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Born: Ernest Gene Wilson
Year: April 22, 1953 (AKA Earth Day)
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA
                   (Town of Safe Harbor, near Conestoga)

In the Beginning:

        Surely if the "Old West" can have it's legends, then "Back East" will certainly have it's tales of men that are somehow larger than life itself.  Ernie Wilson is one such man, born a native to Penn's Woods in a time and place where polite folks would have simply called his home "Out in the Sticks."  Home of the Conestoga Wagon, meeting place of the Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers, walking distance to the Safe Harbor Petroglyphs, endless river hills and forest, local streams so clean and clear that you could drink directly from them, hardworking neighbors and farmers with good old fashioned customs and values - This would be the boy hood place where Ernie would begin, this was home.  Perhaps the old saying: "You can never go home again" came from places and people like this, since these untouched, unspoiled and in some ways forgotten places in America no longer seem to exist except in the minds of men like Ernie who can still remember and somehow draw power into their moral being that allows them to so easily know and do that which is "right" and avoid that which is "wrong."

The Early Years (way too many to list in detail):

• Squirrel hunting in Safe Harbor
• Deer hunting all over Pennsylvania
• Duck hunting on the Susquehanna, building blinds on Lake Clarke
• Duck hunting at the "Coal Wash" - now shut down
• Dove hunting at Lancaster county farms
• Pheasant hunting at Lancaster county farms
• Quail hunting all over Pennsylvania
• Turkey hunting (fall and spring gobbler) all over Pennsylvania
• Trapping foxes, raccoons and muskrats all over Pennsylvania
• Bow fishing for carp in the Conestoga river
• Gig fishing for frogs in the Pequea creek
• Fly fishing for trout all over Pennsylvania
• Small mouth bass and Walleye fishing Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers
• Bear hunting all over Pennsylvania
• Coyote and Fox hunting all over Pennsylvania
• Flounder fishing in Indian River Bay
• Marlin and Tuna fishing in the Baltimore Canyon
• Bluefish and Sea Trout fishing in the Delaware Bay and Atlantic ocean

      A work in progress - not in order and not yet completed!

Current:

• Ernie was the president of PPHA (Pennsylvania Predator Hunters Association) for a year
• Ernie is the 2008 State of Pennsylvania "Predator Calling" Champion (Best in the state) and is ranked #2 in the World (as of 2008) for "Predator Calling"
• Ernie continues to make the highest quality calls and howlers available in the world
• Ernie has refined a superior Gun Rest Tripod and has begun to demo some of the advanced features as the long range highly skilled day hunting and  specialized night hunting continues to gain momentum in 2009

Truth:

        This "About Ernie" page was actually written without previous knowledge or consent from Ernie Wilson.  This page was written by Ernie Wilson II, the first child and oldest son in the "next" generation of Wilson's succeeding my father and his brothers and sister.  I knew if I let this "About" page up to my father, one of two (2) things would have happened:
Either he would have left the page blank since he is not a publicly proud person (it is just not who he is) or he would have written something like this: "Ernie - A guy who buys his hunting and fishing license from K-Mart and is saddened to see less and less things that still say: MADE IN USA"