McCain Sit Down! asked:


How about Quail hunting as our friendly vice president Cheney was doing before he “accidentally” shot a friend.

Just want to know the difference, so please don’t get offended and start calling childish names.

we know what they do when dogs are killed. but what are deer used for (with)?

thank you for your knowledge and understanding
Excellent answers guys! I was scared I was going to be bashed by the Animal police. really learned something today, thanks!!!

Dylan

Mitch Johnson asked:


A hunter when he goes in the forest or woods, there are always a chance of facing the danger, especially by the animals that live in the forest. When a hunter enters their territory, it has become a threat for them.

One moonlight night when I was coming home kind of late—you know how it is—I had a feeling that I was being followed. Maybe you know the feeling—nothing you can put your finger on, yet something that keeps turning your head in nervousness. Once, turning my head, I caught a glimpse of something on the trail be- hind me. It couldn’t be a bobcat, because they are harmless. But are they? I had heard tales of their at- tacking men, but that is all hogwash, I thought. Just the same, what would I do if I were a bobcat on the trail of a man? Well! I would go to a tree and wait my chance to jump him from above. Then I remembered a big maple tree a short distance ahead and I thought what an ideal place for a jump! The tree had a limb which extended out over the trail under which I would have to pass.

Now in those days, I was not afraid of man or beast and never turned my course for either. I was king of my domain, whether armed or not. When I came to the large maple and saw an unfamiliar swelling on the limb, I walked bravely under the cat. I kept my eye on it and when it left the limb, intending to land on my shoulders, I stepped to one side. I had good reflexes in those days, and as he went past my body, snarling because he had missed a meal, I caught him by the tail, swung him around in the air, and dashed his brains out on the tree trunk. I never got a scratch.

What’s that, Sumner? Washington County cats don’t have tails? Well! You ought to know. There is plenty of cat bait in the county. I don’t know what else sardines are good for. But I always stick a can in my pocket when I go into the woods. Who knows, I might get hungry enough to eat them!

Speaking of sardines reminds me of the time I back- packed a whole case twenty miles in to my trap line. When I opened the case I found that they were packed in mustard sauce. Bobcats wouldn’t look at them and I thought that I would have to throw the whole case away, but I used them. You know, ‘coons wash their food before they eat it.

Say, Chick, put another log on the fire. Not that one, but that piece of yellow birch—the one with the solid red heart. Most people think wood is wood, but there is a difference. You take beech, now. It is a good hot wood, but you don’t want it in a fireplace. Oak has got a lot of heat, yet it never seems to dry out. It will simmer, stew and boil, even if it has been dried under cover for five years. Give me yellow birch for a fire- place. Old growth that will throw a lot of heat and yet last as it burns with a pretty flame.

Well boys, I think that I had better quit for the night. I am getting kind of tired, and when I get tired I am apt to start drawing on my imagination, and I don’t want to do that. I want to stick to the solid truth. It doesn’t pay to exaggerate. I think that this old dog will step outside and see if he can find a convenient tree.

Boys, it is time to hit the sack. It is snowing outside and that means a deer tomorrow. But it means getting out at daylight, and daylight comes mighty early, if you sit around for half the night. No, no more for me.

I want a steady head and good reflexes for tomorrow. It doesn’t take much of that stuff to throw me off. But I declare, you boys drink mighty fine liquor! Some- times I wish that I lived in town so that I could enjoy some of it more often. Well! See you in the morning. Good night.

It is very important for the hunters to be aware whenever they are in the woods or in the forest, as the danger can come anytime and in any kind of situation.



Quinby

Bill B asked:


I don’t get what the big thrill of dressing up in camo, putting on bottled deer urine, climbing into a tree stand and shooting the deer with a high-powered rifle with a scope is all about. It’s not real hunting….any real man would hunt a deer with his bare hands and if he could kill it….then he’d be a real hunter. Rifles are for *******.
Even using a knife or spear…that’d be better. At least you’d learn the actual “hunting” skill that would be required if you were ever in need. I mean, after all…if you get lost somewhere how many high powered rifles with 300 yard scopes will be laying around? Be men goddamnit….strangle the deer and then eat it’s bleeding heart.
Yikes, I always thought deer meat was really dry. I don’t mind the jerky though.
And yes I have shot a deer before, and I thought it was really lame. I was there with my cousin in our tree stand and it just walked right out and I shot it. It was far, but with the scope I hit it right in the neck. The meat tasted like crap and gutting and skinning it was far too much hassle. If I were to hunt for meat again, it’d be at the grocery store with the rest of the people that have common sense. But to you folks that think you’re preserving some “hunting tradition”…….good luck to you and your deer (that odds are you’ve been baiting and luring for months now). Maybe he’ll just fall over for you!

Richard

Ryan F asked:


I hunt about 300 acres in middle georgia… there are 3 very large fields, a pond, and some hard woods… 2 of the fields are planted with rye, and the other field is plant with feeder corn, anyone can help me find a very effective hunting plan that will help me get that big buck?

Roger

Mitch Johnson asked:


Many of us might not be aware of how the deer hunting has been commercialized and how it is supporting the growing fashion industries. It supplies leathers for branded footwears. This can be noticed by the financial picture of the country. But the good management of the deer herds has improved their numbers compared to their numbers during the times of Indians.

The sport of deer hunting has been commercialized to a great extent. This is true of many sports. Deer hunters help support many of our industries and their dollars play an important part in the financial picture of our country. Clothing manufacturers have developed special clothing and shoe factories make special footwear for hunters. Arms and ammunition factories would need to curtail production drastically between wars it was not for the sportsmen’s orders.

The development of better hunting guns has aided in the development of better military guns. Sporting camps dot the hunting country and are largely supported by the deer hunter’s dollars. The states themselves have placed a price tag on deer in the form of a hunting license. This tax is supposed to defray the cost of game management. On the whole the different states have done a good job in managing the deer herds and these herds are today in better condition than at any other time since the Indians. What the future holds is something that only time will tell.

At the present time we have an abundance of deer in the major hunting areas. The only serious threat to their well being is that overpopulation might bring on some disease or that lack of food might cause a serious reduction of the herds. All things in nature must balance and if the deer population becomes too large, nature will call a halt in one way or another. It is up to the states to see that this natural balance is maintained and the herds are kept within their natural limits.

The only way to do this, now that most of their natural enemies have been controlled, is to permit an annual kill that will equal the annual increase. In their efforts to protect the deer herds, the different states have enacted different laws, but these laws are similar in that they all permit a short open season and they impose a definite bag limit. Some of these restrictions were adopted on an experimental basis and have never been revised. Some of these have proved sound while others are of doubtful value, due in part to the lack of definite biological knowledge of the animals.

I have always been doubtful of the value of the so-called “buck law” that has been used by several states over the years. Here in Maine, we allow the taking of one deer of any size or *** and our herd has prospered. In at least one other state, the herd has increased, apparently at the expense of the individual deer’s size and vitality. Most of these laws are in the interest of conservation and sportsmanship. The least sporting methods of deer hunting are usually banned by law, not entirely because they are not sporting, but because they are the most successful and therefore the most detrimental to the efforts of maintaining the deer population and to continue hunting.

Night hunting, probably the most successful method of taking deer, was one of the first to be banned. My first experience with this type of hunting occurred when I was sixteen. I was working on a small construction project in the deep woods of one of the more popular deer hunting regions. I do not know what the law was at that time, but it was the custom to supplement the commissary with deer meat whenever possible.

It is the duty of every citizen to protect this precious animal from extinctions by keeping them in check. If we keep them growing overpopulated, they could create another problem and if they are decreased they are a great source of income assets for the country



Pierce

spacebaceball asked:


that is cheap for my dad to buy me for chrismas im 11 amost 12 i really want to hunt deer

Atwood

maggot_boy2004 asked:


The coalition effort is failing in the face of a renewed Taliban offensive and your country and president need you. If President Bush knew he had a massive pool of volunteers to rely on, he wouldn’t have to worry every time one of the nations in the NATO alliance starts talking about pulling out of Afghanistan.

Edward

Mitch Johnson asked:


The next time when you are preparing for deer hunting, better make yourself aware of the applicable laws of different states and not only of the deer. Get yourself prepared before you steps in the forest to hunt the deer. At the same time I try to make myself secure with better weapons than those old fashioned bows and arrows.

Many successful hunters never acquire this knowledge, depending solely on luck in their hunting. In a territory where deer are plentiful, this results in their bagging a deer with fair regularity, yet the actual shooting of a deer is only a small part of the enjoyment that a sportsman finds on a hunt. When a man goes into the woods, meets a deer in its own element, outwits the animal and succeeds in killing it with a well-placed shot, his satisfaction will be much greater than in the mere killing of a deer that he has accidentally encountered. To be sure, he can return home and embellish his story, belying the fact that it was more or less an accident that he bagged the animal. He has the deer for proof of his tale, but until he comes to believe the story himself, there will always be a slight feeling of dissatisfaction about that particular hunt.

A very successful hunter once told me that deer hunting was ninety per cent luck and ten per cent good marksmanship. He had hunted for a good many years and should have known what he was talking about. “All that a man needs to do to shoot a deer,” he said, “is to be in the right place at the right time and to be able to hit any deer that he sees.”

This man believed it was luck that placed him at the right place at the right time, but I am sure that the knowledge that he had unconsciously acquired about the habits of the deer in the territory where he hunted had a lot to do in enabling him to shoot most of his deer. While luck certainly plays an important part in deer hunting, the man who depends entirely on it is very apt to be disappointed at the end of the hunt. The need for hunting knowledge varies with the method used while hunting. It requires little knowledge to shoot a deer in the nighttime with the aid of a light.

This is nothing but butchery of a bewildered defenseless animal. On the other hand, the man who enters the woods armed with a bow and a few arrows, which attempt to outwit an animal in full possession of all its faculties, must have a thorough knowledge of that animal to be successful. I am not in favor of bow-and-arrow hunting for everyone, for, although the hunting arrow is deadly in the hands of an expert, the average hunter is too unfamiliar with the weapon to make clean kills—a necessary part of good sportsmanship.

Quite a few men, with more patience than I possess, bag their deer by continually watching some popular game trail, or crossing, until a deer comes along. There is one man whom I have often met at the same place in the woods where a deer trail crosses a small stream. I think that he is there every morning during the season, from daybreak to midmorning, until he shoots his deer. I would estimate that he has killed ten or twelve deer at that crossing. One year there were very few deer in that immediate area. As far as I knew, there was only one doe that had raised her twin fawns within two miles of that spot. There were plenty of deer in the surrounding country, but for some reason, they seemed to shun that particular area. One day I mentioned the scarcity of deer to him, suggesting that some other crossing might be more productive that year. He merely said, “I’ve done pretty well here in the past and I reckon that I will give it a few more days before making a change.” The next day I met him on the road and he had a nice buck on his car. I had forgotten that his crossing was one that was favored by bucks traveling across country from one herd to another, in search of does.

Although this crossing watching requires more patience than the average hunter possesses, it usually pays off with a deer. Quite a bit of knowledge of the country and of the movement of deer is necessary, yet patience is the most important qualification that a man must have in order to be consistently successful in this type of hunting.

There are fair laws for both the hunters and the animals. So always be on the safer side of the law to avoid any unnecessary trouble that you might face otherwise. Some time you need more patience to continually watch the movements of the deer, which I don’t possess. People like the one I met in the forest even after hearing about the scarcity of deer still sits on the same spot waiting for the deer. And for this you need a fair knowledge of the country and the movement of deer can be of good use during the hunting.



Nigel

H M asked:


Has anyone heard of initiations that are done after you make your first kill when deer hunting? What are they and where did this practice come from?

Garrick