N.Y.S. DEER & SAFTEY REPORT..

[blackpowderscout]

I started deer hunting late in life around 30 years old. I'd been small game, dove and duck hunting as a kid with my dad but never big game hunting. Anyhoo, I started while living in Easton PA - hunted up in the poconos for a couple of years and got a few deer. One day I was draggin out my buck and a guy comes over and starts talking to me - says he didn't do so good that day "only got a couple of brush shots". Apparently, these are shots into the brush at a noise.... :shocked2:

That was the last time I deer hunted there.

I've never run into that again in Texas or Mississippi where I've done a fair amount of hunting on a friend's farm.

Say what you will about rednecks, they tend to be safe with their guns and hunting. Hell, they even use a spot light when it gets dark :rotf:

Don't worry in twenty years, Florida will be full and ruined so the retirees will have to start looking somewhere else to change to "the way it was back north".

I'm gonna have to track down some numbers for Florida's hunting injuries/fatalities to compare.

I'm just glad so many of our northern friends like muzzleloaders. Maybe my kids will get to enjoy that at least. Dog hunting's almost done, airboat's are getting hammered.

Sorry for the rant but I just get ticked when some people form parts north get to rambling about rednecks and the way we do things down here...the same way it's been done for generations and yet it's different to them and therefore wrong.

Adam

 

[Jac Spring]

I started deer hunting late in life around 30 years old. I'd been small game, dove and duck hunting as a kid with my dad but never big game hunting. Anyhoo, I started while living in Easton PA - hunted up in the poconos for a couple of years and got a few deer. One day I was draggin out my buck and a guy comes over and starts talking to me - says he didn't do so good that day "only got a couple of brush shots". Apparently, these are shots into the brush at a noise.... :shocked2:

That was the last time I deer hunted there.

I've never run into that again in Texas or Mississippi where I've done a fair amount of hunting on a friend's farm.

Say what you will about rednecks, they tend to be safe with their guns and hunting. Hell, they even use a spot light when it gets dark :rotf:

Don't worry in twenty years, Florida will be full and ruined so the retirees will have to start looking somewhere else to change to "the way it was back north".

I'm gonna have to track down some numbers for Florida's hunting injuries/fatalities to compare.

I'm just glad so many of our northern friends like muzzleloaders. Maybe my kids will get to enjoy that at least. Dog hunting's almost done, airboat's are getting hammered.

Sorry for the rant but I just get ticked when some people form parts north get to rambling about rednecks and the way we do things down here...the same way it's been done for generations and yet it's different to them and therefore wrong.

Adam

Not sure I follow you - you're not referring to me are you? I was just making a self-defrecating joke there - I'm a redneck But you have to admit, there are a few spotlighters in the south, and they ain't hunting yodel dogs :winking:

 

[jbg]

Last year we had a guy shoot his grandson,and ignored his pleadings for help so the old man and his son could hide the does they shot without a tag. At one point the boy's uncle told him to quit whining. He bled to death. What makes the story even sadder is the dead kid's identical twin brother was there and witnessed the whole thing. Gramps threatened to shoot him if he said anything. The old man and the uncle tried to cover it up as some sort of accident. The boy did the right thing, and now gramps and the uncle are in prison. I think the uncle got 5 years, the old man 15. Life with no parole would have been a more appropriate sentence, but hey, they had never been in trouble before.

 

[Jac Spring]

OMG :shocked2:

I'd say a better sentence would be death by bleeding from a gunshot wound.

 

[Todd Rickard]

Here in B.C. we don't wear red, we have seasons that last weeks or even months, we can hunt big game 'till an hour after sundown, we hunt in full cammo and we don't shoot at noises in the bush. Our necks are perty red... :haha:

 

[bramble]

I wouldn't get too excited about the muzzleloading stats. 'Round here, that includes in****s. The transition from modern arms to modern "muzzleloading" arms is so easy that it is primarily a means of extending deer season. Sadly, there are muzzleloaders and there are "muzzleloaders"

bramble