because it's a place of solitude and peace. Your spot and mine likely look dramatically different. Yours might be a field line on an old farm next to a gently sloping oak ridge, perhaps a high knob surrounded by forested valleys and creek bottoms; all types of differing terrain and vegetation. Sometimes easy to get to and sometimes requiring time to walk in. Although physically different in looks, there also are similarities between our spots. The most common would be that we have confidence in them, we've been successful on one or more occasions there. We have fond memories of time spent there with family and friends. These " spots " often have taught us valuable lessons through mistakes or miscues we've made while pursuing game. And we know there's a high probability we're going to find what we're hunting. As for me, that's spring longbeards! STARTED HUNTING spring gobblers after serving in the military and while attending college in Centre County. It took one morning spent with a good friend and his father for me to become entirely enthralled by it. I've been doing it ever since and the enthusiasm I have for it never has waned. For most of my career, I lived in Indiana County. There I met and became friends with a landowner and his family that left practically all of their properties open to public hunting. They kept one I 28