piperpilot1
03-27-2008, 05:32 PM
I thought a thread with everyone's funniest hunting stories might be interesting, if we could keep the stories short enough.
Back when I was in college, a bunch of us decided to head out one fall morning for some duck hunting in southeastern Colorado. There was a big earthen dam about an hours drive away and we got there just about sunrise.
By midafternoon, the last of us bagged his limit, and we started off on the walk back to where we had parked. We had to cross a big field below the dam, and there was a lot of low cover, so we spread out in a line about 30 feet apart as we walked in case we scared anything up.
About halfway across the field one of the guys way down the line from me started shooting. When I looked his way all I could make out was that he was hopping around and shooting down into the dirt at his feet, yelling something. Everyone ran his way to see what was happening.
By the time I got there, his shotgun was empty, but he was still hopping around. When he settled down, there was half of a rattlesnake (the front half) stuck to his leg, the fangs having gone through his jeans and into his cowboy boot, but never piercing his skin.
The rest of the snake lay in several pieces all around him. How he managed to blast that snake while it was whipping around while he jumped around and basically shot at his foot, I don't know. How he managed to miss his foot with each shot I don't know either.
We were all laughing so hard tears were running down our faces as he called us every name in the book until he started laughing too. We got the fangs disengaged from his boot and gathered up what was left of the tail.
That night the bunch of cooked up a nice duck dinner with a little rattlesnake meat on the side. And yes, it does taste like chicken.
Back when I was in college, a bunch of us decided to head out one fall morning for some duck hunting in southeastern Colorado. There was a big earthen dam about an hours drive away and we got there just about sunrise.
By midafternoon, the last of us bagged his limit, and we started off on the walk back to where we had parked. We had to cross a big field below the dam, and there was a lot of low cover, so we spread out in a line about 30 feet apart as we walked in case we scared anything up.
About halfway across the field one of the guys way down the line from me started shooting. When I looked his way all I could make out was that he was hopping around and shooting down into the dirt at his feet, yelling something. Everyone ran his way to see what was happening.
By the time I got there, his shotgun was empty, but he was still hopping around. When he settled down, there was half of a rattlesnake (the front half) stuck to his leg, the fangs having gone through his jeans and into his cowboy boot, but never piercing his skin.
The rest of the snake lay in several pieces all around him. How he managed to blast that snake while it was whipping around while he jumped around and basically shot at his foot, I don't know. How he managed to miss his foot with each shot I don't know either.
We were all laughing so hard tears were running down our faces as he called us every name in the book until he started laughing too. We got the fangs disengaged from his boot and gathered up what was left of the tail.
That night the bunch of cooked up a nice duck dinner with a little rattlesnake meat on the side. And yes, it does taste like chicken.