Misc data and adventures of a Tayopa treasure hunter

Note to those in need. When the wench connects the winch to your Jeep to pull you out, make sure she connects to the frame and not the CB antenna mount on the bumper. Don't ask...

Okay, and don't feed the bears either.
First day of Doe season, I'm in my tree stand. Took some apples with me to munch on. Finish apple, toss core. Repeat, repeat.
A doe shows up about 50 yards out, and doe season ends. I get my stuff packed up and tie my pack and rifle to a rope and lower it to the ground. Just as I lean over to get to the first branch to climb down, I hear a WOOF! Look down thinking someone's mutt was down there. Nope, I take a look down and there is a big old black bear sniffing the ground and eating the apple cores I had tossed. He finishes the last one and looks up at me. Then he gets up on two legs and puts his paws on the tree.

Meanwhile multiple body function alarms are going off for me! Along with what the heck I'm going to do if he decides to come up and share my tree stand.

He's down there his head bouncing back and forth like he was trying to make up his mind, and I'm up there shaking like a leaf. Okay if he starts up the tree I'm going to empty my pistol into him. And probably at the same time letting one or more of my bodily functions happen.

I click off the safety on the pistol and prepare to defend my tree stand just as he starts his preparation for a tree assault.
Just as he reaches up to grab a branch and I start to squeeze the trigger, someone near by lets off a volley of shots.

Mr bear decides maybe this is not a good thing and drops down and scampers off. Me? I try and contain said bodily functions, pull my pack and rifle back up, and didn't leave that stand till one of my hunting buddies came looking for me.

He walks up to the stand and says "Hey a bear walked right under your tree stand, I followed the tracks. Did you see him?"

Me being Mr. Cool tells him "Yep I was feeding him, got him all set up for bear season. Now go get my deer"
 

Why I quit going out on the second day of Deer season in Arizona. I was walking down a wash following this deer's tracks, as I can up to a pair of rocks at the center of the wash, someone shoot into the wash near me. I dived between the 2 rocks and someone on the other side of the wash started shooting into the wash. Bullets bouncing off the rocks as I dug deeper and deeper into the sand. When they stopped shooting, I stuck the rifle over the rock to the right and fired off a shot. Then I pointed the gun to the left side over the rocks and fired off another shot. Laid there for 5 mins before getting up and walking back to the car and drove home. I really don't like sound hunters.
 

In case I forgot this one. If you are going out where the bugs are, take a light weight long sleeve shirt, hang it up and spray it with Cutters insect Spray. No mater how much you sweat, it is in the cloth! Cutters worked better than 6-12 or Off. Skitters won't both you. If you do the tops of the socks and the bottoms of the pants, chiggers and ticks will leave you alone also. Also works great with the Grandkids.
 

Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp said:
Short finger, now that sounds like an interesting story, cut loose :coffee2::coffee2:
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Not interesting, just stupid. My boat stuck in gear as I was trying to dock it, so I shut down the engine, jumped down and tried to fend off from the boat I was about to run into. Unfortunately, I misjudged my hand position by about an inch, which resulted in my losing the last joint of my little finger on my left hand...hence the moniker.

I do have a funny story that occurred later, however. Several years afterward, my wife chopped the tip of her finger off while splitting firewood. As we were walking to the car to head to the emergency room, she looked at me and said "You don't have any idea how much this hurts." I looked at her, then looked at my finger, then back at her. She said "Well, maybe you do. But it really hurts!" She was right, it really hurts.

JB
 

Short finger. My wife and I had a similar conversation, just yesterday.
I have to " fix " her neck and back three to five times daily. I'm the only one that can fix her...

My neck popped out of place yesterday and I couldn't lift my left arm from pain. She said
WELCOME TO MY WORLD!

I fixed my neck with my traction machine.
She apologized later and three minutes later she asked me to fix her back.

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Shortfinger said:
Not interesting, just stupid. My boat stuck in gear as I was trying to dock it, so I shut down the engine, jumped down and tried to fend off from the boat I was about to run into. Unfortunately, I misjudged my hand position by about an inch, which resulted in my losing the last joint of my little finger on my left hand...hence the moniker.

I do have a funny story that occurred later, however. Several years afterward, my wife chopped the tip of her finger off while splitting firewood. As we were walking to the car to head to the emergency room, she looked at me and said "You don't have any idea how much this hurts." I looked at her, then looked at my finger, then back at her. She said "Well, maybe you do. But it really hurts!" She was right, it really hurts.

JB
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Short finger, I have wondered how you came up that alias.
I have not suffered such a wound, but I did manage to pull a fingernail out. Those little suckers start growing at the knuckle and I felt every nerve pull loose.
I showed it to the guy that was working with me. When I got back with it bandaged, he said that I made him throw up.

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Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp said:
Shot finger, I bet It does, really hurts Your wfe must be quite a gal to be able to joke about it.:occasion14:
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She's quite a gal to be able to put up with me for 30+ years....not to mention our sons (not quite 30 for them, only 27 and 28). And, on another topic, I see that you have changed your Avatar to the Tayopa book cover. Does that mean you are making progress on the book?

JB
 

Yep short finger, I have a stimulus, my eyesight is slighty deteriorating, I need to get it done, no more procrasting ( also I need more expoosure to the sun, among other things)

Psst, free asvertising.
 

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Don Jose,

That looks really good. Please send my signed copy to:

Joe Ribaudo
2125 McCulloch Blvd.
Ste. B
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

I will pay in advance, if you will send me the information.

Congratulations, and Many thanks,

Joe
 

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