A good redneck day for me

[Spock]

I had a really good day on Tuesday Nov 11.

1)I shot a REALLY, REALLY big whitetail buck at 7:30 in the morning. The news spread like wildfire-especially since I had Mrs Spock get our kids from school to come and see it in the field. It was REALLY, REALLY big. I will have to post pics somewhere. It is a good sign when the taxidermist and other life-long hunters say that they have never seen a deer like that. It was REALLY, REALLY big. You know the Jeff Foxworthy joke-about "You might be a redneck if you have your taxidermist on speed-dial". Well, I don't know how to speed-dial-but I do have his phone number in my contact list on my cell.

2) I am still alive. I fired one shot at the deer from my stand. He dropped instantly-63 paces away. I was so excited-as I was climbing down from the stand I fell a number of feet with a loaded weapon. A big safety boo-boo and I won't do that again. That is how people die stupid. Plus-I did not hit my head.

3) I can still walk. The stand is home-made from an old farm implement and I landed on my lower back on a part of the metal trailer hitch. That is a good way to get paralyzed. I have a nasty bruise and I went for X-Rays today. Looks good and another lesson learned.

OK-I laid there for awhle-Figured out that I was alive. Then I thought OK-I am Paralyzed-but I at least I got a REALLY REALLY big deer first(I seriously thought that-both parts). I was very relived when I could move my legs. I called my 30-year deer hunting partner when I was still laying on the ground and said-you have to come out-I just got a REALLY REALLY big buck.

[Spock]

I just want to add-my initial impressions and (hopes) of the deer-and furthered tonight by internet research of big whitetail bucks.

My buck does appear to be in the world-class level. Not a new world record-but possibly world class and maybe competive for new state record and so forth.

[christie1111]

So is it based on weight?

Do you eat venison? I just wonder how you get a REALLY REALLY big deer out of a forest.

[Appa23]

1)I shot a REALLY, REALLY big whitetail buck at 7:30 in the morning. The news spread like wildfire-especially since I had Mrs Spock get our kids from school to come and see it in the field.

Now, that does sound like a Foxworthy bit -- "If you pull your kids from school, just so they can see what you just shot, . . . you might be a redneck."

[ne1410s]

"Happiness is a huge gut pile."

[ne1410s]

So is it based on weight?

I think they measure the length of the antlers--all of them--and then use that measurement. I think the antlers have to dry for a certain amount of time also. I think.

[minimetoo26]

I'm telling Erin on you...

[jayhawker536]

How many points?

Um, I edited this so I would not sound like a redneck, lol.

What I meant to say was - How many points does the buck's rack have, not how many points you get for shooting the darn thing.

[macrae1234]

You might be a red neck when the phrase "nice rack" refers to a deer.

[ne1410s]

mini:

I'm telling Erin on you...

One of my favorite scenes from "Friends" :

Joey: It was so sad when Bambi's mother died.

Chandler: Yes, it was sad when the animators stopped DRAWING her...


Maybe you had to be there...

[minimetoo26]

mini:

I'm telling Erin on you...

One of my favorite scenes from "Friends" :

Joey: It was so sad when Bambi's mother died.

Chandler: Yes, it was sad when the animators stopped DRAWING her...


Maybe you had to be there...

If it was on "Friends," I wasn't there...