Joe was a great hunting companion for sure. Would always give me pointers on shooting and hunting. Always seemed to see deer when everyone else saw nothing. In fact he hunted a stand called Death Valley and saw deer about every time he hunted it and I would hunt that same stand on numerous occasions and never saw a deer out of that stand. Go figure. Gave me a nice knife when I first started hunting that I still use today. My favorite story about him is he got down out of the stand early to help my dad pull a deer out of the woods and on the way back to camp, they drove down the road where you could see his stand and there was a deer standing under his tree. He told my dad to let him out of the car and then drive off slowly. That deer watched the car drive off and Joe ended up getting the deer! Sure miss having him down at deer camp.
