Older Whiskey
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Whiskeygate 1980
One old neighbor put up a gate on a cattle guard that he deemed was on his private road although it was used by a place above him and deeded as a Forest Service road.
The young hand living above him on private land, did some serious whiskey drinking on his days off and came in at 1 PM with his loud old, poorly mufflered, pickup with old country music blasting at max volume. Since the old guy lived about 50 yards from the cattle guard, this woke him up. He put up the locked gate, after he saw the lad heading into town that afternoon, to deny the young hand entrance to where he was staying, when he returned after a night out drinking straight shot whiskey.
So that fine Saturday night, this young cowboy was met with a locked gate and not able to just race thru the cattle guard. The old guy, after hearing the hand yelling loudly and using language that would give the lad a good reason to attend church the next morning and have a chat with Jesus, went down to the gate with his pistol and confronted the young guy. The young guy threatened to disarm the old guy and break his arm. The old man discharged several shots in the air.
The old guy, said loudly "I am going to call the sheriff and have you thrown in jail for life,"
The lad replied, "Just where the hell do you think I just came from? Jail doesn't scare me one bit."
After hearing the shots, I got up and went tearing up to the scene of the altercation. About the same time, an older lady, a retired army drill sergeant turned rancher, that also heard the shots, arrived. She got out of her truck wielding her 38 and I got out with my short barrel, but legal, shotgun.
We asked what the problem was and both the old guy and the lad, agreed there was no problem, grievances had been settled, and the gate would be removed. The older lady wore a belt buckle that said, "No one ever raped a 38." It was rumored she got that buckle after performing a 38 caliber castration. The young lady, one such as myself, while well known for great fences and well hinged barn doors, was rumored to be unhinged herself. Neither of these guys wanted to find out if the rumors were true.
One old neighbor put up a gate on a cattle guard that he deemed was on his private road although it was used by a place above him and deeded as a Forest Service road.
The young hand living above him on private land, did some serious whiskey drinking on his days off and came in at 1 PM with his loud old, poorly mufflered, pickup with old country music blasting at max volume. Since the old guy lived about 50 yards from the cattle guard, this woke him up. He put up the locked gate, after he saw the lad heading into town that afternoon, to deny the young hand entrance to where he was staying, when he returned after a night out drinking straight shot whiskey.
So that fine Saturday night, this young cowboy was met with a locked gate and not able to just race thru the cattle guard. The old guy, after hearing the hand yelling loudly and using language that would give the lad a good reason to attend church the next morning and have a chat with Jesus, went down to the gate with his pistol and confronted the young guy. The young guy threatened to disarm the old guy and break his arm. The old man discharged several shots in the air.
The old guy, said loudly "I am going to call the sheriff and have you thrown in jail for life,"
The lad replied, "Just where the hell do you think I just came from? Jail doesn't scare me one bit."
After hearing the shots, I got up and went tearing up to the scene of the altercation. About the same time, an older lady, a retired army drill sergeant turned rancher, that also heard the shots, arrived. She got out of her truck wielding her 38 and I got out with my short barrel, but legal, shotgun.
We asked what the problem was and both the old guy and the lad, agreed there was no problem, grievances had been settled, and the gate would be removed. The older lady wore a belt buckle that said, "No one ever raped a 38." It was rumored she got that buckle after performing a 38 caliber castration. The young lady, one such as myself, while well known for great fences and well hinged barn doors, was rumored to be unhinged herself. Neither of these guys wanted to find out if the rumors were true.
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