watched one get clipped tonight on the way home from work, the first one ran across so i hit my breaks looking for others but the guy coming towards me never slowed down and clipped the second one
Posted on 10/23/2017 4:28:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Years ago, about 20-30, my grandmother was in a very rural area and had too many wild farm cats and wanted them thinned out. You went over to her place and cats were sitting everywhere. On the wood fence, stumps, everywhere. She had a nephew who was a hunter and bragged, I will clean them out for you. He came over one day and bang, shot one and all the rest disappeared. Thereafter, every time he drove over the cats would mysteriously disappear until he left. He was only able to shoot one. We still laugh about it. I think he thought they would sit there like it was a shooting gallery.
Bucks know when they smell nookie.
they should allow spear hunting in those areas.
“Hunter’s Blood” could be considered a deer camp movie. Billy Bob Thornton’s first film.
“My neighbor’s husband used to sit on his back porch in his wheelchair with a few beers.”
I saw some gag greeting card yesterday. Old guy in a hospital bed with the drip IV and a nurse. Out in the woods with his rifle in his lap. “Well - I reckon this might be my last hunting trip.”
watched one get clipped tonight on the way home from work, the first one ran across so i hit my breaks looking for others but the guy coming towards me never slowed down and clipped the second one
“watched one get clipped tonight on the way home from work, the first one ran across so i hit my breaks looking for others but the guy coming towards me never slowed down and clipped the second one”
I went to a car show in Oklahoma last weekend and one of the attendees hit a deer with a beautiful ‘57 Belair convertible. Because of the extra foot of space in front of the radiator he was able to make it to the show. It about brought tears to my eyes.
” It about brought tears to my eyes.”
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About the poor deer,I assume.
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100%... deer they make everyday, 57 Belair, not so much
Living on a ranch all my life I have seen the deer move before hunting season. You get used to seeing where deer are hanging out, then like clockwork they move and change patterns, usually right after most hunters that scout the area ahead of time do their scouting. Not everyone believes this, many say they think it has to do with Fall weather changes and it is a coincidence that it happens right before deer season. I have seen it happen many years when the change in weather had not been distinct enough to make me think that was the reason.
Animals are far smarter than most give them credit for being, anyone that is around them every day can tell you that.
Here in Montana, I have noticed a couple of deer traits,
one is that does will drop their fawns very near houses. I think they do that to avoid the abundance of predators that are here. It almost goes without fail that I will have a newborn fawn or two dropped within several yards of my house every spring.
In the fall, once hunters are hitting the national forests, I see an increase in the number of deer (especially bucks) on my land.
Should’a had someone else drive the car away.
There are highways around here that you can literally throw a rock from one deer roadkill to the next during rut. I have barely missed a number of them and have been in the vehicle when other were not so lucky.
It is a shame that deer did not end up in someones freezer but my feelings were for the Belair.
You should see the ones at the Presidio of Monterey, huge and such cervid slackers you’ll see them eating laying down.
When we lived in Idaho we’d drive by this place in the country set back off the road a bit and there was always a huge buck flaked out on a couch on the front porch, just watching cars go by (and it wasn’t stuffed).
We’d hunt the impact area at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia and sometimes it would be a suck day and on the way out in the evening past shooting time the deer would be just lined up at the edge of the woods. We joked they must have spent the day submerged in all the ponds breathing through reeds.
Don’t forget what follows the deer into cities and towns when they’re thinly populated and savvy in the country, cougars.
It’s not just deer. I’ve seen a dozen GIANT buck antelope pile into a dozen-acre mountain resort during hunting season. They seem to declare a temporary truce with each other while hiding out in the safe zone. They sort of mill around, while ignoring the tourists in the resort.
I saw what you did, there... ‘-)
No cougars (yet) in Alabama. An occasional Florida Panther (which technically are still Puma Concolor). Blacks bears are just starting to make appearances in my area. Soon they’ll be permanent.
I love to see extirpated species reclaim their original area, actually.
It would be so nice to have panthers, red wolves, elk and bison back. Also American chestnut forests and elms.
Then again, why not bring back the Columbian Mammoth, mastodons, giant sloths, and giant bison!
Savvy hunters put hunting season when bucks wander.
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