The Irony of this Photo November 09, 2006, 04:08:08 PM Those trucks you see (3 of them) are hunters. Don't look like they are doing so well. Oh and this is looking down my driveway. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #1 – November 09, 2006, 04:09:55 PM maybe they dont want to shoot tword your house? Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #2 – November 09, 2006, 04:14:04 PM A lil closer. I took these pictures about 15 minutes ago.They have bows, they couldn't reach the house if they wanted too. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #3 – November 09, 2006, 05:09:45 PM Maybe the hunters are too busy....uh....eating their bologna sandwiches? Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #4 – November 09, 2006, 06:00:32 PM Not a particularly large deer by the looks of it. I wouldn't shoot at it... Well, maybe on the last day of deer season if I was REALLY desperate...I've got three coming into my yard on a regular basis (and once there were five) but won't shoot them. They've almost become pets, but they're also quite small. Then again they may be taking their chances if they still come around at the end of the season and I still haven't gotten one... Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #5 – November 09, 2006, 06:43:31 PM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;112565Not a particularly large deer by the looks of it. I wouldn't shoot at it... Well, maybe on the last day of deer season if I was REALLY desperate...I've got three coming into my yard on a regular basis (and once there were five) but won't shoot them. They've almost become pets, but they're also quite small. Then again they may be taking their chances if they still come around at the end of the season and I still haven't gotten one...WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!deer is deer and it all taste good i say shot it and eat good. i dont care how small it is as long as its not a baby. im not one of those hunters you see on tv talking about i let that one go and wait for a bigger one. F that ill take what ever walk my way next weekend.Deer as pets, what knid of crack you you smoking? never is a deer a pet, think of how good they would taste on the grill, in some chili, mmmmmmmmmmmmm........deer jerky. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #6 – November 09, 2006, 06:49:46 PM ^^ You brute!! Don't blame you, my roommate just went home to shoot himself a deer, hopefully I will have so fresh deer meat for the winter.Daniel Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #7 – November 09, 2006, 11:23:41 PM Quote from: cougar86_89;112573WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!deer is deer and it all taste good i say shot it and eat good. i dont care how small it is as long as its not a baby. im not one of those hunters you see on tv talking about i let that one go and wait for a bigger one. F that ill take what ever walk my way next weekend.Deer as pets, what knid of crack you you smoking? never is a deer a pet, think of how good they would taste on the grill, in some chili, mmmmmmmmmmmmm........deer jerky.Like I said: Last week of the season, maybe. Deer aren't rare enough, and I'm not desperate enough, that I'll waste my tag on a 60 pound deer early in the season. I've shot small ones before, but only late in the season. I'm not saying I'm only after trophies, either (the fact that the largest deer I've ever shot was 175 lbs/9 points attests to that). I would certainly take a shot at a nice doe or a spike/four pointer, but I'm not about to kill a fawn.As for the deer/pets thing - I grew up in the city. This is my first time living in the country, and I think it's kinda neat to have deer, groundhogs, rapuppiess, eagles, hawks and even skunks visiting my yard regularly. In time the novelty might wear off, but for now I've no desire to shoot those deer (once again, all bets are off toward the end of the season). Besides that, in this province you must be 402 meters (that's about 1/4 mile) from another house to legally shoot a gun. My neigbours are closer to me than that, so I couldn't legally shoot those deer if I wanted to, unless I obtain their permission to shoot a gun that close to their houses. Given that they view these deer as "pets" too, that's not likely to happen. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #8 – November 10, 2006, 12:26:03 PM lol you should of killed it and just dragged the thing back to your house all while they were watching you. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #9 – November 10, 2006, 12:39:02 PM Quote from: Carl;112720lol you should of killed it and just dragged the thing back to your house all while they were watching you.LOL, deer season hasnt even opened here yet about half an hour away. Oh and you always have to wait for da turdy point buck. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #10 – November 10, 2006, 05:02:57 PM Exactly, there in lies the point of hunting. Few of us actually deer hunt out of necessity like the indians did. We do it for fun. We look foreward to the experiance, out alone in the forest, in touch with nature, a few beer close by, that sort of fun.Waiting for that one buck, is the point of the game. At my "hunting camp" I could literally stand on the deck drinking a beer,and kill a dear with a baseball bat. Yes there are that many, that just going out to kill any old deer is almost pointless. Let alone the baby in that picture. After this weekend I'll post up some pictures of our local deer population at the "hunting camp" which is almost as ironic as the first pic, because we would'nt even shoot at a buck in our front yard. Where's the sport in that. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #11 – November 10, 2006, 05:12:55 PM Quote from: merccougar50;112751Where's the sport in that.ON THE TABLE! i havent got a deer yet so anything is good for me, ive seen a few but i couldnt get a shot at them because they were to far away Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #12 – November 10, 2006, 06:10:31 PM Quote from: merccougar50;112751ut alone in the forest, in touch with natureIn touch with nature...with a gun. If you can catch and club a deer, i will give you props. Hiding in the woods and waiting with a riffle. Youre a pansy. Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #13 – November 10, 2006, 06:33:18 PM Quote from: Tbird232ci;112774In touch with nature...with a gun. If you can catch and club a deer, i will give you props. Hiding in the woods and waiting with a riffle. Youre a pansy.I've actually gotten close enough to deer that I could have clubbed 'em. One time a few years ago I was sitting on the edge of a field and a deer came up behind me (I could hear it). I sat perfectly still, and the noise got louder and louder until it stopped. I turned my head and was literally nose to nose with the deer. I could have kissed it square on the lips without even stretching, and that is no exaggeration. The deer jumped, I jumped, and the deer ran away. It was a doe and I had no doe tag, so I didn't even fire a shot (not that I would've been capable of hitting anything with my heart pounding like that anyway).I had three fawns walk to within 15 feet of me this evening. I don't think the three of them would've added up to 100 pounds, so I saved my bullets and enjoyed watching them. One of them lifted its tail and shat right in front of me. It's pretty amazing how close those things will get when they don't know you're there. Sooner or later momma or poppa will come out...Shawn: There's more to nature than deer. While my ultimate goal in the woods is to take down a deer I intensely enjoy watching and listening to other wildlife while waiting for the deer to make his mistake. Bald eagles, hawks, porcupines, owls, skunks, rabbits, a bear once - even mice, squirrels and weasels are cool to watch when they don't know you're watching them. I was sitting cross-legged once and had a weasel run right up and tuck himself in under my leg. He wasn't long in moving once he realized his "shelter" was alive, but it was cool to see - it was the first wild weasel I'd ever seen and I didn't realize they were so small. Another time I had a mole, tunneling through some fluffy snow, run head first into the sole of my boot as I sat flat on my ass. I could hear him squeaking about, felt the "thump", then heard him panic and take off after he hit my boot. I couldn't even count how many times I'd had squirrels run up my back, across my legs, over my feet, etc. A week ago I watched two wild turkeys fighting within 25 feet of me (wild turkeys are endangered here, these were the first two I'd ever seen), and a few days ago I had a skunk stick his nose right under my blind and look up at me (he had been eating the apple peels I had spit out about an hour before). He was inches from my feet. I dunno who was more scared when we made eye contact; him or me. I do know I was never more relieved to see the ass end of a skunk as it was scurrying away without spraying me.I enjoy it enough that usually after taking my deer I'll continue the season by accompanying somebody else, just to be an extra pair of eyes and to watch nature. Does hunting with a gun make me a pansy? Laughable at best, but surely it's more manly to go out and shoot your own meat than it is to order a Big Mac... Quote Selected
The Irony of this Photo Reply #14 – November 10, 2006, 06:52:29 PM I wasn't saying that I have ever, will ever, or would let someone club a deer with a bat, but I've fed them out of my hands from the corner of my deck. When they are despirate for food deer will even walk across the deck. (For those who don't know, it is rare that a deer ventures into a man made enclosed area). I guess that isn't commen sence to city people, my mistake.We "pansies" love hunting with a gun so much, that even though our rifle season doesn't open untill 7:15 am monday, at which time I will already be out in the forest, I was already out scouting new locations and making sled trails today. Quote Selected
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