It had been a rewarding walk trough the sage brush. The Ruger 20 gauge O/U had popped to my shoulder many times
in a familiar fluid motion to lay its deadly cargo of shot into the path of a fleeing jackrabbit. The reward was
primal and satisfying when your body and mind function together to complete the ageless task of the hunter. I have long ago quit trying to explain this union to mindless city dwellers. They will never know the feeling of completion derived from a successful hunt. The only thing close to that for them is passionate sex but often that is a mere hollow experience compared to making the kill. We were born to be predators.

The feeling of satisfaction was beginning to subside when I was in sight of the yellow coated steel of my Jeep.
My attention was switching to the needs of driving back home when I caught a glimpse of motion to the left.
I turned to see what it was and could only discern a shaking grey mass. Quickly my mind focused on this
shapeless form and recognized that it was a tom cat engaged in breeding a willing female feral house cat.
Thoughts of driving back home vanished as my primal relexes re-engaged. As one the Ruger and I came together
to complete our mission. I vaguely sensed the recoiling shotgun as my mind focused on the intended quary.
My focus remained until my eyes confirmed the completion of the task at hand as they passed onto the primal
center of my brain the image of the tom being sprayed across the nearby sagebrush. An indescribable warmth
briefly flowed through my conciousness as I realized that I had again fullfilled my ageless destiny.

Ya coulda at least let him finish.

Whoa! For a second I thought you were going to go off topic there with the rabbit story. Good thing I read all of a post before passing judgment

2 for 1 good shooting

Johnch

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Ya coulda at least let him finish.

Naw, OEH did the right thing. Politicians can't do that, predators can.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.TheTwentyGauge.Rule

I think it's more like 6-7/1, if that breeding had be finished and the shot not taken. OEH, I hope you shot his on the rise.

Hog Killer

Best way I know of to increase your average.

I once shot two porcupines doing the same thing. I can only assume for a micro-second that the tom thought he was having the ultimate piece of pussy. A moment later it was noting but pieces of pussy.

Doubles are always more fun and will surely bring your "score" up to a respectable level!!

One time long ago I was trolling for a fella that was giving us a bit of a headache with his 12.7mm near FSB Rendezvous. Much to my consternation I located a NVA company base camp and somehow managed to elude eternal damnation with the judicious use of smoke and mirrors.

The stars had aligned in my favor however, and a section of F4s happened by on the way back to Da Nang, their assigned mission scrubbed due to weather. They made a single pass in diamond formation, dropped all 48,000 pounds of ordnance as one and made a straight pull on course as they were bingo fuel.

Upon my return to the scene of the crime I found nothing but churned earth, bits of clothing hanging in surrounding trees and eternal silence, where only scant minutes earlier I'd been greeted by the most incredible hail of fire. Even if they were all gay I don't think I interrupted any coitus as it were, but I assume they might have though 'Aw Phuck', or something similar upon seeing that airshow arrive in their neighborhood so quickly.

I'd prefer to think they all survived and were just so impressed with my skill and timing that by popular consensus it was deemed inappropriate to screw with me further. Maybe they are running a beach front hotel on China Beach these days.

Does that count?

Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.RattaTat.Tat

Yep, And I bet now they want you and your US Dollars there.