| It's All About the Food! |
| Written by Lisa Pierpont, March 14,
2012 |
|
Just wanted to
put this out there to all of you visiting our website. If you are not a
Veteran and would still like to help support us, I am always looking for
donations of food or money to be used towards fixing our Vets great
meals for our guys.
You can reach me
thru
rob@americasfreedomlodge.org
We currently have
our Turkey Hunt coming up the first weekend of May! Thank you! |
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| Veterans Day |
| Written by Rob Pierpont, November 10,
2011 |
|
We would like to
take this time to THANK all the Veterans for their dedication to their
country. Without all of you, many of our functions in our everyday life
would NOT be possible. Your actions are not forgotten. We wish each and
every one of you a very Happy Veterans Day.
The Staff at
America's Freedom Lodge |
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| 2011 Fall Deer Hunt |
| Written by Trent Davis, November 1
2011 |
|
I would like to
give a big shout to the Veterans we had along with us this week. We
couldn't have had a better group of gentlemen. Thanks to the ladies in
the kitchen and those of you who also helped them from the outside.
There were 11 deer taken all together, If only you could be there to see
the smile on these fellows faces. Pure Priceless!!!. Good Job AFL Staff.
Lots of work goes into getting this done year after year. As well,
thank you to some of our newcomers that helped guide this year. (Team
Majik). I am a War Veteran myself and I am honored to be a part of this
organization!! |
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| 2011 Fall Deer Hunt |
| Written by Rob Pierpont October 31,
2011 |
|
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You to Ron, Brian T, Bryan F, Keith, George,
Andy, David T, Shawn, Dave, Ray and Sam for dedication to our Country
and for sharing a week of your life with us. I would have to say we all
had a great week. The Veterans were able to harvest 11 deer, went zip
lining and finished the week up squirrel hunting for a few hours. A huge
THANK YOU to all our staff and all those that helped us through out the
week. Lisa and Christy you all did a excellent job with the food in the
kitchen. Thanks to Todd and Mary Lindsey, Nancy Coad and the Morgan
Grange for their help as well with lunch and dinners. To Majik Outdoors,
we are looking forward in teaming up with all of you in the future. We
all enjoyed our time together. Even though it is just one week and only
eleven people if everyone would just volunteer one way in any capacity
in your local area YOU will make a difference in someone's life. We know
we did. Words cannot express our gratitude to everyone that has helped
America's Freedom Lodge along the way. God Bless each and every one of
you. Be safe and THANK YOU again.
AFL Staff |
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| Gun Bash 2011 |
| Written by Rob Pierpont September 21,
2011 |
|
Wow what a
GREAT time. The day just seemed to fly by. We had a huge crowd the food
was excellent and the beverages were cold. A BIG Thank you to all our
guest's. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. To our Staff, Heath Eagles,
Danny and Larry from D.L. Grain, Bar Tenders, and everyone else who
helped us, THANK YOU! It wouldn't had been possible without all of you.
We are already
thinking and working on next years.
Thanks again,
America's Freedom Lodge |
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| AFL Gun Bash |
| Written by Hammer_89 September 19,
2011 |
|
GREAT JOB ON
THE GUN BASH!!! LOTS OF GREAT COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED. THANKS
TO ALL VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF. WITHOUT ALL OF YOU, THE EVENT WOULD NOT
HAVE HAPPENED.
GO
AFL!!!! |
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| It's About that Time... |
| Written by Rob Pierpont September 8,
2011 |
|
...for Ohio's deer
archery season to open. It seems like this year has went by so fast.
Summer was here and gone, well just about gone. We are heading into our
final days for our 2nd Annual Gun Bash which seems to be right on track.
We are excited about our 2011 Fall Archery Hunt and meeting new friends.
Food plots have been redone, trail cameras up, shooting lanes cleared
and shooting house's are ready and waiting to be used. This years list
of hunters have a lot of traveler's in it so we wish everyone a safe
trip to Ohio. Summer activity in the woods has looked just awesome and
the past couple of weeks activity has been, well let's just say, we
can't wait for all of you to get here. We have been working on a few
things this summer and are trying to get all the ends tied up. We have
been speaking about America's Freedom Lodge whenever and wherever we can
to help spread our word. Some exciting thing are to come in our
future and we will do our best to keep you all up to date. Also you can
check us out on Facebook. It seems to be the fastest way to stay
connected to us. Until next time, God bless and be safe.
Rob |
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| Spring is Around the Corner! |
| Written by Rob Pierpont March 24,
2011 |
| Hoping the
new year finds everyone well. Yes Spring is around the corner. Here at
AFL we have been busy so far this year. AFL has been awarded another
grant from The Friends of the NRA which will be put to good use.
The Columbus Deer and Turkey expo went great and the spring turkey hunt
is around the corner. We are working on this years Gun Bash gun
list which will be Sept 17th at Heath Eagles again. ALF is also
sponsoring a local 10u girls softball team. I've been talking with
Heartland Wildlife about redoing a couple food plots as well. We
can't forget about the NWTF and Friends of the NRA upcoming banquets.
The Pepsi refresh grant gave us a lot of learning experience which was
well worth the effort and a BIG thanks to everyone that voted. So as you
can see, we are off to a good start for 2011. There are plenty of other
doors out there for us to open up to help us to continue to grow. Until
next time God Bless and be safe. Rob |
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| Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! |
| Written by Rob Pierpont December 17,
2010 |
| The
staff at America's Freedom Lodge would like to wish everyone a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year! As we celebrate this holiday
season let us not forget that there are men and woman around the world
that will not be with their families this season. They are out there
ensuring our freedom so we may be with our families. We are looking
forward to next year and what it will bring the AFL. To those of you
that are still hunting and traveling this holiday season be safe and God
bless. The Staff at AFL. |
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| Happy Veteran's Day |
| Written by Rob Pierpont November 11,
2010 |
|
America's
Freedom Lodge would like to wish all the Veterans a Happy Veteran's Day.
We THANK YOU for your dedication to our Country. Your deeds will not be
forgotten! |
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| 2010 Fall Deer Hunt |
| Written by Rob Pierpont November 2,
2010 |
|
Ray, Sam, Terry, Kurt, Don, Nole and
Roy, thank you for spending a week with us. It was our pleasure to have
been able to give back a little to all of you. Besides the weather not
cooperating, I would say a great time was had by all. Thank you to the
Round Lake staff that took all of us to the zip line on Friday. Everyone
enjoyed it. There was plenty of wildlife activity during the week and we
were still able to harvest some deer, even with a weeks worth of a full
moon. Like normal, we all ate REALLY well all week and enjoyed our time
spent as a group telling stories. Ray, thank you for coloring with my
son Owen and making him a swing in the tree. The way it sounds, we might
have even made a few bow hunters out of the group which is fantastic! A
big thanks to our kitchen staff Lisa, Christy, Nancy Coad, Liz, Tina,
Grandma, Kay, Amy, Mary Ann, Dan, the Hinkle's and anyone else I have
overlooked. Thanks to all our guides for the week. This week would not
be possible without the help of all our volunteers.
A big THANKS to all our family's for
your love and support throughout the year and to God above for his
guiding hand. Until next time, be safe and God Bless. |
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| Hunt, Clean-up Day and Gun Bash |
| Written by Lisa Pierpont October 16,
2010 |
| Just want
to say how excited I am in preparing for the hunt to start in a week.
The clean-up day (clearing trails, etc) was perfect weather. Great job
to our AFL men for getting a lot accomplished. Menu for the hunt is
complete and I can tell you guys that no one should go home hungry.
Really looking forward to meeting our hunters!
Also a note
of thanks to everyone that helped with the food prep for the Gun Bash!
To Rob and Trent - you guys "rocked" the house!! Great job to everyone
who helped with this event in any way. We greatly appreciate it!! |
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| Gun Bash |
| Written by Rob Pierpont September 22,
2010 |
|
A huge thanks
to all of you who purchased ticket's as well as attended the event. I
know we all had a great time, we hope those that were there did as well.
There were a lot of nice firearms handed out that day. A BIG thanks to
our 50/50 sales crew you gals did an amazing job, as well as our kitchen
crew they kept the food coming out all day long. I am sure we will see
what next year brings. Thanks to everyone again. AFL Board. |
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| Happenings around the
A.F.L. |
| Written by Rob Pierpont August 11,
2010 |
|
It has been
awhile. There has been allot of things going on this year. We had an
exiting time this year at the Columbus Deer and Turkey Expo. We teamed
up with Dip n Design again this year and made some new friends. We held
a work day where we built 5 more shooting house's as well as Miles
Cooper built 2 more for his Eagle Scout project. We had a great time
helping out at this years Knox County Veterans Picnic. It is about time
to start grooming some trails and clearing some shooting lanes. Food
plots are looking good and are need of mowing again. The pictures off
the trail camera's look promising have captured several twins. We are
closing in on our 1st Annual Gun Bash Sept.18th we are very excited
about this event and has been keeping us on our toes. We have been
speaking to several different groups about America's Freedom Lodge like
Land of Legend Fly Fishers, Vietnam Veterans of America and several
different Am-Vet and American Legion's just to name a few. We also have
7 Hunters scheduled thus far for our fall hunt with openings left. So in
a nut shell this is just a look at what has been going on and I am sure
I have forgotten a few things. Until next time God Bless and Be Safe.
Rob |
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| Gun Bash |
| Written by Trent Davis July 22,
2010 |
| Well
folks, we are getting near to our first annual gun bash, which will be
held on 9-18-10 at the Heath Eagles. AFL is very excited to kick this
event off with a bang, as well as share some awfully nice guns with many
of our new friends. We would like give thanks to all who are
planning to attend, as well as offer others who would like to
participate with a chance to win also. If you are interested in a ticket
just give me a ring at 614-989-5149. Good luck to you all. |
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| Deer Mount |
| Written by Bob Baker, February 3,
2010 |
| The deer
mount looks really good on the wall above the TV. May God Bless you for
what you do ... I know He has blessed me for knowing all of you! I look
forward to a long and continuing friendship with the staff at AFL. |
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| Merry Christmas and Happy New Year |
| Written by Rob, Wednesday, December
16,
2009 |
|
From
everyone at America's Freedom Lodge we wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year. To all those that have helped
us out this year, we would like to THANK YOU again for your support.
The AFL staff has been doing some hunting of their own over the past
few weeks, as well as participating in our youth hunt. We were
able to harvest a nice doe and a monster 6 point buck that had a 28
inch spread as well as 12 inch tines. These were the first
deer kill for these two young men so congratulations to them again.
Tom has been busy contacting folks for their support. We have
some BIG plans in the making with Lowe's and Scent Lok for 2010.
Watch for further details coming soon. We are looking forward
to another exciting year in 2010. We will try to have an
updated calendar of our upcoming events in January. Until next
time, be safe and God Bless.
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| Another Successful Hunt |
| Written by Rob, Tuesday, November 3,
2009 |
|
Another year with a successful hunt. We would like to thank Tom,
Ted, Bill, Neil, Ora, Paul, Bob, Don and Kurt. Our staff enjoyed all
of your company. We hope you all had a great time, We know we did.
The weather was perfect even with one rainy day. The deer harvest
was great with Bob harvesting a nice 10 point. The woods will never
be the same (hehe). We had some good conversation's after dinner and
picked up a few pointers to help us along the way. To our staff, job
well done. It takes a team to do what we do in a week even if
our new (Horton Crossbows) were, let's just say, not up to par.
To all those that helped us in one way or another, a BIG thank you
as well. We are already looking forward to next year. For those of
you still out hunting this season, good luck and be safe. God Bless.
Rob
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| Fall Hunt Update |
| Written by Rob, Wednesday, October 14,
2009 |
|
We are in the home stretch for our Fall 2009 Hunt. Everything
is coming together. The deer activity has been good. The
cooler weather will help as well. It looks like we will have
twelve hunters this year and we are eager to meet each one of you.
The scouting reports have been good, the shooting house's are all in
place and plenty of pop blind locations picked out. I just
want to remind all of our hunters not to forget their sleeping bags
and pillows and any other necessity items they might need. We
are looking forward to a fun filled week and wish all of you a safe
trip into camp. Until next time be safe and God Bless.
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| Update |
| Written by Rob, Tuesday, September 15,
2009 |
|
Less than six weeks till our Fall Archery Hunt and we are all getting
revved up. We have a clean up/scouting/preparation day scheduled for
this Saturday. We have a couple more of shooting house's to get built,
firewood to cut, some paths to trim back, and some shooting lanes to
clear. The trail camera's have been looking good. A lot of twins were
born this year. We have finished up our gun raffle as well as our 2nd
annual Poker Run. All went very well and a big THANK YOU to all who
participated. Sounds like the cooks are finishing up their menu plans
for the fall hunt. To those that are schedule's to hunt with us
check in time is at noon on Oct. 25th. Until next time be safe. |
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| Activity Update |
| Written by Rob, Tuesday, September 1,
2009 |
|
Well with the temp's it feels like fall is in the air with only 26
days till the opening of Archery Season. Our first annual AFL/QDMA/Land
of Legend Buck Club Bow shoot went rather well. I believe we
had well over 100 shooters the weather cleared out by mid morning
and turned out real well. We were able to do two food plots
demonstrations so that will help out. We are preparing for our
gun raffle over the Labor Day weekend and then for our 2nd Annual
Poker Run on Sept 12th. We have a few more shooting house's to
build and we will be on our way for the October Hunt. I have
some trail cameras out and a few Moultrie Feeders. The deer
herd is looking rather good. We still have a few openings left
for the October Hunt so if you are interested PLEASE contact us we
would love to have you. Until next time be safe, God Bless. Rob
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| Upcoming Events |
| Written by Rob, Monday August 13,
2009 |
Here is
some information of some of our AFL events coming up:
3 D Bow
Shoot Saturday, August 29th held at 12380 Norris Rd. Course opens at
9:00 am last entry at 3:00 pm. $7:00 per shooter. Food and Drinks
available, 1st and 2nd place prizes per class. Crossbows welcomed.
Food plot seminar's at 10:00 and 3:00 by Bill Peneston of Heartland
Wildlife Institute. Come out and enjoy a day of fun. We will
have a youth bow shoot area with Mathew Genesis bows.
On Sept
12th is our 2nd Annual Poker run @ The Loft 7467 Mt. Vernon Rd. St.
Louisville Ohio. First bike out at 11:00 am last bike in at 5:00 pm.
Door prizes and entertainment as well as a hog roast. Dinner tickets
are also available for $10.00 at the door. Come out and spend the
evening with us and support a good cause.
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| Activity Update |
| Written by Rob, Monday June 15, 2009 |
|
Well it
has been awhile since my last post, probably longer than it
should've been. So far, in 2009, it has been a very active year here
at AFL. We have our new web site up and running with the help of
Christy. We have received our check for our grant monies and our
2009 Spring Turkey was a lot of fun. We have done a few more
food plots, built more stands and shooting houses and set up at The
Columbus Deer and Turkey Expo with Dip n Design. AFL has
assisted in the 2009 Knox County Veterans Picnic, held a Hunter
Education class and we are also planning a QDMA bow shoot in August.
We have a WW 2 Veterans Fishing day planned on Knox Lake on June
27th, and our 2nd Annual Poker Run September 12th. So, as you can
see there has been a lot going on so far this year besides all the
behind the scene activities. We have added two new board members
Trent Davis and Kevin Rodeniser. We will also be adding a staff
section to our website as well. AFL has been graciously given the
opportunity to add some more acreage to hunt on for our program, so
we would like to thank those involved for that. Please stay tuned
for more. Like always, stay safe and God Bless. Rob
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| Happy New Year |
| Written by Rob, Friday January 23,
2009 |
|
Well the new year is here and our deer
season is drawing to the end. Last Sunday we put out a trail camera at
a spot I've been hunting at and in two days it has taken 1178 pictures.
Now that is impressive, the bucks seem to be traveling between
10:00-11:30 pm. We have received our first grant of the year it was from
The Friends of the NRA, we were very excited to get the news. We are
starting to get ready for our upcoming Spring turkey hunts which will be
here pretty fast. Speaking of turkeys last week I had 32 turkeys come
by my blind all being tom's and jakes so we will see if they will still
be around in the spring. We are also having another Hunters Education
class on March 4th and our second annual Poker Run on September 12th. We
are also currently working on building some more shooting house's and
clearing up more trees from last years storm. Well stay warm and be
safe, until next time. |
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| Merry Christmas |
| Written by Rob, November 24, 2009 |
|
Merry Christmas from all of us here at America's Freedom Lodge to all of
you. Wishing you all the best during this holiday season.
No matter where you are at in the world or what your holiday plans have
in store for you we wish you all the best and safe travels .
HAPPY HOLIDAY'S |
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| Youth Hunt |
| Written by Rob, Friday January 23,
2009 |
| Monday,
24 November 2008 Well the 2008 youth hunt was Nov 22nd -Nov 23rd. Mark
was able to help two young lads in the woods. One being a father son
team that was their first hunt ever, and they were able to harvest a
button buck. I was able to be out in the woods with my brother in law
and his son for their first time together. Unfortunately the deer used
the cover of darkness to their advantage, but they both had a great
time. We were thankful to be able to introduce younger kids to the woods
and let them see first hand what the Lord has made for us to enjoy. I
had a nice size hawk fly through and catch a chipmunk, what a site that
was. Until next time be safe Rob. |
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| Veteran's Day |
| Written by Rob, November 11, 2008 |
|
The America's Freedom Lodge would like to wish all VETERANS a Happy
Veterans day and thank you for your dedication to the service. Without
you folks our everyday life would not be possible. Thank you again from
the staff at A.F.L. |
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| What a Week! |
| Written by Rob, November 3, 2008 |
|
If we had to sum up last week in one word it would be what a BLAST, from
the time everyone arrived Sunday till they departed Saturday, we had
non-stop fun. Monday started the week off with harvesting four deer
with three more on Tuesday and three more on Friday. Had a few missed
shots on Wednesday and Thursday, but you will have that. The rut was
starting about mid week and boy did we get some film footage of some
awesome bucks. Eric and his film crew captured several hours of video.
Just to be in the woods and encounter deer in their natural habitat what
a wonderful sight. I had the pleasure of sitting and calling with
my bunk mate Buck for a few days as well as Shawn and I can not forget
Tom "Lt Dan" even though he hails from Michigan. I'm sure the stories
are flying this week from our hunters. We all had plenty of fun,
fellowship and food and all of those have stories of their own and I
could go on and on. On behalf of the America's Freedom Lodge we would
like to thank all those that had a hand in making last week possible,
and to our hunters Tom, Shawn, Buck, Ed, Mike, Sara, Brian, Paul and
Trent thank you for what you all have done for us in the past of
ensuring our freedom and your dedication to your branch of the military
and for giving us a truly fun filled, unforgettable week. God
bless you all. Stay tuned for pic's. Rob |
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| 26 Days |
| Written by Rob, September 20, 2008 |
|
Twenty six days till our archery hunt begins. We here at Americas
Freedom Lodge are very excited. We all have been working and planning
hard to make the most of this week with all our Veterans. I myself have
been busy with Liz prepairing the menu for the week,Mark and his crew
has been cleaning up after the storm a few weeks back. We all are
looking forward to a fun filled week, who knows maybe we will be able to
fill some deer tags. For those of you who are out hunting now be safe,
untill next time God bless. Rob |
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| Moving Right Along |
| Written by Rob, September 15, 2008 |
|
Less than seven weeks til our hunt and all things are moving along very
well. Spent this last weekend building a few more permanent stands and
hanging a few more hang ons. Mark is getting ready to build a ground
shooting house on one of our food plots. We had some severe wind here
last night much of our county and surrounding is with out power. Need
to go to the woods to survey the damage. I am sure our wind is no where
close to the winds that the past hurricanes have brought with them, the
news say we had winds somewhere around 60 to 75 mph. We all have been
busy tightening up all our ends for the hunt. We are looking forward to
seeing and meeting all of you on the 26th of October. It looks like we
will have around ten people hunting with us that week. The temp's this
weekend were very warm and humid not much deer activity during the day,
but they were very active in the evening. As with the rest of the
country the corn and soy beans are really starting to turn so plenty of
food for them to munch on, not like the farmers like that though. Well
until next time be safe. Rob |
