Thursday, August 19, 2004

Good story from Warden John Walker John Walker, the Yooper Game Warden sent me a couple more fishing reports I think you'll appreciate. Here's an excerpt from his August 10 report. It's a cute story about two Yooper game wardens and a Detroit hunter. Since everything John writes is the truth, I'm sure this really happened, probably just like he tells it, too. I'll post his entire August 17 report in "Stories." Just click on that link over to the right ---> and you can read it. Meanwhile, here's the deer hunter story... It seems that there were a couple of game wardens having breakfast in a restaurant in a small town when a successful hunter fresh from the asphalt jungle of Detroit came in for breakfast. The only way you would ever guess this party was a hunter was the fact he had stopped at the local sporting goods store on the way north and purchased a red and black plaid hunting outfit that made people realize you were an official deer hunter. This party came in and sat down and soon was informing anyone who would listen about the trophy buck he had out in the back of his pickup. The more he talked the better and better the story got and in fact he was starting to get on the nerves of the other hunters in the restaurant. The two game wardens got done with their breakfast and went out to the parking lot and looked at the buck in the back of the pickup that was parked to the side of the restaurant. They figured they may as well have a little fun with this Detroit hunter so they took the buck out of the back of his pickup and replaced it with a doe out of the truck of their car. They then returned to the restaurant and confronted this Detroit hunter about the fact that the deer in the back of his pickup was not a buck but a doe! And seeing it was a doe they would have to check his anterless deer permit. The man insisted it was not a doe but a nice trophy buck. They again told him they had just looked at the deer and it was indeed a doe, not an antlered buck at all and they needed to see a permit for it. Finally they convinced this Detroit hunter to come out and look at the deer with them. Out he came with all the others that were in the restaurant to see this trophy buck that was now said to be an antlerless deer. They walked around the restaurant and the party stepped up on the back bumper of his pickup to look at the deer. He than reached in and lifted its head and before the game wardens could say anything he blurted out, "Those guys sold me a doe after I paid them $50 for a trophy buck!" Whoops! Needless to say he had never even looked at the deer that was loaded into his pickup after purchasing it from one of the locals. For more from John Walker, just click on "Stories." Later... 9:11:42 PM    comment []