yep I remember. Think I've told it before.
Wife, our Son about 2 and I. Fall Deer hunt. Four man tent.
Wife got up early the next morning, to take son to Mother and left me for the day to hunt.
On her way out a deer with nice rack, according to her, ran into the rear quarter panel, of the pickup. She got out and looked at it. Don't knwo if it was just knocked silly or dead. She didn't have time to come back and get me. into the area. A car passed her coming into the area. he probably claimed it.
I saw lots of deer but they were too far away or too small or does.
It was below freezing all day. A fire didn't even keep me warm.
I went into the tent and turned on a gas lantern. I opened the rear flap, thinking that should be plenty of ventilation. I ahd a large foam pad under the tent. I was warm and drifted off to sleep. She arrived way after dark. When she woke me I had a terrible headache. She like to never got me awake. A few minutes more and I might have been toast. Those lantern put out a lot of carbon monoxide etc.
Lots ,of pack rats, and raccoons around the tent and know what else. They might have come on in if she hadn't arrived, when she did. It sounded like war on thee hills surrounding the cove. Lots and lots of deer, in rut and just doing their thing waiting for evening. It was my fault I didn't get one. Lots of turkeys. Scare the snot out of you if you're not expecting them. They were over 60 ft up probably more in the very large trees around the cove. When they come down right over you well....
Same cove where two mountain lions at different times trailed me. Can't get in their now. The Owner died and his ah SIL moved a trailer on the entrance. Now leased out to City Dudes with money to burn. I walked many many miles of game trails/old traces/Indian trails and old old dwellings, under overhangs and small caves over the years. You can hear the water coming out of the cave and see it donwn in the creek but you can dig the stones forever and they just seem to get higher, trying to get to the water.
