PODCAST: A Walk Through Virginia

It’s April Fools Day, and the gobblers played a trick on me– had me running all over the farm. However, I finally got close to one out on the tip of Virginia.

NOTE: I broke this podcast into two parts after some folks said it was too slow to load. I’ll try and keep these to about 15 minutes per segment in the future.

Podcast –A Walk Through Virginia Part I

Podcast –A Walk Through Virginia Part II

Virginia is a “finger off a finger.” Our place is centered around a knife-edge ridge running N/S. There are a couple of smaller fingers branching off with small hollows between. Virginia is one of the larger ones.

I remember taking a walk like this back in 2002– first time I had really tried to hunt this part of the property. I spent all morning trying to coax a gobbler much like this one out of Soggy Bottom. It was on this day that I decided to leave Virginia alone and give it to #2 son, Mooseboy when he started to hunt on his own. There is a buddy treestand up about halfway out Virginia at its narrowest part.

How did Virginia get its name? Simple, there’s an old Ivor Biggun tune about a hillbilly. The refrain ends: “But halfway up Virginia is where I want to be!”

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