We have a guy deer hunting with us who always does a ground blind. He brings all these paperback books out to read (to fight the boredom he says). He's never gotten a deer. I put him in GREAT areas that I consider "old faithfuls". He still doesn't get deer! Places a blind man with no legs ao arms could get a deer - he gets nothing. If deer hunting just makes you bored - why do it?

There's no way in the world you could be holding a paperback and be ready to shoulder your gun at the same time. So I think we all know what's going on. Hands on paperback and gun on your lap, ground or leaning on tree. He happens to glance up and HEY! There's a deer. When he's trying to put his book marker and pick up his gun, the deer sees him (I once heard deer have very keen eyesight, anyone else ever hear that?) and makes for the next county.

Other guys have shot alot of deer on the farm that come from his direction. We mostly feel that he doesn't even see them because he never says anything like he did see them.

Last year he was awarded a new camp name! I went out to pick him up on an ATV and he was packing all his things into his little folding camp seat with a zippered pouch under it. He had like 3 paperbacks and one of them was like a romance novel (???) with a sexy/racy picture on the front. It looked like porn. So his new nickname was born........."F*@#book".

He hates it and all the guys love it! "Hey F*@#book, it's your turn to cook tonight."
"F*@#book, turn over and stop that snoring." "I don't know, ask F*@#book."

But it's all just fun-he's a really good guy.