A Christmas Waterfowl Hunting Story
MONTANA OUTDOORS.COM – I woke on Christmas morning and enjoyed opening presents and had nice breakfast with my wife. It had been cold and freezing rain for a few days, but the weather was warming and it was overcast and still. Around noon, with my wife’s blessing, I loaded up the boat with my gear and headed to the river with my dog Hailey for our traditional Christmas day hunt. The roads were as slick as I had ever driven on… Glare ice still covered all the roads. Cars littered the ditches everywhere. As I rounded a right hand corner with my boat in tow, I looked out my left rear mirror to see my 14-foot boat and trailer sliding sideways and trying to catch me. [full article]