Deer hunting season(the four legged kind):smile:

[Old Katz]

With deer hunting getting in full swing how many of
you continue to MD in the woods? I just recently bought a
florescent orange cap and vest, the kind road/construction crews use.
Figure if these hunters can't see that they don't have any business
running around in the woods with guns.
Katz

 

[Wolfdog]

A lot of times they don't see what is behind what they are shooting at,shooting at running game and swinging and shooting at the game and someone or some thing is in the path.
Shooting over a hill,shooting out of a moving vehicle, loaded guns in the vehicle.
In cases like this and others the blaze orange doesn't help.
Not all hunters do these things!
No, I stay out of the woods at this time of year.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I do go into the woods on Sunday and MD.

As far as the cute deer go, they are a total nuisance. They eat everything around my house. My garden and bushes get torn up around my house. It can get costly. There has to be some control. I have to be real careful driving. There are dead deer all along the road. There are plenty of live one also staring at me as I drive by. I am just thinking, when will my time come when I hit one.

 

[cwilk]

Detect someplace else during deer season. Too many idiots with high powered rifles out there. We had a teacher from our high school shoot a cow a few years back.

I don't deer hunt myself but I never pass up venison, especially venison breakfast sausage, venison chopped meat, and venison kielbasa (sp?). I've been wanting to try venison hot dogs which my pal tells me are great but he hasn't shot a deer in two years. Maybe this year.

Chris

 

[Mick56]

A few years ago it was in the news here in WI, a hunter shot an elk, thought it was a deer. Actually brought it in to a station to register it. Ended up with a huge fine. I woudn't want to be md'ing when that guy is around!

 

[Alan Applegate]

Not really wanting to drag out a long story, but....

I grew up in a sporting goods store in KC, Mo. I went deer hunting in Colorado every year since I was 8 or 9. Great fun. About 1956 or so, my dad had taken a bull elk large enough that he couldn't manage it by himself. While we were at the site, some dude comes out of the nearby woods, and says words to the effect; Almost shot you fellows. You know, these here elk look orange this time of year!

Moral? Stay the hey out of the woods during hunting season!

Alan

 

[Uncle Willy]

One of he reasons I quit hunting years ago - I was tired of getting shot at. They will shoot at you vest or not. There's just too many idiots out there with guns that shouldn't be allowed to own one. Me and my buddy were standing right next to two guys who had downed a deer, gutted it out, and hung it upside down on a pole, laid the pole over their shoulders and started to walk out, when some idiot up in the woods put two rounds into the deer before they could drop it and take cover - along with the rest of us. The shooter didn't appear. There are bush shooters out there who will fire at a bush if it moves without knowing or caring what is on the other side. Have seen two hunters get nailed that way. One died on the spot. So watch your step. I could tell you some more horror stories but it would take a spell.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

That is sound advice. Have a friend, Dennis, who goes elk hunting in Eastern Oregon every year with his family. They take horses and pack horses and ride up into the high country and set up camp and dye their horses bright yellow. While Dennis was in camp ( with a cabin tent set up and equipment all around ) and dyeing one of the horses some moron up above pumped a round into the horse nearly hitting Dennis. The ape didn't expose himself either.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

In Arizona during antelope season the ranchers paint "COW" on both sides of all their cattle in giant letters and some still get shot. We were talking to the Rangers at a check point in Arizona one season and they told us about this idiot who had come through with a wild burro strapped to his car, just as proud as punch with his first deer. The Rangers didn't bother informing him of what he really had but said they'd like to be a little mouse when he got home with his prize.


Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah, bet he thought, " Golly!! what a big deer."

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I've lived in places where the game was thick. When I lived in a little town in Idaho elk came into town and walked down the main street . The highway was littered with dead pheasant, chukars, grouse, ptarmigan, and when out fishing you had to shoo the deer away. I was up in the mountains in Arizona one time and ran into about a dozen deer and I stopped to look at them and they walked over to my car and stuck their heads in the window to see who and what I was.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I had some bush shooters who wanted to go hunting with me and my buddy one time and we squelched that idea. One time my buddy dragged another guy along on our hunting trip that I knew nothing about and I generally don't go for that and should have stopped it that time. We weren't out any time at all until we heard all this shooting in the direction this yahoo had gone. Rushing over to where he was we saw dead deer laying everywhere. This nut had come upon about a half-dozen doe and fawns, went nuts and cut them all down. Fortunately there were no game wardens around and since we were on an Indian reservation we took the animals and gave them to the Indians who were more than happy to recieve them.

Bill

 

[digging nm]

i have been hunting with my own license for 30 years now and 8 years before that taging along behind my father. it has been my experience that most hunters, not poachers but lawful hunters are responsible moral people. are there people who should not own a firearm? yes, but how many are there that should not have a drivers license? everytime i take my 3 year old daughter out on the highway i worry. as far as staying out of the woods during hunting season, wear bright colors, make your presence known ( this is a good idea in bear country too) and have a little faith in God. life is too short to not try and enjoy it. just my thoughts no offence ment

 

[jimmy jam]

 

[Pyledriver]

Man, y'all have been around some bad hunters! I've have seen a few things in my years of hunting, and heard the story of the rancher painting 'cow' on his livestock told from south Texas to Oklahoma! Most of the time the 'bad' I've seen relates to poor shooting, and not being aware of what's behind the target. However, I haven't been on public land, so my mileage in the woods will certainly vary. You guys make the woods sounds like certain death!

Myself, I'll be metal detecting MORE during deer season than I have all year. I have my reasons though. Landscaping winding down for the season is the biggest, but also just other issues with family, etc. that means I have more time during the fall and winter to do stuff. Not only that but Texas is almost ALL private land, so i know if I see anybody else on the places I'm visiting I can just dial up the game warden and solve that problem REAL quick! I am planning to go bust a deer and get right back to md'ing though! A little pig hunting and predator hunting mixed in..

One very hard thing for me to deal with is that I have a buddy with access to thousands of acres of private land to hunt. Most of those places have at least one old homesite just waiting to be detected! The problem is that he's not the least bit interested in detecting and if I'm out there to visit him I know it's time to hunt critters!

 

[kylonghunter]

I have been Deer Hunting every year since 1981. I know the dangers of hunting because my father was shot and killed during the deer season of 1971 on the Ft. Knox Reservation in Kentucky. From what we have been told, some hunter at dawn heard movement and saw movement in the brush and shot. Well he shot my dad with a 12ga. slug in his shoulder and he bleed to death. I have been hunting my entire life and pushed for more hunter safety. I have three grown boys of my own who I have taught hunters safety to over the years. Hunting is a great way to spend time with nature and Gods creations in the outdoors. Hunting is a way of life for me, in my blood, my ancesters were "Longhunters" into this state of Kentucky from Virginia in the mid 1700's. God is great and so is hunting!

 

[fongu]

Either Mr. Magoo had taken up hunting or the sport is tarred by unethical people who call themselves hunters. Just because someone takes a weapon into the woods doesn't make them a hunter or a sportsman. I haven't hunted since 1996 when I received back and neck injuries at work. I do have a problem with poachers and hunting clubs trying to post my property. Just as metal detector folks have a code of ethics, so do hunters and fishers. The bad apples always make it bad for the good people and the attitude of some of these jackasses is unbelievable. Back in the early 70's, if my memory is correct, three men were walking to their deer stand and this idiot let loose with a shotgun slug, killing 1 or 2 and wounding the others. They were walking in single file and this moron just shot them down. What is tragic is this idiot was simply fined for this accident and did not receive any jail time. P.S.: He was tresspassing on the men's property that he shot. I had so many confrontations with some of these idiots, that every year they throw numerous deer carcasses off the bridge near my house, to show their contempt for me. The game warden has 3-4 counties to watch over and is impotent at best. No fault of his own, tho. He's just out numbered. It's all about respect for one another, never shoot anything untill you can verify what it is and never tresspass on other people's property. Just like I would never metal detect anyone's propertys without permission.

 

[cwilk]

What did the burro dress out at?

Chris

 

[Old Katz]

Well, I think I'll wait for deer hunting season to pass
and then think about MDing the woods again if its not
too cold.

I've been getting more leads about old towns and houses
forgotten and overgrown with brush and trees.
Katz

 

[Wolfdog]

I do go into the woods on Sunday and MD.

As far as the cute deer go, they are a total nuisance. They eat everything around my house. My garden and bushes get torn up around my house. It can get costly. There has to be some control. I have to be real careful driving. There are dead deer all along the road. There are plenty of live one also staring at me as I drive by. I am just thinking, when will my time come when I hit one.

Did that a little over a year ago at 3.15 in the after non,bad thing is I was on my Harley.