Show Hey Culligan Man Where Do I Hunt r JIM CULLIGAN As I write this the deer hunt huntis is on full swing If all goes according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to past performance the hunters will shoot drag and carry tons of venison out of the mountains and woods of Utah As staggering as that tonnage tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage figure may seem the really great harvest of stories and experiences experiences experiences ex ex- which will outlast the venison by even years Some years ago a student of mine had the eerie experience of riding a wounded d deer e e r through a valley of bullets from other hunters He approached a supposedly d dead e add deer e e rand and grabbed the rack so that he could raise the head and slit its throat Suddenly the d deer e e r sprang up It caught him with the antlers and carried him for fora a brief but exciting ride through a haze of bullets It collapsed and died Harry Naylor a student in the Tooele Electronics program this year was riding a horse with a lead rope attached when the horse spooked and started to buck Harry came out of the saddle got entangled in the lead rope and ended up riding under the bucking horse Some guys will do anything for a laugh Many years ago when yours truly was a face dog-face soldier I had a weird hunting experience I was in an area where enemy artillery could reach Suddenly I saw a handsome buck deer approaching approaching ap as my p pas position o s i t i ion o n and browsing slowly Since we had been on field rations for sometime sometime some some- time that venison on the hoof looked very tempting but firing a shot would undoubtedly give giveaway giveaway giveaway away my position and might very well result in a small bar bar- rage I decided to risk it so I fired and ran to another observation observation observation spot There were a few shells tossed at it but I was far farenough farenough farenough enough away to be safe Now I had a real problem how to get that dead buck back to the cook without getting shot in the process I informed headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters of what had happened and they told tord me to sit tight and wait Soon I heard someone yell medic and down the hill came two medics carrying a stretcher between th thorn them They reached the deer loaded it on the stretcher and carried it away In a burst of creative realism one of the medics had even at attached attached attached at- at a plasma bottle with a tube going under the blanket Like many of our students I Ino Ino Ino no longer go on the hunt having having having hav hav- ing arrived at a reasonable mutual mutual mutual mu mu- non pact with the deer family It is similar to the agreement which I have with Rock Hudson he doesn't teach electronics and I dont don't make ro romantic romantic romantic ro- ro mantic movies But sometimes I think wistfully wistfully wistfully fully of the nights around the open fire drinking coffee or whatever else was available and listening to the stories and the night sounds of the woods and andI I get a lite lithe twinge of nostalgia At such times I think I might get geta a rifle a red hat and some fruit of the vine and head out for deer country But then reason returns and I think of sleeping on the ground and sloshing through the snow and mud and my twinge of nostalgia gives way to toa toa toa a twinge of neuralgia and I settle settle settle set set- tle back behind my comfortable desk and wait for the stories to come to me T I 1 It l l aIt a I. I W i i t Lz I L F ti i V L S r r r n 1 F T Athletic Director Davis Ballard demonstrates use of bow to students Keith Despain and Glory Layton in extra activities at Utah Tech |