Blazing squirls!

I'm still laughing about this one! I just love my hunters!  So this guy, we'll call him Joe so as not to offend, was sitting in Big Mama's stand waiting for his opportunity to bag a big bear.  We had suggested to him that if he did a honey burn it might help attract Mr. Bear.  We use this technique ourselves and it seems to work well for us.

So there Joe sits in his stand...and I believe he had the honey burn set up and going, however it had gone out. He had is situated to that he would have to climb out of the tree stand in order to relight it. Now you all know that the less activity in the stand, the better right?  So down he goes and gets the honey burner and brings it up into the (TREE) stand with him!  So he is back in the stand and and lights the burner and and waits for Mr. Bear.

Now here I am just a lil sketchy on how this all happened but somehow, a red squirrel comes along. Now I know what you are thinking!  Of course you are correct, the squirrel knocks over the honey burn setting his tail on fire and commences to jump into the tree beside Joe and wave his tail around!!  Now by this time Joe is trying to put the fire out as both the tree and the squirrel are on fire!

Needless to say Joe did not get his bear that day,  not sure why, it might have been the commotion in the trees, the fire, the smell of burning hair........well,,,it made for an excellent story at the end of the day and Joe did get the fire under control quickly, the squirrel was fine except for a singed tail!