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Case: Keep mapping out big plans and dreaming of the next place

Contributed photo / Like many outdoors enthusiasts, “Guns & Cornbread” columnist Larry Case is sometimes better at dreaming up big plans for hunting and fishing than he is at following through, but that’s OK with him. Contributed photo / Like many outdoors enthusiasts, “Guns & Cornbread” columnist Larry Case is sometimes better at dreaming up big plans for hunting and fishing than he is at following through, but that’s OK with him.

By Larry Case October 4, 2026 4 min read

I lost another good friend this past week. In that respect, it has been quite a year.

I really didn’t know Robert that long, but I certainly enjoyed his friendship and always looked forward to our time together with all of the big stories we would tell. (Some of them may have actually been true.) Robert knew this area where I hunt better than I ever will, and I treasured his knowledge and insight about all of it.

It seems right after we first met, Robert and I were always making some big plans. We were going to go check out somewhere locally, we were going to go scout and explore some place where we would hunt later, and he was going to take me somewhere he had known about since he was a kid.

It was all pretty heady stuff to me. I was excited to have someone with his experience and knowledge as a buddy and to show me around the terrain he had been roaming since he was a kid.