Anyone Going Deer Hunting?

[protondecay123]

Anyone else got a license to put down a few Bambi's?

Limit is only three here in Arkansas.

 

[Jetmaker737]

Deer season started Oct 15 here in Washington and it's now over. I did not get one and the limit here is one deer with a 3 point (on at least one side) minimum.

 

[Toecutter]

Nope. Gave it up, at least temporarily, a few years back. I'll be adding some illuminary devices to my bike real soon to decrease my odds of a kill.

 

[motorgod]

Went deer killing out of season in Washington and this is the result.

Ruined the meat, though. :angry:

 

[vectervp1]

Went deer killing out of season in Washington and this is the result.

Ruined the meat, though. :angry:

Wow... that looks strangely fammiliar to me.... :blink: Not quite as much blood, but the burning meat smell for the next 1000+ miles riding home made up for it. uke:

The best part was when I stopped at this one small town gas station where the owner had to bloodhounds that came running up to the bike and sniffing around. They must have thought that was one strage deer that just pulled up! :haha:

 

[vectervp1]

From what my friend told me, you can hunt deer year round in Arizona with a bow. Don't know what the restrictions are, but that what some people do if they don't get drawn for a permit.

 

[radman]

Over 850,000 forest rats in Minnesota. Come and get'um boys.

 

[twowheelnut]

Used to hunt all the time as a kid. You name the local domestic game and I went after it with guns, bows, sling shots, traps - all of it. I was 15 years old at the time of this event:

:trinibob:

One early winter morning I was hunting the last of the lingering geese on the banks of the Connecticut River with my 12 gauge Marlin/LC Smith "Long Tom" single shot goose gun, when a small gaggle of geese flew over my blind. Lead the first goose by twenty or so and let loose my single round. Got 'em.

The big Canada Goose fell just at the waterline on the bank of the river and as I approached my 'kill' it was apparent that I simply winged the critter because he started to flap trying to get away. As I loaded another shell to finish him off, he stopped flapping, turned and just looked at me. Gave me a most pathetic look almost as if to ask, "Why the **** did you shoot me, *******? I'm just flying along, minding my own gawt-damned bidiness trying to figure out when I should head for Chesapeake Bay and you go and pop pellets in my ***! Whassup wit dat?"

Well, I finished him off with a slight hesitation and then felt like ****. Quit hunting right then and there. Gave all my weapons to my brother or sold them to friends. Haven't been hunting since and prolly never will again. To this day I can't get that image outta my head. Call me a wuss or whatever, but that event had a profound affect on me...

Still, dinner that night was mighty tasty! Mom did make a mean roasted goose with all the fixens!

 

[donaldb]

what a touching story TWN, I think maybe you should consider forming a FJRPITA chapter

 

[fretbender]

I had a similar experience, though I was about 10 at the time and had to use up about 7 BB's to finish off a robin that was eating cherries out of my Mom's tree. . .I got over it.

I've got deer and elk meat in the freezer now. Now I can cut down on the hormone laden beef.

 

[twowheelnut]

That would be FJRPETA, thankyouverymuch. Nowhere near the PETA level. Just can't bring myself to kill the little critters anymore. I'll eat 'em though!

 

[donaldb]

OOps, your right TWN--I should always remember People Eating Tasty Animals. Have a pic I would post here but I dont know how, I'm still simple minded "Run Forrest Run"

 

[Toecutter]

Nowhere near the PETA level.  Just can't bring myself to kill the little critters anymore.  I'll eat 'em though!

I went one step further a couple of years ago. I guess I've done too much killing and seen too much dying, so I see the story behind the scenes of the end product (meat). I'll still eat some seafood though (and maintain a certain level of hypocrisy) on special occasions. The killing pretty much ended for me about ten years ago, when I arrowed a nice buck just hard enough to break his front leg and, after spending two days looking for him, tore up my tag and haven't been back since. I may do it again someday (really been itchin' to hunt only with a camera) but, for now, not gonna eat what I wouldn't kill myself. There'd be a bunch more vegetarians if we all had to do the deed ourselves. I'm definitely not an anti-hunter, just a non-hunter. I used to get all pissed when people would bust on me. "How can you kill those poor deer?". Me: "Oh, are you a vegetarian? No? Then shut the **** up!" BTW, TWN, nice touching story there. Way to be in touch with your sensitive, new age inner guy!

 

[sparky3008]

I grew up with my grandfather when I was young in Texas who hunted all his life.

My Uncle still hunts and is 6'6" 280 and the biggest softy you would ever meet.

I decided 2 years ago I wanted to try my hand at it and I have a friend who hunts who was willing to take me out.

I have shot guns all my life but I knew this was going to be more than a target shoot.

My wife never had any objections but she told me from the beginning that she didn't think I could do it and here is why.

We had come home from a 2 week vacation and the lawn needed mowing. The grass was very tall so I decided to use the weed eater on it to start. I was in the back yard hacking away when I suddenly hit something and heard a yelp.

I pulled the grass back and it was a baby rabbit. Its leg was cut off and eye hanging out but it was still alive. I ran inside and got my wife who use to work for a vet and told her she needed to get some gloves on and come with me. I told her when we got to it that she had to kill it as I couldn't do it. She went inside and got a bag and came back out and broke its neck.

I have gone out hunting since then and while I love deer meat have never been able to pull the trigger...

 

[twowheelnut]

BTW, TWN, nice touching story there. Way to be in touch with your sensitive, new age inner guy!

Yeah, I guess, but lately I've found my inner a-hole and I've found it much more funner than being sensitive. :agent:

 

[motorgod]

I went fishing once and caught a nice rainbow trout....it just looked at me with its doe eyes and a fly hanging out of the corner of its mouth....started to get tearing eyed myself till I realized that ******* trout was just staring me down and trying to get me under his spell...stuck him in my basket AND HE WAS STILL STARING AT ME WHEN I GUTTED HIM!!!! I got even, though, rolled him in flower, seasonings, and bread crumbs and ate him!!!!

 

[KSFJR]

I can't believe you red neck low lifes with your white socks and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer are going deer hunting and not taking me. (lol) Deer season does not open until about the first of December here in Kansas but I'll be there. We can get one buck and I believe 4 antlerless. I got a large buck about a 1/4 mile from my house a few years ago that some Buck Master guy measured at the taxidermist and it qualified for their registry. I'll never do better I'm sure.

Last November a loud vehicle slowed down in front of my farm house just after dark so I went out to see what was going on. Guy just hit a deer, second one that week for him. Better in a truck than on an FJR.

PETA for a day

 

[donaldb]

I'm uglier than sin but the buck's nice! scored 125 8 point from last January, he's of course on my office wall keeping my others company---sorry don't mean to offend our peta members, its simply a Mississippi pass time.

havent posted a pic here before so if it does not work forgive my simple mindedness :trinibob:

 

[protondecay123]

Dam DonaldB,

What did you do. Stake that deer out and feed him corn all year!. That's a bigun!