Missing My Hunting Friend & Mentor

I'm missing my hunting friend, Rex Howell, who passed away on January 31, 2021, from cancer.  

This picture was taken the first day we met at his deer camp at the famous Christmas Place Plantation Hunting Club on Christmas Road near Eden, MS.  The land has 11 Indian mounds on it, and we are standing at one of them.  It was taken on May 5, 2007.  You can see his dog, Camo to the right of the picture.  

Rex came to my website and signed my guestbook and I always thanked everyone who had signed, and that is how it all started.  I asked him one day how did he find me.  He said he had gone to a hunting forum and saw a post that I had answered, and the rest was history.  

Rex has a blog called Deer Camp Blog and I had a blog as well and I had started my blog in 2006 and stopped.  He told me to continue because at that time he said it was not that many lady deer hunters who blogged.

He would have me up every hunting season to deer/hog hunt at the family camp.  I did not get to go in January of this year because he was very sick.  I'm so thankful that he called me and told me about his condition in December but did not realize that it was so bad.  He died on the last day of the hunting season.