ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? :rotf:Capper said:I just drive around in my Jeep. When I see one, I jump out and blast it.
Then I throw it on the hood, and drive around showing off.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? :rotf:Capper said:I just drive around in my Jeep. When I see one, I jump out and blast it.
Then I throw it on the hood, and drive around showing off.
S.kenton said:ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? :rotf:Capper said:I just drive around in my Jeep. When I see one, I jump out and blast it.
Then I throw it on the hood, and drive around showing off.
just mark said:...my hunt basically boiled down to a walk in the woods....
Capper said:It's real popular here in Colorado.
It makes me sick to see it.
S.kenton said:Capper said:It's real popular here in Colorado.
It makes me sick to see it.
Triple seven.. or truck hunting?... :grin:
just mark said:many years ago, i tried deer hunting a couple of times, but i didn't know what i was doing, my hunt basically boiled down to a walk in the woods, i have never harvested a deer. other things in life kept me from hunting til now.
i am going to hunt this fall and there's some things i need to know:
do you generally gut the deer at or near the place you dropped it?
when hunting with a flintlock, it seems to me the sound of pulling the hammer back is going to send the deer running- how do you deal with that? i know that it would not be safe to sit there with a cocked rifle.
i really don't like tree stands. i am sort of clumsy and just do not trust myself to sit in one for hours without falling out. it IS possible to hunt deer on the ground, behind a blind, right?
i have read about "boning" meat in the field, do any of you guys have any experience with this? it seems like an easy way to get your deer out of the field.
and please, whatever obvious things i should know, feel free to point out. i'm a 52 yr old taking up deer hunting, help me not look like such a dork.
Skylinewatcher said:Great point Mike, I did not even mention that. That line of thought has got me many funny looks from other hunters. I believe animals can sense predators man or beast. Its the same feeling you get when you are in a restaurant and someone is looking at you from across the room. I know its not a predator, but it would make since that the awareness/vibe from a predator would be stronger. I mean the deer do live where a homicidal maniac is around every turn year round. As for the face during hunting, I use my shemagh also called a kefiyeh, I brought back. I have two, one black and one tan. It works great, does not suffocate me like a face mask, and I have never enjoyed the face paint.
I would like to add that you need niether blind natural or built nor a tree stand. Just use what cover you have around you. Just act like every tree or bush has thorns so you are not prone to brush against them. Its not really the sound, its the movement that will get deer to pay attention. Deer know what moves the trees up in the canopy and they know what moves them on the ground. Put us some pictures on here when you get your first.
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