Anybody Kill Any Deer Lateley?

[GAGE]

After seeing Turkeyrangler's trophy wall, he has every right and reason to bragg, there are a few giants hanging om that wall. Congrats Turkey!

 

[redhen]

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Thank you for your reasoned reply - and one that I concede does have some merit. I can understand you wishing to remember times when you overcame huge challenges, and the excitement.

But............


Wouldn't it have been easier [and cheaper] to have bought the meat from a supermarket?

Wow.. and you claim to care about the animals..yet you suggest super market meat?

 

[boykin2010]

this is my fourth one this year. 2 does a 5 pt and 6 pt.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

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YES, and they are even more beautiful right next to the biscuit and mashed potatoes!

my husband has his first one, bow hunting and I have to agree, we had some chilli this week, and soup, and hamburger, and today it was cube steak in southern smothered brown gravy, potato salad, green beans, cream of corn, and sopping biscuit.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

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There is a enormous amount of wanted adv. on craigslist wanting antlers for there dog chew toys.

 

[redhen]

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Thats actually a great idea! never thought of that...
There is a enormous amount of wanted adv. on craigslist wanting antlers for there dog chew toys.

 

[impis]

Do you even know how cruelly most of those "supermarket" animals were treated prior to being meat in a store? I do. If you did, you would probably choose another way to get your meat. The chickens have horrible lives, I know because my ex managed a chicken farm. They never saw the light of day & that was the nicest thing about the way they lived. The bullocks that my dairy raises for meat, grow up in their own feces & have their horns burnt off with acid so that they wont hurt each other in the crowded conditions. Most of these animals get strange things put in their food to make them grow faster. I won't even go into what goes on during their slaughter day but it involves hours of terror & trauma even before their not so quick death blow comes.

I know chickens have terrible lives. That's why i offer homes to ex battery hens, and buy free range when I can, for meat. From 2012, battery cages will be outlawed here. New 'enrichment' cages will be used instead. [though not much better, if you ask me.] And not all free range farms are the happy places that the farmers would have us believe. That does not mean that i would like to go to the farms to shoot one myself, instead.

Strange things are not allowed in foods here. I'm pretty sure that we're not even allowed to caponise roosters any more. Dispatching of meat animals here is quick, and as painless as they can make it - with many laws to enforce that. I'm also pretty sure that the stun gun used is more accurate than a bullet fired from some distance away. How many bullets does it take to kill a large stag anyway? Where do you aim? Not the head, I imagine, since you would wish an unblemished trophy on the wall. The next most efficient target would be the heart, I guess. Protected, as it is, in the middle of the animal - how many of you wound the animal first, to make it easier to get up close to deliver the killing shot? I really really don't believe that you can justifyably claim that hunting is a more humane method of despatch.

I do agree, though, that deer are prey animals and that their numbers can become too high due to the demise of their natural predators. Is this, though, enough to warrant hunting?
Not in my book.​

 

[booker81]

This is going to be looooooong....

I don't necessarily thing "easy and cheap" is the best way, especially when dealing with what you put into your body for nutrition and into your family's nutrition.

First off, I'm speaking as a woman, no manliness for me, thank you

I don't hunt just deer, I hunt everything I can legally hunt. I do eat wild rabbit, squirrel, partridge, turkey, ducks, geese and deer. I'd like to draw a tag for a bear or elk, but I've not had that luck. I've eaten bear and elk, and antelope and mule deer. If deer weren't around, I'd still have plenty of sources of meat.

I also garden and can - a lot. I prefer to pick the apples from the ancient grown over apple trees on our property than go buy an apple - they are better all around - great for canning, cooking and plain eating. I've not found a variety that matches them that is cultured today. I also have lots of other neat "wild" things for me to harvest from - each year I pick GALLONS of wild blackberries the size of the last section of my thumb, morel mushrooms over 6" tall, wild asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, and mulberries.

Sure, I could go buy $0.99/lb chicken breasts, and pay $5 for a little pint of raspberries, like everyone else who expects their food to be catered to their table, or at least their local store. Or, I could get my butt out in the woods, and actually pay attention to everything around me, understand the earth I live on in intimate detail, and put an effort into the most natural way of human living - hunting and gathering.

As for guns - every tool is a weapon if you hold it right

I've been around guns since I was a small, small child, probably since I was born. I've never accidentally shot someone, or even ever had anything that could be exaggerated into being close to an "accident". I couldn't count the thousands of rounds I've put through a barrel. I love shooting - especially target practice. There is nothing as mind settling as going through the process of shooting - crazy as it sounds to a nonshooter. Every stress you have goes away with the process - load, think windage, velocity and elevation, aim, breathe, safety off, still, squeeze the trigger, breathe, safety on, check the target. Rinse and repeat. I've killed a lot of paper plates and cans

We are teaching our daughter already about guns, and we shoot around her - always following good practices so she learns them from the get go. At almost three, she is comfortable around gunfire (we keep hearing protection on her), and she already is very into pointing out wildlife. I'll probably take her out with me turkey hunting this spring. It sounds coarse and redneckish to some folks, but I would place more faith in my three year old near a gun than I would someone who's never touched one.

Of course, what floats my boat wouldn't float yours

I know I'm "odd" according to the regulations of a modern day woman - I'm a massive fail on many feminine qualities.

One of the base rules in my relationship with my husband is that he is NOT to get me jewelry. I have no use for baubles. He's a very smart man. My first Mother's Day fell near my birthday, so most men would get some sparkly thing with birthstones in it. I got a new 12ga shotgun and .22 rifle. It was one of the best combo gifts EVER for me. I have no use for fancy "stuff", spending money on things that can't be used, only displayed, buying more clothes than needed for week. I don't get my nails done or heaven forbid, let some stranger mess with my feet and toenails *cringe*. I don't do tea and parties and girl nights and that stuff. I spend time with my family, and my family loves to be outdoors - hunting, fishing, gathering, or just observing.

If you think collecting heads on a wall is weird, you should see the crap I pick up and carry home from the woods

I pick EVERYTHING up - so far my best this year is a partially decomposed head of a big 9pt buck that must have been injured and the yotes took down. That one about made hubby puke. Usually I come home with stones, strange shaped sticks, leaves, anything that catches my fancy. I like my talismans from the woods - they keep me centered.

I do have a "real" job - but that's where I pretend to be civilized. The presentation I have to give there is not a complete representation of who I am. Just have to make the bucks so I can live in a house, not a hut.

 

[booker81]

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WHAT????? I'm not sure if you are joking....I hope you are.

Hollywood is not doing you justice my dear.....

If you are serious - one bullet. There is no "wounding the animal to get close" - that's called serious insanity, stupidity and cruelty.

A proper load and bullet will take down anything with a heart shot.

Most, like a very, very high percentage of lung cavity shots (including heart shots) are fatal. The bullet usually goes completely through the entire animal, not only destroying everything in it's way, but there is a little thing called hydrostatic shock that comes to play - THAT is what usually kills, and what is NOT shown in movies.

 

[Organics North]

Indeed, If we had a higher population. (Low because our area does not support many deer) I would consider picking up sheds to sell..
Every spring when running the syrup line while walking on deer trails I keep my eye's open for sheds..

impis,
Please be respectful... OK? We are happy to share our inner feelings on the subject... But you must respect them..

Our freezer is stocked with our chicken, Venison (Deer meat) , fish from the lake and local grass fed beef... I will not eat much from a grocery store. Industrial agriculture makes me sick!...

I have the strong preference to kill my own meat.... If you eat meat.. I suggest you try it before judging others...

I am self sufficient!!! I am not reliant on others... I am a rural American, doing it as it has been done since humanity has began... So what are you doing????

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