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The other day I had a caged coon that I was wanting to run with my young pup (maddie). My wife and oldest daughter (11) wanted to run and watch maddie work. Whe headed out to an open place that is 2000+ acers with a few trees. Dakotah (my daughter) gets the youngest pup out of the box and I get maddie out, while my wife get ready to turn the coon loose. We sit there and wait and wait but she can't get the coon to run out of the cage. So she reaches in and grabs it by the tail, well it spins around and bits a hole in her new gloves. This makes her mad she starts cussing at the coon like a sailer. Finaly she gets the coon to leave the cage, it runs the wrong direction and comes back to the road where the pickup is parked. I am walking maddie around a little and look up when my wife yells at me the coon is heading my direction. I see it just in time to see it jump on top of the feul tank under the truck. We finaly get it to jump down off the tank but then it ran to the engine and crawled up under the hood. I open the hood and my wife sees that is stuck so she reaches down and grabs it, it got loose from her and bit her a second time. now she is mad. we finaly got it unstuck and it ran back to the fuel tank. (We have already spent a good hour chasing it from engine to fuel tank back and forth). So I decide that as soon as i get it off the feul tank and it is on the drive line if she dives off it will fall off and then have to run. The wife gets in the truck and I get the coon to the drive line she goes to take of real fast and kills the truck ( which I think she has done maybe twice in her life). but it jumped far enough the coon fell down and then she kept it rolling so it couldn't jump back up.
We let the coon run just a little bit before we turned maddie loose. finaly about two miles away she treed and the wife got her revenge on the coon.

I bet she shot it

yes yes she did and was happy to.

Powder River Walker : I agree you definately got a KEEPER there.Many times I have got back to the house and the wife has found these mis-adventures more amusing than the actual hunt turned out to be
Brief quick story: I have always bought myself and the wife a combination hunting ,fishing and trapping license. every year as she often accompanies me on adventures . Many times she just sits in the truck and reads if the weather is severely cold or rainy .Well over the course of years while deer hunting me being in either a big thicket or swamp I have heard a shot near the truck ,Always the curios one I hike back to the truck asking " DID you SHOOT She would answer "YES " " At what I would ask" "A buck she replied" " Do you think that you hit it " " I think so she answered " " well where was the last place you saw It? " She responded " You see that big oak 75 yards down the woods road about 5-10 yards behind it" We go sauntering down the road to the oak I yelled out "you got him" " I know she replied " .
Turns out while sitting in the truck she saw the buck on the woods road eating some grass .Well she gets out of the truck ,gets her rifle out of the case , loads it , waits for a good shot oppurtunity and nails him .she said he took 2 jumps and dropped to the ground . Figuring it was dead she grabbed a knife , her plastic gloves walked to where the deer lay and field dressed it ,walked back to the truck ,got herself cleaned up ,and was sitting in the truck waiting for me to show up. over the years this has happened 3 times . The last time I just asked " Where is the deer"
At the house she only has a few of her own rules Don't mess up HER kitchen , ALWAYS put the Toilet seat DOWN , and DON'T mess with her large veggie garden or her Beloved Flower beds. We are fortuneate enough to live in a very rural area. On 1 saturday while deer hunting with a few friends from work She was telling me at 4:30 in the morning that we should be hunting at our place when the guys showed up as she had found some of her ornamental shrubs eaten, and destroyed by a deer leaving big tracks Well the guys came to pick me up and we left . I think my last words to her were that I had a Doe tag and if need be was going to use it as the past few years had been quite lean venison wise for me. Well I got skunked that day but one of the guys had shot a crotch horn. The wife had decided to put on a big feed for us and had their wives come over to eat and then we were going to cut up the deer. For the life of me I could not figure out WHY she had already set up the usual tables had the knives set out with the freezer wrap ,bone saws and misc stuff we typically needed without knowing Jim had shot a deer. Well we eat and I changed into my butchering clothes . The wife asked Jim who had driven my tractor before with the bucket on it to bring it around from the barn/shop . Next thing I hear is HOLY CRAP! you guys ain't going to believe this SHIT
Next thing I know Jim comes around the barn with a big BUCK hanging off the bucket I about crapped my drawers turned out to be 12 points weighed 262 lbs and had 1 3 inch drop tine Turns out that when I left the Wife was doing the morning dishes , looked out the window and could tell a buck was walking across the field toward the house . So she finished her clean-up ,watched the deer browse then decided to grab her 257. I recall 6:oo am as being legal shooting time .she claimed the buck started nibbling on the schrubs about 5:55 with great pain she watched as the buck was destroying her stuff at 6:00 she opened the back door ,walked across the patio ,glanced at her watch and dropped the buck with again 1 shot likely distance between 5-10 feet. She latter claimed she thinks the buck had no clue she was standing there in her night gown and bathrobe on Bottom line Don't mess with Mary's Flower beds or schrubs
I did get the head mounted and scored 163 Presently hanging in the living room on display with some special fish and other critters I had gotten done .I have been asked a few times what the story was on that buck . I have tried to tell that I tracked the buck in Northern Maine thru 8 miles of blizzard that sounds pretty good but when I tell the TRUTH they are somewhat bewildered.
Not sure if she puts up with me or I put up with her but over 45 years we still say we have each found a KEEPER

Bob,
This past hunting season I have a place to hunt whitetails that are huge. two years ago I walked all over the country and ran some elk her way, she shot one. Then saw a lot of nice bucks. so this past season I let her walk while I sat. I saw nothing she saw a bunch of nice bucks. The next day my oldest daughter (11) and I walked while the wife and our youngest (8) sat at the pick up. a little while later we hear a gun shot figuring she hit what ever we kept on with our walk. a little later we were walking and came nose to nose with a nice buck. I pulled up and shot, wasn't sure if I hit it we walked up to where it might be. and to my suprise there was a deer dead. So I start to dress it and find a purfect hart shot. Thinking that when I shot I only could see nose and eyes. I couldn't make scence of it. we left it there and headed to the truck to bring it closer, on our way there we find my wife and our daughter walking around. She asked if I seen her deer that they lost the blood trail. YEP we did, I didn't get a deer that day and then shot bambi on accident.

Bob,
This past hunting season I have a place to hunt whitetails that are huge. two years ago I walked all over the country and ran some elk her way, she shot one. Then saw a lot of nice bucks. so this past season I let her walk while I sat. I saw nothing she saw a bunch of nice bucks. The next day my oldest daughter (11) and I walked while the wife and our youngest (8) sat at the pick up. a little while later we hear a gun shot figuring she hit what ever we kept on with our walk. a little later we were walking and came nose to nose with a nice buck. I pulled up and shot, wasn't sure if I hit it we walked up to where it might be. and to my suprise there was a deer dead. So I start to dress it and find a purfect hart shot. Thinking that when I shot I only could see nose and eyes. I couldn't make scence of it. we left it there and headed to the truck to bring it closer, on our way there we find my wife and our daughter walking around. She asked if I seen her deer that they lost the blood trail. YEP we did, I didn't get a deer that day and then shot bambi on accident.