Funny Story

[Major Dave (retired)]

Had a workplace friend

who talked a good deer hunt, so I invited him to join me.

We started walking a power line and a buck pops up 2 telephone poles away. Since I hunt this tract of land several times a year, I knew the poles were 100 yards apart. I had previously both ranged them with a range finder, and had paced them off.

Before either of us could take a shot, the buck disappeared. Then I asked him how far he thought the buck had been. "100 yards", he answered, confidently. He had to pace it off, himself, when I told him the correct answer.

He was a smoker, and I am not. After about the 3rd cigarette he lit up during our hunt, I finally had to tell him that cigarette smoke spooked deer, and would he please quit lighting up.

"Doesn't bother them a bit", he pronounced, confidently.

Then he relieved himself under an overhanging limb, to which I protested.
"Urine is urine", he pronounced. "Human urine makes just as good a fake scrape as doe urine does".

I never asked him to go hunting with me, again. Seems we are both strongly opinionated - in opposition.

Yet, I know some of you agree with his cigarette opinion, as well as his human urine opinion, huh?

 

[rickyrick]

I pee on cow patties, or in areas of high animal waste concentrations.


I am a recreational smoker, LOL. But if I don't refrain from smoking a few hours before the hunt, I am not successful. I don't smoke during a hunt because of the high fire danger also.

 

[DnPRK]

They (the bullets) accelerate after leaving the barrel as well.

I got this from my uncle who was a fighter pilot in the Korean war.

And he had two confirmed MIG kills.

When I said, "No they don't."

He replied, "Why doesn't the plane run into it's own bullets then?"

I didn't argue with him,,,
I just accepted his words and let it be.

But it does go to show that it's not mandatory to have any knowledge about how something works to be able to use it effectively.

In 1956, an F-11F pilot did shoot himself down when he flew into the path of his own 20mm cannon rounds.
http://www.aerofiles.com/tiger-tail.html

 

[PawPaw]

Yet, I know some of you agree with his cigarette opinion, as well as his human urine opinion, huh?

I hunt in an active production oil field. Lots of human traffic, all oil-field trash. They smoke, fart, eat, pee, all over the place. It doesn't seem to bother the deer at all. They just stay out of sight until the humans are gone, then come out to see what all the hubbub was about.

I'm not about to defend smoking as a vice, we all know it's bad for us, and I can understand wanting to keep the hunting area as pristine as possible, but there is very little pristine hunting area left in the world. I'm fairly certain that the deer in a given area are aware that we exist, and that most human interaction isn't a threat to them.

 

[Art Eatman]

Aside from wandering off into smoking and smells, what is the sad thing in this thread is the comment about the 1,000-yarder not taking instruction very well. That's hard to deal with. Brings up the ancient comment that ignorance is curable, but stupidity is forever.

But enough for one thread...