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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I* would have done the same as you , Bev; But, I saw my father and a friend 
shoot toward a spike buck at the back end of a 5 acrea back yard garden  ; 
Daddy had a .22, his friend had a shotgun, they were just trying to scare the 
thing away; it dropped like a rock.  One of them with one shot clipped its 
spine, killed it dead.  

There's old country lore that more deer have been killed in this country with 
.22, than any other calibre or ammunition; who knows.........

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--- On Mon, 12/15/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:


> A little bit ago, I opened the door to turn on the porch
> Christmas
> lights.  It is a drizzling, foggy night, just miserable, so
> I did not go
> hunting today. I saw some movement near the trucks, and my
> first thought
> was that it was a cat.  It may have been a cat, but I'm
> not real sure.
> No one around here has a cat, but I suppose one could have
> been dropped
> off.  It was headed towards my chicken tractor, so I ran
> and got the
> nearest weapon, my .22.  As I grabbed it, I thought, maybe
> I need the
> 223-could have been a fox-then thought, no, it was a
> cat,,,,22 is
> fine.....so I grabbed the gun and went out on the deck, but
> did not see
> the 'cat'.  In 10 seconds, it had disappeared.  I
> walked through my
> front yard to the driveway, looking for whatever it was,
> when my eye
> caught movement in the pasture....a deer!! I ran back in
> the house to
> get the deer rifle, but by the time I got back out there,
> the deer has
> disappeared into the mist and dark.  I walked to the road,
> hoping to
> spook the deer out of its hiding place, but never saw him
> again...it was
> too dark to see anything-too dark to hunt.
> Feeling like I lost out twice, I walked back up the house
> in the dark,
> rifle slung over my shoulder.  Just as I approached my back
> door, I
> heard a commotion behind the house...3 deer or more ran up
> the hill...
> Strike three.
> I shoulda grabbed the deer rifle instead of the 22.
> I coulda had at least one deer.
> I woulda had my first kill.
> Just my luck.
> Now, tomorrow, I know where I am going to be...I am going
> to be at the
> bottom of that hill!!
> 
> B
> 
> -- 
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger.
> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda   
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