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They spot a deer and the first economist jumps up, fires his rifle and misses the deer a yard to the left. The second economist jumps up, fires his rifle and misses the deer a yard to the right. The third economist jumps up and screams exultantly "We got him! We got him!"


I know, kinda corny, but since I have a degree in the "dismal science" myself, I always like economist jokes.
Here's Cody's deer, which took three shots. The first one was enough, actually. 165 Hornady from his Husky '06 absolutely pulverized the lungs. He missed the next two, apparently, so I'd assume the first shot was the mean, and the next two binomial random variables.



Not the biggest muley around, but the area's not really noted for giant muleys. We were mainly elk hunting, but ran into a bunch of deer right at the top of a pass. Couldn't have hardly been a handier location. We left him, & picked him up on the way out. This photo shows that, and also reinforces my distaste for P&S (POS?) cameras. Just no doggone field of view. Anyway, this is Bo; packhorse extraordinaire. The only horse I've ever been around who could absolutely care less about you loading a floppy dead deer (or any other sort of deceased critter) on him. In his younger, more fractious days, he would occasionally buck me off, but he never batted an eye at packing meat, and in his advancing middle age has become downright tractable.



And here's a packstring photo from an earlier trip. I've found getting decent photos of a packstring to be extraordinarily difficult. Horses are just so uncooperative about posing.

I think you mean "statistican's" rather than economists.

Well now, the way I see it the first guy yelled "I got him" - a lie.



The second guy yelled "No, I got him" - a damned lie.



The third guy yelled "We got him" - a statistic average.

I worked for years in a combined analysis shop made up of guys with
mixed expertise/educational backgrounds. The 'dismal science'
contingent was uh ... interesting to work with. The experience
gave me a permanent tic at the mere mention of the discipline.

Fadeout.

About the same time, we had a lovely Labrador whose only
major fault was complete uselessness as a guard/watch dog. We
decided to train her to snarl and act ugly on command. As an
"attack" word, I chose "Communist!". Eventually Draga, trying
to please us, learned to go into a fit of aggressive posing
that would stop any malefactor in his tracks. AND she reacted
the same to the word "Economist!" -- probably because I
invariably used the same tone of voice for the two words.

God, I loved that dog.

1B

Ah, some of my favorite pics: kids with nice bucks, nice bucks, and packstrings with horns on their backs...

Way to go Cody and thanks for posting the picture Rimrock!