Deer Tales: Humor in Hunting | Bukisa.com

by Shana

Every hunter knows other hunters, many time our own friends and family, who provide us with some unique "Deer Tales" with their hunting adventures. You know which ones I am talking about. The ones who always kill the biggest buck, see the most deer, or those whose stories are almost too hard to believe, yet you know they are true. How do you know that they are true? You know because you hunt with them and sometimes have been a witness to these interesting "Deer Tales."

Have you heard the one about the hunter who kept falling out of trees? After breaking his back on three separate occasions while deer hunting, his wife grounded him from hunting, literally.

Having been high school sweethearts and married for many years, Sarah had seen her share of Mark's hunting mishaps. The fall that got him grounded for life was in a remote area on top of part of North Carolina's section of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Mark had originally planned to go hunting alone, until Sarah found out. She finally agreed to him hunting in his tree stand on the mountain when his cousin, Gary, agreed to go hunting with him.

Their stands were situated a slow thirty minute walk each, in opposite direction, to stands on hilltops across from one another, overlooking a steep grass covered mountainside to a valley below.

They parted before daybreak from the truck parked at a barn in the meadow below. Mark's stand was an old wooden platform about twenty feet off the ground. As his luck would have it, Mark's stand broke through as he was getting settled in, sending him crashing to the ground and breaking his lower back. He knew that he would have to get Gary's attention, but he had to wait some thirty minutes or more until the sun came up.

When it was light, Mark fired his rifle into a bank about fifty yards away. He then placed his orange toboggan on the end of his gun barrel and waved it back and forth as best he could. Gary could see the orange toboggan and rifle barrel through his binoculars and knew that Mark had to be lying on the ground below.

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