Yes, it's me again with another of my hunting stories....
So today I decide to go duck hunting for the first time. I've got an old canoe that I've redone and painted, making a nice little duck rig. Also have jon boat. Well, while out touring the logging roads the last week or so, I've noticed quite a few of the swamps/bogs/ponds have been holding lots of ducks!
So my wife tells me she would like to come with me... Perfect I say! She can sit in the back and paddle the canoe! So off we go.
We get out to a nice big pond/swamp/stinky brown body of water, and get everything ready. I have my duck calls around my neck, some water and paddles, and life jackets. I cut a big piece of 550 cord, and tie it to the front seat...
"what's that for" my wife asks me....
Well, you're sharp as a tack husband will be tying his shotgun to the canoe! So if worse comes to worse and we get wet, I won't be having to rent some SCUBA gear to get my gun back!
Ah, she looks at me with marvel and wonder!
So, she gets in the canoe, and as I push us off and step in..... Woah! Easy now! Tipsy Turvy! Woahhh!
Splash.... Over we go.
Swamp water is pretty damned cold at 9am.
Do I feel like an idiot? I think... Yes!
So I try to stand, and realize I'm in chest deep water. I grab my wife, and pull her to me, and we both drag our smelly swampy selfs out from the muck..... I take hold of the canoe, and start trying to drag it up onto the shore.... Ah ha! I say! Everything's managed to stay in!.... Oh wait a tick..... Nope... My gun's gone. Lucky me.... I forgot to tie it off to the leash that I so smartly made... I'll never live this down!
Well, I suck it up and hop back in, and for the next half hour fumble around in muddy rocky swampy grossness, but thank *$#@ I found it back in the chest deep water. I felt the barrel under my foot... Up to this point I'd managed to keep my head above the grossness of the water... Well, I hand my hat off to my wife, and plunge down. Ah ha! Great Success!
Anyways lads... I felt like a damned fool.... Just wanted to share my stupidity.
I lost one full box of steel shot, so I count myself lucky, as I was almost out a gun too!
Lessons learned!
1) Tie off your gun BEFORE getting onto the water...
2) Um, and don't be dumb like me!
So today I decide to go duck hunting for the first time. I've got an old canoe that I've redone and painted, making a nice little duck rig. Also have jon boat. Well, while out touring the logging roads the last week or so, I've noticed quite a few of the swamps/bogs/ponds have been holding lots of ducks!
So my wife tells me she would like to come with me... Perfect I say! She can sit in the back and paddle the canoe! So off we go.
We get out to a nice big pond/swamp/stinky brown body of water, and get everything ready. I have my duck calls around my neck, some water and paddles, and life jackets. I cut a big piece of 550 cord, and tie it to the front seat...
"what's that for" my wife asks me....
Well, you're sharp as a tack husband will be tying his shotgun to the canoe! So if worse comes to worse and we get wet, I won't be having to rent some SCUBA gear to get my gun back!
Ah, she looks at me with marvel and wonder!
So, she gets in the canoe, and as I push us off and step in..... Woah! Easy now! Tipsy Turvy! Woahhh!
Splash.... Over we go.
Swamp water is pretty damned cold at 9am.
Do I feel like an idiot? I think... Yes!
So I try to stand, and realize I'm in chest deep water. I grab my wife, and pull her to me, and we both drag our smelly swampy selfs out from the muck..... I take hold of the canoe, and start trying to drag it up onto the shore.... Ah ha! I say! Everything's managed to stay in!.... Oh wait a tick..... Nope... My gun's gone. Lucky me.... I forgot to tie it off to the leash that I so smartly made... I'll never live this down!
Well, I suck it up and hop back in, and for the next half hour fumble around in muddy rocky swampy grossness, but thank *$#@ I found it back in the chest deep water. I felt the barrel under my foot... Up to this point I'd managed to keep my head above the grossness of the water... Well, I hand my hat off to my wife, and plunge down. Ah ha! Great Success!
Anyways lads... I felt like a damned fool.... Just wanted to share my stupidity.
I lost one full box of steel shot, so I count myself lucky, as I was almost out a gun too!
Lessons learned!
1) Tie off your gun BEFORE getting onto the water...
2) Um, and don't be dumb like me!
Glad you did find your gun though.
