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I don't know about this. If some poor slob walked onto your property wearing a brown coat and brown pants, and you were high or drunk, you might be draining some unlucky bastard right about now....

Nice Phil! I shot, killed, and ate a squirrel from a kitchen window with a pellet gun!!! Does that count!! I was jobless and broke in Alabama. I've done that with doves too. Much tastier than squirrels.

Yo Craig! I'm gonna invent "Bacon Pants" just for you!



The dumbass deer are back already. Saw 3 this AM. Gonna be too busy today to get me one, though...

Paul - of course it counts! Food is food, man!

Of course, I've found that when you smoke it & salt it, it's even BETTER food!

I don't know about this. If some poor slob walked onto your property wearing a brown coat and brown pants, and you were high or drunk, you might be draining some unlucky bastard right about now....

LMAO!

I don't drink at home very often, bob. I've got a bottle of vodka in my freezer that's been there for 2 years or more. I have the rare bottle of wine that I always share with the wife & son on special occasions, or a cpl beers when I cook chili or grill stuff, but I'm not much of a drinker, really. I took a 6 pack to STICKS last night, but left 2 of them there, & I was there for 5 hours.

I have enough sense to know better than to mix cordite & booze.

If I EVER get so messed up that I can't tell the difference between a man & a deer at less than 50 feet, I'm gonna give away my guns!

That's one thing about me that I've often wondered about - I think it's the fear of madness. I really have strong reservations about getting messed up. I think it's this fright that has kept me from hallucinating when I took some of the heavier drugs way back when. I never feel safe enough to let go like that. It seems I strive for lucidity even when I'm looking for that vision. So I quit doing those things that might make me go a lil crazy, cuz it's like I'm fighting with myself when I do them.

I'd still like to try that ayahuasca, though...although the idea of a 9 to 11 hour trip is something that scares the living hell out of me. I think it might actually do me some good, on some level, to know that I CAN let go & live through it without losing my mind...

Philby, I think I shared this elsewhere, but my son and I killed 36 does with a special permit this past summer cause they were eating up crops on a farm I own. I kept a couple of them but the rest pretty much got shot and laid there. Weird deal I would shoot one in the evening come back the next day and the whole damn thing would be gone so I guess we were feeding the local wildlife. We did give a few away to friends for meat. I had to fill out a form for the game warden. He asked if I wanted to do it on some other propertys I said I would pass. I felt bad letting them lay, but it was actually for the deer population, not about the meat.

When I was younger I was a hardcore deer hunter. Then one year my brother and I were walking around a field, with rifles just looking and the biggest deer I ever saw around home jumped out of the bushes in front of us. I raised the gun and shot him, blood and bone everywhere, but he ran. It was late in the day before dark. We tracked him and could never find him he kept going and going, I knew he would die cause Ive never seen one lose that much blood. We searched til after dark, and flagged where we were and decided to look again the next day. Well that night a freak tornado thunderstorm hit us and basically flooded the bottoms where we thought the deer was. But like troopers we searched anyway. There was a very swollen creek and we had to jump this little inlet, so dumbass me jumps with all this heavy coveralls, coat and rifle and I slipped into the inlet, the water was raging and carried me about 30 ft before I knew what was happening, plus I was soaked. It was one of those times when I truelly thought I was fixing to meet my maker. But there was a little tree hanging out that I somehow grabbed and pulled myself out of the water before it swept me into the main channel. I walked all the way back to the house took off all the hunting gear and didnt go hunting for deer for a few years. I felt that that deer almost cost me my life, not his fault, just my own impatience and stupidity. 6 monthes later a local farm hand came up with some huge horns. It was my deer, 19 points, the only problem one side was a perfect 8 points, the other side was mangled looking like he had been hit by a car or something/. Then the guy has the nerve to ask if I wanted to buy the horns! If you could have made a mirror image of those horns it would have looked perfect. This deer was huge, and real dark colored. Ive hunted all ove the country and never seen a whitetail that big. The biggest one I ever killed and record was a 235 lb 12 point, but this deer was way bigger.

I need to shoot a coupld cause I like to feed my dog Buddy deer meat.

I have gone deer hunting only once in my life. I had a perfect shot at a good sized buck, but felt it was too close to surrounding houses, so I chased him off on purpose. I was on my way to deeper forest when I saw him. I love that snort a buck makes when he's looking for a doe.

I've only shot 2 does that were dumb enough to get in my back yard & eat my hostas. I hate them more than most animals, cuz they're just so apt to run in front of me when I drive, & can do so much damage! Whenever I'm out driving around these back roads & see a deer, I stop & get out & yell at them. I hope, on some level, that they'll eventually recognize my truck & run when they see it! I get a lot of weird looks from ppl, though, when they see me doing it.

We have a serious population problem out here. I'm gonna kill as many as I can, but only in my yard. I'm much too lazy to go out & actually HUNT them! The only thing I ever actually hunted for was mushrooms...

I can't imagine killing 36 over a cpl weeks, man! That musta been something!

I also can't imagine getting permission to kill them in my own damned yard. They're a nuisance, & I'll treat 'em as such.

I feel bad for the deer, but if god didn't want us shooting them he wouldn't have made them taste soooooo good.

bad piece of venison = better than a good piece of beef.

Just chipped up a buncha sassafrass & oak & I'm soaking them for smoking this meat...mmmm...can't wait!

Gonna eat the heart tonight!

This kinda stuff makes me feel oh so manly!

LOL

I don't know about bacon pants, LOL, but if you can field dress a deer, you have my respect brother! You and John are quite the hunters. I've only been deer hunting maybe 3 times, and turkey hunting a few times. Of course, I grew up from 12 years old, traveling around the country in a band, and we were always moving, so there wasn't alot of time for hunting or much of anything else, but DRIVING. LOL



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Philby, I can hunt deer in season on my own land here, but they catch you killing them out of season and your goose is cooked. In my area the Game Warden has the right by law to inspect meat in your freezer without a search warrant.

I killed those deer to protect the crops they were literally eating the crops up. I have a background in ag and never saw deer eat cotton, but the latest genetic structure for roundup ready cotton(cotton that can be sprayed directly with roundup to get rid of weeds) builds the potassium level in the plants, and deer love salt so it just tastes good to them. Older varietys of cotton didnt taste good to them so they left them alone.

Craig, I hate field dressing deer. Its just a chore to me.

My son killed a buck last year that still had the felt on his horns. At first we thought he was a doe with horns, but found out that he didnt have testicles to produce testosterone to fully develop his horns. We have it mounted over our stairs.

Ive at some point hunted just about anything that can be hunted in my area. I would still love to go on a safari and kill some big stuff!

Hmmm...I need to check into the laws, I suppose. I've been under the impression that one can kill anything out here id it's causing damage, whether it's in season or not. These damned deer have killed over $800 worth of plants in my yard over the last cpl years, & I've pretty much given up the beautification projects because of them.

Yeah, I know they can check your freezer out here, too.

We got a new law out here, though, what says if you hit a deer with your car, you can legally gather it up & eat it. So for some ppl here in WV, roadkill rules!

Damned shame they have to write something like that into law, isn't it?

but the latest genetic structure for roundup ready cotton(cotton that can be sprayed directly with roundup to get rid of weeds) builds the potassium level in the plants

That's funny.

I was just reading about the company that makes Roundup! They are also the company that developed "Agent Orange"...


http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN10423605


Critics say the nonprofit work is a way for Monsanto to get even the world's poorest farmers hooked on pricey patented seed technology. But Monsanto and biotech supporters say it is the only way to grow enough food to feed a world population expected to hit 9.4 billion by 2050.

"Global ag production must grow by 70 percent by 2050, and it will have to come out of increased yields because there is only a minimal amount of new land that can be put into production without environmental problems," said Mary Boote, executive director of an industry group called the Truth About Trade and Technology. "Biotechnology has to be one of the tools we use."

Philby I dont know about where you live, but in TN to kill a deer for damaging crops you have to get a permit. Thats all I know on that, doesnt matter to me either way. If the season is in Imsure you can kill it on your property, but you might not want to be bragging to any neighbors cause if they dont like you they might be able to give you a little grief over this.

Craig, those chemical companys change hands often. Roundup when I was in the business was owned by Monsanto. The way coporate world is they could have changed hands 10 times since agent orange was developed.

My exs dad was in Vietnam and he died from the cancer from Agent Orange. That was a lot of fun, she got a DUI and couldnt drive to see him. He had molested her as a kid, and I hated his ass, but since she couldnt drive I wound up taking the kids while he was in a Hospice, he last 6 monthes, that was a long 6 months for me. I made the trip twice a month and a couple of times more cause he would get so bad that they thought we was fixing to go then the old buzzard would get a second wind. He was a tough one I can hand that to him. That hospice was a tough place to go, cause you knew none of them were going to walk out of there alive. I would see someone for a couple of weeks and then someone else was there. I dont know how people handle working there. I know I couldnt.

Sorry to get so off subject, Ive got a lot of heavy stuff going on these days besides music and it dredges up some bad memorys.

Quite right. I never brag to my neighbors about ANYTHING...LOL

I wasn't arguing with ya, JW. I was looking at the dif in laws between our states, is all...cuz I think it actually IS legal to kill a nuisance on your property, here...

Hey Craig - I used to raise rabbits for meat. Had to learn how to butcher when I did that. A deer's just a lil bigger, is all. Ain't that much different at all, 'cept the hides a lil tougher to get off...

I'm gonna start that lil back yard project up again, soon. Man, that was EASY meat!

Anything to keep the roads safe. I see atleast 3 a day. Sometimes more.
They have a long deer season here in east central Il. Both bow and shotgun.