Pssst... Quick, hand me my buck knife!!!

[futuresoptions]

Little guys just love granola bars!

[sammyg2]

That's a good looking animal.
Iffn I was hungry enuff I'd do what I had to do to survive, but personally I don't think I'd kill bambi if my life didn't depend on it.

Not judging or suggesting what anyone else should do or not do, just saying how I feel about the subject.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

That's a good looking animal.
Iffn I was hungry enuff I'd do what I had to do to survive, but personally I don't think I'd kill bambi if my life didn't depend on it.

Not judging or suggesting what anyone else should do or not do, just saying how I feel about the subject.

+1

If it comes down to me versus him....

Otherwise, I'll take the meat in the styrofoam and cling wrap.

[DanielDudley]

^They are really cute until they dash in front of your car on the highway. Most around here hunt them with a rifle, a few with slugs in a shotgun, but I have had my best success with a Ford F150.

[m21sniper]

A girl i dated briefly lost her fiance' when a deer ran in front of his car, came through the windshield on impact, and kicked him to death.

They're not as cute after that, i suspect.

[BeyGon]

When I was on the San Juans in Washington they seemed to be as common as rabbits, I would get tired of them, the first day my wife kept saying stop, I want a picture of the deer, later it was oh, more deer.
I think I still have the deer whistles I took off a Buick Turbo I bought from Colorado, gladly send them to someone that wanted them, I won't be needing them in Dana Point. Although I have seen deer here.

[Brando]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

^They are really cute until they dash in front of your car on the highway. Most around here hunt them with a rifle, a few with slugs in a shotgun, but I have had my best success with a Ford F150.

I know any incident involving hitting an animal (that did not deserve it) is a bit wrong... but that last statement is damn funny!

[GWN7]

I want a T-shirt that says "I shot Bambi's father in the face"

[jyl]

When I was a kid and we were living in Seattle, my dad hit a deer. He was driving up from California, late at night, and the thing jumped and was nailed. My dad's car would not start after that, so he was stuck on the shoulder in the middle of the deep PNW woods. Okay, he's going to spend the night in the car. Being a thrifty Chinaman, and ignorant of the white man's fish snd game rules, he decides that he's not going to waste this piece of food. He picks up the deer, which is still alive though not for long, and stuffs it in the hatchback of his Vega. Then he gets in the driver's seat and goes to sleep. So does the deer. At first light, he fixes the car (I don't know what was wrong, I'm guessing inertial fuel pump cutoff) and finishes the drive to Kirkland, where he shakes me awake at what felt like 5 am but was probably not, but still damned early for a typical adolescent, with the cheery greeting "wake up, we're going to gut a deer!". Following him to the garage, I asked if he knew how to do it, and was assured that, sure, they killed and cleaned deer all the time when he was a small boy in China. Right. Well, with typical hand tools you can indeed decapitate, eviscerate, skin, bleed, hang up, and portion a deer. The hacksaw handles the head, the kitchen knife does the gutting, your pocket knife does the skinning, the machete chops the hanging deer lengthwise in alarmingly few strokes, and so on. I went back to bed, after a rather bloody shower. I had to leave the next day and never did get to eat that deer, but I'm told it was very good. A nice change from squash. Which they grew, and had ridiculous amounts of, and being cheap, wouldn't eat anything but. Anyway, I'm sort of glad to have that rudimentary knowledge of how to dress a dead ruminant, because it might come in handy something, like after the apocalypse. I really don't think my dad grew up killing and butchering deer as a boy. Somehow I don't think deer hunting was all that common in 1940s rural southern China. But I guess back then there were pigs and chickens and little farms, and kids would be sent out to dispatch them, plastic-wrapped organic free-range holistically-reared Halal-slaughtered meat being kind of rare. It's a different world now. I had to convince my son that real chickens actually had bones and weren't born breaded and pressed into nuggets. This required having him witness the ritual dissection of a whole chicken. You'd have thought I was sacrificing a live virgin or something. Sheesh.

[944Larry]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

^They are really cute until they dash in front of your car on the highway. Most around here hunt them with a rifle, a few with slugs in a shotgun, but I have had my best success with a Ford F150.

Know what you mean. I got an elk with an H3 Hummer. The ammo is really too expensive to try it very often though!

[wdfifteen]

Where was this? I know some guys who own deer leases who would do something like this. They feed the deer and train them not to fear humans and to come to certain areas for food. This makes it easier for the great white weekend hunters from Chicago to fly in on Saturday and blast one before catching the Sunday evening plane back to town. I don't particularly like Bambis. I wish more hunters would take more out of my area. They eat my garden and run out in front of my cars. But training them to be targets for dilettante hunters is pathetic.

[RWebb]

these are places in Ohio?

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by RWebb

these are places in Ohio?

I don't know if there are any in Ohio. The two I'm familiar with are in Illinois and Texas. The guy in Texas (Texas Trophy Hunters) will let you hunt from a helicopter if you pay for it. He paid some astronomical amount for semen from a 40+ point buck found in Ohio in order to improve his herd of trophy quality captive victims. It's not quite like shooting fish in a barrel, but it ain't far from it. It's not an industry I'm associated with any longer.

[cbush]

Originally Posted by jyl

I had to leave the next day and never did get to eat that deer, but I'm told it was very good. A nice change from squash. Which they grew, and had ridiculous amounts of, and being cheap, wouldn't eat anything but.

That was a great story. Very funny That is so like my relatives.

Hunting is big business in Texas. Property owners can get $2000-$3000 per deer. They set up feeders and it seems pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. Not very "sporting" IMHO.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by GWN7

I want a T-shirt that says "I shot Bambi's father in the face"

I used to have a picture of a friend at the Grand Canyon, where he was feeding a deer a carrot with one hand, and holding a hammer behind his back with the other.

The letter read, ''Come on out, the hunting's fine.''.

Around this part of NY we have a good plenty of deer. Culling the herds keeps them healthy to an extent, but we are also seeing a marked increase in deer predators in the last 20 years. Coyotes and even mountain lion are making a big comeback. We also have otters, fisher cats, mink, fox, bear and way to many possums and raccoons.

I'm not much of a hunter, but hunting and trapping can remove the disconnect from nature that people have when everything comes from the store in a package. As a whole, people today seem to have a disconnect with our planet as a whole, but hunting and conservation go hand in hand. In many cases cognitive reconnection also leads to a spiritual connection to the rightness of gratitude, and taking care of what we have been given. We sure didn't create it ourselves.

[targa911S]

Out in back of my house....now where are the keys to my F-150?

[GH85Carrera]

I passed a dead deer on the side of the road this morning.

Someone has a messed up vehicle. I am glad it was not me or anyone I know.

[yel911]

As a whole, people today seem to have a disconnect with our planet as a whole, but hunting and conservation go hand in hand. In many cases cognitive reconnection also leads to a spiritual connection to the rightness of gratitude, and taking care of what we have been given. We sure didn't create it ourselves.

Amen. As a bowhunter (and NY regular non-resident) some people don't get it.

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I passed a dead deer on the side of the road this morning.

Someone has a messed up vehicle. I am glad it was not me or anyone I know.

We measure distances here in number of dead deer. " Yeah Jim's house is about 4 dead deer from here". They are everywhere.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

When I was on the San Juans in Washington they seemed to be as common as rabbits, I would get tired of them, the first day my wife kept saying stop, I want a picture of the deer, later it was oh, more deer.
I think I still have the deer whistles I took off a Buick Turbo I bought from Colorado, gladly send them to someone that wanted them, I won't be needing them in Dana Point. Although I have seen deer here.

I'd rather you send me the Buick Turbo...or at least post some pix of it.

I had one of those myself. Fast as HELL, that car was.