klkak
11-07-2009, 04:24 PM
The day started out well enough. I arrived at work on time and had everything ready to go by the time my clients for the day showed up. A Florida couple. Let’s go through the checklist.
1. Gas tanks topped off on two Honda 420's and my Arctic cat 500.
2. Emergency gear strapped down to the front rack of the Arctic cat.
3. Winchester .44 magnum carbine in the gun rack loaded with Buffalo Bore 305 gr. bear killers.
4. Client lunches strapped to the front rack of the husbands ATV.
5. Client got their helmets on.
6. Off we go.
About 2 hours into the trip I start going over the list again cause I keep thinking I forgot something. “I’m probably the only one who does this”. Suddenly in hits me. I forgot my lunch. Now with the prospect of being out for 8 or 10 hours without lunch is not very appealing to me so I was starting to get a little depressed. The longer we rode the more it bothered me that I had forgotten something as important as “My lunch”. Just when I thought I lay down in the trail and let the Ravens and Magpie’s peck out my eyes and eat my liver a Grouse flies up out of the trail and lands in a tree. I don’t know what came over me. I was off my ATV pulling off my helmet and chambering a round in the .44 magnum carbine before the ATV came to a stop.
In the blink of an eye the butt stock hit my shoulder, the front sight settled into the rear sight at the same time it settled on the birds head. “BOOM!”. The 305gr Bullet took the birds head clean off and the Grouse fell to the ground. I walked over and picked up my lunch and walked back to the clients and ATV’s.
As soon as I was close enough the following conversation ensues:
Wife: “You just killed a bird!”
Me: “I sure did, a perfect head shot”
Wife: “Why did you kill the bird?”
Me: “Because I forgot my lunch”
Wife: “You’re going to eat that bird?”
Me: “I sure am”
Husband: “This is so cool, I wish I could have gotten a picture”
I ate well that day.
1. Gas tanks topped off on two Honda 420's and my Arctic cat 500.
2. Emergency gear strapped down to the front rack of the Arctic cat.
3. Winchester .44 magnum carbine in the gun rack loaded with Buffalo Bore 305 gr. bear killers.
4. Client lunches strapped to the front rack of the husbands ATV.
5. Client got their helmets on.
6. Off we go.
About 2 hours into the trip I start going over the list again cause I keep thinking I forgot something. “I’m probably the only one who does this”. Suddenly in hits me. I forgot my lunch. Now with the prospect of being out for 8 or 10 hours without lunch is not very appealing to me so I was starting to get a little depressed. The longer we rode the more it bothered me that I had forgotten something as important as “My lunch”. Just when I thought I lay down in the trail and let the Ravens and Magpie’s peck out my eyes and eat my liver a Grouse flies up out of the trail and lands in a tree. I don’t know what came over me. I was off my ATV pulling off my helmet and chambering a round in the .44 magnum carbine before the ATV came to a stop.
In the blink of an eye the butt stock hit my shoulder, the front sight settled into the rear sight at the same time it settled on the birds head. “BOOM!”. The 305gr Bullet took the birds head clean off and the Grouse fell to the ground. I walked over and picked up my lunch and walked back to the clients and ATV’s.
As soon as I was close enough the following conversation ensues:
Wife: “You just killed a bird!”
Me: “I sure did, a perfect head shot”
Wife: “Why did you kill the bird?”
Me: “Because I forgot my lunch”
Wife: “You’re going to eat that bird?”
Me: “I sure am”
Husband: “This is so cool, I wish I could have gotten a picture”
I ate well that day.