I want to thank you for organizing this group and say how happy I felt being out today with you. I have been in the COF since 2000 and it was the CSF, and I have spent a lot of mornings with you.
It is humbling growing old with you. I picked up a dove lease this season with you and I bought my son a duck lease for this season through you. He truly loves hunting ducks and geese. He is in college like your son, at Texas Tech, so can’t be here for early hunting. He has benefited more than I by way of the COF policy to take kids hunting and making hunting free for kids. That is why I bought into the CSF 10 years ago, and my boys are the true beneficiaries of the spirit of your organization.
I look forward to seeing you more this season.”
Bob Boelsche

Once again, I had a great time with the COF hunt. 

I went with my adult son on the hunt for Axis and turkey. We got a bonus of some hogs as well. 

But the best part is time spent having fun and fellowship with people who love the outdoors.

Trey Lawson had an excellent theme for the devotionals over the course of the weekend.

I admire someone who put so much thought and meaning into their devotionals. His theme about Fire, “what fire drives you and how are you feeding that fire“ was both a timely and significant topic to reflect on. 

The Holyfield Ranch is a beautiful setting full of animals to help make the event a success.
But it’s always the people that make an impact. While I’ve always enjoyed my COF hunts in the past.
I think this one was filled with more laughs and more significance than any other.  Thank you Jimmy, Trey, Michael, and Mitch. 
Karl

Thanks to the man, the myth, the legend, Jimmy, for always doing a fantastic and outstanding job coordinating each of these outings! You’re truly a salt of the Earth, man, brother! Proud to know you!

I wanted to thank you for the opportunity to hunt in Menard. The fellowship was great and so was the hunting. I am still in shock over our blessed hunt on Sunday. I have never taken that many deer in one morning. If you would, please pass on my email address to Kenny, which he asked me to do. I know that you are busy, but if you get a chance, could you email me pics of myself and Haydenn? Thanks in advance. God bless.
Mike Scott

Just a note of thanks and well wishes for this weekend’s group at Acorn. Kelly and I had a great experience and fellowship. The accommodations, ranch, guides, and our group made for a memorable weekend. I took my first whitetail with my flintlock muzzleloader. Your menus were nutritious and plentiful. We brought a grocery bag of food, but only needed snacks for the blinds. It won’t be 5 years again till we hunt. Kelly wants to try for an axis doe next time and maybe try it with a muzzleloader ( with .243 as back-up).
Wayne and Kelly Kehr

Thanks to Mitchell for all the great stories, making Austen and I feel welcome. Thanks to you and Jimmy for being such great chefs with great food made with love! 

“Once you travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
Pat Conroy

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

Thanks to the most hospitable and awesome tour guide, man that knows the ropes, and gave us great tips, Phil the awesome Guide! We really do appreciate all the time and effort of going out of your way to put us in the best spots, give your Soleil the land, any tips we could need in the situation. As I told you before we left, it’s all about the hunt, the fellowship, and great guys like you that makes the world go around. 

I appreciate your efforts with COF, all the coordination, connecting the right people, places, and events. I also appreciate the emphasis on the Lord being front and center as it should be and you not being shy about putting it there. Though the bird numbers may be down, my sons and I are having a great time in God’s great outdoors. The boys get so much more from an outing than just seeing birds harvested. After taking one of my sons out on his first goose hunt, I asked him what he thought about the experience. His reply; “wow dad, you could see the big dipper”.”
Sincere Thanks, Dary

I thought the hunt was perfectly set up. I wished we’d seen more deer but other than that it made me and my son’s top 5 hunts ever list. I thought the camp fire setting was awesome. You guys knew the lay of the land, the stands seemed to be well maintained. So over all I wouldn’t change anything. This hunt gave me and Colter plenty of time to talk over what it means to be a man. How to honor people and protect them and to always do the right thing even if its not the easiest thing to do. This whole weekend was used to reinforce the talks that I’ve had with him in the past….kind of like review for the big test. Colter left camp a stronger Christian and on a more direct route toward becoming a man.”
Bob and Colter Smile

The doe hunt last weekend was a resounding success. Great fellowship, great devotions (I love Dale), and successful hunting. That is a fantastic ranch, and Cody and Chad are great with the kids. I know you feel great satisfaction seeing the kids get their first deer. Thank you for all you do for COF. Blessings to you and Judy,
Scott

Dale, I could see why you were a pastor before. You still are! Fantastic words of wisdom, from the heart, and I know we all felt it and the Holy Spirit stirring inside each of us. Thank you so much!