well fellas have been setting and resting a spell. it was raining this evening just a slow gentle rain. i got into my shooting house at 3.00 oclock this evening.but first i stepped off 40 yards an put up apiece of white tissue paper up and put tinks doe scent on it.i made 2 more scent posts the last one at 30 steps.i knew i might be huntig late so i used the 30 step marker as a marker if it got late. i would not shoot pas the 30 step marker. i finally got into the shooting house pulled off mw large hunting jacket. fellas i dont beleive ive ever put as much work and thought into one evening hunt. id even called my grandson and told him to leave his keys in his 4 wheller got me a rope to drag this deer i was going to kill. well the time draged by from 3.00 to 4.45 at this time i stuck the old 8 ga out of the window and cocked the right hand hammer.i knowed a deer was going to come into view just any time. well needless to say i waited till it was so dark you could not see my 30 step marker boy what a let down. i had never been surer in my life that i would get a deer this evening. i was to haveset mysef a record this evening whith that old parker.loks like i will have to try and break that record monday evening lord willing. ok so i un breached my gun and thenunloaded my gun .reached in my coat pocket for my flash light and droped it. boy was it dark in that shooting house by now. ok so i got on my hands and knees feeling for that little light. i must have searched for 5 minutes finally foundit so i thought it was my shells for my rifle that i had droped and found so back to the floor looking for the flash light. well after about 5 more minutes looking for that thing i decided that i would wait till the next day to get my flash light. boy it had started raining hard it was a pretty good walk to my truck i finally got there.whew... so when i got home i told my wife what i had done she laughed and saidmy flash light was on her piano. good place for that light. ha well now i dont have to go and get that flash light out of the shooting house because i never dropped the thing in the first time.... so goes the life and times of one charlie cleveland. not the end of story will resume after monday hunt. charlie
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