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Show Lakeside Review, October 2.', 19JI0, Page The Joys f By BLISS FULLMER Staff Writer Oh the joys of hunting deer! You gather up a few supplies, take a little time off work, and head into the hills. You set up a cosy little camp, build a warm fire, and then snuggle into a padded sleeping bag for a nights rest. You awake refreshed, good and eager to seek those bucks youve been dreaming about. You wriggle into your hunting clothes, lace up your boots, and then enjoy your bacon, eggs and toast. After a hearty breakfast, you grab your trusty rifle and head into the n air. Soon it is invigorating and you begin to see signs of the prey. A nice four-poibreaks from cover, and you nail him on the first shot. He is kicking his last as you move in to disembowel the huge beast. In a few minutes the animal is hanging proudly from a tree and you head back to camp to get the truck to haul him out. You arrive home amid applause from your family and ponder your successful hunt in a tub of steaming water. Sounds pretty, doesnt it? Now heres what really happens. six-poi- pre-daw- day-brea- k, nt Those few supplies probably cost close to a hundred dollars, and that time off work consumes most of a week. Before heading into those hills, there are a few s that must be attended to. You have to replace the tires on the old bus, change the oil and get a grease job. It takes $15.00 to fill the old buggy with gas, and you need a couple of extra cans of oil, just in case. As you leave the freeway and thread your way up the narrow canyon road, Old Bessie starts to heat up, and you look for a creek for water. Naturally you failed to bring a bucket for such purposes, but that cooking pan works just fine. You only lost half of your antifreeze. As you weave your way on up the canyon, the slight drizzle gets heavier and turns into snow. At your turn-of- f point, you find the gate locked, and the wet road into your favorite camping spot is a guey mess of mud and snow, r. chewed up by a daring After a time, some one shows up with a key, and you make a run at the slick approach to the hill, leading to your hunting paradise. Its no use, all of that pushing and spinning and effort has only made the hill more impossible. You back down and lurch into an almost-eve- n space, and make camp. odd-job- ' four-wheele- Be in Dreeunms Ihf Omily HuirirfDOD The storm is abating, but everything is soaked. You look around for something to burn, and then waste a gallon of white gas getting the fire started. Soon the fire is burning brightly, but there is no dry place to sit down. You slip and strain in the muddy mire to get the tent set up, and then unload the truck. Someone forgot mantles for the gas lantern, and as darnkess comes on, you have only a flaslight, still going on last summers batteries. Supper in the hills is not to be com- pared with the Waldorf, or even to Mac remember that you left the can opener on the kicthen cupboard, so have to use a knife in its ytead. The beans are burned, the potatoes halflcooked and the butter too hard to spread. The sleeping bags are damp, but not too bad, and you elect to sleep in your clothes, as the mountain chill replaces the light snow that had been falling. 711 You toss and turn on the hard ground, and pray for morning to come.. When finally its time to get up, you hate to leve ;your warm bag for the icy air of dawn. Your shoes are stiff and cold, but you get them on, and raise the tent flap to greet morning. It is even colder outside. Somehow you get the gas stove functioning, and the bacon begins to sizzle. ,You gulp down your breakfast, and get ready for the long trek up the steep mountain, to where you had seen signs of deer. After an hour of straining through the snow covered brush, you top the mountain ridge, and look for a place to rest as you scan the mountainside. Everything is so cold, and that twenty knott wind adds to your misery. It is daylight, now and the shooting begins. You wonder why there are so many deer for everyone else, but you havent seen any signs. Just as you are about to give up hope, you see movement on the hillside youve been watching. Three deer trot across the opening, but not one of them has horns. You sit back down and grope into your knap sack for something to chew on. Ah that critcial moment, a big four-poibreaks across the hillside, but by the time you get your gun in position, he has disappeared. You lost your treat in all the excitement. g Its by now, and you decide to shift to a different point on tne mountain side. As you move into the new territory, you glance back and see t, a three-poiand a slipping off into the trees. It would have been a perfect shot from your old location, but too much brush from here. In frustration, you decide to go back to camp, and then it happened. You spot a buck down the ridge. It is a spike, and you drop him. He leaps just as you shot his neck, and the bullet rips into his stomach. In hunters terms, that is a Gut-Shbut he goes down in a heap. Now the fun (?) is over and the work deer is most begins. Cleaning a gut-shbut you roll up your sleeves and have at it. Luckily there is snow on hand and you clean up after the gory task. Now you look down toward camp, a and discover just how far you had hiked. You tie onto the fallen buck and two-poin- Weber Netters To Play Utah States Weber womens tennis team will play the University of Utah in a nonconference match on Friday at 3 p.m. on the John Edman Varsity Courts adjacent to Wildcat The Gym. public is invited free of charge. In action . last weekend, the Lady Wildcats dropped a pair Invitational losing to New Mexico State 3 and to New Mexico The Wildcats did come back to defeat New 6-- 9-- Military nonin a conference match on Academy 5-- 4 six-poi- MISSIONARY of conference matches at the New Mexico State Mexico grope your way through the scrub oak, earnestly seeking, a trail. An hour later, the mountain tapers off, and the dragging becomes harder. Finally you reach camp, tired and sore and threatening never . to shoot another deer. Preparing to go home is always harder than setting up camp. Every thing is dirty and damp, but somehow you get it all packed into the truck with that big monarch of a spike deer on top and you head for home. Your wife meets you with a sarcastic smile, as she looks down upon your great trophy, and then she presents you with a bill of what you spent for all of that 100 pounds of discolored meat. By her figures, that little creature oast about $4.00 per pound. 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