Doe and young twins walked by only 60 feet away today. I do not hunt, but took this picture to tease my son who was in school and wishes he was bow hunting.
Awwww...they're so cute!! 😀 I couldn't shoot them....ever. :love:
There is certainly a family resemblance apparent in that first photo. The middle one definitely has her mother's ears.
Clyde
They look so tasty.
I worry most about the Tim-the-Toolman wannabe's with their snorting and revved up everything, including their caffeine level, trespassing on my property. That can be more hazardous to their short term health than trying to drag the kill to their vehicle. No one. Absolutely no one, has permission to hunt on my property. They may hunt on all the neighbors with their blessings, but, once they step over the fence onto my property they are in BIG trouble. It's the trespassing issue, not my thoughts on hunting, that matters. I appreciate and encourage hunting.....elsewhere. In fact, if they would totally wipe out the entire deer herd within a 100 mile radius of my home, it would be fine with me. Take all the wild turkeys with them, too. Leave the quail, prairie chicken, turtle dove and other traditional small game to proliferate. The deer and wild turkey were brought in by the do-gooder fish and wildlife type agencies to increase hunting opportunities to attract out of area hunters to leave behind lots of dollars at motels, gas stations and restaurants. They neglected to give any of those nice dollars to the famers who feed the deer and turkey at great expense 365 days per year while having them drastically reduce crop yields.
During the years I lived in Michigan, I recall the TV news shows keeping track of the number of three-days-per-year-highly-exerting-physically idiots who died each year of heart attacks, strokes, falls, accidental shootings, alcohol-induced death and traffic accidents while searching for Bambi's pa, uncle or other fully-grown relative.
I'm with you, bud. The woods aren't safe this time of year.
I guess they're safe for the deer, though...with all the 4x4 revving, bonfiring and beer can stacking, all the deer went to the next county.
Here's a 'kinda' related funny...
My Favorite Animal
Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried
chicken."
She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right,
because everyone else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken
is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably
a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too.
Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to
the principal's office.
I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me
not to do it again.
The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live
animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I
told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.
She sent me back to the principal's office. He laughed, and
told me not to do it again.
I don't understand. My parents taught me to be honest,
but my teacher doesn't like it when I am.
Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I
admired most.
I told her, "Colonel Sanders."
Guess where I am now...
It's a bit chilly this morning but I'm in my blind and ready.
Got my scope dialed in and ready for opening day. Actually, two weeks after opening day, which is the first time I will step foot in the woods due to the abovementioned doctors and lawyers on their testosteroned fueled extraveganzas.
I do have several areas scouted out for squirrels and will be there to put some meat in the freezer. It is still too warm, need at least three weeks of cooler weather before the parasites die off and they are safe to eat. If I can't get the job done with a .22 and iron sights, have no business in the woods anyway.
As far as deer, have three folks I know who do not allow hunting on their land for anyone other than friends and relatives. There really isn't much challenge, as there are so many I will be in and out in two hours. The big challenge is getting to the processor ahead of everyone else. Mixed with pork fat, venison makes the best hamburgers ever, good and good for you. He also does great link sausage, swapped a friend for some wild hog sausage. Not a hog hunter, way too stinky for my taste as far as hunting.
We Have Some Out Of The Way Spots For First Day
There are places I absolutely will not go for the first few days of rifle season.
Plus toward the end of the season there is a better chance of snow on the ground.
Archery season is still running in PA. Rifle starts after Thanksgiving. My favorite is flintlock after Christmas.
Paul in PA
“I worry most about the Tim-the-Toolman wannabe's with their snorting and revved up everything, including their caffeine level, trespassing on my property.”
Down here in wonderland it ain’t caffeine they’re juiced up on, it’s Jack Daniels and Crown Royal. I’m amazed that more of them don’t shoot one another than they do. Half of them claim they can’t read so “No Trespassing” signs are not applicable in their world. That is until they encounter the business end of a pissed off farmers AK47.
Have a great weekend! B-)
ps: nice story paden!
> I do have several areas scouted out for squirrels and will be there to put some meat in the freezer.
Funny you should mention squirrel. I took this picture standing at the same spot as the deer, just after the deer left. My son has been out squirrel hunting and has not seen a one, so I wanted to let him know they still existed. But he did get a duck last weekend, while squirrel hunting.
Black fuzzy guy at base of tree. He was at the tree on left in foreground when I pulled out the camera.
Good news: all the hunters I meet ridicule the unseen hunters who take several shots in quick succession.
Bad news: I can hear several shots in quick succession.
Are you sure that isn't somebody's housecat? We don't get black squirrels here, only the red and grey variety.
Don't you have fox squirrels there? I know in southwest Georgia they are still around. They are mostly black and grey with a "few" solid black ones.
Andy
Yeah, but here the fox squirrels are red with a bushy black tail and black face. They are HUGE compared to the tree rats that pose as grey squirrels.
