Lilred's Rant of the Year: murphy's law

[Lilred]

OK..this'll be kinda long..but I swear..you have to read it to believe it...

Earlier in the year..I attempted to take off a few muzzleloader days..which got messed up. I then attempted to take the first day of gun deer season off...I had to work. THEN I did take the first doe day off...which was alotta fun..I ran dogs all day..seen a nice buck..but no lead came outta my trusty ole barrel. (Was wayyyy to thick in that mess to attempt such a shot)...what the heck I said...I still got the 6th and 7th..the last 2 days of deer season..and look out here I come cause on counta they are both doe days. Yeeee Haaaawww....

That was great and glorious at the beginnin..except fer the fact that I'm a retard...cause we got inventory those 2 days..mandatory..I gotta work.
Well...the huntin Gods shone their gracious ray of light upon me...cause it just so happened that a new hire where I work wound up invitin me and whoever I wanted to bring to hunt....on his 5 different farms...that NEVER gets hunted..and they have DMAP stamps!!!
:eek:
(DMAP is damage stamps..so we can take does on buck days and so forth)

Lemme tell ya..you coulda put 10 tons of lead on my back and I still woulda flown on cloud 9 like a white dove....and we got to hunt today. I was so excited I couldn't stand it. So while I was gittin my stuff ready last nite fer the big huntin day...I looked at weather.com to see how cold it was gonna be. RAIN! A hard drivin rain! All day! Fer God's sake somebody save me....from myself..I must be jinxed.
Well..rain er not...I was huntin..period.
Got all the dogs together and drove to our first huntin spot. This was a lot of 88 acres which had hardwoods, thick pines w/ briars and everything and a small field. Deer heaven. All the fellas lined up...and I turned the dogs loose. Except fer one..my big crazy bird dog..she was still on a leash. Once she got undone by my hubby who was behind me...she bolted. Which was great..except fer the fact that she ran right beside my leg at the exact moment I was leanin over to pick up my shotgun. She hit the stock..the barrel swiveled around...only to knock me even more stupid than I already was...right on my forehead. And I got a knot the size of a golfball on my head to prove it. :rolleyes:

15 minutes later..it began to pour. Hard. I finished the drive soakin drippin wet. I saw more buck rubs and turkey scratchins in that patch of woods than I have ever seen anywhere in my life. Dogs jumped once..we saw nothin..we shot nothin. Off we went to the next place to hunt. 100 acres of corn field, swamp, thick pines and hardwoods. Another deer heaven. The feller shot a 27" 7 pt in there in loader season.

It rained. It poured. It rained so hard that even the dam Titanic woulda floated. Long johns was wet...everything was wet. And COLD. We set up fer the drive...we drove them woods like it was the day of the earth as we knew it. Saw nothin...shot nothin. However once the drive was done..a smartarsh 8pt loped across the field not 30 yards from my truck..where we started.:mad:

Froze to the bone..exhausted from walkin miles and miles..(hey..I never claimed to be Lance Armstrong) soakin wet with a friggin knot on my forehead...I am at home with the chills. That ends my 2005 deer huntin season...unless my workplace blows up er somethin to that effect this week.
I think somewheres I said..."Well there's always next year."
I'm perty sure that was (duh) last friggin year.
So..Lilred's totals fer the year:
Deer: 0
Dogs: 1
Turkey: 0 (cause I friggin missed!)
Knots: 1
Pnumonia: Pending

:eek: :rolleyes: :p

[fabsroman]

Lilred,

Misery loves company. Your season this year sounds like mine from last year and the better part of mine this year. I barely got to hunt last year, but I did end up killing something like 40 doves and 2 deer. This season I have killed 2 deer, 25 doves, and 4 geese; however, I think my season is starting to turn around. I am almost finished with my house and I am almost caught up on my work. On top of that, the money situation is starting to turn around too (knock on wood). So, I have been out hunting a lot more than usual. I went two mornings last week and have another two mornings planned for this week. Hopefully, they will be pretty good.

As far as hunting in the rain is concerned, I learned about 10 years ago that it isn't any fun if you do not have the right clothing (i.e., waterproof). Even if you have to buy the cheap $40 rain suit to keep dry, it is much better than getting wet in the winter.

Good luck for next season.

[skeeter@ccia.com]

I think that murphy knew someone when he got that law passed. Here in W.Pa, if you expected a hunt day without the rain, you wouldn't get to hunt much. Sure we all have the good rain gear and the 'mud gun'. Today, as a matter of fact, my cousin nixed his hunt with me because of rain. He said is made of sugar and might melt or something like that but I reminded him poo melts in the rain too..gotta keep in line ya know.I might just go out myself..
Took my youngest daughter out last monday and had success...as with your murphys law again, as we stood overlooking a huuuge valley she asked how in the world would we get something out of there and I said..will worry about that when she gets one...so she did.gotta go where others won't .lol..where was murphy on the drag out?....Virginia! I know now.....darn..
I just would like to know how you prepare a knot?...we don't have those in season here...
I still have one deer tag left and have not even taken a rifle with me while taking people like my daughters and young cousins out for their hunt and have ran x many close shots while playing the dog for them...when you use dogs, do they bring deer around to you like bunnys?..I would think at times they just run them off...
Just remember one thing for sure.....the rain keeps the grass green and as long as you wake up to the green side of the grass...is a good thing!

[BILLY D.]

hey lilred

it won't always be like that, you're still young and have a lot of years left. i'm sure you have overcome greater obsticals. your a mom, that makes you a super woman.

sorry the season went to lunch for you. as we used to say in the military when things went sour, "murphy was an optimist."

in a few weeks fishing will be in and we will forget about the lousy 2005 hunting season and looking forward to the 2006 season with optimistic hopes and dreams.

until then, have a good one little lady. keep smilin'. and kick murphys a$$.

[fabsroman]

If it weren't for the tough times, we wouldn't enjoy, or even know, what the good times are.

I tell a lot of people this. "Life is full of problems throughout it. You battle through them and just hope for periods where there aren't any so that you can prepare for the ones to come."

[GoodOlBoy]

I hear ya darlin, its been about the same down here, cept fer hot instead of cold. It was 82 Christmas day. . . .

GoodOlBoy

[skeeter@ccia.com]

fabe..I just say...without a little rain...you don't notice the sunshine..........murphy didn't think of that one. yet

[swampdogg]

If hunting was easy everyone would do it . Some days I think everybody does hunt and they have to walk under my stand. But as stated before if it wasn't for the bad days you wouldn't enjoy the good one. A cold, crisp, morning with a longbeard rocking the woods. Hang in there it does get better . Sometimes. This was supposed to be in Lilred's Rant of the year ,but computers and I don't get along

[Rocky Raab]

Welcome aboard! No sweat on the confusion. All message boards work a bit differently, and it takes a short time to get the hang of it.

[Lilred]

Sorry it took so long to reply..ya know..werkin..inventory..watchin all the fellas go huntin while I spent the last 2 days countin..I really aint meanin to be rude..just busy.

As it turned out..the huntin Gods shone their rays upon me again..as a last ditch effort..I took off Thursday (to the disapproval of my boss & I told em to go to hell in a handbasket)
and while we aint have nowheres near enuf standers..it was fun as all git out. Seen ALOT of deer..dogs was cookin like gravy on Sunday mornin..and it was a beautiful day. Seen all kinds of game sides deer too. Deer count is still zero...but that's ok. All them farms I got to hunt was well werth it.

Hunted from daylight to dark on Thurs...came home with a slew of hilarious stories which I'll have to tell on another post (includin the one where we got lost) but was exhausted. Werked 12 hours yesterday and today doin inventory..so I still aint had time to catch up on my rest.

To answer yer question bout dogs skeet...it all depends on where/what/when and how the deer are drove. Alot of times deer will circle back with slower dogs and sometimes make fools outta dogs by sittin 20 feet from em. Bucks do that all the time. The dogs will take off on a doe and the buck'll lay there. I've shot a few nice bucks that way. Lots of times a deer will stay in a 500 acre thicket or in pines and run round in circles till they lose the dogs. My gittin lost story is the perfect example of what good dogs can do..maybe I'll post it tomorrow..I'm wore out tonite.

Ole Murphy best watch it tho..I still think I can kick his butt...I aint scarit ;)

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Go get em red it all works out in the end..but just a reminder...there is a 'skeet' and a 'skeeter' that belongs to HC...I just wish I could change the skeeter@ccia to just plain ole mugrump..can do so but have to start login all over from what I gather anyhow..one computer addy or something like that.....I didn't know about the skeet guy..(I'm a nice guy skeet just in case someone thought we were the same person). lmao...but the ccia part passed for a login...isn't my addy anymore anyhow....thanks for the info about the dogs too...always wondered about that...interesting...maybe some story about what they do and how they do it with the deer..???