That's How We Cajuns Roll

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, WHAM your shocked at what you see and hear when the Great Goose hunter comes back from the morning hunt. You may remember I wrote about the Great Goose Hunter in a previous post a few years back. He’s from Lake Charles, and one hell of a full blooded ragin cajun. He rastles (cajun for wrestle) alligators, and at the sight of him entering the swamps snakes scatter, knowing that if caught by him they’ll be tanned and used as overall straps.

Well this is the story of all stories and I’m glad I got to witness it on the man trip. After not seeing anything on the morning hunt I headed in to try and warm up. The temperature was in the 20’s and nothing was moving but the Gulf Coast crew. There were 3 of the crew freezing their you know what this morning. The Great Goose Hunter had gone the furthest into the woods since he was trying to redeem himself after yesterdays miss and losing a shirt tail, so he was out for a kill any way he could get it. Goose had packed it up and was heading in and was fixing a climbing blind so his dad could use it later. Goose said after he fixed the blind and saw that it worked and was safe to use he heard a strange noise on the opposite side of the tree he was facing. Ever so cautiously he peered around the tree and that’s when he saw the six point buck standing there. Instantaneously Goose reached for his Remington 700(ReMMington for you East Coast boys), and realized it was on the 4 wheeler about 20 feet away. Goose said he wasn’t worried because his dad had taught him since an early age that he was cajun and Cajuns can handle any situation in the woods. Goose said that’s when he went hands on with this buck, it was time to go mano y mano. It was fist-o-phobia with the beast. It was knuckle jungle time with this creature and Goose was on a mission to redeem himself. Goose said they rolled around on the ground for a few minutes before he was able to get him in an armbar lock. Goose said the beast broke free and he was once again able to get the beast in a headlock. The only lock Goose didn’t use was the master lock, but eventually Goose won the battle.

At this point Goose had another problem in that he was well worn out after that vicious brawl and he needed to put that six point buck in the 4 wheeler. Goose summoned up the strength and was able to put the buck on the 4 wheeler and drove it to the house.

The Gulf Coast crew were all outside talking and waiting for Goose to get in and could hear the 4 wheeler coming down the trail. As the 4 wheeler that Goose was driving came out of the woods we noticed he looked exhausted and as he got closer we noticed the 6 pointer in the back of the vehicle. Almost at once we all looked at each other and then made comments how we hadn’t heard a shot, so how did he get the deer. That’s when Goose told us how he had battled with the buck and naturally we laughed at him. We immediately field dressed that 6 pointer and noticed there were no bullet wounds in the chest area. We skinned that buck and once again noticed no bullet trauma so we asked Goose to show us his rifle and he still had the 3 bullets he left with in the morning. So how did he get the buck? Wish I knew.