Four Wheel Duck Hunting

Sometimes better ideas turn into a lot of trouble until you get out the kinks worked out. This story discusses one of the better ideas with one big kink.

Four Wheel Duck Hunting

 

Along about 1975, my brother Craig bought him a new four wheel drive Chevy Blazer. We had been hunting the upper end of Blue West Cove by driving on  a dirt road through several barbed wire gates. When we got there, we had to load our guns and decoys on our backs and walk down a 200 foot steep hill in the dark to get down to the water where we hunted. Being the smart guy that he was, Craig drove around on the high way to the Blue Creek Bridge and started down the dry creek bed with his blazer and he found he could drive right down to the water. He made the run a few times and got familiar with the run.

 

Craig’s 1975 Chevy Blazer 4×4 we used to run down Blue Creek to the duck hunting.

 

 

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When Duck Season came around we planned a duck hunt. Our cousins Mike, and Norman, me, Craig and a friend of mine named Corky set out at 5 AM on a duck hunt to Lake Meridith. We got to Blue Creek, and Craig drove us right to the water without incident. We unloaded the guns, decoys and made a blind out of tumbleweeds. We threw the decoys out and we were ready to hunt. It was still dark so Craig moved his car out of sight away from the blind.

 

Stacked tumbleweeds made excellent duck blinds. They were plentiful in the area we hunted.

 

We had a very good morning duck hunting as we got several ducks and a goose that morning. Mike and Norman took the ducks and Corky took the goose. Craig went to get the Blazer and he came back in a few minutes and said that he had parked in a soft spot in the dark and the blazer had sunk clear down to the frame. We worked very hard for about an hour trying to get the Blazer out and finally succeeded. There were no cell phones then so we were about to draw straws to see who walked out to get help.

 

We weren’t in this sloppy of mud, but you get the idea.

 

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We hit the road and had no other problems, but we could have walked up and down the hill ten times with the energy we expended on getting the car unstuck. We went hunting 6 or 8 more times that year four wheeling down the creek bed and never had any more trouble. It turned out to be a much improved system in the long run.

 

My brother Craig and Corky holding the goose we got that day. We had one of those red sunsets that evening.

 

 

Thanks for reading Four Wheel Duck Hunting,
Bill