My buddies showed up Friday afternoon. An archery hunter friend got one Friday, and I helped him get it out. We lucked out and found it in the Native grass field. Grass 7-10' tall. He stood in the back of my side-by-side with a flashlight, and we drove racetrack search patterns and stumbled on it.
So the rifle hunter got one, and missed one. Monday it rained most of the day. My best friend and I mostly sat in the cabin and told lies and read or slept. We had opportunities to kill deer, but then we would have had to work em up, and well, that is WORK. I am gonna have to break down and kill at least one. But dont want to really.
Some sport huh?
Gene
Deer Season.
Re: Deer Season.
Younger grandson and his wife are BIG into hunting.
She got a Maine Grand Slam this year: Moose, Bear, Deer and Turkey. The moose was 875 pounds field dressed, don't know the weight on the bear but it was good sized, nice little spike horn to fill the deer ticket. We got a few pounds of selected moose meat for our freezer. They have THREE freezers full of game!
Grandson dropped a nice 8 pointer this past Friday. He passed on a couple of smaller bucks as he was looking for a wall-hanger. Most of the meat will go to Hunters for the Hungry as they don't need it and don't have any room anyway.
With them willing/eager to do all the work and us getting free meat, there's really no impetus for me to go out and thrash around in the woods hoping a deer will do something stupid while I happen to be looking in the right direction.
She got a Maine Grand Slam this year: Moose, Bear, Deer and Turkey. The moose was 875 pounds field dressed, don't know the weight on the bear but it was good sized, nice little spike horn to fill the deer ticket. We got a few pounds of selected moose meat for our freezer. They have THREE freezers full of game!
Grandson dropped a nice 8 pointer this past Friday. He passed on a couple of smaller bucks as he was looking for a wall-hanger. Most of the meat will go to Hunters for the Hungry as they don't need it and don't have any room anyway.
With them willing/eager to do all the work and us getting free meat, there's really no impetus for me to go out and thrash around in the woods hoping a deer will do something stupid while I happen to be looking in the right direction.
Re: Deer Season.
The last buck I killed, I handled it perfectly, gutted it immediately, took it to the shed, skinned it, to let it cool, worked it up right, and the damned meat was so rank I couldn't eat it. His neck was all swollen and his glands dripping shit.
I aint never shooting a buck again, unless its a button buck and I can't spot the buttons till its dead. I am going for yearling doe only if I can.
no more stinky buck meat for me. Maybe I just caught it wrong as far as the rut. We always ate bucks before.
Gene
I aint never shooting a buck again, unless its a button buck and I can't spot the buttons till its dead. I am going for yearling doe only if I can.
no more stinky buck meat for me. Maybe I just caught it wrong as far as the rut. We always ate bucks before.
Gene
Re: Deer Season.
Son came out and killed a meat deer, a button buck Saturday. Season for firearms ends tomorrow. But we have a "anterless only" season, and an alternative methods season (crossbow, muzzleloader,) etc . So plenty of time. We were going up to the barn and saw three great big does behind my " spare parts repository". Andrew just insisted I shoot one, ( the gun was in my lap cause the side by sides roof top gun rack was full) I softly told him that if I shot one, it would invariably roll down in the ravine and I didn't want to try to drag it out. The Kubota has a front winch, but it was about 2 hours before dark, and we had already cut up one, so I was done. There will be another day.
Gene
Gene