DU hunters check in - Anti hunters please hide this thread(pics)

[bearfan454]

I just wanted to share some hunting pics and stories with any other DU hunters. I know there are some of us here that enjoy hunting. If you don't like seeing hunting pics, please leave now. No flames intended.

I have 42 acres near Junction Tx in Menard co. I have been hunting there for the last 9 years. We have killed a lot of deer and turkeys in that time. The limit out there is 5 deer a year because they are so overpopulated. We can get 2 bucks and 3 does every year. There isn't enough food for all of them so it is better for everyone to take 5 instead of nature's way of starving them. The last 3 years we have been overrun with turkeys. 20 or 30 will show up at once sometimes and eat all the corn. The deer have to get there as soon as the feeders go off or the corn is gone within 15 minutes. I have 3 feeders going year round. These are some of the deer we have killed out there: (I was a lot fatter in some of these pics than now)






I got a bobcat too.

My buddy shot a Hill Country Axis deer. You don't need a tag for these and you can hunt them year round.

Sagan from DU came one weekend with his Dad. He got a pretty nice one.


Share your hunting stories, I would enjoy hearing them.

[TrogL]

1. You shot Bambi

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[bearfan454]

3. Bambi is delicious.

Ask the people that came over here for the Austin Area DUer Super Bowl Party. Hard salami and spicy sausage and cubes with jalapeno in the middle wrapped in bacon rule.

[Don_G]

12. Deer Are A Big Problem In Kentucky

I'd rather have Bambi on my dinner table than staring back at me through my windshield (I-71 1998).

[TrogL]

31. I wasn't actually complaining

I hate Bambi

[AndyP]

2. nice bobcat

I don't think we can take those up here in Wisconsin. But I know what you are saying with the deer. My buddy has a cabin and on his land we will find a few every year that were not "naturally selected" to survive. Man, now I'm hungry for venison

[el_gato]

4. I hunt only what I eat, I don't believe in killing predators

Killing something your not gonna eat is wrong in my opinion.
I approach hunting with a reverence for nature.

[bearfan454]

7. There is a varmint contest at the local feed store(Kothmann's) every year

For every varmint you bring in, you get a ticket to a drawing. They draw for every type of varmint. This helps out the local ranchers. The prize is a really nice rifle with a hexagon barrel and a scope. Worth a try for free.

[Lou_C]

5. Why did you kill a Bobcat?

:shrug:

[bearfan454]

8. Because

For every varmint you bring in, you get a ticket to a drawing. They draw for every type of varmint. This helps out the local ranchers. The prize is a really nice rifle with a hexagon barrel and a scope. Worth a try for free.

[jmowreader]

9. What? You've never eaten Pussy?

My wife works in the garden center at Home Depot and came back with this story:

One of the kids who works out there has a friend with a Korean wife. The friend invited him to dinner, and the main dish was Bulgogi.

Our guy looked at it and said he hoped it wasn't dog. The Korean wife looked at him with a straight face and said no, it's not dog, it's cat.

Apparently our guy got a really strange look on his face...and she followed it up with "what? You've never eaten pussy before?"

[el_gato]

11. Bobcats are rather rare

[bearfan454]

15. We have mountain lions in West Texas.

They are rare too along with Pumas.

[el_gato]

27. Tell me something I don't know

I used to work at a wildlife rescue facility in the hill-country.

[TX-RAT]

28. Every now and then a big cats spotted around here.

Seem theres a lot more big cats in your area. I'm 53 and have only seen 3, all were around here.

[blindpig]

34. If bobcats are rare why did you shoot it?

For a chance to win a gun? Nice priorties.
Most predators cannot withstand sustained hunting pressure. The frontier mentality which classes any bird or beast that might in any way compete or interfer with man or his monetary potential as a varmint has got to go. Problem animal must sometimes be dealt with extreme prejudice but wholesale slaughter and bounties were a bad idea to start with and totally unsustainable today.
Hope you don't attend rattlesnake roundups too.

[TX-RAT]

16. Not as rare as one might think

On my place there are 8 that i know of for sure, and more pass through. Seeing bobcats is whats rare, they seen to be mostly nocturnal and reclusive. About a mile behind the house theres an old momma cat thats had kittens the last 5 yrs, My wife has some great photos of the kittens.

[bearfan454]

24. That's neat.

They are cute.

[TX-RAT]

25. She loves her cameras

She will hide in the brush for hours just to get a good picture. Are you seeing any ringneck dove down there. They seem to out number the whitewings around here.

[democratreformed]

6. I don't hunt but all the men in my family do.

For years and years, they bugged me to go. I kept telling them that I don't have TIME to go sit and do nothing. Finally, my uncle told me that I could read my book in the deer stand. So, OK, I go. Then, I'm engrossed in my book and look up and the deer is leaving.

[TX-RAT]

10. Have 3 sections about 200 miles north of you

I haven't taken a deer personally in about 9 yrs. Seems I'm getting to be an old softy. Most of my hunting is for quail, some dove. I do feed almost every day for deer and turkey, and quail. I don't shoot bobcats on my place, never seen them as much of a threat. Have taken a few coyotes, they are a definite threat to fawns and calves.

[bearfan454]

13. There a lot of coyotes out on my place too.

When we gut the deer, the next morning everything is gone. Those wild animals in the rural areas are smart. They know when it is cold outside, and they hear a gun go off, there will be some guts to eat somewhere. One time I got up in the middle of the night to take a piss and I aimed the flashlight at the gut pile and there were at least 6 of them over there fighting over who got what. Survival is a strong instinct.

[TX-RAT]

22. They do a great job of cleaning up but

they seem to do a lot of damage around here.

[democratreformed]

14. I poisoned a bobcat last year.

I lost either one chicken or one duck a day for about a month. Then, I started soaking store-bought chickens in rat poison and feeding them to it. I shot at it once with my pistol but probably couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that thing.

[LynneSin]

17. You got some nice kills there

I come from a family of farmers & hunters including several generation who have worked for the PA State Game Commission.

Anyone who wants to criticize you will be crticizing me too. I don't hunt, but I support hunters as long as they use or donate what they kill.

:bounce:

[THUNDER HANDS]

18. ewwww

just....ewwwwwww

[LynneSin]

19. City boy

figures

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. damn right...we get our food from supermarkets

Like civilized people. :)

[LynneSin]

26. and what happens if the entire civilized world collapses and you have...

...to rely on hunting & gathering

Don't come hanging out with my tribe, we'll all be well fed from living off the land!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. simple

My tribe enslaves your tribe and forces you to feed our tribe.

I'm not going to give you the details of how our tribe captured yours, but lets just say it involved a liberal dose of (a) Skoal; (b) Beer; and (c) duct tape. :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Did they taste good?

Mmmmm meat.

[bearfan454]

33. Very good.

I have never ever tasted a wild taste like some people say.

[TXlib]

23. I enjoy game meat

Haven't been hunting yet, but I'll prolly have one of my hunter friends take me sometime, after I've bought a deep freezer.

I also believe in only hunting what you're going to eat; other than that, I've got no problem with your hunting trip!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

30. Curious about your gutting technique

You work up much higher on the carcass that I've seen before. I'm used to stopping at the neck and (frankly) fishing around for the esophagus. Your method seems to cut to the chase. I'm fairly new to deer hunting and I have only gutted three myself -- just curious as to the pro's and con's of your work.

[bearfan454]

32. There's a lot of neck meat that is good for chili.

PM me. Maybe too gross for DU.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

36. Probably a good idea!

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[Burma Jones]

35. Former Bowhunter from Northern Westchester County NY

Owned six acres with countless Deer, right next to the Pound Ridge Preserve. I probably could have killed these Deer with a Slingshot, they were not wary. Had turkeys out the ying yang, always thought the wild ones were pretty inedible, although they sure seemed to make good prey, you could hear them being taken down. We had Bobcats and Coyotes as well. All just 30 miles north of NYC.

On Edit: Two winters ago, the coyotes were banding together so we were warned not to let our small children out alone........

[HEyHEY]

37. Is that a large Bobcat?

[RebelOne]

38. Oh boy, I bet you feel really proud of yourself

for blasting these poor animals. I work for a hunting and fishing magazine, so I have seen hundreds of these photos. That's what turned me into a vegetarian.

[Lou_C]

39. I stopped talking to my favorite Uncle because of pictures like that

I can understand the Deer but not the Bobcat and I am going to have nightmares about the gashes in the bodies.

[Misinformed01]

40. I am NOT anti-hunting

But, posting the images that you did is going to be pretty upsetting for some people and rightly so.

Why do you feel the need for this type of "brag" thread on a political forum board?

Do you really think people are going to put this thread on "ignore" because you asked nicely?

Stephanie

btw...I have killed my own deer; the images do not gross me out...what upsets me is your need to post them.