Red Tully, G9's and 10's, and my insecurity......
When we (me and my idiot buddy) were first learning to hunt we'd find some 'great' points for us, we'd bring them to Red and he'd tell us something about them and then ask, 'now do you want to see some good ones?' He'd go get a case full of whatever type we just found, except all G9's and G10's versus our 5's and 6'. Red is the reason, to this day, I don't believe that I own a legitimate G10 point and probably not even a G9. I think I top out around G8 and I blame Red for my point insecurity. His collection set the bar too high. Maybe I have one G9, maybe. He'd tell us stories about hunting back in the day that would make you sick. Clovis? I remember when they were building the lakes getting out, walking 15 feet and there was perfect 5" Clovis just laying there. Etley's? Oh yeah, I remember finding 4 nice one's one day. Dalton's? Yeah, do you so-and-so spot? I remember a really nice 6 incher coming off there. You know that other so-and-so spot? I remember us finding dozen and dozen of... well you get the picture. It was a different time....
Red owned the Johnstone figurine. The first I saw it he made the point of calling it a 'man'. I took the bait, asked how do you know it's a man? Bam! He flips it over and shows me the person's 'junk' carved into the flourite. Pretty funny. He also owned a set of four ~5 inch turkeytails that were carved out of the same nodule. To this day together they're one of the coolest artifacts I've ever seen.
When we (me and my idiot buddy) were first learning to hunt we'd find some 'great' points for us, we'd bring them to Red and he'd tell us something about them and then ask, 'now do you want to see some good ones?' He'd go get a case full of whatever type we just found, except all G9's and G10's versus our 5's and 6'. Red is the reason, to this day, I don't believe that I own a legitimate G10 point and probably not even a G9. I think I top out around G8 and I blame Red for my point insecurity. His collection set the bar too high. Maybe I have one G9, maybe. He'd tell us stories about hunting back in the day that would make you sick. Clovis? I remember when they were building the lakes getting out, walking 15 feet and there was perfect 5" Clovis just laying there. Etley's? Oh yeah, I remember finding 4 nice one's one day. Dalton's? Yeah, do you so-and-so spot? I remember a really nice 6 incher coming off there. You know that other so-and-so spot? I remember us finding dozen and dozen of... well you get the picture. It was a different time....
Red owned the Johnstone figurine. The first I saw it he made the point of calling it a 'man'. I took the bait, asked how do you know it's a man? Bam! He flips it over and shows me the person's 'junk' carved into the flourite. Pretty funny. He also owned a set of four ~5 inch turkeytails that were carved out of the same nodule. To this day together they're one of the coolest artifacts I've ever seen.
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