One day there was a hurricane this hurricane was known as Katrina. Izaac and Kamrin and Shane were playing football and we saw a deer and at that moment, a large gust of wind smacked the car in front of the deer. We went flying a few feet in the air when we gained our senses, and looked at the deer all we saw was deer guts and skin.…
I approached the bull in his blind spot and slowly grabbed my rope to take it off. The bull planted both front feet and kicked me square in the thigh. I have never felt such a sharp pain in my life. Tears rolled off my face and I swore that dirty bugger just broke my leg. I managed to get back on my horse and caught two heals so we could knock him down and tie the big beast up. It took me many years to realize why I should have listened to my boss and only dally one two feet.…
Long ago, in the Appalachian Mountain region, there was Bear. He was the greatest and mightiest of all bears. One morning he woke up to go get some food from the nearby stream when this big thunderstorm made him get lost. Bear ended up far from his home and there were animals he’s never seen before. They were bigger, meaner, and stronger. A rhino came up to him and asked why was he there. Bear told him what happened and the rhino said “Follow me my friend, I will take you back to the mountains.” So Bear started to follow him. He asked the rhino what’s his name and the rhino said, ”Just call me Rhino.”…
When I started coon hunting I at the age of 14, the person that got me into coon hunting was my dad. The reason why I stared going is that I seen him going a lot by himself, and I felt that it must be pretty lonely out there in the dark by yourself. had a year under my belt of just pleasure hunting, getting know my dogs voice, and learning the rules of competition coon hunting My dad ask me if I would like to get in competition coon hunting. The first thing that came to mind was heck yes! little did he know that this would become into a life long interest The next day were packing bags and heading to Kentucky for competition coon hunt. It was a 3 hour drive there and when we got there, we saw all sorts of people there just for a coon hunt.…
One Monday night my dad and I were fighting about who was going to win the Super Bowl. We fell asleep and lighting stuck our house. I woke up in my dad’s body. I screamed and he came running into his room. We stood there and just look at each other like what do we do now.…
The trail continued around the east side of the lake entering a gathering of trees forming an insignificant forest along the lake’s shoreline. From our viewpoint, the trees concealing the trail eventually dispersed on the southeast side of the lake, and the trail blended into the landscape. Using our imagination, we envisioned the route against the rugged terrain sloping into the lake. No point in taking a vote now, we had trekked to the lake and the consensus was to proceed with a lap around the lake.…
Growing up in rural Kansas was boring. Especially since I grew up in the seventies. There were no cell phones or game systems to occupy my time. My family had an old black and white television set. I loved to watch The Price is Right in the days before Bob Barker’s hair turned white. After the show was over, the only way to kill time was to play outside and wander down to the creek that ran parallel to our property. There was a secret trail buried in the wall of trees that lined our two acre yard. My brother and I would slide down the trail, landing on the dirt banks like explorers on a mission. Sometimes we would hunt for crawdads under rocks. Other times we would take our poles and fish. We never went into the water after the time I got bit by a gar.…
It was crazy to start the hike with green grass but end up in snow and freezing rain and mud. On one part of trail we were hiking and fell into the icy cold river. We had to peel our boots, socks and pants and put our thermal gear on. Of course this brought on more rain. We sprinted down a large mountain while freezing cold with no boots or socks on. Everyone was miserable. We finally made it to our campsite, where we started a fire and listened to bugling Elk while staring at the stars. We woke up the next morning to three large Mule Deer looking into our tent.…
I was almost labeled a hamster killer. The first pets i got were dwarf hamsters. I went to petsmart with my mom and picked out two hamsters that were supposedly both girls, but one ended up being a boy. One's name was Caesar and the other Felipe. They weren’t always the nicest, but that didn’t make me love them any less. There was this one time that both of my dwarf hamster's got out while i was at school. My mom told me when i got home that she closed the door to my bedroom because they had escaped. I searched everywhere in my room for them. One hamster was under my bed and the other under my sister's bed since we shared a room at the time. Hamsters always find a way to get into the hardest places to find them in. I caught the one under my sisters bed and he was fine. When i went to get the other one out something funny, but sad happened. I have bins with wheels on them that i would roll under my bed and store stuff in. I had to roll the one under my bed out to see where the hamster was because i couldn't find her. So, as im doing this my mom came in the room to see if i had caught them. I was rolling the bin out as i saw something flat squashed on the floor…
Well my brothers and I ate our way through the jungle scaring every animal we encountered. The animals ran in the hundreds, running like they all lost their minds. Some animals didn't make it out, I saw my brothers eat a whole pampas stag under 6 minutes, it was covered in ants. At one point it didn't even look like…
One Halloween night the critters in the night We’re having a Halloween party, without bear. They did not like bear because they thought he was very mean and rough. But bear was only 1 year old and had no mom or dad, so he had to get his own food and live with no one to love him. He only ate a little bit of honey every day. He lived in a small hole in a tree that he was getting to big for. Every Halloween he was not invited to the Halloween party and he was very sad. They put the…
"Hey! Here she comes!" All the sudden the deer pops out of seemingly nowhere. She darts across the empty soy bean field in front of me. I raise my gun and prepare to take the shot.…
It all started when our neighbor, Mrs. Longbottom, asked Jimmy, Peter, and me to babysit her pet gorilla. Ms. Longbottom had an immense amount of wild animals, including tigers, lions, and elephants. One night, we went over to the Longbottom's house. It was old and rustic. When I looked in the backyard, I saw a big hole in the ground. It was about thirty feet deep. I looked around for Howie. Then I heard a big roar. It was coming from upstairs. I went upstairs, and it was a mess.…
We set up and went to bed early. I could hardly sleep. The whole night is kind of a blur, but the next morning around 5:00, my dad woke me up and we all set out into the darkness. Hiking up to the area where we thought the elk would be, we saw a huge, 8 point bull elk, but it was before shooting light and we had to let him run off. After this, my dad and I found a small meadow in and sat down to wait for shooting light. As the meadow filled with light, we heard tons of shots all around, but mostly down the hill below us, we saw nothing, so after an hour or so, we moved on. After a while trekking through some thick brush, we found a clearing. The cycle of hiking, waiting, and seeing nothing repeated itself a few times. Then, in the closing minutes of daylight, we came across Kotchwar, who had downed a cow elk an hour before. We all headed back to the spike camp. Kotchwar headed back to the main camp, and my dad and me felt some disappointment watching him leave, but this had happened before and my dad had gotten an elk, so we had hope. We made these horrible MRE like things for dinner and went to bed, feeling optimistic for the coming…
I was as squished as a sardine in the tree stand with my dad. It was about 5:00 P.M. on the last day of my first youth hunt. It was a fairly cold evening, and I was starting to lose hope.…