A true guy in camo will hunt anytime and anywhere. It does not matter if it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or scalding hot. They will tread thickets, briars, swamps, creeks or any thing that gets between them and their prey. They will brave snakes, mosquitoes, and other wild varmin. They do it because they have an expectancy for the big trophy; they do it to provide meat for the table; they do it for the camaraderie; and they do it for the serenity that God’s natural habitat provides.
Most guys in camo are not patient in everyday life events. Yet, they can be very patient if they need to wait hours for the animal or bird they are hunting to come their way. Most guys in camo cannot hear the alarm when it comes to getting up to head to their daily week-day job. Yet, the alarm need only make a tiny sound in the early morning before daylight breaks and the guy in camo is up, dressed, and out the door with his first cup of coffee.
Most spouses would say the guy in camo is foolish. It is a big waste of time.
In the book, The Circle Maker, the author, Mark Batterson, talks about feeling and looking foolish. He wrote that foolishness is a feeling that Moses was very familiar with. Moses must have felt foolish and looked foolish when he held up his staff to save the people. However, it no longer looked foolish when the Red Sea parted and the Israelites were able to escape. Most people called Noah foolish when he was building the ark, but, as they soon found out when the floods came, Noah had not been foolish by obeying God. When Moses told the complaining people that God would cover the land with quail, he probably felt foolish, and the people thought the same. How was God going to send enough quail to a desert land to feed six hundred thousand men? Yet that is exactly what God did. In the The Circle Maker we find that "faith is the willingness to look foolish."
Yes, it would have been a “Guy In Camo” dream come true to see all those quails dropping from the sky, but for the Israelites it was a source of meat they had not tasted in a very long time.
“Now
a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail
in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp,
as far as a day’s walk in any direction.”
Numbers 11:31
For those who enjoy short true life hunting stories check out my book GUYS In CAMO kindle edition on Amazon. It is loaded in coon, squirrel,deer, and quail hunting episodes.
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