The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter Page #3

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- Could I have some more?

- Look out.

Jaden got himself a

taste for the whiskey.

Just a little bit, though.

Just a little.

Whoo!

- You, too, Don?

- Whoo-hoo!

He ain't gonna outdrink me.

All right. Here we go.

One, two, three.

Emancipate yourself

From mental slavery

None but ourselves

can free our minds

Whoa! Whoa!

Okay.

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have

Redemption songs

Redemption songs

Damn. That was awesome.

That was beautiful.

What'd you think?

It's good. I had trouble

following the story of the song,

but it was good. It was good.

- How long you been playing for?

- Two years.

Two years. Wow, I had no idea.

Ah, hold up.

It's Caroline. Dang. Hold on.

- Everything all right?

- It's fine.

Tell me

about this girl you're dating.

- You go to the same school?

- No. She's already in middle school.

Oh, middle school. Uh-oh, look out.

Jaden's got himself an older woman.

No. Jaden got held back a year.

Oh.

It's nothing to be ashamed of,

right, son? It's all good.

Did I tell you I got a girlfriend?

Yes, I do. Her name's Kimberly.

I got a photograph of her here.

There she is. Ninety-eight pounds.

I call her my little spinner.

Wanna know why?

Why?

Because I set her up

on the tip of my pecker

and spin her around

like a spinning top.

All right, Don. That's enough.

Oh, God, love her.

After this trip, me and her are gonna

visit her folks in Kentucky. Phew.

They got it figured out.

They got this beautiful land.

Great big farm. All they do

is sit around watching TV.

Don't they have a farm to run?

I guess. I ain't never

seen them do it, though.

All I see them do

is watch television.

That is gangster.

Sounds kind of boring to me.

Me and Kimberly like it,

so it's not that boring to me.

How about you, Dad?

You got a girlfriend?

Who, Buck? The only tail

your dad is chasing is whitetail.

Yeah. That's right.

Maybe you should start dating again.

No, no, no. I'm all right as is.

I'm doing just fine.

Probably be good for you.

Seems like Mom is moving on. Her and

Greg are talking about getting married.

They're talking about what?

He hasn't officially asked her yet,

but she knows it's coming.

They talk about it all the time.

Shoot. That's ridiculous.

The ink on the divorce

is barely even dry.

It has been two years, Buck.

What are you, a human calendar?

Mr. Trapper Keeper?

I know how long it's been.

God! Shoot. I hate selfish people!

I'll give it to him, though.

Greg told me some of his ideas

for when he proposes.

Man,

that dude has a great imagination.

He was talking about all these

crazy things like skydiving.

Where you going?

I'm gonna go take a leak.

Whoo!

Whoo!

Thunderbolts and nightsticks

Coming out of the sky

Flames overhead

Never going home

D for disaster

E for my eyes

A for my anger

D before I die

M for Mona

O, oh, good

O, oh, good

N for the night

Dead moon night, dead moon night

Dang.

What were you thinking?

You know better

than to pull a stunt like this.

You could have hurt yourself.

Sorry. Dang!

What is going on in your mind?

I just wanted to ride

and y'all were asleep.

You realize I have to pay

for that four-wheeler now?

You realize how much they cost?

Why are you recording?

This isn't part of the narrative.

I figured it might make

a good mid-point crisis--

Shut the camera off.

Trying to have a moment with my son.

Remove yourself.

Yeah, okay.

This sucks. If you let me drive, then

we wouldn't be in this predicament.

You shouldn't have taken out

the four-wheeler without permission.

Fine. I'm the devil.

I'm a terrible person.

- Who are you calling?

- Nobody.

Dang, I'm making a video for my blog.

What's up?

This is Jaden running around here,

hunting in the woods with my dad.

Sucks.

Leave me some comments

if you hate hunting, too.

Give it.

What are you doing?

I told you one too many times

to stay off the phone.

But that's my private property.

I'm keeping this

until the end of the trip.

For the next few days,

you have to go without it.

What about Caroline?

The world isn't gonna end if you can't

call your girlfriend for three days.

But we're each other's

support system.

The cell phone is mine. Topic closed.

You're ruining my life

and you don't even care.

Maybe I'm ruining your life

'cause you're being a damn idiot.

Don't call me an idiot!

- Okay.

- Take it back.

I take it back.

It's not like I meant it.

Let's forget about it.

Now what about that non-typical

we saw yesterday?

How'd you like to

bag that son of a gun, huh?

Come on, we're hunting.

Let's have fun.

I can't stand you sometimes.

I see you peeking out

from behind that tree.

This is not going in the cut.

After experiencing

some technical difficulties

with one of our four-wheelers,

we decided to go on foot.

Nothing was gonna keep Jaden and me

from catching that monster non-typical.

When things don't go right, a true hunter

straps on his boots and marches on.

Just when we thought

we'd lost the trail,

I noticed a whole mess of tracks

by the river.

This was a good sign.

It looked like a well-traveled doe

trail, and like every hunter knows,

where there's a doe,

a buck is not far behind.

I showed Jaden how

the doe trail followed up the river.

Our non-typical was leading us

even deeper into the mountains,

miles away from human contact.

Almost as if it was calling us.

Just like life,

hunting comes with no guarantees.

But I don't usually have a problem

finding the big deer,

especially with that old

Sniper 2000 stuff I use.

That's what I'm talking about.

It's like he doesn't even care

about catching this deer.

This trip was supposed to be

a way for us to bond.

Yeah, well, it doesn't

look like that's happening.

- Jesus, Don.

- What? I'm agreeing with you.

It doesn't look like it's happening.

- Yeah, well, stop.

- Okay. Copy that.

I was hoping to discuss something

with you, if you don't mind.

Yeah, what?

Well, I was thinking maybe after this trip

I go ahead and take a little time off.

What? Time off?

Yeah, you know, I told you

about Kimberly's parents' farm.

We were thinking

maybe going up there,

spend a little time, uh,

hang out there. See how it fits us.

But we got Washington next month.

That's the thing. I was thinking maybe

you go up alone and I sit this one out.

But we gotta shoot Buck Ferguson

Takes On the Great Northwest.

Well, Buck, to be honest,

Kimberly's getting sick

of me leaving all the time.

She's throwing around the "R" word.

What's that word?

Retirement.

She thinks I should be retiring.

I can't believe you're choosing now

to bring this up.

Don't you think I got enough

to worry about with Jaden?

Yeah, of course I do.

Look, you and me have done things

the world is gonna remember.

I've done them,

but you videotaped me doing them.

You wanna throw that all away?

No, Buck. I never said I want

to throw them away. I...

This isn't really

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