A Very Funny Story
I need to preface this story with the admonishment that no ethical Hunter Ed instructor would support shooting a firearm up in the air. The shooter does not have control over where the projectile goes and that is just not safe. That being said, anyone who has been woken up from a peaceful sleep in a quiet public campground will appreciate this.
Fellow Hunter Ed Instructor John Durbin and I were manning the MHHF booth at Bass Pro yesterday during the Field & Stream Total Outdoor Challenge. John told one of the funniest stories I’ve heard in a long time. He said, you know how there are some guys that’ll do just anything that comes to mind, things you would love to do but know better?
John and his friend Rodney were camping in Arkansas canoeing the Buffalo River. Late one night about two in the morning the camp was awakened by a big pick up truck driving in loud, radio blaring careening between the tents. Many of us have had an experience like this. It makes you crazy.
The trucks stops. Someone get out of the truck and yells as loud as a he can- “We’re from Jacksonville Mississippi, M***er F***ers and it’s time to party!”
It’s really dark in the tent. John hears Rodney rustle and then the familiar “click-click-click” of a double-action revolver being cocked. John knows Rodney is packing a 44 caliber Blackhawk. In a hushed and urgent voice John says: “What are you doing!?!”
Rodney replies with three words: “Cover your ears.”
You can imagine what’s next.
Lying on his back Rodney points the gun out the door of the tent and straight up in the air.
John says the report from that 44 echoed up and down the river and back and forth across the hills for what seemed like forever.
Then Rodney bellows: “We’re from Independence, Missouri M***er F***ers and it’s time to get quiet!”
John said he did not hear so much as a hammer strike a tent stake the rest of the night.
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