PICTURE THE SURROUNDING ON THIS YOUTH HUNT AS JUM SAYS.....WE ARE UNDER AN EQUIPMENT / TRACTOR SHED...CRUDE TO SAY THE LEAST BUILT BETWEEN TWO TOBACCO BARNS.........THIS WOULD BE A TREASURE HUNTERS DREAM FOR IT HAS BEEN GROWN UP FOR OVER 60 YEARS I'M SURE....TRESS 6 FEET THICK GROWING AT THE ENTRANCE TO DOORS
THE TIN SHED WAS LEANING TO THE NORTH AND APPEARED TO BE STABLE....
NOW ...THE GIST OF IT ALL IS THIS
YA EVER WONDER WHY THINGS HAPPEN? DO THEY HAPPEN FOR A REASON ONE MIGHT ASK?....OF COURSE THEY DO!!!THERE WAS NO EXCEPTION TO THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THIS EVENING HUNT WITH SEA DRAGGIN AND HIS ELEVEN YR OLD HUNTRESS AND MYSELF.........
AS THE BUCK CAME FROM RIGHT TO LEFT....A MERE 35 YARDS......I FELT THE SHOT WOULD BE HINDERED AND A BAD ANGLE FOR THE HUNTRESS TO MAKE THE SHOT.....HOPING THE BUCK WOULD STEP UP OUT OF THE TWO FOOT DITCH HE WAS WALKING......I WHISPERED........"HOLD UP WAIT , JIM...."........THEY DID......WELL THE BUCK DID THE OPPOSITE OF OUR NEEDS AND WENT THE OTHER WAY....NO NICE RACK...NO SHOOTING TO BE DONE!
OH WELL........TIL NEXT TIME...............BUT...........BUT
EXACTLY ONE WEEK AFTER THIS BEAUTIFUL EVENING HUNT....I RETURN TO THE SAME TIN ROOF SHED TO GET BEHIND THE BURLAP GROUND BLIND WITH MY BOW..........AND TO MY BEWILDERMENT,....THE SHED HAD COMPLETELY CRASHED TO THE GROUND!!!!!! TOTAL A-FRAME HEIGHT OF THE DOWNED SHED WAS FIVE FEET FROM GROUND UP...AND ZERO FEET IN MOST PLACES............THIS THING MUST HAVE WEIGHED 3 TONS EASY
COULD THE BLAST FROM HER SHOT FROM THE TWENTY GUAGE SLUG HAD TOPPLED THE NATURAL BLIND WE HAD HUNTED FROM? ..............
WE SHALL NEVER KNOW...........
BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THIS.....
THE MAN UPSTAIRS WAS DEFINITELY LOOKING OUT FOR ALL THREE OF US
Holy Crap. A few months ago I posted regarding the secret to my sucess in life.....you guys remember.
Incidents like this reinforce my beliefs. Christians call it a "Hedge of Protection"
Impenatrable......not that bad things don't happen to good people.
If something bad happens then its the Lords will. When bad things don't, and I could make a list a mile long of things that have ALMOST or COULD have happened, then I know it is intervention from above.
We aren't worthy of the protection, but I'm damn glad for it.
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