Deer Season

marineatbn03

Toombes

Congrats to your Dad, bro! I usually sit on my parents back deck with a cup of coffee and my Mosin Nagant 91-30, then wait for one to walk by. Hopefully I can put some meat in the freezer this year with a sprinkling of deer jerky to tide me over at work.

marineatbn03

Thats one way to do it, lol. Good luck brother.

WhoDeyGal

I do not approve of this message! Shame on your dad!

jthanatos

I don't get out hunting as much as I used to, but I loved turkey season with a muzzle loader. My dad is planning to do crossbow deer this year for the first time.

marineatbn03

Hey, atleast he did it sportingly. Bet your glad we share the same mom and not dads huh?

WhoDeyGal

marineatbn03:

Hey, atleast he did it sportingly. Bet your glad we share the same mom and not dads huh?

Yes, not cool. Does he eat it?

marineatbn03

WhoDeyGal:

marineatbn03:

Hey, atleast he did it sportingly. Bet your glad we share the same mom and not dads huh?

Yes, not cool. Does he eat it?

He donated it to a family down the road who has a ton of kids and no money. So they have meat to eat.

jgibv

RBeckom

marineatbn03

Thats how I feel. If it is killed it should be used for its meat, one way or another. It ticks me off to come across a deer that has been taken for a trophy and the body left to rot. Donate it if you don't want the meat, many will gladly take it.

mmccartneydc

WhoDeyGal

Couldn't agree more. If you kill it use the meat. I think that's why I'm not a fan of hunting bc so many do it just for the kill and not the feed. Glad your daddy- o donated it. That was stand up of him.

jthanatos

WhoDeyGal:

Couldn't agree more. If you kill it use the meat. I think that's why I'm not a fan of hunting bc so many do it just for the kill and not the feed. Glad your daddy- o donated it. That was stand up of him.

I'm surprised to hear that. From personal experience, I would think those that "trophy hunt" are a very small minority. We might brag about our big buck/gobbler, but we eat most all of it too. It saddens me that this is not what you experience in your area.

WhoDeyGal

jthanatos:

WhoDeyGal:

Couldn't agree more. If you kill it use the meat. I think that's why I'm not a fan of hunting bc so many do it just for the kill and not the feed. Glad your daddy- o donated it. That was stand up of him.

I'm surprised to hear that. From personal experience, I would think those that "trophy hunt" are a very small minority. We might brag about our big buck/gobbler, but we eat most all of it too. It saddens me that this is not what you experience in your area.

Maybe it's just the few hunters I've encountered. I don't know many, so I could be off base with this.

beatnic

I think I'll take up hunting. They have a herd of Black Angus down the road. Now, that's good eating. LOL

Luko

I rifle hunt, not good enough at that yet to take up the bow. I also do some upland bird hunting. We eat our deer or give it away. I've know a lot of hunters and never met one that didn't take the meat.

jlmarta

ctschirgi

On my way home from hunting Caribou on Adak Island, Alaska. I don't have any pictures because yesterday I was by myself when I shot my Caribou and was more worried about boning out the meat so that I could pack it out before dark and/or my hands quit working due to the cold. Fortunately the folks I was hunting with got the Argos within a mile of the kill site and helped me pack out the meat. We ground the last of the hamburger at 5:30 this morning. I use a .308 to hunt medium sized big game. I agree that trophy hunting is wrong. I also don't agree with crapy hunters that take 500 yard plus shots and lob lead down range hoping to hit something. Use skill to come within a reasonable distance and take pride in the single shot kill.

marineatbn03

ctschirgi:

On my way home from hunting Caribou on Adak Island, Alaska. I don't have any pictures because yesterday I was by myself when I shot my Caribou and was more worried about boning out the meat so that I could pack it out before dark and/or my hands quit working due to the cold. Fortunately the folks I was hunting with got the Argos within a mile of the kill site and helped me pack out the meat. We ground the last of the hamburger at 5:30 this morning. I use a .308 to hunt medium sized big game. I agree that trophy hunting is wrong. I also don't agree with crapy hunters that take 500 yard plus shots and lob lead down range hoping to hit something. Use skill to come within a reasonable distance and take pride in the single shot kill.

This is why I enjoy bow hunting. You have to be within 25-50 yards, and more times than not you have to excersize some tracking skills. How is Caribou by the way?

ctschirgi

Caribou is excellent lots of grass and moss on Adak so it isn't that far from lean beef. Bow hunting does require a lot more patience and skill than rifle. I was turned off to big game hunting as a young kid after the lighting quick reflexes of a pronghorn antelope allowed it to jump just enough to turn a good shot into a gut shot. Chasing the wonded animal across the Red Desert wasn't the best experience. Of course the same thing will happen with a poor rifle shot. The best bet is to be a disclipined hunter regardless of your tool of the trade.

marineatbn03

I agree, I won't take a shot unless I know it is going to be well placed. I would rather not wound an animal just for it to wonder off somewhere to die. Likewise, if a wounded animal came by me, I would rather shoot it and put it out of its misery than to let it suffer from someone elses poor marksmanship.

Rain

marineatbn03:

I agree, I won't take a shot unless I know it is going to be well placed. I would rather not wound an animal just for it to wonder off somewhere to die. Likewise, if a wounded animal came by me, I would rather shoot it and put it out of its misery than to let it suffer from someone elses poor marksmanship.

Well said.

The Kid

bigjohn125

My middle son got his first deer a couple of weeks ago. Greatest hunting moment of my life and he was so proud (so was I)!

RBeckom

RBeckom

marineatbn03

That is awesome. And passing the knowledge down is a great way to bond an ensure that safety and preservation is done the right way.

RBeckom

marineatbn03

Dad got another deer yesterday, two actually. One was a buck with a pretty unique rack, they went almost straight up, and a doe in the afternoon. Makes me really want to be in the woods versus the trash infested sewer smells of this country I am in.

jadelt