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Colonel Tom Kelly

Started by allaboutshooting, February 06, 2015, 11:47:54 AM

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allaboutshooting

February 06, 2015, 11:47:54 AM
I know that several folks have asked about Tom Kelly lately. Here's the latest from his newsletter:


"Greetings TENTH LEGION members. Colonel Kelly has made it through a 33 day radiation treatment program with excellent results. He is looking forward to attending the 39th National Wild Turkey Federation's convention and trade show this coming week. Tom and his crew will be in booth 1113 selling books, audio books and his DVD collection. Come by say hello, get your book personalized by the "poet laureate of Wild Turkey literature."


Thanks,
Clark
"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."

ElkTurkMan

#1
February 06, 2015, 12:34:08 PM
That is great news I am glad to read this.   

tha bugman

#2
February 06, 2015, 02:25:28 PM
Amen!

silvestris

#3
February 06, 2015, 05:22:03 PM
I met the Colonel around 1975 when he was a judge at the Louisiana State Turkey Calling Championship. I had already read "Tenth Legion" at that time and was still trying to digest all of the knowledge contained in the book.  I read the book every year before turkey season and I am still trying to digest its knowledge.  He has always been one of the handful of people that I consider my turkey heroes.  My heart and prayers are with him.  He is truly a gift to the turkey hunting community.  Although I have read "The Wild Turkey And Its Hunting" by E.A. McIlhenny (from the notes of Charles Jordan) as many times as I have read "Tenth Legion", the Colonel's admonition to the would be turkey hunter to read pages 188-212 of that book is probably the most important thing that the Colonel has written, and he has written words of great importance.  If you see him in Nashville, Clark, please tell him so for me.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer."  Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game

GSLAM95

#4
February 06, 2015, 05:39:03 PM
Glad to read that Mr Kelly is doing good after the treatments.


Apologizing:  does not always mean you are wrong and the other person is right. 
It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

tomstopper

#5
February 06, 2015, 06:56:06 PM
Quote from: ElkTurkMan on February 06, 2015, 12:34:08 PM
That is great news I am glad to read this.
:agreed:

Bigspurs68

#6
February 06, 2015, 07:28:51 PM
That's encouraging to hear. I hope he fights with the same energy he has put into hunting turkeys.
Momma said "Kill that turkey"

Izzyjoe

#7
February 06, 2015, 09:13:23 PM
Glad to hear he's doing good, I'm new here so I didn't know he was ill, I just finished reading The Season, it was a good book, a little hard for me to read and comprehend at times, but still good! He will be in my prayers!

allaboutshooting

#8
February 06, 2015, 10:49:14 PM
QuoteIf you see him in Nashville, Clark, please tell him so for me.

I will see him and I will do that.

Thanks,
Clark
"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."

mgm1955

#9
February 06, 2015, 11:10:06 PM
Good news!

allaboutshooting

#10
February 07, 2015, 04:31:18 PM
"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."

Dr Juice

#11
March 12, 2015, 06:59:11 PM
Hooah COL Kelly. Best regards.  :turkey2:
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