During the festive meals of these days, let us remember the Lord\’s words: \”When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite those who will invite you in return, but invite those whom no one invited and who are able to invite you. Luke 14:12-14. Also this means: when you give gifts for Christmas, do not give only to those who will give to you in return, but give to those who receive from no one and who cannot give you anything back.\”An excerpt from the Christmas Midnight Mass Homily, given by Pope Benedict XVI December 2006

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– NJ.com

\”When I was 10 years old, I used to hear them as my grandfather and I sat on the front porch on a glider, one of those big old metal porch swings,\” said Joe Matter, 59, who grew up hunting quail in the Thorofare section of Gloucester County. \”Those were the days of hunting with side-by-sides (shotguns) and Woolrich shirts. We also had more than just a few dogs underfoot. It was nothing to kick up 20 to 50 coveys of quail in a day, with 20 to 25 birds in each covey.\”

Matter, a resident of Gloucester City, said these days when he walks through the fields he\’s lucky to kick up one flapping, fluttering covey of a half-dozen quail.

Although the bobwhite faces extinction throughout the eastern and southeastern United States, the state Division of Fish and Wildlife released a report this month concluding, \”New Jersey\’s declines are among the most precipitous recorded.\”

By Gary Devine

Three different plane flights, with three different 2009 fall hunting trips, with a week break in between each, and three monster bucks at the taxidermist. Joe will run out of wall space soon with all the trophy monster mounted heads.

Five years ago he bagged a Monster Mule Deer that had seventeen points, with a 35 inch rack spread and the gross Boone and Crocket Score of 212.

If you would like to see Joe\’s monster mule deer you can Google Winterhawk Outfitters in Eagle, Colorado.

Go to the photo section. Brother Joe and brother Dave are holding monster mule\’s in the first photo listed in the group.

Winterhawk Outfitters told Joe and Dave that Joe\’s Mule Deer Buck is the biggest taken since they started guiding back to 1972.

Editor’s Note: The Devine\’s were born and raised in Gloucester City NJ.