Thanks to all of you who recently inducted me into the Hall of Fame, What an honor! Thanks to Rusty and the officers, Ken Deardorff, Tony, Sharon, David, Randy, and especially to Miss Lisa Whitman who made the award possible. I was truly humbled, Thank you all.

Congrats!!!

I've never met you, Jack, but judging from your posts on here, it was well deserved. Congrats!

Congratulations Jack! I can’t think of a more deserving inductee, than yourself.

Congratulations. Never met you but that's not the kind of thing they just give out for no reason. You must deserve it.

An honor well-deserved Jack. I was at the convention, but didn't want to trouble you. I'm always on the lookout for those rubber boas after our discussions about them.

Same exact thought here too. I look for those boas every time I'm out. I just need to be out purposely along back roads and trails at dawn or near dusk, as Jack advised. I'm not commonly out there at those times. But I'm still looking when I can.

Well you earned it.

Well deserved. Wild Life = great read!!

At Jack's induction there was a story from a good friend of Jack's (and many of the members on here) that I thought I would share that pretty much sums up the outstanding guy Jack is. Enjoy


It was December and quite cold, at least minus fifty because no one was flying and I was at my trapline, about 90 minutes by Super Cub. I had an abscessed tooth and needed a dentist badly. I was running a fever and had used all my antibiotics.
I had contacted Jack on the High Frequency radio a couple days earlier, but he said it was too cold to fly. Finally, I decided to use my 22 pistol and try to shoot my tooth out. I had resolved to do it the next morning. Somehow, during the night, better judgment prevailed as I realized I was dealing with an upper molar that was right below my eye. I called Jack once again and told him the situation. He said it was still minus 47 in MCG, but he’d come get me anyway, which he did.

When no one else would fly, Jack put himself and his airplane at great risk to get me out of there and back where I could get to the dentist. In retrospect, I should have just had Jack pull the tooth. He certainly has enough experience, but he may have also wanted to put a radio collar on me.

There is nothing more valuable in this world than a man you can rely on. That's Jack!!

Congrats, enjoy your posts!

Congratulations Jack! A very well deserved honor.

Congrats Jack ! It was good to see the pix that were posted. Wish I could have been there in person.

S99, that was a good story . I recall hearing that long ago . Always have liked it. Thank you.

We are all so happy for Jack.