Hunting Whitetail Deer Thread

[Captain America]

Who at Debate Politics hunts deer?

Please check in now and again and tell us what kinda stories came to light around your camp fire's this season.

Post LOTS of photos! Past and present! Wooohoo!

I plan on hitting the wood's for some bow hunting this weekend if it cools down enough around here.

Got some new toys to play with.

I got myself an Activeon Sports Camera. It sort of a GoPro knock-off only a LOT less expensive. So, hopefully, I will have some video to share.

Anyways, this thread is dedicated to hunting whitetail and all the conscientious, environmentally-minded, law abiding, sportsmen and women who hunt them.

Let's talk! :2wave:

 

[Cigar]

Tried it once, with my neighbor, with a Bow ... couldn't hit anything. :2razz:

 

[Fenton Lum]

Used to, haven't in quite a while.

 

[TurtleDude]

Used to, haven't in quite a while.

same here-despite my wife's best efforts (holds two culinary degrees including the best in the USA-the CIA) I just never developed a taste for venison so I gave up hunting them even though I was very good at it

 

[Fenton Lum]

same here-despite my wife's best efforts (holds two culinary degrees including the best in the USA-the CIA) I just never developed a taste for venison so I gave up hunting them even though I was very good at it

If you enjoyed it, turn the meat over to a homeless shelter or something.

 

[TurtleDude]

If you enjoyed it, turn the meat over to a homeless shelter or something.

i did. I just got tired of dragging them, gutting them etc.

 

[MaggieD]

Tried it once, with my neighbor, with a Bow ... couldn't hit anything. :2razz:

Does hitting one's arm with the bow string consistently count?

 

[Fenton Lum]

i did. I just got tired of dragging them, gutting them etc.

Sounds like not enjoying.

 

[TurtleDude]

Sounds like not enjoying.

exactly. the last one I shot was a big big doe who managed to roll down about 200 yards of hill. dragging that one up that hill just about killed me.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

exactly. the last one I shot was a big big doe who managed to roll down about 200 yards of hill. dragging that one up that hill just about killed me.

Tarps and a quad.

The hunters I know always have quads and use tarps to move the carcass around. Of course being in a few inches of snow make moving it easier (slides like a sled)

 

[TurtleDude]

Tarps and a quad.

The hunters I know always have quads and use tarps to move the carcass around. Of course being in a few inches of snow make moving it easier (slides like a sled)

just had a drag. I bought a cart after that-but never used it. gave it to an old gentleman I knew from pistol shooting

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

just had a drag. I bought a cart after that-but never used it. gave it to an old gentleman I knew from pistol shooting

Some of my old job coworkers faced the same issue but with elk and moose. When it is - 10C and you have 500 lbs to haul dragging it by hand is not a great option. Even after gutting it

 

[TurtleDude]

Some of my old job coworkers faced the same issue but with elk and moose. When it is - 10C and you have 500 lbs to haul dragging it by hand is not a great option. Even after gutting it

one of my late dear friends-the top lady blackpowder shooter in the country circa 1998 or so, was invited to a ladies only Muzzie event in a state forest in Ohio. The sponsors figured most of the ladies would hunt pretty close to where the tv cameras were and maybe get lucky. Not Marnie. She went a mile back in the woods, shot a 250 pound buck. quartered it and it took her three hours to pack the sucker out. the sponsors sent some people to find her. They couldn't but when they were all getting ready to go, she ws just finished bringing the last quarter out.