Throwback Thursday Florida Squirrel Hunt

[HunterGKS]

Back sometime in the ‘90s, when I still lived in Florida, I used to go squirrel hunting with my mailman, Gary Blake, & a friend of his. On 1 February trip, the 3 of us went to Citrus WMA for 3 days of squirrel hunting & camping. We had 3 tents set up as well as a couple of tables & the usual camping paraphernalia. There is a lot of sugar sand & sand dunes in Citrus & you don’t want to venture too far off the hard pack. The 2nd day of the trip, we went back to camp for lunch & a siesta. After lunch, Gary went into town to visit with an old friend whose wife had passed away 2 months earlier at Christmas time. Tim went into his tent for a nap & I kicked back reading an outdoor type book.

About a half hour later, I noticed a guy walking into camp and, based on the direction he was coming from, I figured he had done something stupid. Sure enough, he was driving on the hard pack & said a log was blocking the road so he had tried to drive his little 4WD rice burner over a dune & teeter-tottered it at the top. He asked if we could help. Tim had a Dodge Ram 2WD but we thought we might be able to help. We went & looked & decided there wasn’t anything we could do to help. Also, we checked out the log & it was maybe 3-4” in diameter & he could have easily driven over it. He called a wrecking service & the guy came out with a huge wrecker & couldn’t do anything either. The guy had to contact the state forestry service to have them bring out their small cat 2 days later to pull him off the dune. Must have cost him a small fortune all told. His wife came out & picked him up. We couldn’t hear what was being said but she was purely giving him hell!! You can take the city slicker out of the city but you just can’t take the city out of the slicker!!

For those of you who are familiar with Bill Engvall, this should be funny. As we were talking about his problem in camp, he looked around the camp and asked in all seriousness: “Do you guys really sleep in those tents?” My instant reply: “Nope. We just put them up to make the camp look realistic. We throw our sleeping bags on the ground next to the tents & sleep outside every night. Here’s your sign!” As I said, you can take the boy out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the boy. And yes, we slayed the squirrels with each of us getting our 2 day limits.

[OLE RASPY]

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[HunterGKS]

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If you think it was funny reading about it, you should have been there!! 1 of the funniest things
I have had happen in all my years of hunting.

[HuntnMa]

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