Hunting Can Sometimes Be Pretty Funny
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Many times hunters get up way before daylight in order to get where they want to be when the sun comes up. If you are hunting deer, and are going to hunt from a stand, then you need to be in there and settled a good hour before daylight. By that time any sound you made getting there will be forgotten in case you walked by any deer bedded down near your stand.
In my experience, I have found that getting up and getting out of the house in a quiet manner, is actually one of the hardest challenges of my day. Exiting quietly usually escapes me. I always manage to trip over something, like a dyson all floors vaccum, and drop everything in my hands with a crashing noise that would wake the dead.
Then I would have to collect myself and gather up what I had dropped, turn all the lights out again, and head toward the front door. Suddenly, the room would be echoing with the noise of my alvarez acoustic guitar being knocked over. My hunting vest brushed against it and sent it sailing to the floor.
By now, I was really losing time as far as my early start was concerned. I was losing precious minutes, and had managed to wake everyone up. I could hear them mumbling as I finally was able to get through the door with everything I needed. I threw everything into the truck, checked my new leather watch, and knew I had to really make up for time while driving.
I laid on the gas, and made up for lost time. I parked and began to get myself prepared for the trip into the woods and climbing into my tree stand. Hunters all have their little tricks for doing things, and I had a few of my own as well. Once loaded, I shined my flashlight onto the path and was on my way.
I saw that my timing was good, and any time I had lost was made up for. It was perfect. My mind began to go back to the house, and I could see myself tripping over the vacuum with everything flying across the room, and I began to smile. Then remembered that awful sound of the guitar hitting the floor, and I began to giggle out loud.
It was hours later that I realized that my giggling was the only enjoyment I was going to get for my efforts today. I never saw the first deer, and all I ended up with was a cold nose and cold feet, and a hungry belly. I still had to laugh. I was seriously considering beginning my hunting around noon from now on, and letting this early stuff go. But I found that hunting really can be funny sometimes.
