hunter24605
Handloader
- Apr 30, 2016
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Took the daughter hunting yesterday, and her much anticipated deer hunt went much different than we expected. On the way to the farm we hunt she fell asleep. There's a creek we have to cross that's about 30' across, when the truck dropped off into the creek she woke up, still fuzzy headed from sleep, and thought we crashed into water and squealed like something that sounded like a predator call. We parked and headed out across the pasture, it had rained the night before and the lower end was wet and swampy and the cattle had it tore up and real muddy. Naturally she got stuck in the mud and yanked to pull her boot free..Well, all she did was pull her foot from her rubber boot and fall face first into soupy mud with a heaping helping of cow crap mixed in.. Her Stratta Camo pattern disappeared into a solid mud-brown color. and her rifle and scope were caked in mud. Now muddy, soaking wet and smelling like a cow pie, we finally made it to the two-man ladder stand. Doing what we could to get the mud off her rifle and scope..She tried her best to tough it out for a few hours, but she was shivering so intensely that I could feel the ladder stand shaking..So I told her we would just head out and call it a day....In an attempt to make the day a little better we stopped for her favorite little diner for pancakes. Well we missed breakfast hours by about 10 minutes, so it was a burger and fries. We will try again next week, and hope for better...
