Deer Hunting

Nice Borla i like the spread on the one on the left.

 

Don't know if you are Duck Dynasty fans but the new episode this week where they take their wives deer hunting is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen.

 

PLAN ON GOING TOMORROW EVENING. I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR. I WENT BOW HUNTING 6 OR 8 TIMES THIS YEAR. SAW QUITE A FEW DOES BUT AS NORNAM THEY WERE 50+ YARDS AWAY

@Borla, go and stalk it

 

I haven't hunted in many years, but am a firm believer that it serves several useful purposes. My thoughts are in one of the hunting threads here at TFP.

The use of feeders bothers me. I can understand that knowing where the deer are going to be is convenient, but I don't like the idea of people who know little about actual hunting (they don't bother to learn the terrain and the deer's habits) sitting in stand waiting for the deer to show up. My example usually goes like this: Some fatass with his rifle sighted in a hundred yards sitting in a stand that is conveniently located a hundred yards from the feeder.

If there is deer overpopulation, yes, thinning the herds as easily as possible makes sense. Someone leasing land for hunting probably wants to make sure the hunters "get their moneys worth."

I admit to influenced by my great uncles who owned land in Oklahoma. They hunted deer for the meat, not for sport, and they knew their land very well. Obviously they were in a good position to learn the deer's habits over the years without using feeders, unlike folks leasing land.

 

Borla, it sounds as though you and your friends hunt the way I would want to hunt.

I worked with a young woman who participated in rodeos, barrel racing IRRC. She grew up on a family ranch in SE TX. They knew the habits of the deer, and the only time they used feeders was when they noticed an overabundance of deer. She said the feeders made it easier to thin the population by taking out the spikes, which I understand to be grown bucks that are underdeveloped because of insufficient food/poor nutrition.

They didn't waste the meat. Whatever they couldn't use went to family & friends.

 

Gun season starts here on Saturday next week.
We have a huge abundance of deer this year and the DEC has handed out virtually unlimited doe permits in this part of NY state.
Weather forecast looks very cold though. If it's going to be cold I would like a least an inch or two of soft snow on the ground to aid with tracking.

 

Well done Borla.
A quiet opening day for me here in NY. My friend shot a medium sized buck and we saw lots of does but we are waiting a couple of days before taking does.
Cold as a witch's tit here. 19F when we started, barely made it to freezing and had light snow during the afternoon.

 

Nice job Borla.
Do you butcher out your own meat or do you take it in someplace to have it done?
We have places here that will carve out out all the the good stuff, wrap it for you and turn the rest into sausage.
They'll even send the hide out for tanning for an extra fee.
It's a bit expensive but for people without butchering skills or a place to do the work, it's worth it.

I remember having to use a friends garage to work on a moose and it took up a hell of a lot of space before we were done.

 

My ex got a 7 point (8 pointer with a broken end) in Indiana bow hunting recently. Weighed in at 180+ lbs, and he ended up with 62 after processing. I have 6 lbs of that, along with some meat sticks and jerky. Mmm, jerky. I'm crossing my fingers he takes another one or two this winter so I can pad my freezer pretty well.

If any of you care to donate venison to my freezer, I will gladly accept!

 

well done @borla bbd

 

Our source for free venison seems to have dried up, I guess that they made enough room in the freezer for this seasons meat.