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Deer Hunter's Diary

 

1:00 AM: Alarm clock rings.


2:00 AM: Hunting partners arrive, drag you out of bed.


2:30 AM: Throw everything except kitchen sink into pickup.

 
3:00 AM: Leave for deep woods.


3:15 AM: Drive back home to pick up gun.

 
3:30 AM: Drive like crazy to get to the woods before daylight.

 
4:00 AM: Set up camp. Forgot the stupid tent.

 
4:30 AM: Head for the woods.


6:05 AM: See eight deer.


6:06 AM: Take aim and squeeze trigger.


6:07 AM: CLICK.

 
6:08 AM: Load gun while watching deer go over hill.


8:00 AM: Head back to camp.

 
9:00 AM: Still looking for camp.


10:00 AM: Realize that you don't know where camp is.


NOON : Fire gun for help---eat wild berries.

 
2:15 PM: Run out of bullets---eight deer come back.


2:20 PM: Strange feeling in stomach.

 
2:30 PM: Realize that you ate poison berries.

 
2:45 PM: Rescued.

 
2:55 PM: Rushed to hospital to have stomach pumped, throw up instead.

 
3:15 PM: Arrive back at camp.

 
3:30 PM: Leave camp to kill deer.


4:00 PM: Return to camp for bullets.


4:01 PM: Load gun---leave camp again.


5:00 PM: Empty gun on bug that is bugging you.


6:00 PM: Arrive at camp -- see deer grazing.


6:01 PM: Load gun.


6:02 PM: Fire gun.


6:03 PM: One dead pickup.


6:05 PM: Hunting partners arrive in camp dragging deer.


6:06 PM: Repress desire to shoot hunting partners.

 
6:07 PM: Fall into fire.


6:10 PM: Change clothing, throw burned ones in fire.

 
6:15 PM: Take pickup, leave hunting partners and deer in camp.


6:25 PM: Pickup boils over due to hole shot in block.

 
6:26 PM: Start walking.


6:30 PM: Stumble and fall, drop gun in mud.


6:35 PM: Meet bear.


6:36 PM: Take aim.

 
6:37 PM: Fire gun, blow up barrel that's plugged with mud.


6:38 PM: Mess pants.

 
6:39 PM: Climb tree.


11:00 PM: Bear leaves. Wrap gun around tree.


Midnight: Home at last. Fall on knees thanking Maker.


Next day: Sunday-  Watch football on TV and call up buddy to hit the woods again first thing in the morning. "Man- I love hunting."