Red Head Pitched A Fit!

[gwstang]

Interesting you should mention the cab of the truck. About 6 years ago, I had shot an 8 Point on the further end of our property. It was down some steep hills to a creek bottom that flowed from our pond, I had killed another 8 point earlier that week on the other side of the creek. It wasn't too bad to get out but I had to have some help from my oldest son. Well, the one that I mentioned was straight down about 150 yards of a very steep hil. I only had about 1/2 before sunset. I walked back to the house and got the old ford 8N and headed to park it on the top and run a wench cable (12V harbor freight special that I had mounted to the tractor tow bar.) down to help get it up. Well, I got almost to where I needed to be and the dang tractor just up and quit on me. It was about 20F and I think water or something in the fuel just froze. I left that and walked back to the house...again. I got my truck and asked the red head if she wanted to ride down to help me. Ok she said. drove down there and started to drive down the trail and hit a wet spot and that was all she wrote....stuck. Ok, I'll just have to have a heart attack dragging the dang thing up the hill and get it out somehow. While I went down the hill to see what I could do, it got dark and the 'yotes started singing and were right about on top of us. Well, afore mentioned red head had a conniption fit. I climbed the hill for what seemed the 100th time to see why she was blowing the horn repeatedly. I get up there and she is bellowing that she wanted to get out of there...right now! Asked her why? Scared of the 'yotes. I asked her why, she is in a secured truck cab/ She did not like the 'yotes being that close. Don't bother me any, besides I have a .357 on my hip. OK, lets just walk back the 1/2 miles round the dirt road to the house. Nothing doing she said. I had to go and get the riding mower with the little steel cart for hauling dirt etc. and bring that down to get her. I still don't understand her reasoning but it made her somewhat happy. They were very close to us and I get her concern but there is no way these dogs are going to attack a full grown human. They are a skiddish as she is. Anyway, we got back and I called my youngest son and he drove down the next morning and we walked down there and got the tractor going and unstuck the truck and he went down the hill and threw the 8 Point over his shoulder and carried it out...lol He works out daily in a gym and looks like tarzan. The deer had fared well and the 'yotes had fled that night when I yelled at them. It was so cold that the deer was stiff as a board and frozen.

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[not2old]

Shoo that coyote over to Georgia where they have the mistaken idea that controlling the coyotes is somehow going to make the natural balance of wildlife more in balance. No wolves to eat deer. Deer have no preditors in urban and suburban areas except cars. I have hunted deer with cars and trucks. That is an expensive way to hunt.

I did it with a motorcycle, and that's even less fun.

 

[the old grind]

gws, my pal in Fort Payne has some kind of excuse NOT to hunt deer locally. What's worse is/are the frequent coyote sightings from stands he's welcome to hunt from and with cull requests by landowners to TCB. btw, he's an accuracy and case prep legend among a group of meticulous handloaders .. and become that while mentoring us in .223 and .243.

Sure we can't get 'em all, but the 'skills of our forefathers' go beyond just filling the pot, and we want to keep our own sharp. :laughing: Hey the more time spent handling, practicing, hunting, the more safely we do them. (sorry, I have the blood-lust and ATN X-Sight to be mounted ..)

"You never stand so tall as when you stoop to stomp a varmint." _ CarToons magazine. :devil:

 

[gwstang]

You hit a deer on the motorcycle? I worked 2nd shift at a plant about 30 miles from where I live. I rode cycles for many years and had many close calls....thank goodness no hits. I had a bobkitty fly across the road in front of me about midnight on the way home. Scared the you know what out of me. I had to stop for a bit to stop shaking. It was too close. I added some extra driving lights to brighten up the night and that helped considerably. I could see the sides of the road much better.