1:00am Alarm clock rings.

2:00am Hunting partner arrives to drag you out of bed.

2:30am Throw every thing except kithchen sink into truck.

3:00am Leave for deep woods.

3:15am Drive back home to pick up gun.

3:30am Drive like hell to get to woods before daylight.

4:00am Set up camp - forgot damn tent.

4:30am Head into woods.

6:05am See 8 elk.

6:06am Take aim and squeeze trigger.

6:08am Load gun while watching elk go over hill.

8:00am Head back to camp.

9:00am Still looking for camp.

10:00am Realize you don't know where camp is.

Noon Fire gun for help - eat wild berries.

12:15pm Run out of bullets - 8 elk come back.

12:20pm Strange feeling in stomach.

12:30pm Realize you ate poison berries.

12:45pm Rescued!

12:55pm Rushed to hospital to have stomach pumped.

3:00pm Arrive back to camp.

3:30pm Leave camp to kill elk.

4:00pm Return to camp for bullets.

4:01pm Load gun - leave camp again.

5:00pm Empty gun on bird that is bugging you.

6:00pm Arrive at camp - see elk grazing in camp.

6:01pm Load gun.

6:02pm Fire gun.

6:03pm One dead pickup truck.

6:05pm Hunting partner returns to camp dragging elk.

6:06pm Repress strong desire to shoot hunting partner.

6:15pm Take pickup, leave partner and his elk in the woods.

6:25pm Engine boils over - hole shot on block.

6:26pm Start walking.

6:30pm Stumble and fall - drop gun in the mud.

6:35pm Meet bear.....

6:36pm Take aim.

6:37pm Fire gun - blow up barrel (plugged with mud).

6:38pm #@$! pants.

6:39pm Climb tree.

9:00pm Bear finnaly leaves.

Midnight Home at last!


We all Have had trips like this.