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Beentown

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Need a light thread as I am finishing taxes, writing checks and dealing with other stuff today.

The idea is to name/describe times in your life when crazy or fun things have happened and you wish you had a video camera.

I'll start with one. A friend of mine and I were out just screwing around shooting, looking for critters and going from field to field in a 4x4 (snow covered). In the distance (about .75 of of a mile away) we see a black ditch tiger slinking across a field.

I had my 92FS on my side and wanted to get rid of this pest on the farm. Buddy was driving like a mad man to get to it. Mind you these fields are ROUGH and he is going 40 (don't buy used company trucks. Lol). It was finally in "range" but he was driving straight at it. No matter what they show in movies shooting forward in a truck on bumpy terrian and having any kind of sight picture is next to impossible. Especially since the jig was up and the cat was dodging and weaving.

When within 30 yards I told my buddy to slide the truck sideways...he did. It was like a moment in the Matrix. It was all slow-mo. The truck skidded sideways and I leveled the the sights and spun him with the first shot and made one giant eye hole with the second.

Two shoots, two hits in a moving vehicle. Wished I had a video camera....
 

"J"

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Nice... If that was me the truck would of been on its side and I would have a round thru my foot lol.....
 

bowhunter1023

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I felt like I was there!

We had a trap shoot for my birthday one year and it was late in to the afternoon when we started getting a little crazy with stuff. Hip shooting, triples, pistols, etc. One of the guys had his 45 with him, so another of my buddies with very little pistol experience whatsoever, grabs the 45 and tells me to launch a clay. As God as my witness, he fired a single shot at a clay that was a good 50 yards out and not only hit it, but dead centered it. The celebration that ensued was like we won Game 7 of the World Series in extra innings! Fluteman can attest.

For sure, wish I had a camera!
 

teej89

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hahaha! That's awesome!

Alright I have one...

Back in highschool I used to work at a private golf course(we were on the golf team so they let us work there). Anywho... When we'd have golf outtings they would have kegs on every 3rd-4th hole and at the end of the day our job was to clean up signs and round up the kegs and what not, basic clean upwork. Well, being a buncha teenagers 14-17, who woulda thought we would drink the beer from the kegs? Not our boss(who was our golf coach) apparently, joke was on him, and us. Well we got fairly boozed up cruising holes 1-13 slamming beers and picking up garbage. Well we get to hole #14 and the championship tee is WAYYYYYYYY up on the hill then a good ways down the hill say mid way there's the mens tee so the sidewalk goes from a steep grade to a flat. We decided we oughta jump it.

So we take the cart way up the hill, flip up the seat and take it from run to tow. Then all four of us jamaican bobsled style start running with the cart to get it speed, I jump in the front passenger my buddy jumps in the driver and two hanging off the back.

At this point we are CRUISING, gotta be over 20MPH, we hit the flat, we got so much air my head hit off the ceiling of the cart, my buddy mike on the back couldn't hold on and went flying off. Then there were three... still going at a ridiculous rate and the adrenaline is pumping, we forgot about the turn... All the sudden I look over as my buddy, Jim, in the driver seat yells bail while he's already rolling outta the cart. I immediately follow suit and end up rolling into the woods thru some rocks. I come to a stop on my back and get propped up on my elbows just in time to watch the cart slide sideways clobber a mature oak tree and send the last kid on the back flying, HAD TO BE (this may be like the fish story) 20-30ft into the woods. And to our luck no injuries lol

Now we had some 'splaining to do..... After trying to dig up some lies to why it we had just totaled this golf cart, there was a deer, the brakes didn't work.... we ended up actually just telling our boss the truth. He was PISSED but he covered our asses and we never got in trouble for it, and it never happened again.

But to see that in third person would have made a helluva youtube clip, wished we coulda taped it.
 

hickslawns

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I am not a golfer but I have golfed half a dozen times. We went on vacation probably 8-10yrs ago with 2 of my wife's brothers and their families. We went to Natural Bridge in Kentucky. Rented a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Did some hiking. Did family stuff. One of the days it was "guys day". We went golfing. Not many golf courses in the area. Ironically, there were two within a couple miles of each other. One was "_______ Golf and Sportsman's Club". They literally had golf and guns on the same place. Trap shooting, gun ranges, and golf course. We chose the other local golf course down the road based on the recommendation of a local guy from there. He said the course with the gun range was not a great course to golf. The one we chose was more upscale. Their dress code was very stringent. They required us to wear shirts.

So the video part of this story. We are on the golf course. Nobody else around. The summer was hot and dry. The soil was like a rock. We get to a Par 3 hole and I didn't make a great first shot. My two brother in laws dropped it on the green. I was a healthy 20-30yds off the green and it was a big green. I was a solid 70-80yds from the cup. They joked about missing my only chance to par a hole for the day. I got cocky and said "Par? I am getting a birdie on this hole." So from 70-80yds out I dropped it in the hole. . . . with my putter on the rock hard soil. lmao

Could NOT replicate this one again if I took that putt over and over for 8hrs straight.
 

MK111

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Good stories on our colored past. Did the taxes yesterday and putting into the mail today.
Back in the old days about 55 yrs ago my buddies and I as teenagers would get a case of Strohs beer, drink the deer and throw the empty bottles at mailboxes. One night in the back seat on the left side of my buddies 1949 Ford I stick my left hand out to get ready. Mind you I'm three sheets to the wind and all of a sudden WHAM my hand hits something. The bottle is gone and my hand hurts like hell. It still moves so nothing is broke. Right?
Next morning is Sunday and get up to go to church and the left hand is swelled up as big as my leg. Back in those days my parents never took us to the Doctor and it was home cure at best. The swelling went down over time and all is well.
We sorta figures that the bottle hit the mailbox and the impact caused the damage.
Fast forward 54 yrs and my left thumb main joint gives me severe swelling and pain. 12 months ago I had a shot of cortizone and that cured the problem for 7 months so got another shot of cortizone 2 months ago and the shot did nothing to help. The Doctor said surgery is coming.

I did I learn if you are going to throw beer bottles at mailboxes at least be sober. But then being sober you probably wouldn't do it.
 

finelyshedded

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Very hilarious stories! Keep em coming! Ever start telling a hair lip joke and get through 2/3 of the damn thing then realize a hair lip was standing amongst the croud of fellow college kids in a dorm lobby? That was a bit embarrassing! I can still hear the crickets chirping at the end of that one! LMAO

Prolly not video worthy due to no action but it was a moment that still sticks in my crawl:smiley_bril:
 
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MK111

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I thought of another one when out taking care of my cattle.
Several years ago I'm in Vegas attending a Credit Union Convention and a vendor gave myself and a friend tickets to the casino show. Well my friend's wife wouldn't let him go so he gave me his ticket. The wife and I went.
After the show my wife says 'you didn't tell me the girls would be topless'. Well if I told you, you wouldn't have went. 'That's correct'.
'But I will say it's wasn't valger and was tastefully done'. 'Glad I went now'.
I wish I had a video camera when the 1st line of topless girls came out.
 

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Next story...

I was at a concert at the Polaris Amphitheater. It was a bunch of harder rock groups (can't remember the name of it). Anyway I was in my physical prime and thought I was hot shit. Got in the middle of the mosh which became like a king of the mountain thing. I was kicking ass and ended up being the one to take challengers. Not bad for being REALLY drunk and half high.

I had pummeled like 20 guys and was standing in the middle with my arms raised in victory when someone half ass hit me from behind. The dude that did it was standing in celebration. Everyone cheered him. He gave me a cheesy smile. "Fugg that" my foggy brain thought and I went at him full bore. Smoked him. Like legs flapping in the wind flying through the air...well it wasn't legs but leg. Yep, I just flattened a kid with one leg. Lol

Felt like a total dick.
 

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We lived on the 6th floor of an 8 story apartment complex at OU my junior and senior year. One night I took my catfishing pole and tied a big ass egg sinker around a dollar bill so it looked like a bow tie. From our balcony, it was grass, sidewalk, road, and sidewalk. At 2AM when the bars close, I took to fishing for drunks. Since the sidewalk across the road was tied in to the main drag coming off Court Street, we had a great view of the groups coming home. I fooled a few people and we had some good laughs, then I caught a lunker...

I see this fat chick stumble fucking her way home and knew I had my best chance of the night. I casted over the sidewalk and drug the bait right in to the middle of the sidewalk under the street lamp. When she was 30' out, I gave it a twitch and we hear: "Hey! It's a dollar..." and she takes off one a dead sprint. In surprisingly agile fashion, she scoops the dollar up and keeps on chucking it down the sidewalk. I was in near disbelief as she burnt line off the real. Finally I snapped to and set the hook with my best River Monsters jerk. Just as I felt the tension, I see her nearly fly off her feet as the line snapped. We immediately died laughing and then I hear: "ROUSH! YOU ASSHOLE!" Turned out to be a girl that went to my high school and graduated with my wife.
 

hickslawns

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I give you credit Giles. You must have a good sense of humor. Guess if we can't laugh at ourselves, we shouldn't laugh at others either. Lord knows I have done some dumb stuff.

I have had some horrendous crashes on my dirt bike over the years. I know there were times people saw it. Other times, most times. . . on my worst crashes it seems. . . nobody saw them. Inevitably, I would be laying there (checking extremities for feeling, making sure I could see, etc.), and one of my buddies would come riding up. I always wished on some of my gnarliest crashes there was someone there to witness it. Sick? Nope. Just figured it was a terrible waste of soil sampling if nobody was there to witness it and laugh at me. Which brings me to another chuckle. One of those crashes my helmet rolled through some softer soil and I was pulling chunks of mud out of it. Every bump the rest of the day I swear I had dirt falling out of my helmet in my eyes.
 

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We lived on the 6th floor of an 8 story apartment complex at OU my junior and senior year. One night I took my catfishing pole and tied a big ass egg sinker around a dollar bill so it looked like a bow tie. From our balcony, it was grass, sidewalk, road, and sidewalk. At 2AM when the bars close, I took to fishing for drunks. Since the sidewalk across the road was tied in to the main drag coming off Court Street, we had a great view of the groups coming home. I fooled a few people and we had some good laughs, then I caught a lunker...

I see this fat chick stumble fucking her way home and knew I had my best chance of the night. I casted over the sidewalk and drug the bait right in to the middle of the sidewalk under the street lamp. When she was 30' out, I gave it a twitch and we hear: "Hey! It's a dollar..." and she takes off one a dead sprint. In surprisingly agile fashion, she scoops the dollar up and keeps on chucking it down the sidewalk. I was in near disbelief as she burnt line off the real. Finally I snapped to and set the hook with my best River Monsters jerk. Just as I felt the tension, I see her nearly fly off her feet as the line snapped. We immediately died laughing and then I hear: "ROUSH! YOU ASSHOLE!" Turned out to be a girl that went to my high school and graduated with my wife.


I was just laughing out loud to this story! That is great!
 

teej89

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I see this fat chick stumble fucking her way home and knew I had my best chance of the night. I casted over the sidewalk and drug the bait right in to the middle of the sidewalk under the street lamp. When she was 30' out, I gave it a twitch and we hear: "Hey! It's a dollar..." and she takes off one a dead sprint. In surprisingly agile fashion, she scoops the dollar up and keeps on chucking it down the sidewalk. I was in near disbelief as she burnt line off the real. Finally I snapped to and set the hook with my best River Monsters jerk. Just as I felt the tension, I see her nearly fly off her feet as the line snapped. We immediately died laughing and then I hear: "ROUSH! YOU ASSHOLE!" Turned out to be a girl that went to my high school and graduated with my wife.


hahahaha OH MAN! I busted out laughing when you said she kept chucking it down the sidewalk lol great stuff jesse!