The Story of the Emu

[assateague]

I guess it's been a while, so here it is.

The neighbor had two emus. They were kicking the crap out of his goats and dogs, terrorizing the kids, and generally just causing problems. They kept kicking out of the fence, and finally he decided to stop looking for them. Good riddance, he figured. But then, after a couple months, he got tired of the Sheriff's office and Animal Control calling him every time somebody saw them. Animal Control said they were going to bring a trap roughly the size of a car trailer, and he wasn't pleased about the bill he would most likely get for this. I asked him if he cared if I shot them, if I could find them. He was overjoyed about this prospect and said he'd help. We heard stories from a hunting camp (just a bunch of trailers) back in the woods that people had seen one emu on the trail cams, so that's where we planned to try it. After exhaustive research, it was determined that an empty 5-gallon bucket is the best emu call. Just tap on it like a drum. And wear bright colors, because they're attracted to colorful things. Maybe all emus have ADD, I don't know. Couldn't decide what gun/rifle/round/shells to use, and settled on my .35. It's killed everything else, why not an emu.

So we set up amongst those trailers at the empty hunting camp. We still weren't sure it was 100% legal, but as there was no emu season, we figured the hell with it. He was tapping on the bucket, and within 5 minutes one emu came walking into the camp from the woods. We had to move around a bit, so I didn't blow a hole in someone's trailer, but the emu wasn't the brightest. I finally got my buddy to stop beating on the bucket, the emu stopped, and the rest is history. If I would have let the video go another 20 seconds, you would have got to see my buddy frantically flailing to get away from the shot emu as it started kicking and freaking out. And then I hung it and butchered it, we split the meat, and ate like champs for a couple days. There's another one out there, but so far, no dice.

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[jehler]

Trevor is wearing a leopard skin vest

[assateague]

Steve French, show her your huge package.

[assateague]

Just started the next one. Just stole a propane truck to hide weed in to take it to a Snoop Dogg show. "All we have to do is empty the propane out and put the weed in there". This has hilarity written all over it.

[jehler]

I really don't know if there has been funnier television made

[assateague]

This episode is better than Conky. Sorry. It'll all be peaches and cake fellas.

[jehler]

I don't remember it, season 4 and 5 are awesome. Jr and I are going to have to re watch, it's as funny or better the second time

[jehler]

Conky comes back.... A lot of tape and super glue haha!

[assateague]

"Holy f**k Ricky, you come in there like Seabiscuit, you don't bother with brakes anymore?"


I'm crying.

[Flightstopper]

They had me rolling when they went to meet the drug dealer and started shooting in the tunnel.

[Flightstopper]

I can't wait to get further into it

[assateague]

Was that the same episode Bubbles lit up the grocery store with the Uzi? Thought I was going to piss myself.

[Flightstopper]

Idk it's the night the internet crapped out on me. I think it's the same one where Ricky's daughter shoots him. It's the Mrs. Jenkins dog gets high as fark episode

[Goldfish]

This I'd my buddy. You can bet he gets crap for his looks

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sent from a phancy fone

[Bootlipkiller]

thanks Assa

[MuddyWaterWarlock]

That is a classic!! Beating on a bucket!! I'm so glad the Emu came in or you would have looked like a freakin idiot!! Thanks for sharing

[possumfoot]

trailer park boys.. come one guys..


that shit is pretty funny.

[Flightstopper]

I thought I lost this gun three years ago (fires into ceiling) kickass its loaded too!

[Weston81]

So we've heard the Emu story, now lets hear why you catch all the grief over pintails. I was new to the HH when all the Emu hunting talk started and honestly thought it was a joke. Low and behold the more I read I began to realize that this was the real deal.

[Olly]

Moved to a new forum, Tales of the Hunt. Thanks for the great story Assa! May it be around for many future WFFers to enjoy.

[assateague]

So we've heard the Emu story, now lets hear why you catch all the grief over pintails. I was new to the HH when all the Emu hunting talk started and honestly thought it was a joke. Low and behold the more I read I began to realize that this was the real deal.

I have some sort of thing with pintails. Sort of like buck fever. Where I hunt, it's wide open- you can see for miles. Whenever I see sprigs coming in (I usually see them in pairs), I can never contain myself until they get close and/or commit. I freak out and throw up the gun way early. I think the closest I've ever let them get was probably about 60 yards, but it's generally closer to 80. I don't know why, I just get retarded.

[Weston81]

For some reason over the last two years our field has never gotten into them. Last year my dad shot the first and only one thus far from our field, it's actually a decent story. I've pasted the picture of our blind below on it's platform so you get the idea of what happened. Second to last day of the season and my Dad goes out by himself hoping for any kind of action as it had been dead for almost a week. He is sitting in the blind and a duck lands to his right hand side, not know exactly what it is because of the heavy brushing on the blind he decidides he is going to sneak across the blind and stick his gun barrell through the mesh and shoot the duck. He makes it all the way over and gets his gun through the mesh and the duck takes off. Being in a squated position and no way to aim he leans back, points and lets it rip. Sure enough he drops it. Only when he gets out of the blind does he realize it's a nice bull sprig.................what a jerk!

[Woody]

Did it taste good?

[assateague]

It was pretty good. Lot of meat on one of those legs, though. Not much different than a chicken thigh.

[blackcloud870]

One of the greatest quotes in hunting forum history came from this hunt, " I told you guys. I ain't getting that close. One of the things tried to kill Johnny Cash" ~ Assa :clapping:

[Tomkat]

Mr emu went down when he was hit. What would a good turkey choke/load do to him? You were close enough for heavy metal, etc


All better now!

[Feelin' Fowl]

One of the greatest quotes in hunting forum history came from this hunt, " I told you guys. I ain't getting that close. One of the things tried to kill Johnny Cash" ~ Assa :clapping:

Agreed. That's one of my favorites.

I think this is where something clever about tapatalk should go.

[Redbeard]

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[Bulldog0156]

Wrong thread Red. Don't know where you meant to post that, but I know you didn't post in the right thread.

[DeadEye_Dan]

Ssshhhhh. It's fine right there.