It was Michigan winter when I encountered the gut pile grinner that forever changed my life....
And.......
And......
Are you telling me you never heard this before?
It will be new to me, and sounds interesting. I also hate "grinnin' fools", but suspect you have good reason.
Well, here goes. Cue the violin music....
It was during the Michigan Firearm season, and I had just capped a nanny using a 240gr hydrashok from my Smith.
I set to dressing the ole hag, and as I started with my trusty Buck 110, I remembered the Schrade my wife got me the year before with a gut hook.
So I used the Schrade and left the doe's innards in a pile of steaming stench.
Drug her out of the woods to my trusty deer hauling chevy S-10
(Not the actual deer in the story, but its a cool pic. Big f'n deer, eh?)
That night, while enjoying a Black Russian (my fave), I realized I must have set my Buck knife down when I switched knives, and resigned myself to returning to the scene of the carnage and retrieving the old warrior.
Overnight, a couple inches of snow blanketed the woods.
That morning, I made my way towards the pile, shouldering my 870 slugger, just in case.
As I approached the heap of snow covered innards I noticed it pulsating irregularly, to wit I approached cautiously and gave it a tap with the lead chunker.
It what can be best described as a mix between the alien gut scene and the walking dead, a hideous toothy grinning zombie emerged from the pile, blood covered, wreaking of bowel and stomach contents, hissing, and in general, possessing both a poor disposition as well as one of Satan's incarnate minions.
It certainly did not want me searching the area for my Buck knife.
I determined that the darkwood of Michigan was no place for the two of us to coexist, especially since my knife lay somewhere nearby.
So I slugged him with a 12 gauge exorcisor. (new word - just made it up).
Whilst I did recover the blade, the mere site of a grinner sends me into near fits of demonic dread, of Catholic proportions.
They are evil.
They are the evil dead....
I hate those nasty bastards..