Bruce: Hey, everybody out there in Whitetail Rendezvous Land. I'm sitting here with Bob Roark, my partner, and Dick Rogers looking at the Whitetail Rendezvous site on Facebook.

You see a young man probably in his 20s, plaid jacket, looking at a nice little whitetail. That gentleman, Dick Rogers, is sitting here.

The story behind that [inaudible 0:00:27] deer you see on the page is simply I was working for Dick at this part of the library in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Both Dick and I were attending, what we call back there, La Crosse State College, which later became University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Anyway Dick had a barn, I needed a job, so I went to work and along the way, he said, "What are you doing for Thanksgiving?" I was from New York so hears this funny accent.

But anyway I said, "I'm not going home for Thanksgiving," so he said "Why don't you come out to the family farm?" and he said, "You need a shotgun or a .30-30." I said, "Okay, how much is that going to cost – for shotguns, plugs, boots, hat, and jacket?" So, off we went to Union Center, Wisconsin. Dick Rogers, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us some stories?

Dick: Thank you, Bruce. My name is Dick Rogers and I met Bruce in 1966. I'm an operator of a college beer barn. Bruce was a hard worker and I took a liking to him. Being from New York, I introduced him to rural Wisconsin. I grew up in farm about 60 miles from LaCrosse. We went down and did some squirrel hunting and shooting, bagged a few squirrels. I saw that Bruce was really into it, so I invited him down for deer hunting also. It was kind of strange. I know this is all about whitetails.

This goes back to the mid-60s. If you see the deer in the pictures, they have very small racks. Those were good racks from back in those days. In central Wisconsin, we didn't have whitetail until probably the late '50s or early… I don't ever recall so much deer on our family farm. So we always went north in the state forest and national forest. Well, all of a sudden, deer started running down to central Wisconsin and of course now it's probably beaming down here in the central area. Do you agree, Bruce?

Bruce: I'd certainly agree. And so Dick and I left, I guess it was Friday night, and headed to Union Center. Was that when we first went to…? You were playing at…

Dick: Wisconsin Dells or that was a different one.

Bruce: That was a different one. We've got a lot of stories. We've got a lot of them. But anyway we headed over to Union Center and rolled into the Rogers' farmhouse.

The only thing I can remember about that is it was kind of late at night and I went upstairs. They put about five coats on me so I wouldn't freeze during the night, but then it didn't seem like too many hours went and all of a sudden they're tickling my nose with a feather saying it was time to get up.

I was like, "What?" That was the beginning of a very eventful day, and you’ve got to remember or have to think about Wisconsin – ridges, and crops along the ridges, and the side hills, and timber, and then bottoms are creeks or hayfields. So it's just rolling, rolling hills, really a fun place to go.

So we got to the farm and they said, "Here's what we're going to do." We start taking stands and having guys drive deer. It's a completely different story how we hunted deer back then. It was mostly just driving, just pushing deer all day long.

We went through swamps. Baraboo River was pretty close to there, so many times we came out. We didn't have waders. We had little knee boots and that was about it. So knee deep by the end of the day, but I was 19 years old having a ball so I didn't really care and I'll let Dick share a couple of first-day hunting stories.

Dick: Well,