deputydawg
Lieutenant Commander
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- Aug 29, 2004
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Anyone who knows me knows this time of year I am wrapped up in raccoon hunting. Last night was a good night for hunting. Didn't see anything walking this one peice of ground, so walked back to the truck to leave. Just then my friend see's a very large raccoon walking down the corn field not too far away. He brings up the .22 rifle and lets go one. The coon rolls and is still so my friend sets the gun in the truck and walks out into the corn feild to get the coon. As he gets uo to the coon, it's gone! Then we see it headed for the road at a slow walk. Must be hurt but still able to move. No problem he thinks, he will finish it off when it gets to the road. Didn't see the culvert until the coon went into it. So my good friend drew his .22 pistol and for some unknown reason had a momentary loss of all reason, dove into the culvert after the coon. When he got into the culvert about to his belly, the culvert was just big enough to get his body into and move his arms under him to army crawl. As he gets into the culvert to his belly he reaches the coon, and second loss of all common sense, grabs it by the tail. <br /><br />Anyone that knows raccoons knows they are feirce fighters. Often when hunting them they will come out of the trees after us. I have had coons kill dogs when I used to hunt with hounds. Anyway he has this wounded coon by the tail dragging it out when he decides to shoot it with the handgun which was in his left hand. That was when he decided it was not a good idea to fire a weapon inside a steel culvert when your in there head first. When he fired that shot the coon turned and got a little upset. That coon attacked him in the culvert. His side of it was when the coon turned and attacked, he kept ahold of the tail so it couldn't turn fully around, he was backing up fast army crawling and firing as fast as he could another not so bright move. <br /><br />When he got out of the culvert he still had that sucker by the tail, so he stands up turns and runs for the truck holding the coon out to his side still by the tail. He was screaming, the coon was growling and snarling, I was laughing, when he ran right into the open door of his truck! By the time he landed the coon was about dead from all of the gunshots, so he didn't get bit. He still had the tail in one hand and his gun in the other. He stood up and threw this half dead, mad, fighting raccoon into the back of his truck then ran the other direction looking like someone swatting a swarm of bees!<br /><br />The whole thing took maybe 2 minutes, but was so funny! Glad he didn't get bit. Can't think of it now without laughing.
