Posted: 4/19/2005 3:56:14 PM EDT
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My dad, on occasion, will invite an employee or two to come up to our ranch to camp/hunt/whatever. Last year (hunting season before last), he invited William, one of his salesmen, to go pig hunting. We made sure he knew how to use the .30-30 we provided him and let him know the dangers of feral pigs and the Russian boar hybrids: often move in groups, sharp tusks, aggressive behavior, and the entire bunch of them going after whatever wounded them. Things every hunter knows. None of this is a problem unless you're right there where the pigs are at and they feel cornered. He had a small group of pigs come to his blind and didn't take a shot at them. We asked him about it and he said one was looking right at him. We explained that this didn't matter, he should have just shot one. He said he was scared it would run off if he moved while it was looking at him, and it kept looking at him because there was a squirrel making noise above his blind. Basically, we figure he got intimidated by what we told him and chickened out. I told him that now that he had gone hunting for the first time, he needed an Indian name to let others know of his prowess. I then dubbed him "Blames On Squirrel" and the name stuck once my dad told everybody at the office. Anyone got similar stories? |
