Definitely not a fun time. My parents live right on the Nolichucky. They are only one of four houses left on their road. I pray your mom’s surgery went well.
lol. I've been known to take naps laying against a tree too. A few tears back I was checked at my truck by a game warden.Everything went good. I was talking to him about hunting tree rats after deer season from my climbing stand.ughh he snapped at me and said if he seen me in tree stand hunting after deer season I would get a ticket.Well he was rude. I told him it wasn't against the law that I knowed of lol. He said do it and see. ugh sort of aggravated me a lotEd, I have to admit that at least on my property, I am known and expected to hunt squirrels from one of my trees stands..., if it's good enough for deer why not squirrels? After all, we spend countless hours seeing probably hundreds more squirrels during archery season than we do deer.
Still pretty hard to beat sitting down and leaning up against a big old oak tree though. Although that seems to lend itself to wanting to take naps, especially on sunny days.
Some game wardens are pretty descent fellas. Some treat everyone the come in contact with like they are violators and part of an international poaching ring. I had a group of 3 come flying up on me once pretty quick and hop out. It was bow season, they asked their usual questions, checked my tags, measured my broadheads, etc..when all done I commented on how they drove up and hopped out, how they do that to a guy with PTSD or something, it might get hairy. The youngest one, he puffed up and started jibber jabbin, I just turned my back to him and secretly hoped he put his hands on me. I've mellowed some with age.
yep I know where you coming from friend.We had some that were very nice and some were just plain rude.Bad thing about it lol I usually met the rude ones. Had a lot of very bad situations with one particular game warden years ago.We had some very harsh words and after that one episode he signaled me out.If he seen my truck rest assured he would be waiting when I got out.Finally I had to call in about him.It finally got so bad I told him to take the badge off and gun. Step across the ditch. wasn't good that day. He was going arrest me.It so happened that day he had another game warden with him. He was very nice.He told the guy that he was in wrong that day and said they needed to leave.It got a little hairy that day. Think they finally had to move him away from that area. Everyone was complaining and calling in. Later on a year or so think I heard he lost his job.
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I had a customer who is got talking with who told me he quit hunting after he was small game hunting and a bow hunter in a tree called out from behind him. He immediately turned and fired his shotgun into the tree. Didn't hit the guy, luckily for both. Vietnam Vet with issues.
Yeah, I never tell anyone where I caught something big or where I saw or killed an animal. I might see a ton of deer or elk or even killed one but when anyone asks "seen anything" my answer is always "nope, not a thing".
I had a customer who is got talking with who told me he quit hunting after he was small game hunting and a bow hunter in a tree called out from behind him. He immediately turned and fired his shotgun into the tree. Didn't hit the guy, luckily for both. Vietnam Vet with issues.
Yeah, I never tell anyone where I caught something big or where I saw or killed an animal. I might see a ton of deer or elk or even killed one but when anyone asks "seen anything" my answer is always "nope, not a thing".
No, it's not stuck, it's hiding from Ed, and the rifle known as "The Decapitator."
That's kinda what I was thinking.No, it's not stuck, it's hiding from Ed, and the rifle known as "The Decapitator."
Methinks the ones who are jerks musta been picked on. They have a little "power" now, it wharps their brains. One of those hard nose fellas is gonna run into an outlaw one of these days and be mistaken for a deer.
