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Things that didn't turn out as expected in the woods.
D. Tiller:
Thank god we dont have them in the northwest! No poisonous snakes. No poisonous spider. NADA!
Papa Matt:
Ain't no timber rattlers in the northwest?
Hillbilly:
--- Quote ---He just didn't bother to tell them about the fire ants that had previously occupied the tent. Pat
--- End quote ---
Previously my a**- no previously to that situation. That was present tense, not past. ;D They presently occupied my durn sleeping bag about 3:00 in the morning. ;D
The worst fire ant experience I've had so far was down in Ga this summer when me and Chris and Ediie were hog hunting. Chris pulled up in the buggy about dark to pick me up, and I was standing there talking to him when the little buggers started hitting me. I was standing in a hill and didn't realize it until they started popping me. The bad thing is that they don't start stinging until there's about a thousand of them on you, then they all hit you at once.
tsa yo ga:
Maybe you could have left the snake alone, no need to kill something you don't need.
hawkbow:
Years ago I was working for an outfitter, guiding elk hunters in the River Of No Return Wilderness in Idaho... while leading the mules to water one morning one of the mules stepped in a nest of ground hornets. those little warriors don't quit, the mules abandoned me while I fought bravely for my life.. running and clawing at the vicious little buggers. I dove headlong into a creek in an effort to save myself , but the creek was only about six inches deep and hornets aparently know how to swim :( by the time I rounded up the mules and got back to camp sixty stings made me quite a sight.. in the age old way of the cowboy I never complained..just went back to work with my swollen head held high... the head guide gave me these words of wisdom..." Stay away from grond hornets nests they BITE"... a man of few words.. HAWK
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