Hunting Season or Vegetarian

[THE KOD]

Vinnie gave me this idea in bubba1s thread with his funny post about hunting.

Its been awhile since I posted a picture thread, and I am bored waiting for my nfl winning plays this weekend.

Alot of this thread will have to do with fictional characters I will call SixFive and bubba1

The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

If you are a avid hunter feel free to come in and state your case.

To start out with I must say that in my early years through about 25 yrs of age I was a avid hunter.

I was taken hunting by both of my grandfathers who lived in the woods during deer season. Also hunted may squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, and doves. We cleaned and ate what we shot.

When I was 9 years old I remember one time I was in the woods with my bb gun. I was hunting chipmunks and there were alot of them around.

So this one goes down in his hole. I figured if he didn't have another exit he would come back out.
I waited there a hour with my bb gun pointed at the hole. Waiting , waiting for the kill. I loved killing stuff. Anything that moved really.

So just then I sensed a movement and the chipmunk stuck his head out of the hole. I pulled the trigger on my bb gun and shot him in the eye killing him instantly. It didnt bother me one bit and I moved on looking for maybe a sparrow that was flying around.

Another time I seen a robin in a tree, minding its own business. I didnt have my bb gun so I picked up a large rock, snuck up close, and knocked it out of the tree. It didnt kill it and it was flapping around. I picked up a very large rock and slammed it down on the flapping bird, killing it.

Another time I was in the woods hunting squirrels with a 12 gauge. I happened upon a large porcupine about 15 ft up in a tree. I shot him off the branch and it took about 10 shots to kill him.

Porcupines are tough animals.

I really have no problem with deer hunting if the family takes the deer and uses the meat to feed themselves. It is culling of a herd that is necessary to keep it healthy.

I am not sure where the change came into me about hunting and the killing of wild animals. I do think that I had a epiphany but I cannot place when it happened. Maybe I will remember sometime in this thread.

 

[THE KOD]

Daddy, isnt that enough now.

Dad - Its never enough honey

but why daddy

Dad - I don't really know why anymore. All I know is that its hunting season

 

[THE KOD]

Hell , I shot two doe already this year
off my back porch, without no damn deer tags. Got em in the freezer right now.

 

[THE KOD]

I had a good stalk going, the 180 was feeding toward me along a creek. All I had to do was crawl up 5 yards to the edge of the bush so I would have a clear shot. This is where things went bad fast, I remember staring at the deer hard, when 25 yards away the bush just exploded with a cow & calf moose. As they bolted from the creek into the field the 180-buck bounded 100 yards down field & toward the heavy cover of the creek. I quickly ran to the creek bottom & down the creek toward the buck. I could hear the buck going up the creek bank. The bush is only about 50 yards wide so I ran up the hill to the field edge. From there I could see the 180 buck had brought the drop tine buck out of the creek with him! I don't think the big buck knew what was happening because he stopped and looked back at the creek. I was now in full view 50 yards away. I drew & before I knew what I had done, I had released an arrow with my new 50-yard pin. The deer just bounded away like nothing happened, at this point I thought I had blew it. I watched the two bucks slow to a walk & that's when I saw the drop tine carrying his head low. I stayed in the bush so that I would not spook them further. When I saw him bed down I knew my hunt was almost over. I watched the smaller buck stand in the field where Houdini bedded down for an hour. As I sat there waiting I realized that I had harvested the largest deer I have ever seen to date but was a little sad that this buck would not be passing his genetics down this fall. I am hopeful some of his genes are still out there.

I finally decided to go and pick up my buck, I knocked an arrow just in case. When I got to 75 yards the 180 ran off, at 30 yards I could see the rack but it was straight up & down which I thought was odd, but he was on the ground not moving. At 20 yards my nice rack got up and was gone before I knew what to do. I quickly sat down to get out of sight just when I thought he was gone he stopped looked back and bedded again. He only went 100 yards. I waited a really long half an hour & decided to stalk up to him again since he must be done by now. This time at 30 yards I drew my bow & walked straight at him. Again his rack was straight up but it was too late to turn back & worse yet the shakes set in. At 20 yards he raised his head to split but I put my 20-yard pin on him & let it fly. The arrow buried almost to the fletching he made it 20 yards and piled up. By now I was shaking so badly I would not have been able to to draw my bow if I had to. This is by far the highlight of my archery career. The double drop tine buck grosses 217.
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[THE KOD]

SixFive - hey bubba1 , don't you think we are taking a chance shooting so close to people.

bubba1 - naw, I am using slugs.

 

[THE KOD]

As a young kid on my early bird hunts with my dad, we did not own a dog so he made it my job to mark where the dead birds fell while he watched where the rest of the covey lit. My dad?s employment was such that we moved every year, so even though he was an avid bird hunter and hunted with dogs all through his youth, he did not feel it was feasible for us to own a dog. When I was in 6th grade, I attended Dorothy Moody Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas. My gym teacher Mr. Paul Ressler was a bird hunter, and he and I enjoyed sharing stories of our hunts. Mr. Ressler had a very nice Llewellin Setter female. Mr. Ressler raised a litter out of her and gave me the last pup that was left in the litter. I named him ?Peedy? and what a gift this last or picked over pup of the litter turned out to be for me. This dog was a natural in every aspect of his hunting abilities. He honored the first dog he saw on point on his very first hunt in northern Missouri. He retrieved to hand the very first bird that was shot over him, and he would naturally hunt a harvested milo or corn field with precision. He would start by going to the far fence line/hedge row and then take it to the opposite end. He?d then move over about 10 to 15 rows and bring it back to the near end, and then move over another 10 to 15 rows and take it back to the opposite end again. He would hunt this pattern until either he found birds or hunted the complete field to no avail. He never broke a point once one was established. My dad and I searched for him for 45 minutes on a snowy central Iowa morning, only to find him completely engulfed in a snow drift with just his head and the tip of his tail exposed. On the opposite side of the drift was a rooster pheasant buried up. Obviously, this was in the days before ?beeper collars?. I did not realize what I had in this dog until after many years later, long after Peedy was gone, and I tried to find myself another bird dog. I had Peedy to use as a ?gauge? or a ?standard? to judge all others against.
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[THE KOD]

 

[3 Seconds]

What exactly is the point to this thread? I must be slow day today, but I am missing it. :shrug:

 

[THE KOD]

What exactly is the point to this thread? I must be slow day today, but I am missing it. :shrug:

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the point is why do people hunt and kill animals.

what is it. There has to be a explainable reason.

I am trying to find the answer.

 

[THE KOD]

Hey 3 Seconds, theres one, blast that
sum bitch

 

[3 Seconds]

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the point is why do people hunt and kill animals.

what is it. There has to be a explainable reason.

I am trying to find the answer.

Then by all means carry on.....I am still mystified by this myself.

The best that I can come up with is that evolution is a slow process & not all of our race has evolved to this point yet. I see us as in a transational phase. In time we will realize we are not GODS & shouldnt act like it. We are very dependent on other species & plant life that we destroy everyday. Hopefully for our races future we will realize this before its too late.


I would like to recommend some reading at this point. These books are extremely informative & eye opening, but very entertaining at the same time. They are not preachy books, they are great stories for anyone.

Ishmael & the follow up My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

***These are not anti-hunting books***

They can be picked up at your local bookstore or library. Not expensive at all to buy.

If you enjoy those there are many more like it.

 

[THE KOD]

maybe its the search for the big one
bragging rights etc. But at what point do you
decide it ends. Why should it be a lifelong journey

 

[THE KOD]

Then by all means carry on.....I am still mystified by this myself.

The best that I can come up with is that evolution is a slow process & not all of our race has evolved to this point yet. I see us as in a transational phase. In time we will realize we are not GODS & shouldnt act like it. We are very dependent on other species & plant life that we destroy everyday. Hopefully for our races future we will realize this before its too late.

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for being mystified thats a good start to getting a answer.

 

[THE KOD]

the vegetarians finally make a appearance

 

[THE KOD]

the cutting edge humor of hunters

 

[THE KOD]

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maybe its the comraderie, but the other side is
how many divorces were caused from hunting
camp behaviors.

 

[gardenweasel]

i`m no fan of killing animals either, scott....matter of fact i rarely eat red meat anymore....

BUT.....i used to date a vegan....and from eating all that cabbage and broccoli etc,there is a very real issue involving the shame/curse of uncontrollable sonic boom farts occurring at the most inopportune times....

and believe me,vegan farts make hamster vomit seem quite pleasant...

 

[THE KOD]

sonic boom farts :142smilie :142smilie

 

[gardenweasel]

isn`t hippo a vegan?:shrug:










:brows:

 

[THE KOD]

yeh I havnt seen Agent around lately.

maybe he was a victim of one of them sonic boomers and it stopped his ability to type.

I think Jack banned him though for unsportsmanlike conduct unbecoming of a
wagering forum.:shrug: