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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Gina, The Modern Liberated Lady Hunter of Floyd County, Virginia

 Oh crap.  Even within the numerous volumes of Tertiam Quidd there is no coverage; nothing at all to be said about what has happened here.

People say nothing changes but that’s not true.  In the past twenty years one thing that’s changed a whole lot is the number of women who hunt.  That just wasn’t the case in the past, even during the liberalizing sixties; but these days I know about as many female hunters as I do males and just about every one of them can go in her purse, pull out her cell phone and bring up a picture of herself with a big buck she brought down.  I’m not surprised by it.  Not at all; it’s just something that’s changed over the past couple of decades so it’s just as easy during deer season to get into a conversation with a woman who has the gear, is experienced in handling a high powered rifle and knows how to relieve herself in the woods.  Can’t hunt if you can’t do that can you?

Now the lovely Ms. Gina Goad is one of those women I know who has taken up hunting and has no problem devouring Bambi after she’s shot, field dressed and skinned out Disney’s sweet little fawn.  She got one on her very first outing.  When she drove the truck, and hunters have to drive trucks, she pulled out into an open field to check things out.  Right off the bat she saw something bright orange up about fourteen feet in a big old tree.  She drove right on in for a closer look and sure enough it was a hunter.  Luckily for her it wasn’t another lady hunter because this old gent didn’t seem to mind that Gina stopped by to say hello and ask how his luck was going.  He just climbed down out of his tree and offered his stand to Gina her novice spitting technique and the scent of Chanel No. 4 that this was probably her first time deer hunting.  And, she brought her father along in case she needed a little coaching and moral support.  She is a young woman of rather high moral standards; but that doesn’t mean she was going to have any problem splattering Bambi’s sweet little heart out of her furry little chest and all across the meadow where sweet birdies sand and happy little squirrels scampered about in the tree tops.

Gina thanked the old gentleman.  She’d already picked up a lot of hunting etiquette since driving the big Ford 150 into the field.  So up the tree she went, locked, loaded and just waiting for the action to begin.  And it wasn’t long before it did.  About four or five minutes after her father returned to the truck to wait while his little princess sat up a tree waiting to squeeze off a round or two from the hundred and seventy four shot magazine of her new thirty-ought-six-high-powered-double-barreled-Soviet-issue-Kalachnikov, up strolled Bambi’s baby brother, Button Buck Bobby.  Chiuc-pbloomwle spittle, spittle, spittle was the sound she described her weapon mading as it discharged it’s lethal hollow point armor penetrating hot lead into little Button Buck Bobby’s spine just after he winked at her and wagged his little white tail inviting her to join him for a little romp and frolic.  “He was just asking for it,” is the way she puts it when she tells how she dropped little Bobby to the cold hard ground amidst the golden beams of sunshine he’d been enjoying as they flickered and sparkled passing through the red and gold autumn leaves of the tree in which his unexpected executioner hunkered in the shadows.

Of course, with a brilliantly placed spinal shot she dropped little Bobby where he stood; and as she looked down at his broken body she could see no movement, not so much as a twitch from his collapsed hind quarters.  His little front legs, however, were beating all hell trying get away from the fate he must have now feared awaited him.

“Eeewww! Ohhhh! Aaawww make him stop Daddy,” she cried out as little Button Buck Bobby cried out now desperately trying to get his paralyzed hind legs to move.  “Ohh, make it stop, make him stop doing that.  I can’t watch, I can’t watch!,” Gina pleaded with her dad who was now walking over to the downed deer to put him out of his misery.  He aimed his own weapon to end the struggle quickly with one shot to the head.  Blam!.  His weapon fired; but he missed.  Well, not entirely.  He put a big hole though Bobby’s left ear more than adequately piercing it for any sort of jewelry Gina might consider hanging on it were she decide to have the head mounted and displayed. 

“Oh, eeeww, no, oh that worse,” she cried out from up in her tree.  He father shot again, this time dispatching Bambi’s frantic little brother and popping his eyes right out of their sockets.


“Oh, eewweee, oh, now I can’t take a picture with him because his eyes are all hanging out and still looking at me.  With just one finger her dad quickly pushed the slippery eyeballs back in the head just like he was an old hand who’d done so many times before.  Maybe he had, who’s to say.  But now Gina has a picture on her cell phone and if she invites you over for dinner chances are pretty good you’re going to get a nice piece of little Button Buck Bobby and a bowl of chocolate cake batter for desert.  

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