Posted on 08/11/2019 4:50:50 PM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 08/11/2019 6:32:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Nope; it’s really not that hard to do, especially if she is with her fawn.
My son is 6’ 5” (we call him Sasquatch for a reason), he went out into the front yard a couple of years ago to chase a doe and her fawn out of the garden.
He found out the hard way that a deers hooves really hurt when they impact your head.
I warned the boy over and over again, he’s just lucky he has a hard head.
(in more ways than one)
Genuine Viking Kitty, eh?
Big deal. No one got hurt. Move on. Nothing to see.
sssshhhh,.....stop the voice of obvious reason.....you will keep all the pearl clutchers from there drama fix.
Don’t get between them. Pretty easy. Was the garden enclosed?
Just too funny. There’s video available of a man petting a Bison, but no video of super high-profile prisoner Epstein in his cell or his possible death.
Mostly ranching country...
My county is sane...also.
The cattle to people ratio factors heavily into sanity, I think.
Cattle are.pretty much understandable....People..not so much.
You got that right. People think animals like this are Disney type creatures who love humans and spontaneously break out in song and dance. The North American Bison is an Ice Age mammal(descendant) that typically weighs in at around 1,500 pounds and has a notoriously bad temper. It’s mean tempered because it’s eyesight is not that great at seeing distance so it tends to regard anything that gets too close as a threat and that’s when stupid humans end up getting gored and trampled by them.
Back around 1998 a friend's brother was pheasant hunting when a buck came up out of a ditch and attacked him. All he could do was hold it by the antlers as it kept driving him backwards across a field. The deer finally gave up and ran off and that's when the brother noticed that the deer had been shot with an arrow.....
Nope, to big an area; have 5 dogs but they don’t even bother to bark at the deer anymore.
Have an orchard about 20 yards from the house and during the fall you have to carry a broom handle to give the critters (carry a 12 gauge with slugs, just in case the bears don’t want to back off) a whack on the nose when picking apples.
I would just shoot the long legged rats, but I really don’t care for venison.
You’re cooking it wrong, then. Surely you know people that would take it off your hands.
Yeah, probably do, but if I shoot them then I have to gut, skin, quarter, and butcher them.
At my age that’s what I’m starting to call hard work, easier to get a good locally grown steak out of the freezer.
Stopped hunting the bigger game when I was about 55, took up mainly upland game bird hunting.
Still lots of good hiking exercise, puts meat on the table, and not all that weight to carry back to the truck.
Easier to clean to.
In the yard, it seems like you could string one up in a tree, dismember it, age what you want for steaks, and can the rest. Find some kids that need to learn these life skills and put ‘em to work. I know it can be problematic to bring people into the yard with guns. Might be a good opportunity for a young bowhunter.
A young man/woman with a rifle or pistol in my yard isn’t any problem at all; as long as he/she observes my rules.
1; When not actually in use all weapons are to be carried with action open, safety on, kept pointed at ground or down range at all times.
2: While in use all weapons are to be kept pointed down range with safety on except to fire.
3: ABSOLUTELY NO ALCOHOL (or other mind altering drugs) TO BE CONSUMED WHILE FIREARMS ARE AVAILABLE.
4: DO NOT shoot holes in my vehicles or buildings.
5: DO NOT shoot my livestock or dogs.
6: DO NOT shoot holes in my orchard trees.
7: POSITIVELY IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET.
8: POSITIVELY IDENTIFY ANYTHING BEHIND YOUR TARGET.
9: After shooting, CLEAR YOUR WEAPON, REMOVE ANY MAGAZINE, EMPTY ANY TUBE, handle only with action open and safety on.
There are more rules I am sure I didn’t mention here, but it’s my place and I prefer not to have it, me, my dogs, my livestock, or any thing else shot up.
I have invited some of the young folks (to me anybody under 50 is young folks) to come out to the farm during deer season and take meat home to their families, 4 or 5 have taken me up on it.
One kid (Border Patrol Agent) came all the way up from San Diego. I made sure he went home with a Buck and a Doe for his wife and kids.
Have a good oak tree with a pulley system and spreader for cleaning/skinning, etc.
Use the front loader and backhoe to get rid of the offal.
System works real good, just not enough takers; young or old to get rid of all the damn deer.
Haven’t had a bow hunter yet.
I do have a Depredation Permit so anything shot on my property is legal, even though I am supposed to be the one to shoot it (what nobody sees, nobody can prove).
Sound rules and a good system for processing meat. I was probably 5 or so when I got turned loose on my great grandmothers farm with a BB gun. I hung a target on the barn door, which was made of 2xs, as I recall. After a while, grandma came out and told me that grandpa didn’t want me shooting at the barn, because some other shirt-tail relative teenage boys had done so before, and done some damage. She showed me some small holes in the door....and then opened it , and there were big chunks blown out of the backside. I guess they’d been shooting a .38. I can’t imagine what they hit in the barn.
Used to be a herd kept above Camp Funston area at Fort Riley. In spring training one year we took some Duece-and-Halfs up there to set up a mess area in the field. One buffalo charged and rammed one of the trucks.
We gave them a wide berth after that.
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