Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Gun Season Scare

So I am going to tell a little story about an incident that happened to me while out deer hunting.  My dad has a farm in Southwest Missouri that consists of around 750 acres.  Now mind you, I am not the worlds best hunter so I have to rely somewhat on pointers from my dad on where to sit when it comes to finding or getting deer to show up.  So anyway we go out in the field and set up a blind that I am going to sit in that evening, we set it up at the back of his property that meets up with a neighbors property.  My dad says this should be a good spot and that I should see some deer.  So that evening I go out to sit in this blind and he is right I saw a couple of deer, but none were big enough bucks that made me really want to shoot.  So a little more time goes by and I have my gun in had using the scope to look out across the field watching for deer.  As I am scanning the area with my scope I come across a glimpse of orange about 300 yards away.  I put my gun down and grabbed my binocculars to get a better look.  Crap!! To my amazement I see a guy sitting by a tree and he just so happens to be pointing his gun right at me.  Well it seemed to be pointing right at me.  It turns out that there was a deer walking right in between us.  Well that sure didn't make me want to stay were I was since I was pretty sure that he was going to shoot.  So I bailed out of the blind and ran to safety and just as I jumped out and started running I heard a couple of shots.  Now what are the chances of that happening, you have two guys in the middle of so many acres and it just so happens that at that given point and time a deer walks right in between the two.  I felt pretty lucky that I didn't get a bullet in my back side.

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