A Real American Hero Visits Cypress Creek

Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge was privileged earlier this week to have a great American war hero, Greg Stube, come and hunt with us along with a couple of his friends including Kerry Earnhardt.

You can read all about Greg here in an interview with Glenn Beck, but basically he was a Special Forces field medic who was wounded horribly by an IED during combat in Afganistan in 2006 and lived to tell about it. Now, 17 surgeries later and still in the Army, Greg works with the Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office as a spokesman for the US Army. He is also a representative with the Wounded Warrior Foundation where he travels around the country working with and supporting veterans as well as promoting the use of the outdoors and hunting as part of a healing regiment for wounded veterans.

Greg’s group spent two days at our new bow camp, and they had a great time hanging out by the Savannah River and hunting the hardwoods that run along it’s banks. And after lots of sightings of deer and a few hogs, Greg came out on top when he stuck a great hog right at dark on his last afternoon sit. So congratulations to Greg, and we look forward to the next time we are are blessed to have him here with us.

We also had a small group down from VA and MD, and they too had a great time. However our winter heat wave continued to make the hog hunting tough for everyone, and while this group had a few sightings, none were taken out on the back on the vans.

We now have about a week and a half off before we have more hunters, so everyone is taking a few days to catch up on their sleep and rejuvinate themselves for some late-season hunting. However we have some new trailcam photos to keep everyone entertained, and next week we get back into some of the great video footage we have in our archives. So stay tuned!