I had a very good friend, who has gone to his happy hunting grounds, that liked inocent pranks. One year we shot a couple does (legal). Ordered two forms and made a couple nice wall mounts. Then we put lipstick, scarves and sunglasses on the doe mounts. Took them to where the road tops the bluff and heads down to the river. The road kinda cuts thru the top of the bluff so there is about a ten foot enbankment on the right side and thats where we hung the two mounts on trees just where they would catch the attention of a passer by. We took a whole roll of pichurs of people stopping and backing up to get a better look. One which was the cicuit judge and one of our good friend and nieghbor "the game warden". We also got one of an individual who actaully stuck a shotgun out the window before realising maybe it wasn't a good idea. I still have that pichur and he knows it.

Well. That was fun........

Then the next year I'm out hunting with our good friend and nieghbor, "the game warden". I hear the sound of hooves running on rocks (Iwas near the river). I study the brush waiting for "the big one" to come around the bend. "The big one" stopped right in front of me at the edge of the brush. I squeezed the trigger just as a doe stepped outta the brush next to the buck. They were only 15 yards away. I mean right in plain sight I dropped two deer in thier tracks with one 3" double O. I'm sitting here trying to figger how I'm gonna splain this. Ain't nobody gonna believe it. Then up walks my good friend and nieghbor "the game warden". "Ah-Ha. Shooting a doe out of season. And you ain't above anybody else." My good friend and nieghbor WROTE ME A CITATION.....FOR REAL. Court date was two weeks later. Of course you know he didn't tell somebody else who told somebody else. The whole county knew in about two hours. The courtroom was jammed. "How do you plead?" "NOT guilty." "I have a Game Warden here I'm about to swear in as a witness for the state. I ask you again. How do you plead?" "Aw-right, sir, you are charged with......." and starts reading off a list of offenses that would put me away for about three hundred years. "Well sir. What do you have to say?" By now I'm starting to figger out whats going on. And I very politely says, "Well. Actaully, your honor. You folks are about to pxss me off." With that the courtroom bust out all over. The judge was even cracking up and I thaught the states prosecuter would pass out from laughin'. I was the only dumbaxx in the room that just now realised....THIS IS SATURDAY, DUMBXSS, THERE AIN'T NO COURT ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!! The judge banged his gavel and says, "We finally got one of them fellers. Lets go fishin'. Court is adjourned."

And I still have that roll of film.