For all the hunters beginning the gun season tomorrow, please stay safe and Good Luck!

:)mel

And remember to send any tenderoins and backstraps well wrapped and on dry ice C/O

Redd and family
1234 North Side of town
Stevens Point Wi
54481

;D

Thank you and stay safe!!!

START PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGESTART PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGE

 My brilliant son-in-law bagged this Whitetail on the irrigated farm.  It scored 152.

                          Potter

I do not hunt, but do not begrudge others from doing it.
We have had our two weeks of deer hunting, ended one week ago, There were a few "incidents" regarding hunters crossing property lines and being visited back at camp by small groups of pissed off hunters confronting them.

I know this as my manager (and friend) hunts and was one of the one's approached. He said it was a little "scary" as they were surrounded and these guys had their guns with them.

Another one of my customers said two of their two dogs ran into another groups area and when they used the collar tracking device these guys held up the collars and with rifle in air said to them "come get it if you dare" >:(

Someone is going to get hurt or killed around here if this keeps up. Maybe it is a macho thing where a mild gentle man in a suit changes into "Rambo" once he gets the orange on and has a weapon, I don't know. Wow, I rambled on, sorry. :D

Potter, you sure have some friendly deer in your neck of the woods, what is his name! LOL Our deer are too skitish to have our pics taken with them like you can. ;D

Wow Potter, that's a big buck!  Tell him congratulations!! (p.s. Jesse is impressed!)

Ted spent two hours in the woods.  While walking fell down and broke his rifle.  Sucks.  He came home licked his wounds and took his shotgun back out with him.  He didn't see anything all day.  I on the other hand got up this morning, drove for half an hour and had a hudge 12 point buck jump in front of my car while I was looking in my rear view mirror at a doe that had been hit by another car on the road.  I saw the buck out of the corner of my eye and didn't know what it was but slammed on my breaks and locked to see the giant 12 pointer run in front of me out into a big field.  He never looked back.  Boy you could tell he was in rut!!!  

         :-X.... :'(
                                 

This one looks like a cross between an elk and a mule deer!

START PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGE

It's been open season here for a while now, however not legaly.  The spotlights from the side of the trucks on the dirt connecting road at night tell me they's a jackin deer.  Sad but some of the folks around here need it for the meat because they can't afford food.  In NYS the deer breed like rabbits and they are over populated.  I guess it serves two purposes.  Food and cull the population.

Be safe folks and enjoy the hunt.

-P.

In my local paper today here in No. Calif.  Someone killed a huge buck (in hunting season mind you)   for no other purpose but to get the tail.   Everything else was left to rot...


sorry.   I don't get it.

Linda_Howell wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 9:01pm:

Everything else was left to rot... sorry.   I don't get it.

Yea Linda it is a shame. The worst is the Japanese commercial fishermen.

They catch sharks to cut their fins off and through them back in the water to drown. Australians have seen them wash up there with no fins still alive. Sickening to say the least! ::)

To those in the know of the natural process, hunters are very necessary;  and more natural than the ground tortured animal you get from the grocery store.  The natural predators for deer and the like are gone, and without hunting; there would be a serious overpopulation.  

Quote:

but some of the folks around here need it for the meat because they can't afford food.

  Now THIS  I totally understand.   The rest of it...no way.

I'm with you Linda...I just don't get it.

Langa

It's been open here for awhile. One teenager killed his friend on opening day. Someone always gets hurt, it seems. I can't imagine how that kid feels....anyway, Paul is right, in that New York, deer breed like flies. Hunting season helps but we need more hunters. Deer are all over the place, especially in winter, of course. They like our backyards. I posted this spring that we had to haul a dead deer out back that likely had been hit by a car. The city grinds them up in the garbage trucks....Bleaugh.

Wish I liked venison but I can't stand the stuff. A couple of places make sausage out of it you bring it in.

Charlie

In 2007, there were 17,977 deer-related auto accidents in Wisconsin (out of which 605 people died or were seriously injured).  And interestingly enough, this number does NOT count crashes caused by AVOIDING a deer.

Currently the white tail population is estimated at 1.7 million deer in our state.

While the Wolf population is slowly inching upward in this state, humans remain the primary predator of white tail deer in our state.  Personally, I'd rather confront a deer in the woods with a bow or gun than on the road with my family in car.  We've had several close calls on the road.

Personally I don't care for venison except in summer sausage. But  I do admire those hunters who can bag a deer or two and live off of its bounty until the next season comes along.  Jrbrew's girlfriend and her dad are up in the north woods hunting as we speak.  I hope they are successful.

I've gotten in to the habit of saying "Yes Deer" to Paul.... can I have a gun please?!!!

Deer season's been open here for awhile now.  Haven't heard of any accidents, really don't have to many.  Illegal hunting is not too big of an issue here, game wardens tend to frequent these areas.

I don't understand killing a buck for the tail.  Don't really understand hunting for horns/rack either.  Last time I tried to cook a rack, couldn't tenderize it for shit.

Don't hunt any more but have been real tempted to get the bow out and get those buggers who are getting in my rose beds and eating my roses (went out on the front porch one night and lo and behold two does were standing in my rose beds, not 20 feet from my front door, they didn't even spook, just kind of meandered off).

We have a problem with over population too.  It's not unusual to see dead deer on the side of the road.

'darlin

:(  Nothing yet for Jesse or Lily.  Lily did shoot at one this morning, but since there is no snow on the ground it's going to be very hard to trail it.  Jesse didn't see any and he is already at work doing his last 12 hour shift before he starts vacation/layoff.

We need at least 3 deer this season to fill our freezer!  (We prefer venison over beef ourselves)

*sigh*

A dumb question I know but how long is the season? Personally I'm not a fan of venison but I adore beef, we'll swap eh Mel?! I'll shoot you a deer and you go and shoot me one of Potter's cows! (Don't tell him though, he might not be too happy!)

wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2008 at 11:39am:

A dumb question I know but how long is the season? Personally I'm not a fan of venison but I adore beef, we'll swap eh Mel?! I'll shoot you a deer and you go and shoot me one of Potter's cows! (Don't tell him though, he might not be too happy!)

The season lasts 9 days here (except for bow).  Please shoot us a deer, doesn't matter what sex, I'm not picky, LOL. ;)  Of course, Potters cow would be good for steak tho... hmmmm..... :-/

My son is sitting down in the woods as I type -- so far nothing (he just called in). Caleb and James are out walking with the dogs trying to run one by his stand so we can have freezer meat.

Any other day we can sit on the back porch and watch them run by. How the hell do they know when it's DEER SEASON.

Which way to Potters cow pasture????  :) :)

Hugs BD

I swear we have more deer in our town than out in the woods. We never saw one deer while biking all this year but they are seen on a daily base right in town. :o

Mel, I hope you get that freezer full of venison soon. :) I could send you this fella if you like! [smiley=grin2.gif]

START PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGE

Heck,  we have two sets of mama and baby deer from this summer in the yard :P  Apple trees sure attract a lot of wildlife.

My favorite meat by far is elk.  It's really good.  My youngest daughter didn't like meat because of the fat content and she would eat elk.  It's low in fat and very tasty!!!!