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Re: Randomness

Postby Mitchell » Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:54 am

Well,, 2 weeks ago in PA's deer season, It got a good bit cold here. 10 degrees tone mornin, An so i put on 3 pairs of socks, a pair of Thinsulate boat liners, an then went an put my boots on the wrong feet, without being able to feel that they were on the wrong feet. :?

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After a pretty bad Deer season. :? I saw 2 bucks, out of the entire 2 weeks of the season. One was right under my Tree stand, but his Rack was so small I couldnt tell if he was a Legal buck. An the other one was a nice 8 point, that I missed from well over 300 yards away.
Not that many Deer out here any more.

So after 2 weeks of walkin alll over my farm lookin for a buck, Ive been spendin the last week trying to play catchup on the farm work that I got behind on. :? Not fun. The catchin up on the work, that is. 8)
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Re: Randomness

Postby Distracted » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:27 pm

Sorry to hear about your tough deer season, Mitchell. Sounds like you need to go further afield, though. Down here, there are areas of land offered for lease just for hunting. Ya'll have anything like that up where you are? A lot of the farmers down here will let portions of land go fallow and put out corn and other grain year round, and plant grasses the deer like to eat, just to encourage the deer to hang around. Then they either hunt the area themselves or lease it out to city folk. Stick a blind in a tree overlooking the area where the deer are usually fed and you're in business. They don't actually feed them during deer season. That's illegal. But deer are creatures of habit.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Linda » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:51 pm

Sorry about your season, Mitchell. Try Wisconsin for deer hunting - we are inundated with deer. My son-in-law got one a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Linda » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:53 pm

And Jeff's deer was a doe. There are so many here, they opened up the hunting season for does.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Mitchell » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:49 pm

From What Ive heard From my States ever so wise, an all knowing Game Comission :roll: , PA has the Most State Game lands out of all the States for Hunting. Theirs one bout 6 miles from my farm, Thats about say a bit over 13,000 acres. Not that Id want to hunt on the Game lands. :? Those Deer are what they eat, an taste like Tree bark.

Problem is the First day was terrible Weather wise. It had rained Sunday, an then at night. stopped till about 9am the first day, then it rained the rest of the first day. :? Drove off most of the Hunters, an stopped the deer from movin around. Pluss theirs been less hunters the past few years,, Ever since we went to War. :? Me thinks their may be a conection there.

But the biggest problem was the States Game Commission Brilliant Idea of Expanding the Doe season, from the orginal 3 days, to the same two weeks as buck season a few years back. All in an effort to lower the deer population in the over crowded areas of the State. :roll: Well that didnt work. They lowered the population in the Rural counties, an the More Urban areas stayed the same, Cause no Sane hunter wants to hunt in a place where everytime you lift your gun up you see a House, or have to use a Shotgun. Dang things are bout as usefull as a bow an a stick.

Its goten so bad the deer population in my County, that their were hunters this Year buying up all the doe, an bonus tags they could. Just to prevent anymore none local hunters from comin in an shooting anything without antlers that moved on four legs.

It use to be beautiful, Id look out my kitchen window at the end of the day this time of the year, an see 20 to 30 deer come out to eat, even during the deer season. Now Im lucky to see 6. :(
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Re: Randomness

Postby Mitchell » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:59 pm

Distracted wrote:Sorry to hear about your tough deer season, Mitchell. Sounds like you need to go further afield, though. Down here, there are areas of land offered for lease just for hunting. Ya'll have anything like that up where you are? A lot of the farmers down here will let portions of land go fallow and put out corn and other grain year round, and plant grasses the deer like to eat, just to encourage the deer to hang around. Then they either hunt the area themselves or lease it out to city folk. Stick a blind in a tree overlooking the area where the deer are usually fed and you're in business. They don't actually feed them during deer season. That's illegal. But deer are creatures of habit.


:lol: Distracted, Ive been hunting Deer since I was 12, Lived on a farm pretty much my whole life, an come from a pretty dern long line of Hunters. 8) I had the local deer's habits figured out before I got my first hunting licenses.

Oh an my Tree stand is set up in a stretch of woods between my main hay fields, an a pretty dern good stand of corn in a field I have yet to pick. So I was in a High traffic area. 8)

:? Or atleast what should of been a High Traffic area. Sure was 5 years ago. :?
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Re: Randomness

Postby CX » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:23 pm

Come to North Dakota, the deer are literally everywhere.

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Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:54 am

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Re: Randomness

Postby blacknblue » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:31 am

Mitchell wrote:They lowered the population in the Rural counties, an the More Urban areas stayed the same, Cause no Sane hunter wants to hunt in a place where everytime you lift your gun up you see a House, or have to use a Shotgun. Dang things are bout as usefull as a bow an a stick.
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Snob :D

I have seen many a nice rack on a bow killed deer. And a few killed with shotguns too.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Mitchell » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:54 am

:? Snob?
Sorry buddy, But before my Dad chased off the last of the Bow hunters from our farm years ago. He had to drag to many Bow killed deer out of our cornfields, so he could chop the corn. To many bow hunters dont follow through an track their deer far enough. Or they wander around for days with a wound that eventualy kills them.

So if someone wants to hunt deer on my farm, then they have to use a rifle, even family.


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Re: Randomness

Postby Chris » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:36 pm

Hey Mitchell welcome back. :)

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Re: Randomness

Postby blacknblue » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:51 am

Mitchell wrote::? Snob?
Sorry buddy, But before my Dad chased off the last of the Bow hunters from our farm years ago. He had to drag to many Bow killed deer out of our cornfields, so he could chop the corn. To many bow hunters dont follow through an track their deer far enough. Or they wander around for days with a wound that eventualy kills them.

So if someone wants to hunt deer on my farm, then they have to use a rifle, even family.


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That has nothing to do with the weapon. That has to do with the dishonorable excuse for a half ass hunter that needs tohave his own weapon shoved up his ass so far that the tip pops out his greasy ear.

There is no excuse for that. None. As far as not making a clean kill, that is pure incompetence, which comes from not practicing enough. I know gun hunters who don't practice enough too, unfortunately. I have been cursed at seeing the results of a fumbled gun kill myself. It is no prettier than a bow kill.

Granted, a bow requires more skill and practice to use effectively. And too many people don't take the time to learn how to use them properly. And even fewer take the time to build up their muscles to use them properly. Shameful.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Mitchell » Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:00 am

True. But in the end Ive seen far more wounded mamed, wasted deer from piss poor bow Hunters. Then Ive ever seen from Rifle Hunters. Not that I havent had to put a deer out of its missery before thanks to a careless Rifle Hunter.

Course here the Bow Season Is also Twice as long, as the Rifle Season, an has less then half the hunters takin part in that season to.

I hate finding wasted deer no matter the way it was wounded.

At times I think Before anyone is allowed to get a hunting licenses, they must prove their skill with the weapon their planning to hunt with. :? Then I remember I tend to shoot a lot better in the clinch, then I do at a paper target.

CX wrote:Come to North Dakota, the deer are literally everywhere.

Id love to. :D
Id actualy love the chance to hunt deer in just about every one of the lower 48. :? But I havent struck oil yet, or won the lottery either. :lol:
:? Heck I cant even afford to Hunt in NY, an Im 5 miles from the state line.

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So who's already for the big day? :lol: Im Not. But almost.
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Re: Randomness

Postby JadziaKathryn » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:39 pm

Mitchell wrote:So who's already for the big day? :lol: Im Not. But almost.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Distracted » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:21 am

Just finished the Santa shopping/wrapping today. My nine year old still believes, or so she says, so I hid out in a room in my husband's office wrapping presents for days. It's sorta fun, but I think I'll be relieved when I don't have to be Santa anymore. Or maybe not. The idea of having no kids left in the family to be Santa for kinda makes me sad. This is probably our last Christmas where someone in the family still believes.
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