A deer's-eye view

Researchers at the University of Missouri have mounted wireless video cameras on white-tailed deer to get a better idea of how the animals see their world and what's behind their behavior.

The battery-run cameras with miniature transmitters were placed between the antlers of two bucks and round the neck of one doe.

The Deer in the convertible brings out BOL's for my wife and I.

Our oldest son in his senior was investing his food money from us in good hunting and fishing gear. If he didn't catch something or kill something he went a little hungry. We weren't aware of this until a few years after he was graduated.

That summer had a great salmon run. He caught a lot, and he ate salmon about 3 times a day. 14 years later he will not eat salmon after that summer and early fall.

So after the fall semester started, he and his roommate put in for archery tags in an area loaded with big deer in NE California. He had bagged several of the smaller and less tasty coastal deer in the last year.

He and his room mate were drawn for the archery season. They went up a couple of days ahead of time and scouted the area out and found several really big Mule Deer bucks.

So the evening before opening day, they dry camped close to where they saw the big mule deer bucks. Shortly after daybreak one of the big bucks started up the trail towards my son. He decided against a heart shot, his normal bow shot with the smaller coastal deer due to the size of the deer. He shot it in the hind quarter.

The deer took off and started down the hill towards an old logging road and was leaving a huge blood trail. Our son took his time and was following about 100 yards behind the deer. He didn't want to scare it and make it run. He was waiting for it lie down and bleed out.

The deer went over a little hill, and my son heard his crude walkie talkie click 3 times. It was his room mate signalling him. My son clicked his walking talkie twice as the signal for his room mate to talk to him.

His room mate's warning was "There are 3 of the biggest white trash scumbag's I have ever seen in an old convertible. They are loading your deer into the trunk, and don't you do anything stupid. All 3 are carrying big guns on their hips!"

He snuck up on the top of the little hill as the 3 meat thieves patted his deer on the head and shut the trunk lid. Then they drove off. He and his room mate decided to leave and not tangle with the meat rustlers.

So it was no venison and just salmon for them until duck season started. They ate some more salmon until duck/geese season started. Neither one of them will eat salmon now.

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