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 Re: Before you knew better
[Re: pigplinker]
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02/19/17 07:58 PM
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Before I knew better I told my wife EXACTLY  how I wanted something done. When she took the slack out of that rope tied to the pickup,  I became EDUMACATED. When she put the truck in park and got out  she told me not to ever talk to her that way again. I SAID YEEESSS MAME  . I GRADUATED MAGNA DUMB ARSE!!!  Wives don't count! You have to know what you did in order to correct it. Usually they don't tell ya and you have to guess....If you guess wrong you're in worse trouble!
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Texas Dan]
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02/21/17 12:51 AM
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At a strapping young age of about 10 years old, I decided the little 218 Bee wasn't enough rifle and talked my dad into letting me hunt with his sporterized Springfield 30-06. Dad warned me it had a pretty good kick and it would make me start flinching. I would have nothing of it, and swapped rifles with him one morning. Dad dropped me off at my favorite oak tree and helped me up onto the single 2x6 seat about 12 foot up in the air. The foot rest had long ago rotted away ... Dad drove on over to the next stand. I was sitting there dangling my legs when out walks a nice buck that several of the other hunters had seen but no shot opportunity. broad side walking about 100 yards. I leveled off old "meat in the pot", clicked off the safety, gust of wind hits me just as I squeezed the trigger making me totally unbalanced on my tiny perch, BOOM ... the next thing I know it's a-holes and elbows grabbing for limbs with one hand as I go rolling out of the backside of the tree while hanging on to the rifle, landing flat of my back about 12 feet below, knocking every ounce of oxygen from my lungs. As I lay there gasping for my next breath, I thought about what dad had told me and surmised that his comment about a "pretty good kick" was a HUGE understatement. And the missing foot rest really needed to be put back in place before someone (else) got hurt.
The deer was safe for another day and dad got a good old belly laugh when I started telling him my little adventure.
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Before you knew better
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02/21/17 01:22 AM
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At a strapping young age of about 10 years old, I decided the little 218 Bee wasn't enough rifle and talked my dad into letting me hunt with his sporterized Springfield 30-06. Dad warned me it had a pretty good kick and it would make me start flinching. I would have nothing of it, and swapped rifles with him one morning. Dad dropped me off at my favorite oak tree and helped me up onto the single 2x6 seat about 12 foot up in the air. The foot rest had long ago rotted away ... Dad drove on over to the next stand. I was sitting there dangling my legs when out walks a nice buck that several of the other hunters had seen but no shot opportunity. broad side walking about 100 yards. I leveled off old "meat in the pot", clicked off the safety, gust of wind hits me just as I squeezed the trigger making me totally unbalanced on my tiny perch, BOOM ... the next thing I know it's a-holes and elbows grabbing for limbs with one hand as I go rolling out of the backside of the tree while hanging on to the rifle, landing flat of my back about 12 feet below, knocking every ounce of oxygen from my lungs. As I lay there gasping for my next breath, I thought about what dad had told me and surmised that his comment about a "pretty good kick" was a HUGE understatement. And the missing foot rest really needed to be put back in place before someone (else) got hurt.
The deer was safe for another day and dad got a good old belly laugh when I started telling him my little adventure. I couldn't have more than eight or nine when I first tried shooting a single-shot 12 gauge. It would be another eight years before I shot the Remington 1100 my dad bought me for my birthday.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Texas Dan]
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02/21/17 03:13 PM
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Didn't get "kicked" out of tree, but I learned a valuable lesson about strapping yourself in! Up 25 or 30 feet in an old tree on a board stand early one morning wearing insulated overalls, gloves, balaclava, etc. It was that time when you can just see the sun coming up and I was all warm & toasty. Got a little drowsey so I thought WTH I'll just take a short nap..... Evidently I decided to roll over in my sleep......I woke up about 1/2 way down the tree still falling. I must've hit every branch in that old tree falling from about 25 ft up. Hit & grab, hit & grab. I caught my arm on the last one about 10 ft up. It didn't stop me, but I was able to slow myself down enough & land on my feet. Rifle & pack were still hanging on the branches by the seat. I was sore and felt like I'd been beat with a big stick. Didn't seem to be anything terribly bad & after retrieving my rifle & pack I went back to camp. 4 hours later I was just one great big bruise, but apparently nothing broken...... However, I did have a "Come to Jesus" moment about strapping yourself in! 
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Re: Before you knew better
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02/23/17 09:27 AM
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pigplinker
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Before I knew better I told my wife EXACTLY how I wanted something done. When she took the slack out of that rope tied to the pickup, I became EDUMACATED. When she put the truck in park and got out she told me not to ever talk to her that way again. I SAID YEEESSS MAME . I GRADUATED MAGNA DUMB ARSE!!! Wives don't count! You have to know what you did in order to correct it. Usually they don't tell ya and you have to guess....If you guess wrong you're in worse trouble! I knew within the first 40ft after she took the slack out of the rope that I needed to be in a SAFER position before I gave instructions.
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Texas Dan]
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02/27/17 04:58 PM
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For a considerable amount of time I didn't believe a 223 would kill deer/hogs.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Texas Dan]
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02/28/17 02:32 AM
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Give a deer time to die. About 20 years ago I walked up on a buck I'd shot too soon. He jumped up and took off. It took 4 hours to find that deer once he was pushed. Now, no matter how good a shot I think or know it was, I'll sit there and have a cup of coffee or a coke before walking up on a "dead" deer.
Oh,and if you're going to cut a "dead" buck out of a barbed wire fence, draw your knife before grabbing his antlers. They'll beat the tar out of you. Just sayin'.
"I have no idea what WW-III will be fought with, but WW-IV will be fought with sticks and stones." A. Einstein 
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Re: Before you knew better
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02/28/17 04:28 PM
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First time I shot off of a strange horse.
Some days you're the pigeon, other days you are the statue!
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Re: Before you knew better
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03/04/17 01:52 PM
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The "click" on an empty chamber that sounded like a bomb went off and the buck that pranced away while I chambered a round.......  This is why my username is what it is...
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Re: Before you knew better
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03/05/17 01:45 AM
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The "click" on an empty chamber that sounded like a bomb went off and the buck that pranced away while I chambered a round....... This is why my username is what it is... 
You should have been here yesterday!
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Kevin Heath]
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03/06/17 03:00 PM
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First time I shot off of a strange horse. Did it run, jump, or both.....and did you stay on? 
HnF
"Prayer is when you talk to the Lord, Meditation is when you listen to what he says"
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Re: Before you knew better
[Re: Texas Dan]
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03/06/17 03:13 PM
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I found out how expensive it is to call to call out a wrecker to the river bottoms at a lease in the middle of nowhere. If I'd just have manned up and drug the buck I'd shot to higher ground would have been a much much cheaper recovery. 
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