Skinner
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Location: The Great State of Tennessee
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Well the weather was really cool last night so I figured I'd take ole Hanna out for a short (um'huh) hunt. Load the plastic dog box on the three wheeler and get to the woods. Take Hanna out and put her on the leash and pet her up a minute. We start walking to the left because there is some really thick cut over to the right. I figure we are safe so I cut her loose. Of course she takes off full throttle to the right and hits the cut over. Dang, its gonna be one of them nights I can feel it. She opens up on a cold track and keeps getting a little deeper so I decide to start walking that general direction. After I get several hundred feet, I think to myself I might aught to check my compass and get some bearings. So I reach in my pouch to get my compass...and no compass to be found. Musta left it at home I think to myself. No big deal I have my GPS with me so I'm not to worried. I just start walking closer. I can finally hear her pretty well so I know I am close. Sit down on a stump and rake up a few leaves and some small limbs and build a fire to warm up. She gives out a nice locate and starts hammering. I get the fire put out and am just starting to walk that way when she shuts up. I wait..and wait..and wait. Not a sound. I think I might as well head back to the three wheeler which is on the river bank. Grab my ole trusty (um'huh) GPS and be dang if the 'battery low' light came on. Shoot I think I may need to change them batteries very soon. Used it about two minutes and it shuts completely off. So I wonder around the woods for about an hour till I come out in a field. No problem at least I know where I am now and its only 7 miles back to the three wheeler. So I walk. Finally get there and I can faintly hear her off to the left. So I ride as far as I can to her. Lots of slash water but no problem I have on hip waders. Get closer and then realize she is right in the middle of a two acre lake filled with scrub brush and cypress trees. The brush was really really thick and I could only hear her. After a few minutes of calling her, to no avail, I look and see two eyes. Dang I'm fixing to have to go get her. She would never leave that tree with a big ole coon looking right back at her. So I find me a limb laying there and am feeling my way through the water going to her. Get there and guess what? A big ole fat grinner. This is one of the rare times she does that so I am pretty upset, but under the circumstances I just leash her and head back to shore. Easing through there and boom....I step off in a hole and go clean up to my neck in water. I turn Hanna loose leash and all. I'm standing there trying to get my feet back on higher ground and POP my light goes out. So here I stand in shoulder deep water in the pitch black. I'm thinking to myself ain't this one hell'a of a perdictament you in now. I know the general direction I was headed so I keep walking. Hanna has made it almost to the bank and gets the leash hung up and is barking her head off. I go to the direction she is at and finally make it to the bank. So here I stand soaking wet, cold and in the dark at least half a mile from the three wheeler. Just luckly after about 30 minutes my light pops back on so I break a full run to the three wheeler. Get back and am sitting there trying to get a fire started with some 25 years old matches that I had in the small toolbox on the three wheeler. Finally dry out a little and said God I can't wait to get back home. I reach in my pocket and get the key and put it in and give her a turn. Nothing...and I mean nothing. Can't even get it to turn over. So I walk home..... Friend went and towed it home this morning said the neutral switch went out.
Don't ya just love coonhuntin..
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Jody Scott
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Frogjump TN
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09-17-2005 08:20 AM
...When we was kids my youngest sister was wanting to ride the tractor with Dad. She told Dad she had to p so he put her off at the end of a row and made a round back and picked her up. Bout next night Mama was ready to kill him. She was eat up from her ankles to her neck lol.
