can't help but think of ol Charley.
If he's still breathing, i'll wager he's still hunting that country. His trophy room is one of the best i ever saw of just Calif bucks. Anybody heard of him or know how i could get ahold of the man? If you know him, tell him "Joey from Chester" is looking for him and i'm a gonna kick his ass!
Thanks!!Joey
