Thursday, November 8, 2007

Deer Hunting

For all of you who know Scott, he likes to hunt deer.
For all of you who don't know Scott, he likes to hunt deer.
Here in Georgia, it's now deer hunting season. He drives about three to four hours southwest of our place to hunt on another persons land. He has quite a few friends from Florida who meet at this same property. They all stay for the weekend. They have trailers set up and have a place to stay. They all pitch in and purchase food for the time they are there. They cook by the camp fire and shoot the breeze in the evenings. During the time when the deer are active, they choose a "deer stand" to sit in during the early morning hours and wait for deer to pass in front of them or around them to possibly shoot. So far I believe there have been three to four weekends of this. Last weekend, Scott chose not to go down to the lease. We were watching TV on Sunday night after dinner. Scott said he would like to have some pizza rolls to munch on. I told him there were some in the freezer. He got up to look and proclaimed that what was in the freezer was egg rolls not pizza rolls. He then decided to go to the local shopping store to pick some up. I was watching some of the programing for about a half hour and decided to pick up my book and read a little. About an hour into reading, I paused, looked at my watch and wondered to myself.....why....does it take an hour.... to buy pizza rolls? He must be talking to someone in the store or has been strolling around looking for something else to munch on........ He'll do that sometimes.... stroll the store just looking for some garbage food.

He finally came back home.... Motioned for me to come outside.
I said " it sure took a long time to get pizza rolls! Or did you get in a wreck!"
..... He said comm'ere.....and pointed to the front of his truck. I said " holy crap... did you hit a wall? What did you do? Oh my gosh..... are you OK? what happened?" He walked around the side of the truck, of course I followed and he pointed in the back of the truck..... I said " oh my god... you hit a dog...." He said "no!". ........ As I came around the full back of the truck, I could then see the "rack".

He never got the pizza rolls.....
He got his deer alright.......with his truck. This was one expensive deer...... $4500 dollars worth of front end damage.
He was 185 lbs.
Yes he took him to the processor to see what could be salvaged.
Yes, he kept the rack.
For those who want to know points.......I believe it was 7 or 8.

Not the way you want to deer hunt.

8 comments:

cheryl said...

That would make it $24.32 per pound. That is if we had gotten a full 185 lbs of meat. I'll have to figure that out for any who want to know once the processor is done with him.

Marcel said...

Did the airbags deploy? Scott is continually finding new things to do with his truck: pulling with the back and hitting with the front. Anything planned for the sides?

Tim B. said...

I can just hear the conversation around the campfire...

Scott: I got a 185 pound 8 point buck a couple of weeks ago.
Billybob: Really? What did you use?
Scott: My 2001 Chevy pickup truck.
Billybob: Dang! Nice going. Let's go pee on that thar tree.
Scott: Yont-to?
Billybob: aaaaaaight.


On a more serious note, the deer seem to be getting plentiful. Over the past year I have seen something like 6 of them, dead, in the ditches on the side of the road, within 2 miles of my house.

cheryl said...

No air bags deployed. He was in the process of coming to a stop. The good thing was there was a police car coming the other way and they slammed on their brakes to avoid hitting it. So they saw what happened to Scott.

With there being so much abundance of them out there, that is why the deer hunters are there. To thin them out.

cheryl said...

So, for the amount of meet Scott received out of this, 60 lbs, ended up costing $76.43/lb. He and Danny better enjoy every pound.

cheryl said...

oops,,, meat.. wonderful typo.....

paulette said...

I notice you said He and Danny better enjoy... Does that mean you don't eat venison?

cheryl said...

I've tried it and don't really care for it. However if it is made into a stew, like beef stew, it's ok.