Hunting trip stories from the vault

 Here's a quick blurb about a recent hunting trip!

In order to get to a cool hunting site I need to cross either a very dangerous bridge or ford a river on foot or by 4WD*.

Ok why is the bridge dangerous, well because it is falling down and actually shakes when you walk on it. It's not a pedestrian bridge over this river but an old vehicular bridge, so you get the idea of how big it is and the fact is is literally "bouncing up and down". The reason being is that during the last snow melt, the spring waters have moved the pylons and they no longer properly support the deck, Mmmmmm!

Ok so shoes off and cross the icy waters, it's not far only about 50m or a bit less. Boots back on and off we go.

Get to site, start to build a hide but somewhere along the way the wind starts to play havoc with the hide and it has to be stitched up as it were. I have no idea how but a damn wasp, probably on the material I was picking up from the ground,  got under my shirt and proceeded to sting me several times right on my damn tail bone! I got it out and it met with my foot. I could not yell out, swear, exclaim anything lest I frighten off and ruin any chances of getting anything. But wait there is more! After about 1.5 hours of patiently waiting for game, We had to stand up and flex our legs but of course, no problems as we had been keeping a diligent eye out for game and we were ok to stand up.

No No No No!!

 LOL, no sooner did we stand up then two choice Pheasants which were less than 20ft from the hide burst out of the grass LOL and flew maybe 30ft away, this was pretty good for us as they usually fly further when startled. Had we waited just minutes more they would have been in the clear ie our sights. So there you go. Maybe some of you know the feeling, stalking a goat, loose sight of it momentarily then realise it is almost right next to you but you are no longer in a good position!

Better luck next time!

BCT

*easier to go on foot or bike to this site.