A long time ago, when Jack was growin up, his daddy give him
a brand new shotgun for Christmas. Obviously, Jack was as proud as a
peacock over this new gift. He wanted to show his daddy just how proud he
was by going out and gettin a whole mess of game on his first huntin trip.
So, bright and early the very next morning, Jack jumped out of bed, threw
on his overalls, boots, and jacket and flew out the door before breakfast.
He got up so quick he even beat the crack of dawn.
As the sun slowly yawned out over the horizon, Jack's shadow was beginning
to cast out over Bear Creek. He figured that most of the small game
around these here parts would be gettin themselves a drink, right smart
early in the morning. Well it wasn't long before Jack's logic paid off.
Just 40 feet ahead of where Jack stood sat two rabbits, one on each side
of a large boulder. Sittin right purty on top of that boulder was a flat rock with a
large gray squirrel eatin a hickory nut. Jack looked and calculated a bit. He
raised his gun up under his chin and aimed. Boooom. One shot was all
it took.
Jack had hit that flat rock smack dab in the middle and broke it in half exactly
under where that big old grey squirrel had been perched. Of course it instantly
killed the squirrel. The flat rock's two broken pieces fell simultaneaously on
each side of the boulder killing the two rabbits, in a moments notice.
The kick from the double barrel shotgun was so strong that it knocked Jack
clean out into the middle of the creek. It nearly took Jack the better part of 30
minutes to climb out of that creek. Reason being, his overalls had gotten so
full of bass that he could barely climb up the bank.
Finally, when it was able to get up the bank and out of the water his
dad-burned butten come flyin off them overalls due to the overload of fish
they contained. That button had such force that it flew at a whiz-bang
velocity like a rocket into the woods and just happened to hit a twelve
point buck running from all this excitement. When this deadly button hit
him in mid-stride his momentum carried him nearly 60 feet before he landed
and hit his antlers on another rock. This caused a portion of the antlers
to become a fragmented projectile that flew into the next pasture killing
the neighbors prize bull.
All that there was left to do now was for Jack to gather up everything to
carry home. The only problem was; how in the world was he going to carry
24 largemouth bass, 1 large grey squirrel, 2 fat rabbits, 1 very large slightly
damaged deer, and a 2000 lb. prize bull home by himself? Now that would
really be a story.........