Hunters Chat Room

[kurtak]

I was unable to hunt this year - first time in something like 50 years of hunting

About 8 or 9 months ago I started having some very serious issues with my back - I can hardly walk on flat ground let alone hike on adverse ground

However - because I have a very nice set up out in my shop for butchering I have managed to fill my freezer with elk & deer meat form helping a couple of friends cut up their elk & deer at my shop

I love venison - it is my favorite meat of all meat

Elk roast is the plan for X-mass dinner

Kurt

 

[Shark]

I would love to have some elk meat. For me elk is the best. I did very little hunting last year. Spent most of December in and out of hospitals again, then had a heart attack in late August of this year so back in hospital in early September. Most of my recent posts, including this one is from a ground blind in the woods. I have actually passed on more deer this year than I have taken. But it has been fun and relaxing.

 

[Shark]

Not a monster but not to bad. This is the only picture I have of it. 4x4 .

 

[FrugalRefiner]

My mouth is watering.

Dave

 

[Shark]

Thought someone might find this interesting. And once again, no dead animals, just a relaxing day sitting in the woods.

 

[4metals]

Up here in Pennsylvania the wildlife come knocking at the door! View attachment IMG_0606.mov

 

[Shark]

Up here in Pennsylvania the wildlife come knocking at the door! View attachment 60220

Trick or Treat!

 

[Shark]

It is that time of year again. Anyone else going out this year?

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Oh, how I wish. No one I know with private land, and you're taking your life in your hands to go on public land up here. I'll live vicariously through your posts.

Dave

 

[4metals]

I don’t have to leave the back deck unless I want to chase them away. Up here in rural Pennsylvania they have a rule about how far you have to be from a house or a road to discharge a weapon. I guess that rules out the back deck shot!

 

[Shark]

I took one during bow season and had a gun misfire on one this morning. After all the foul language it ended up being my fault. Duh. At least it didn't spook, but walked off before I could get things straightened out.

 

[4metals]

You gotta keep that sophisticated weaponry away from those acid fumes!

 

[Shark]

New gun, first time using it in the woods. Trying to be quite this morning I didn't get the bolt closed good on it. On top of it all I am not a fan of semi auto rifles, but wanted to try this. Take one deer and go back to Old faithful for the rest of the year.

 

[4metals]

I live in an area where there are a lot of hunting camps and cabins and one neighbor comes up this time of year and shoots his semi automatic with a bump stock (I guess they are legal again) and it sounds like a war zone. I asked him what he spends on ammo in a weekend and he casually replied “couple hundred”. So he spends what I consider too much for little return and at the same time scares the crap out of the deer so they go deeper into the woods to hide. Then he complains when he doesn’t get a deer!

 

[Shark]

The woods does get full of more than game animals this time of year. What ever happened to being stealthy when hunting. My favorite rifle is a bolt action but I still carry it to the woods quite often with only two round's. And I am with Dave, I do not hunt public land, they don't make a piece of hunters orange big enough for me to feel safe there.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I am with Dave, I do not hunt public land, they don't make a piece of hunters orange big enough for me to feel safe there.

Orange doesn't matter. My hunting buddy encountered another "hunter" one day and asked if he had seen anything. The fellow replied, Nah, just got off a sound shot this morning. My buddy asked, What's a sound shot. You know, the fellow replied, when you here a sound in the woods and shoot at it. Never been back on public land during hunting season since.

The local police here are pretty relaxed. A few years ago, I wanted to build a potato cannon with my grandson. Since I live right next to the high school, and a potato cannon sounds about like a .22 going off, I went up to the police station a couple of blocks away and asked if it would be a problem. He only wanted to know where the potatoes would end up. I told him they'd end up in the big woods behind my house. He said No problem. I then told him I'd been teaching my grandson to shoot, and would it be a problem if we did some plinking with my .22. He smiled and said, you have a good time with your grandson this summer.

So as far as the local police are concerned, I can shoot all the deer I want in my yard next to the school as long as I'm careful. My wife, on the other hand, has a strict prohibition against shooting "yard deer".

Dave

 

[Shark]

My wife, on the other hand, has a strict prohibition against shooting "yard deer".

They taste just like the other deer.

My mother was the same way, after hitting three in two years she was complaining about all the deer, but can't shoot her's.

 

[4metals]

"yard deer"

They decimate my garden, no sympathy from me shooting yard deer.