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Old January 5, 2007, 07:49 PM   #23
BIGR
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Join Date: June 13, 2000
Location: Mountains
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It has ruined many hunts and many good men. An alcoholic hunted with us years ago. When we picked him up to go hunting, we had to travel about 200 miles to where we leased land. He was drunk from the night before and we got to hear all kinds of interesting stories about his up, bringing back in the boon docks. At times it was funny until he told the same story over about 5 times. Believe it or not once we got him to deer camp he never did drink anymore while we were there (thank goodness). You could tell he was nearly in withdrawal before he got back on those trips. He was a hel# of a good hunter that could kill the fire out of those deer. He only used an open sighted model 742 remington in 30.06, but could kill deer running like it was easy. Matter of fact that one year he killed the biggest deer on the lease. All all he ever wore hunting was a thin pair of coveralls over blue jeans and it was real cold. He was one tough mountain man that was raised up rough with a drunk daddy in charge of several brothers and sisters. It made me feel bad because there I was taking tons of clothes and that ol son of a gun carried only a few clothes along on each trip. Indeed we were lucky that he stayed off the booze while on those trips, it was kind of fun hunting with him. Yea, he is still alive these days but the bottle is about to get the best of him.
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