NEW DEVOTIONAL BOOK RELEASED IN THE ADIRONDACK SERIES

Many today are integrating new technology into every aspect of their life. Some of it is good and some of it still has to be proven. The newest trend is the ebook and ebook readers that are thought by many to be revolutionizing the publishing world. Some love them and others hate them. Since you are reading this site and following it from time to time, you probably fall into the first category of people, or maybe you haven’t really made up your mind as yet. I have an ereader and enjoy it, to an extent! I am not about to completely give up paper books just yet, however. In light of this intro, let me get down to the subject at hand. I have self-published three volumes of Christian devotional readings in paper books on a small scale and they were well received by many. As I prepared the fourth volume, I decided to release this one in ebook format. It became available on line this past week.

It can be seen and purchased at www.booktango.com through their bookstore. The devotional is called Deeper Into the Packbasket! An Adirondack Devotional. I have kept the price low at $1.99, about the price of your average Sunday Newspaper, so there should be no obstacle there. It is offered in PDF, MOBI and EPUB formats, which covers just about any ereader (Kindle, Nook, etc.)or pc. I have already done a download of the volume and found it easy and successfully downloadable for my ereader. If you are interested in such a volume, go to the above site and click on their bookstore. Once the bookstore page comes up, then click on the search by subject and Christian/general will appear. Click on that and it should take you right to their selections. Scroll down till you find the book or search using title, Deeper Into the Packbasket!, and/or author, Robert R. Phillips, and you will be taken to it. I trust you enjoy the writings found in this volume. They are writings like the first volumes on lessons learned growing up in the North Country. Thank you for your support in this way.

Deer Hunting the Fall of 2012

It has been a year since I have been able to post. Many interruptions and conflicts have kept me from it. I do plan to continue on regular basis at this time. I apologize for the silence. This past fall was an excellent hunting season as many others also found it to be. I was able to spend a few more hours than usual in the deer woods. It seems to have paid off. First, I was called on to help a couple of young friends find deer that they shot at. One we were successful in trailing and tagging. The other must not have been hit as hard or well as first thought because it was never found. I was also with my son in Pennsylvania when he tagged a deer with one of his antlerless tags.

Second, my own hunting was exciting and productive. I saw more deer during this past season than in the previous three seasons combined. I got some nice photographs of deer on my trail cameras as well. To my knowledge the one eight point was never taken this year, so hopefully he is still out there. During muzzleloader season I saw a couple of young bucks but they offered no shot. I did try filling one of my antlerless tags but failed miserably in that. I missed not once but twice! Then with my rifle during regular season, I missed again using my scoped .30-06. Unfortunately this miss was while shooting at a big Pennsylvania buck with wide rack and tall tines! Earlier during the season I had slipped and fell, landing on my rifle in some rocks. I wasn’t hurt by the fall, but I can’t say the same for my scope and rifle. I re-sighted the rifle but apparently something is still off in either the scope or somewhere in the stock alignment. I know what you are thinking that it was just a case of buck fever. It wasn’t. Two days later, using my other rifle with open sights, I took a nice big seven pointer that looked every bit as big as the one I missed. I think my biggest problem is that I just lost confidence in my main rifle.

With only twenty minutes of shooting time left on my last day of hunting for the year, I was able to tag a nice mature seven point buck. This broke a long dry spell for me. I had not tagged a buck in the past three years. Last year I did not even tag a doe on an antlerless permit. So this was an excellent end to the season.