So the 250lb dead deer refuses to load itself.....

[watchdogps]

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"Is she breathing?"
"No, he died when I shot him." (Get it? Because the operator doesn't know if it's a male or female?!)

This reminds me of something that actually DID happen to my husband. A deer got hit by the car in front of him and it kept going. Its back was broken, so the front was kicking but it wasn't dead. Hubby called highway patrol to come finish it off and he would take the body for us. The trooper comes, gets out and looks at,the deer in the ditch and says "is that the deer?" Ummm....yeah....
Then the idiot puts four slugs in the abdomen. Poor deer, plus ruined all the good cuts!
Is that the deer? Sheesh.

And yes, we northerners grow em big!

 

[deerman]

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"Is she breathing?"
"No, he died when I shot him." (Get it? Because the operator doesn't know if it's a male or female?!)

Little off subject , but my neighbor named one of their pups after their son(bad idea) the pup got hit my a car , she called her husband at work, he ask how he was ,she said he is dead...I was there when he shows up......i was the one that told him it was their dog. She had just told him just the name Joey.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Sorry, I wasnt implying it didnt weigh 250#, I just wanted to see one as they dont get that big often in PA.

Ive killed many a 200# whitetail, mostly farm fed in MD. Ive only killed 1 in WV here at my place that topped 200# and he was a horse so I know all about dragging and loading LOL! Ofcourse here, I used my ATV and John Deere!

 

[deerman]

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I wonder if it has to do with PA not letting them kill does, sure they kill some but maybe not enought. Ohio they try to keep the number down, you can kill more does than bucks. Then again alot of corn feed deer here. We even get 200 lb does. Some of the big B & C are take here also, they get to grow up in Ohio.

Two Creek nice looking buck

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

I thought PA recently went to some form of antler restrictions? I know OH has a 1 buck per season rule doesnt it?

They dont get big unless they get a few years on them.

I am pretty hard on myself for passing on young bucks....but it works. This still is the biggest buck we have here on film...I had 1 shot at him in 2008 but passed on it because he was flat out running after a doe in thick brush and I couldnt take a wounding shot on such a buck. No one around these parts ever saw him, no one ever checked him infact, most did not even know he existed until I started showing the pics 2 years after I had him on film. Pretty sure he has died of old age, but his genes are around.

Im in an area where there aint no corn fields etc.....but we have been getting some nice deer here after good management since 2004. I only own 15 acres but have done pretty well I think for not having a ton of land and for not being in an area known for large bucks.

 

[Mahonri]

I have a friend who hunts regularly and two weeks ago we had a delicious venison roast for Sunday dinner.

I didn't know white tails could get so big.... almost all of the deer out west are mulies.

 

[Willowpark4]

LOL

We (townies) tried once to push a cow into a horse float and do you think it would go with anything we did!!

 

[Boyd]

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Where I live there is no limit on does

 

[silkieluver_07]

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Yep, antler restrictions in PA are at least three points on a single antler. One thing I don't like about the rule is that around where we hunt (my own experience), there are many spikes that remain spikes and thats it. With the restriction, the only way we can get those spikes out of the gene pool is: if they die of old age, get hit by a car, or a junior hunter kills them.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

And I end up in this I Love Lucy episode I call my life..

DH is never home anymore. He works so hard and he is so exhausted. So we let this hunter who shares our beliefs about how to manage hunting hunt our land. In return he shares the meat. We share processing costs of course.

So the other night he calls the house and asks for DH. He says he got this big buck and could use some help loading it. DH is home but passed out asleep. I refuse to wake him.

So I go to help.

I am 5'2" 115 lbs on my overweight days...... This buck is huge. Huge.

The next 45 minutes were roll on the floor funny as the two of us try to muscle this carcass across the property to where we can back his truck to and then up into the truck. We eventually did it. I am still not sure how much help I actually was because it got so silly we both ended up sitting there half in an half out of the truck with my legs trapped under this buck laughing our tushies off.

There you go your absurdist moment for the day.....

I can see each frame of your episode in my mind.

That's a good one!

Here's mine:

Several years back I had a 200lb. Mastiff. My back yard is fenced and after I let Brujo out one morning he bloated and died. I was really sad because I had just had my other Mastiff put to sleep Christmas week.Then to have Brujo to die 10 days later was very hard.

I called my twin son that's about 6'4" 210 lbs., my daughter-in-law (stout tomboy) and then there was me and at the time I was very strong.

You would not believe what a time we had getting poor ole Brujo out of the back yard. He was over 30" at the shoulders so when you counted his head and neck it was like trying to get a dead weight cruise ship out of the back yard. You know as sad as it was we all got so tickled at how hard a time we had getting Brujo on the back of the truck.

Well we put him in the back of the truck because I was taking him to the vet clinic of the vet who had put Thor my other Mastiff down. I paid the vet extra to bury Thor on his farm and he agreed to bury Brujo there next to his friend.

This clinic is out of town and I had to get gas. We had thrown a blanket over Brujo in the back of my truck. The station attendant was putting gas in my truck when he saw part of a huge black brindle paw sticking out from the blanket. His eyes got real big and he quietly asked if there was a bear under there.

It was like he asked quietly because whatever was under there he didn't want to wake up.

My DIL and I got to the vet clinic and the animal shelter is beside the vet clinic. The big burly animal shelter man couldn't handle dead weight Brujo without my DIL's help either.

So I must truly say I understand about trying to tackle size and weight.



And to some of the hunters. I've only seen one large buck here. I was driving through "deer country safari" one night when one just appeared out of the mist at the foot of the mountain.He was magnificent.

I really didn't know all the deer weren't little like ours until I went to SE Ohio several times. Those deer made ours look like Chihuahuas.

Maybe ours are Deerauhuas.