Deer Hunting

“Intersting read, I saw on the History Channel that the reason the mountain men existed in the west in the 1800's was their quest to trap beaver pelts for hats.”

“Yup, exactly. A change in the manufacture of hats from beaver-based felt to silk ended that era, at just about the same time as beaver were becoming hard to find.”

“oh i hate it when i hear about people using silk! don't you people realize that stealing silkworm's cocoon is the same as tearing down a baby's house? you wouldn't tear down a house with a baby in it would you? although if you did that would be okay because it's a person and not an animal. but anyway only evil people use silk or beaver or anything that comes from an animal! evil evil evil!”

“Moonbat you need to start a whole new thread for that one because I know where it is going. Now lets get back to deer hunting.
My 11 yr old son went deer hunting for the 1st time this year with a bow. He shot a nice doe the 1st day. He helped me clean it, skin it, butcher it, and he ground it all up for deerburger. Then he helped make it into deer jerky which he loves. I wanted him to see the whole process from the kill or (harvest) if that sounds better to the table. I figured he would either hate it or love it. He loved it and now has his quest for a wild turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.”

“Deer Hunter Becomes the Butt of Jokes
Tuesday, December 20, 2005


Sometimes hunting deer can be a real pain in the butt.

Trying to bag a buck for a pair of friends, Mississippi hunter Lonnie Jones got an early Christmas gift from Rudolph � all over his backside, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

"I guess I'm just a living example of the saying 'a good deer hunter always gets his buck in the end,'" Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "I just wish it hadn't been in my rear end. People around here aren't letting me forget it."

Jones, 54, said he embarked on the muzzle-loader hunt earlier this month at Hillside National Wildlife Refuge on behalf of two female friends at work.

"There's these two girls in radiology, Rosie and Debra, who'd been asking me to get them a deer," Jones, director of respiratory therapy at the King's Daughter's Hospital in Yazoo City, told The Clarion-Ledger.

"I went to Hillside to hunt ... you know how it is, if you get a chance to hunt at Hillside during the muzzle-loader season, you have to take it."


Even though the Prentiss native and former therapist at St. Dominic's in Jackson said he'd already bagged the biggest buck of his life earlier, Jones climbed up in a lock-on ladder stand at Hillside to get his co-workers a deer for their larders.

"It wasn't long before this buck started coming," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "It came right under me. It was a 6-point, a 4X2, but it was a big deer, probably 200 pounds. When it got right under me, he spooked and ran about 60 yards out.

"Then he made a mistake, stopping broadside in the trail," he told the paper. "I shot him and he went down and started dragging himself into a thicket."

In the middle of dense growth, the pain-in-the-rump hunter came upon the buck.

"I don't like that part of it, you know, walking up on a downed buck, and I usually just poke it in the stomach to see if it's dead," he told The Clarion-Ledger.

"But this time it was thick and I grabbed it by the antlers. He didn't like that and he went crazy. He started shaking his head back and forth and he about ripped my finger off."

Jones' shot had paralyzed the buck's back legs, he said.

"The front part was still working, and working good," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "When I turned, he was pulling himself along with his front legs and hitting me in the butt, lifting me off the ground � three times.

"I ran out of the thicket and decided to go in and approach it from another angle. This time he got me in the side of the leg," he told the paper. "Then I just shot it two more times in the chest to put him out of his misery."

Jones ended up with hematomas (a medical term for big purple bruises) on both sides of his rump and on one leg.

"Yeah, it was colorful. It's amazing how strong they are," the rear-ended hunter told The Clarion-Ledger. "He was pulling himself along and getting after me and lifting me off the ground.

"I was doing a favor for a couple of friends," Jones told the paper. "From now on, if I'm getting a deer for somebody, it'll be a doe."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179305,00.html”

“Last Saturday, I read Pennsylvania banned online hunting. I never knew it existed, but it works with your computer mouse and remote control rifle at a website called live-shot.com. I guess you pay a fee, shoot an animal and your trophy gets shipped to you. It seems kind of weird and a few other states are banning it too. The politician that promoted the ban says that "slob hunters" were using the site.
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“what's a "slob hunter"?”

“What's the point? There is so much more to hunting than shooting an animal. It's more about getting outside and enjoying nature than the actual kill.”

“It seemed to be a big thing in Texas, from what I read about it. Very sporting, eh? Real skill involved there!”

“As an avid hunter, I think it's a pretty f'n sick practice. Lumberzac said it best: there's so much more to it. I think I can safely say that in my most memorable hunts, I came home empty-handed in that my game tag was unfilled. But the sensory rewards....wow.....no amount of money can pay for something like that.”

“Have to agree with Lumberzac and Nonconformist, the time I spend hunting is rewarding on many different levels.
Reducing hunting to a video game push button kill is just plain wrong. Slob hunters indeed, these guys take the prize.

They are not true hunters in any way.

Thrifty; a slob hunter is one who trespasses on posted land, shoots from the road, poaches out of season, has no clue what Leave No Trace means, hunts while drunk, high, etc.”

“What satisfaction could you possibly get from an online hunt? You miss out on the whole experience, even handicap hunters get out in the woods.”

“Thrifty; a slob hunter is one who trespasses on posted land, shoots from the road, poaches out of season, has no clue what Leave No Trace means, hunts while drunk, high, etc

leadfoot

Hey Leadfoot you must be talking about this guy! He is either drunk or blind as a bat!


http://www.break.com/index/luckybuck.html”

“I read in the paper the other day that hunters killed over 4100 black bears in PA. for the 2005 season last fall, a record kill. For comparison, in 1969 only 295 bears were harvested. They did extend the season by a few days in some areas so that did increase the kill, but it was so successful that they might close those areas to an extended season next year. 25% of the PA. bear population was killed last season and they try to kill about 20% per year according to the game commission.

It looks like there will be less bears trying to steal our food bags this year.”

“My grandma once got a 10 point buck with a 1984 Cadillac”

“There are so many more bears now than when I started backpacking. When I was a kid (the 70s) you pretty much never saw a black bear here in the South outside of the Smokies. Now they're thick in lots of areas. The Southern Nantahalas are really heavy with them. As are several areas in Georgia.”

“We have lots of bears and many big black bears are taken each year. Because they are hunted, bears in PA. are generally timid and avoid people, although there were a few incidents most involved food in some manner, garbage or bird feeders. Urban sprawl is creeping into bear territory so that stirs some incidents too.”

“FYI hunters-

got me one of these packs last week in south dakota.

it's pretty sweet and worth the 90 bucks IMO. very comfortable and lots of nice little features.



http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0014814515401a&type=product&cmCat=search&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&No=40&Ntt=pack&noImage=0&Ntk=Products&QueryText=pack&Ntx=matchall&N=4887&Nty=1”

“I found it a lot easier to drive the backroads...seem they are just jumping in front of vehicles today.”

“..quiet when you move around or when twigs rub against it?

Looks like a great pack. Billions of little cubby holes to hide/lose knives and compasses and candy bars and paracord and bandaids and snap-cut saws...

I've been using an old surplus "Alice" pack because it's big enough to put my tree stand in, along with a dozen strap-on tree steps. It fits the bill in the size department, but quiet it aint.


Ordin”

“Well it's almost that time of year again! 8D

Muzzleloading season starts this weekend and my uncle is letting me borrow his spare 50 cal. I've never hunted with black powder before. This should be an interesting weekend.”

“I think I've developed a technique for poaching deer that is virtually gestapo proof. Only problem is I'm to big a chicken to try it out. Every year I put myself throught this:(”

“i would love to go (never been) hunting... i only know one person that goes every year and he is a bit anal retentive for me to hang out with for more than 15 minutes”

“So one of my buds was checking out his new 1,000,000 candlepower spotlight...and this HUGE Buck burst out of the underbrush and headed straight for him.
Well he barely had time to draw his Rifle and snap off a shot to protect himself.

Think that will work for a defense?”

““So one of my buds was checking out his new 1,000,000 candlepower spotlight...and this HUGE Buck burst out of the underbrush and headed straight for him.
Well he barely had time to draw his Rifle and snap off a shot to protect himself.

Think that will work for a defense?”
FUEGOFox
8:31:55 AM
10/10/06

Only if he yelled, "He's coming right at us, Ned" before he fired.”

“I love all of god's creatures, in the off season I like to watch them, feed them, interact in any way possible. I am secure in the knowledge that without me and my dollars spent on hunting licenses and the exorbitant taxes paid on bullets, guns and hunting related products (Pittman-Robertson Act) we would have far fewer places to hike and hunt. I have went out of my way to heal sick animals and release them in the wild. With all that said, I am a hunter, I love hunting, and I would dispute any comments about how wild animals all taste bad. Many people don't realize that how you prepare and take care of wild game long before you cook it is what makes it taste bad or gamy. Preperation is the key. Anyone wanting to come visit a beautiful part of Wisconsin in the hunting season, let me know, I am also a licensed guide.”

“I'm from NW Wisconsin, SB. What part are you from?”

““I think I've developed a technique for poaching deer that is virtually gestapo proof. Only problem is I'm to big a chicken to try it out. Every year I put myself throught this:(”

While I do believe that game laws should be followed and I do not condone shooting game out of season I do however believe that a land owner has more rights than the law allows when it comes to his own land. I shoot for meat and the freezer.

If I lived in the boonies I’d have a salt block in the back yard.”

“I'm only talking about poaching for human consumption. They aren't the King's deer, they're mine. As long as there is excessive road kill up here, there are too many deer.”

“I had a fun opening day of muzzleloading season. The air was cold and the sun was shining. We hiked into the woods around 6:30am. At around 7:30, two shots rang out about a minute apart. Shortly after I got a radio call from my cousin, tell me to come up the mountain to give him a hand. He shot a 3 pointer. I carried his gun while he dragged the deer down the mountain. We then stopped to help my other cousin gut the big doe he shot about ¼ mile away. We were only 1 hour into the season and it looks like there will be plenty of meat in the freezer.

Riffle season opens next weekend. We'll have to see if the luck stays with us.
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“giddy yep, zac!”

“You go boy!”

“Years back, I had to work into the wee hours of the morning into opening day of (rifle)deer season. It was only about an hour into sunrise, so I got my gear together & trudged to the top of my (property) mountain.

Settled in & watched a herd approach me as the sun began to rise. They moved closer & closer spooked by noisy hunters approaching from the North on MY property.

Eventually this group saw the herd & opened up with semi-automatic rifles. It just amazes me that people can shoot at running deer without thought of where their shots are actually going.

Some of those 'shots' landed within inches of me & I came VERY close to protecting myself. I had a .243 and almost put a shot into this moron.

That was the last time I hunted. Put all my rifles & shotguns up for sale and never hunted again. I did have to go back out & buy a 12ga pump when I started having bear problems at my house, but the neighbors ate that one.

I wish safe hunters the best of luck. I really hate deer eating EVERYTHING in my yard.”

“I know cat.

Years ago I had this beautiful bead drawn on a 13 point buck. Beautiful creature....I slowly started to take up the slack on the trigger...and then it happened...

This VOICE boomed out of the heavens....I have never hunted again.”

“That sucks cat. That's one reason I like hunting where I do (southern Adirondacks). There aren't nearly as many deer as there are to the south, but there aren't as many hunters either, which tends to cut down on the number of knuckleheads in the woods.”

“I've said it before, I'll say it again: the problem is hunting in those "seasons."”

“1. Don't forget to go to Gander Mountain in Plattsburg Thursday for a new goose call.

2. Get deer hunting permit.”

“In Canada, are Canadian Geese just call geese, or since they spend the winter in the US are they called American geese? ;-)”

“i would love to go hunt deer but i don't know anyone near me that could show me the ropes.”

“Guns, not ropes.”

“Ropes work too, and they don't kick like a 30-06.”

“I've got a mental image of Noncon with a lasso. =)


No hunting for us this year, again. We have to go to Kansas to rewire my Gram's 101 year old house. =( Anyone have any extra venison?”

“LOL..um ropes for hunting..gotta admit it would put some sport back in it.

I have a good friend who only hunts bow and black powder due to the weekend wanna-bees. I had to quit becuase I am of the belief that if you cannot go out at least a couple of weekends a month during the season you lose your edge. Kinda like flying.


Oh by the way the voice from the heavens that made me quit hunding said, "THE ATLANTA ZOO WILL BE CLOSING IN 15 minutes."”

“Zac, you know I'm a teacher and I just can't resist answering questions (it makes me feel useful). They're not Canadian geese, they're Canada geese (branta canadensis) and they do sleep around.”

“Here’s another question. Since Canada is bilingual, shouldn’t you need to but two goose calls? One that can call in the French speaking geese and one for the English speaking ones, or do they make a call that will translate to both?”

“LOL....French Geese Call...."Sacre Bleu! Zehy haf weepons...surrender now."”

“Does anyone know of a good place to purchase a muzzleloader starter kit? I was given a .50 cal CVA inline over the weekend. I like to find something that has some speed loaders, sabots, and cleaning kit. I found one online at Cabela's and couldn’t find one at BassPro. I was wondering if there was someplace else I should look. I’m going to need the kit before the weekend when the late muzzleloading season starts.”

“Doens't Cabella's carry all of that?”