Humorous Hunting Stories - Inconvenient Call
Inconvenient Call
by Z. Souers
It was about 2:00 in the afternoon and the deer at my hunting site had just started moving in the evening. I already had my climber hooked up to the tree from the morning before, so I hooked my bow up to my rope and up the tree I went. Needless to say I was kind of in a hurry and didn’t tie my bow up very good. I started pulling my bow up to me and it falls. Fortunately, it was only about six feet off the ground so I got lucky.
So now I shimmy my way back down the tree, tied my bow back up and up the tree I went. I pulled my bow up got it in my lap took and took my quiver off to get it ready to hang up when I dropped it. Mind you I’m about 25 to 30 feet up this tree. Back down I go, put my quiver back on my bow and back up the tree I went. I got situated, got my arrow in my biscuit and my quiver is hung.
I’m in good shape thus far, but I realize that my cell phone is still on loud so I pull it from my pocket open it up to put it on vibrate and guess what? I DROPED IT!!!! Keep in mind that it is still on loud. I said forget it because I don’t think anyone will call. Well, really I was hoping that no one would. So I’m in the tree for about 20 minutes after I dropped my phone and I hear a couple of doe's bleat so I was calling and waiting. Another five or ten minutes went by and from my left side comes three does and two fawns! I wait for the moment and then stand up to get my bow. Just as I draw back, you guessed it, my phone rings. I look at my phone and I look back at the deer and all I see are five whitetails getting the heck out of there.
By this time, I’m more than angry and I’m cursing the deer, my phone, and my bow so I got down and went back home. I was in the woods a total time of about 50 to 60 minutes and this was the most disappointing hunt that I had thus far. I didn’t think it was funny in the least bit but when I got back to the house I talked to a couple of buddies about their day and I told them how mine went and they acted like I was doing stand-up comedy.
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