Hunting Extravaganza

The guys survived. They survived three nights, two days, late hunts and rainy weather that made mud. But more importantly, they all survived. Period. No one shot anyone else.

When they left I had confidence in their maturity/responsibility level.


I trust Danny completely - with my life. I knew Matthew had been to hunter's education class. And I knew Joey couldn't/wouldn't harm a fly.

And then I got a phone call the second night.

It went something like this:

"We got a hog!!!!"

"You shot a hog?"

"YEA, we all got a hog?"

"Who's 'we'?"

"Me (Danny), Matt, Joey, Jacob and Eric."

"But who shot shot it?"

"We all did."

"How did EVERYONE shoot the hog?"

"We just all killed it! Isn't that cool!"

So, now imagine what kind of mental imagines my brain is conjuring up after a phone conversation like that! I'm imagine five guys standing in a circle all shooting at a hog in the middle, bullets skimming by people's ears, arms, bodies, etc. I'm imagining five guys tearing through the woods all firing their guns at random, bullets ricocheting off trees and whizzing by people's heads. I'm imagining bloodshed - not just a hog's.

But, according to Danny, they saw a hog. It was 1 a.m., and they were high on adrenaline. Danny lined everyone up like they were reinacting the Revolutionary War. Guns raised, they counted to three and . . . no one shot. They just stood there, watching that pig root through the underbrush.

Finally, Danny fired and then went deaf as everyone fired again and again. Poor pig had no chance. Or so they thought. 11 bullets later, that pig only had one hole in it. But one hole was enough. Get ready for bacon galore!

Here's the guys with the pig - you can see it's head and front hooves. And below you can see the length of it. Just don't look at Matthew's hands and it's not too gross of a picture. Oops, you just looked didn't you.

Well, I've saved the really gruesome picture for shutterfly. You can torture yourself if you wish to see all the pictures, but clicking here: thestillers.shutterfly.com

Danny was the only one to see a deer all weekend. Unfortunately, since Texas overcharges for out-of-state hunting licenses, he was only able to shoot it with a camera. But here's proof that he saw it!

And that, our friends, is what Texas Boys do on their Christmas vacation.