Wouldn't you know it the one time I didn't have a gun

Live and learn 

I feel ya, I was headed to the range a couple months back to shoot a couple pb pistols and there on the side of the road was a nice hog. I wanted to pull over and pop him but figured that might not be a good idea because some passerby would probably make a call. I remember when not every body had a cell phone 

To both Sonny and Willie … that's the way it ALWAYS happens. 

I believe animals have a 6th sense when it comes to survival. I mean everytime I don't have my weapons all types of critters everywhere, but let me be locked and loaded..nothing!

But, if you would have had your Guns the pigs would not have come. So, you see, nothing to do or be mad about ! 

Yup, Typical.

Down at the river looking to jump some ducks and the fish are rising all over - rush home for the rod come back and flush half a dozen partridge and there are tree-rats everywhere. Go back, get the shotgun, the airgun, grab a fly rod (and a spinning rod just in case) load everything in the truck, hurry back and.... NOTHING ...except the buck standing below my stand - darn, what is he doing there in mid morning? (probably laughing at me, that's what) Should have brought the bow! 

Been there, done that! LOL! 

This is how it goes down for me. One: I dint have the gun ready and when I do they critter makes haste. Two: I don't have the gun lol. 

It's Murphy's Law, that's all....



Suggestion: We first shoot Murphy and his dang law, and then things will work out fine with the critters as well.

Every hog has his day 

Yeah, sit in a deer stand for hours then climb down and set your gun down five feet away to take a dump and see what happens.

Yeah, sit in a deer stand for hours then climb down and set your gun down five feet away to take a dump and see what happens.

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The guy who taught me to hunt many moons ago would carry his rifle with him even went to take a crap. Said he got the habit during WWll.

I had a huge buck walk right through camp 20 yards away during the season and nothing was ready to shoot. He was gone into the trees in 3 or 4 bounds 

At least you can shoot them on that range without consequences. Our local range is a members only conservation club, and shooting any critters on the property is prohibited in our rules. We luckily don't have a hog problem, though going to the Board with a rule change to eradicate that invasive species would be easily done. And because it is a conservation club deer are calmly and openly feeding on the rifle range all the time while people are shooting just 100 yards away, which is cool to see. Though I did notice that the range deer are a little more skittish this time of year because firearms gun season just ended and they have been hearing shots in the surrounding woods all Fall.