Hello from the Toronto area

[Bittereinder]

Hello, everyone. I was drawn here by the scope field evaluations / drop tests. I'd seen occasionally references to them but what really got me interested was a recent video by Desert Dog Outdoors on YouTube.

I'm a recreational plinker and generalist hunter, taking the opportunities I can for hunting upland birds and waterfowl, and Ontario white-tails. My real passion is Africa hunting. I've hunted Namibia once for plains game and want to go back.

 

[Lou (Louis)]

Welcome to the Rok!
Tell the Africa story, please. Always wanted to go.

 

[Bittereinder]

Welcome to the Rok!
Tell the Africa story, please. Always wanted to go.

Thanks, will do in the coming days.

 

[ianpadron]

Ontario is an incredible place. I think about a childhood fishing trip to Lac Seul darn near weekly, what a place

 

[eddielasvegas]

As the self-appointed chairman of the welcoming committee, it is my privilege to extend a laurel, and hearty handshake (virtual, of course) to our new Canada member.


Eddie

 

[Bittereinder]

Thanks very much, Chairman Welcomer of FNGs.

This reminds me of an early career mishap that surprisingly wasn't mine, but that of a colleague. This was as an engineering consulting company, not a terribly stuffy place but professional standards were still expected. A young engineer who was in charge of a field work program in northern Ontario sent an email to the entire office of 100+ people in a Toronto suburb. It was in the style of a typical corporate promotion announcement, where he said another young engineer was being promoted from FNG (and he then spelled it out in full) to junior partner. An actual senior partner did not at all appreciate the casual misrepresentation of a hard earned title, even in jest. Fortunately the young corporate F-bomber is a damn good engineer and he's still with the company, now at senior partner level himself. So, I have fond memories of the use of "FNG".