01-16-2003, 06:50 PM
AIN,T THAT TRUE! HEY THERE LONEHUNTER! I WENT HUNTIN OVER IN BLEEKER NEW YORK, THIS ONE STUNNED ME! MY GOD THE ONLY WAY HE GOT DOWN THRU THEM WOOD WAS ON THE LOGGIN TRAIL AND THRU THE THICKETS HE HAD HIS HEAD RIGHT DOWN CRASHIN THRU. I SAW HIM TWICE. THAT ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS JUST A CRASHIN THRU AND THE LAST DAY OF HUNTIN SEASON. AND I JUST COULDN,T SHOOT HIM> HE WAS AN OLD BOY. I,D GONE HUNTIN OVER THERE BOUT 8 YEARS STRAIGHT, AND NEVER GOT A GOOD SHOT AT HIM GOT GLIMPSES, HARD RUGGED COUNTRY, THICK AND MEAN WHERE I WENT.HIS TERRITORY, AND HE WAS UP IN AGE THEN. BUT THIS LAST YEAR I FIGURED WOULD BE HIS LAST. I DON,T KNOW I JUST FELT. IT AND I JUST THOUGHT HE,D LIVED HIS LIFE FREE AND A SMART OL BUCK HE WAS, I JUST COULDN,T SHOOT HIM. HE WAS LAYIN IN THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES IN THE SUN AND I WAS UP ABOVE HIM LOOKIN DOWN ON HIM, HIS HEAD WAS TIRED AND HEAVY FROM THOSE POINTS THAT WERE JUST BEAMIN IN THE SUN. I TOOK THAT PICTURE IN MY MIND CAUSE I KNEW I WOULD NEVER GIT ANOTHER ONE OF HIM. I LET HIM BE. I,M GLAD I DID. I GUESS IT JUST WOULDN,T OF MADE ME FEEL GOOD TO DOIT. HE,D LASTED THAT LONG. SURVIVIN. I,M NOT PUTTIN YOU GUYS DOWN FOR DOIN IT DON,T TAKE IT LIKE THAT. BUT THIS WAS ME. I FOUND OUT WHEN I WALKED IN THE STORE LOOKED ON THE WALL AND SAW THOSE ANTLERS , I KNEW IT WS HIM. I CAN STILL SEE HIM LAYIN IN THE THICKETS. THAT,S HOW I LIKE TO REMEMBER HIM. HE TOOK BOONE AND CROCKET .THEY FOUND HIM. HE,D DIED NATURALLY. PRAY HE DID,NT SUFFER BUT I WAS HAPPY HE WENT HIS OWN TIME HIS OWN WAY. AT LEAST IN MY MIND I CAN REMEMBER HIM CRASHIN THRU THEM TREES AND HIS SOUL STILL LIVIN OUT THERE WHERE IT SHOULD BE CAUSE THERE AIN,T TOO MANY THAT SEE THAT KIND OF DIGNITY IN DIEIN ANYMORE AT LEAST HE DID.AND I FEEL GOOD AT THAT. I GOT A BEAUTIFUL 8 POINT 160 AND WAS PROUD OF HIM AND THAT WAS IN MY TIME WHEN I WAS READY, I GUESS WE ALL HAVE TO DOIT IN OUR OWN TIME AND IN OUR OWN WAY, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS WE,RE DOIN.
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