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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 773586" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>Our very good friends and neighbors across the Frazer River to the east had a ranch </p><p>called Canoe Creek that started at the Frazer river and ran about 30 miles to the east. The headquarters was located about five miles east of the river in a small valley. At the eastern end of their range was a fenced holding pasture around some small lakes .This area was called Rocky Springs and had a very small line cabin near the lakes and the shipping corral.</p><p></p><p>The cabin was very small but had a heater combination cook stove a table and two folding metal cots. The cots were parallel along the walls in behind the stove. The place was sure built for mostly overnight stays or to warm someone who stayed out too late to make the long ride home. There were two Indian riders staying at the cabin for a while and while they were there the rats nearly drove them nuts at night. One rider was very affected by their presence and had trouble sleeping with their nighttime activities. </p><p></p><p>One night this fretful Indian just couldn't get any relief so he decided to take some action. </p><p> </p><p>The other Indian was deeply asleep in the facing parallel cot. The worrier had taken his 30-06 to bed with him and a flashlight. When the non-sleeper had finally come to his wits end he switched on the flashlight and sure enough there were rats under his companion's cot. These cots were only about four or five feet apart. Without waking the other man he took careful aim and fired at the rat at almost point blank range. Of course this put the muzzle of the rifle only a very few feet from the closest ear of the sleeping beauty. One instant that man was sound asleep lying prone and straight on his cot in perfect peace but the next instant he was standing straight and erect on the foot of his cot still in his sleeping bag with eyes that were very wide open but not seeing and ears that were open but not hearing. It took him some time to figure out just what had happened especially when he couldn't hear the shooter when he tried to explain and apologize. For several months it was very hard to get the attention of the awakened one and he rarely understood what he was being told. Once the ringing stopped but still deaf he seemed to be quite happy with being in a world of his own. His wife may have influenced that some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 773586, member: 14119"] Our very good friends and neighbors across the Frazer River to the east had a ranch called Canoe Creek that started at the Frazer river and ran about 30 miles to the east. The headquarters was located about five miles east of the river in a small valley. At the eastern end of their range was a fenced holding pasture around some small lakes .This area was called Rocky Springs and had a very small line cabin near the lakes and the shipping corral. The cabin was very small but had a heater combination cook stove a table and two folding metal cots. The cots were parallel along the walls in behind the stove. The place was sure built for mostly overnight stays or to warm someone who stayed out too late to make the long ride home. There were two Indian riders staying at the cabin for a while and while they were there the rats nearly drove them nuts at night. One rider was very affected by their presence and had trouble sleeping with their nighttime activities. One night this fretful Indian just couldn’t get any relief so he decided to take some action. The other Indian was deeply asleep in the facing parallel cot. The worrier had taken his 30-06 to bed with him and a flashlight. When the non-sleeper had finally come to his wits end he switched on the flashlight and sure enough there were rats under his companion’s cot. These cots were only about four or five feet apart. Without waking the other man he took careful aim and fired at the rat at almost point blank range. Of course this put the muzzle of the rifle only a very few feet from the closest ear of the sleeping beauty. One instant that man was sound asleep lying prone and straight on his cot in perfect peace but the next instant he was standing straight and erect on the foot of his cot still in his sleeping bag with eyes that were very wide open but not seeing and ears that were open but not hearing. It took him some time to figure out just what had happened especially when he couldn’t hear the shooter when he tried to explain and apologize. For several months it was very hard to get the attention of the awakened one and he rarely understood what he was being told. Once the ringing stopped but still deaf he seemed to be quite happy with being in a world of his own. His wife may have influenced that some. [/QUOTE]
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