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Slick
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True story.
I used to be married to a woman that had three teenage sons (not mine). When deer season came along that first year the middle boy wanted me to take him deer hunting. His name was Scott. He was 17 and had never been before. I was happy to show him how to do it so I pulled the old 30-30 lever action down from the rack and we went out to do some target practice. It only had open sights but he got to where he could hit pretty good with it.
The next morning we headed out but I before I could get to the truck I could see that I had a low tire. I knew there was a slow leak in the right front tire but I had been putting it off for a few days, just airing it up. My hunting rig was a Toyota extended cab 4X4 with a huge lift and huge tires. I had a boat rack and a winch on it too so I was set up to go most places. I stopped at the first suk-a-buck store that I came to and aired it up and we filled up on some sausage and biscuits and coffee for me. There was only one other little store between there and where we going hunting, which was about 35 miles away.
We drove through the dark and finally got to the stands. Everyone hunts out of stands down south and we were hunting on 180 acres that belonged to my family. The best stand was built on a pipeline that ran across the place. The gas company kept it cleared off and you could see for 100 yards in either direction. It was maybe 30 yards wide. I drove my truck up to the stand and dropped off Scott. If a deer crossed over he would have a good chance at a buck. It‘s hard for a grown man to sit motionless for hours, let alone a kid so I thought I‘d take it easy on him beings as it was his first time. I left him with a light, his gun and some ammo and told him to keep quiet and not move around much and I would pick him up in a couple of hours. And I was off to my stand as it was starting to break daylight by then.
I'll finish this up tomorrow.
I used to be married to a woman that had three teenage sons (not mine). When deer season came along that first year the middle boy wanted me to take him deer hunting. His name was Scott. He was 17 and had never been before. I was happy to show him how to do it so I pulled the old 30-30 lever action down from the rack and we went out to do some target practice. It only had open sights but he got to where he could hit pretty good with it.
The next morning we headed out but I before I could get to the truck I could see that I had a low tire. I knew there was a slow leak in the right front tire but I had been putting it off for a few days, just airing it up. My hunting rig was a Toyota extended cab 4X4 with a huge lift and huge tires. I had a boat rack and a winch on it too so I was set up to go most places. I stopped at the first suk-a-buck store that I came to and aired it up and we filled up on some sausage and biscuits and coffee for me. There was only one other little store between there and where we going hunting, which was about 35 miles away.
We drove through the dark and finally got to the stands. Everyone hunts out of stands down south and we were hunting on 180 acres that belonged to my family. The best stand was built on a pipeline that ran across the place. The gas company kept it cleared off and you could see for 100 yards in either direction. It was maybe 30 yards wide. I drove my truck up to the stand and dropped off Scott. If a deer crossed over he would have a good chance at a buck. It‘s hard for a grown man to sit motionless for hours, let alone a kid so I thought I‘d take it easy on him beings as it was his first time. I left him with a light, his gun and some ammo and told him to keep quiet and not move around much and I would pick him up in a couple of hours. And I was off to my stand as it was starting to break daylight by then.
I'll finish this up tomorrow.
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