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stinkystomper
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we were talking about good luck hunting charms we carry in the field in the nm forums and it reminded me of mine which is a heck of a story that i gotta share.
my good luck charm came about 10 years ago. i was elk hunting with a muzzleloader in the gila in new mexico. i was so excited to leave for the hunt i forgot to take any spare boxers. well by the end of the first day i found myself in the field about 2 miles from the truck tryin to do the duck walk to the nearest toilet paper. i finally realized i was about to have a blowout and dropped my pants just fast enough to avoid total catastrophe. well moments later and 20lbs lighter i started to wonder what to do for paper. well i decided the old pinecone trick would work. i grabbed what i thought was an olderish pine cone only to find out it had hung in the tree during the weathering process. it still had trace amounts of sap which wasnt very pleasant. i decided to forgoe anymore pinecones and rocks were non existent. now what? i knew i had no more boxers and i desperately needed the socks. well necessity gave through to need and the boxers were quickly sacraficed. only minutes later i realized i needed much more paper. i dug into my pockets and pulled out a wad of cash. about 20 $1 bills a few fives 2 tens a $20 and a $50. i used every inch of every one dollar bill. then i pulled out the $10 and ever so carefully used it. with faint streaks still on the $10 i decided a final check with the $20 was in order. finally i was done. the $20 only had one dark streak and several skid marks so i figured it was salvageable. now lets not forget that im not exactly dumb. i took each bill to a nearby tree and impelled them to the branches hoping a rainstorm might blow through and launder my money for me. well on the third day of the hunt i found myself hunting with no boxers and a shitty $20 in my pocket. next thing i know im chasin down this bull buglin like crazy. at 80 yards we crossed paths and the buck fever was so bad that ibarely hit him in the spine over the flank to bring him down. end product was that i had a 340 type beautiful 6x6 on the ground. i was pretty proud of myself and couldnt pack that dude to camp fast enough to show it off to friends i had been hunting with. first person i met back at camp was an older gentleman i had hunted with a few times named bob. he congratulated me and shook my hand. told me i'd had a heckuva morning but that he definitely was having better luck. i asked him where his bull was. he said he didnt get a bull but on his morning hunt he saw the damnedest thing. supposedly he was walking down an elk trail when he came across this tree with money hangin from the limbs. he said it honest to god looked like a money tree. he went on to say it even appeared that the ripest bills had already fallen from the branches and had fallen in the dirt and collected some mud over the last week or so. i had forgot that i refused to hang the crappiest bills. i also had forgotten about the toilet paper ordeal and the fact we hadnt even seen a dark cloud sense. i just looked at bob and started dying laughing. i never did tell him why i was laughing. he folded up the money n put it back in his pocket and kept passing it around to everyone bragging about what he found. finally one guy caught on to the fact i wouldnt touch the money and kept laughing evertime bob would pull it out and start handling it. well from that moment on my good luck charm is that $20 bill i kept and the fact that my biggest animals are killed without boxers.
so anyone else have any crazy charms?
btw. bob went and hand washed every single bill in the sink with dishsoap. then he stuck em to the windshield of his truck to dry. i didnt even bother asking for that money back. i figured he earned it.
my good luck charm came about 10 years ago. i was elk hunting with a muzzleloader in the gila in new mexico. i was so excited to leave for the hunt i forgot to take any spare boxers. well by the end of the first day i found myself in the field about 2 miles from the truck tryin to do the duck walk to the nearest toilet paper. i finally realized i was about to have a blowout and dropped my pants just fast enough to avoid total catastrophe. well moments later and 20lbs lighter i started to wonder what to do for paper. well i decided the old pinecone trick would work. i grabbed what i thought was an olderish pine cone only to find out it had hung in the tree during the weathering process. it still had trace amounts of sap which wasnt very pleasant. i decided to forgoe anymore pinecones and rocks were non existent. now what? i knew i had no more boxers and i desperately needed the socks. well necessity gave through to need and the boxers were quickly sacraficed. only minutes later i realized i needed much more paper. i dug into my pockets and pulled out a wad of cash. about 20 $1 bills a few fives 2 tens a $20 and a $50. i used every inch of every one dollar bill. then i pulled out the $10 and ever so carefully used it. with faint streaks still on the $10 i decided a final check with the $20 was in order. finally i was done. the $20 only had one dark streak and several skid marks so i figured it was salvageable. now lets not forget that im not exactly dumb. i took each bill to a nearby tree and impelled them to the branches hoping a rainstorm might blow through and launder my money for me. well on the third day of the hunt i found myself hunting with no boxers and a shitty $20 in my pocket. next thing i know im chasin down this bull buglin like crazy. at 80 yards we crossed paths and the buck fever was so bad that ibarely hit him in the spine over the flank to bring him down. end product was that i had a 340 type beautiful 6x6 on the ground. i was pretty proud of myself and couldnt pack that dude to camp fast enough to show it off to friends i had been hunting with. first person i met back at camp was an older gentleman i had hunted with a few times named bob. he congratulated me and shook my hand. told me i'd had a heckuva morning but that he definitely was having better luck. i asked him where his bull was. he said he didnt get a bull but on his morning hunt he saw the damnedest thing. supposedly he was walking down an elk trail when he came across this tree with money hangin from the limbs. he said it honest to god looked like a money tree. he went on to say it even appeared that the ripest bills had already fallen from the branches and had fallen in the dirt and collected some mud over the last week or so. i had forgot that i refused to hang the crappiest bills. i also had forgotten about the toilet paper ordeal and the fact we hadnt even seen a dark cloud sense. i just looked at bob and started dying laughing. i never did tell him why i was laughing. he folded up the money n put it back in his pocket and kept passing it around to everyone bragging about what he found. finally one guy caught on to the fact i wouldnt touch the money and kept laughing evertime bob would pull it out and start handling it. well from that moment on my good luck charm is that $20 bill i kept and the fact that my biggest animals are killed without boxers.
so anyone else have any crazy charms?
btw. bob went and hand washed every single bill in the sink with dishsoap. then he stuck em to the windshield of his truck to dry. i didnt even bother asking for that money back. i figured he earned it.
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