dang i must be getting really bored i need to light a campfire to be telling all these lol.. This is still another on in new mexico I had two hunters and conditions were pretty good we had just had a foot of fresh snow and it had just quit not long before we got there that morning. But the problem is right afer a nice wet snow like that and it starts to warm up you get lots and lots of fog.... I means so much fog you could maybe see about 30 yds maybe...everything looks the same no matter how many time you have hunted the place which I had been on several times i knew every inch of it and where the elk came fome and went to. I sat one hunter out on a stand on a small meadow so he could watch that and decided to take the other one or a stroll. i was sure the fog would let up shortly so we took off and walked and walked never hitting a cross fence so i jsut figure we are walking in a circle on the property whick was no big deal then we came upon a fence I stopped and thought for a minute and told my hunter this would be a good place to rest a bit and watch. All the time knowing this fence was not on our property i am guessing the border fence was on the ground and under the snow. I am triing to figure out where we are and about that time I see a truck comeing up the proerty across the fence so i go over and ask this guy where we are before the hunter gets there the guys says he will give us a ride back to where i need to be so we jump on the back of his truck and he takes us to where he said was our property and we get out I thank him for the ride and we walk down a trail about a mile and get to the edge of a drop off I look down and see a familliar site which jsut happens to be a town 8 more miles and across two more ranches from the property we are suposed to be on by now my hunter is dragging big time and i jsut happened to have a box of rasins in my pocket which i dump out in the bottom of my pocket as we are walking i knw he is watching everything I do and about every ten minuted i will see a pile of deer droppings in the snow grab 5 or 6 rasins in my hand reach down and push the deer dropping into the wnow pull my hand out with the rasins shake the snow off and eat them. never looking at the hunter after we got to the next ranch we had to get across i look up and im busted here comes a guide from another outfit with a hunter he walks up to us with his hunter and he must have been new at it even though i was tresspassing i convinced him he was the one tresspassing so he took his hunter back to the truck they had jsut left. Kind of mean but you dont want your hunter to know he is trespassing so off we go again pushing down more deer dropings and eating more rasins finally get back on my property and we are only about a mile and a half from the truck. what a relief my hunter is barely making it i was jsut thankful he made it back to our lease. i reached down and this time I picked up the deer droppings and turned around and ask him if he wanted them they would sure give you energy when you need it. I thought he was going to fall over he got green and said no **** way I jsut laughed and threw them down and said you should try them sometime it will surprise you lol I left him there at the bottom of the mountain and walked back up got his partner and the truck drove down picked him up and at the lodge that night at super this guy was telling all of them that crazy **** guide was eating deer crap for energy I just let them believe it why spoil a good story who knows maybe someday he will see this post and then he will know the rest of the story lol

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