We don't worry about it. Fridays are the only days that I'm even half leary as folks take a three day weekend.
Bow season starts here Oct. 1 (MLD gun season is Oct. 1 through Feb. 28 unless the club requires it differently) and general gun season, not on MLD, is Nov. 1-Dec. 6ish with youth seasons on each side.
Good lord, we'd be out of work for months if we fretted about it. 🙂
everybody likes a deer
ever 
Steven Roessner, post: 345862, member: 9988 wrote: everybody likes a deer
ever
Yummy looking. They wrote a song about her..
"..do a deer, a female deer, ra a drop of golden sun, me a name I call myself, fa.... a long long way to run.... bla bla bla...."
Looks like she is carrying twins
That time of year I'm usually too busy planning a hunt or out hunting to give it much thought.
Are you talkin to me? I am not ready yet........
I'm sort of careful during some hunts, mainly the deer hunt. Avoid being in the woods if I can and wear high vis if I do go out.
I don't hunt myself with a license and weapons, never have. I have however, bagged 5 deer with my drivers license and the wife is up to two. We support our local auto repair shop. I do have some hunting tools, a new long on that has never been used, got it last year, getting a optical instrument for it this year. It's a high powered varmint cleaner of the 223 family. Hope the need never exceeds squirrels, rabbits and rock chucks.
I live on a rural state highway. Its hunting season all year long here. There is a dead two point buck just north of the house today that I need to call and have it cleaned up. There is at least ten deer hunted and bagged within 1/4 mile of my house every year with a drivers license. I try to wear high vis when working in these areas also, the hunting never stops.
Had a 12 pointer wander across the road in front of me a few minutes ago. I was in no hurry. Neither was he. Somehow he knew he was safe. Less than 1/4 mile from where I'm sitting right now.
Headed out to get on the four-wheeler to do a bit of surveillance to see how many deer stands I will need to remove from my property before December 1. Fools think they can put them up and I'll never know. They learn they hard way......whoever they are. NO ONE HAS PERMISSION TO HUNT ON ANY OF MY LAND. Not even me.
The deer around here run upwards a thousand pounds and are supported on long spindly legs to keep them up at about windshield height. In low light when they're most active, they're nearly invisible and have a nasty habit of bolting out in front of you when you blink or surprise one coming around a turn. During deep snow years they often pick the cleared roadways to save energy leading to hundreds of collisions and more than a few fatalities.
Holy Cow, post: 345871, member: 50 wrote: Had a 12 pointer wander across the road in front of me a few minutes ago. I was in no hurry. Neither was he. Somehow he knew he was safe. Less than 1/4 mile from where I'm sitting right now.
Headed out to get on the four-wheeler to do a bit of surveillance to see how many deer stands I will need to remove from my property before December 1. Fools think they can put them up and I'll never know. They learn they hard way......whoever they are. NO ONE HAS PERMISSION TO HUNT ON ANY OF MY LAND. Not even me.
Do keep the stands and sell on ebay?
Holy Cow, post: 345871, member: 50 wrote: Had a 12 pointer wander across the road in front of me a few minutes ago. I was in no hurry. Neither was he. Somehow he knew he was safe. Less than 1/4 mile from where I'm sitting right now...
We lived in Colorado for a few years when I was kid. Holidays sometimes would find us back down in Okie land to visit family. Pops had a brand spankin' new 1964 Impala SS with a fire-breathing 409 V8. It was a beast. Driving from Colorado to Oklahoma was Pop's big challenge. He always like to "make it straight through" which meant you'd better be able to pee in Dixie cup.
Somewhere in the middle of the night between Garden City, KS and Lamar, CO Pops had the Chevy red-lined at about 90 mph. Being a teenager that would, hopefully, in a few years be able to pilot that wonderful machine myself; I was sitting co-pilot up front with the rest of the clan in the back seat snoring.
Suddenly out of the dark, a huge buck appeared and stood on the solid line at the edge of the pavement. We didn't miss him by 2". I though it was an Elk, Pops thought a Muley. I had never seen an animal that big and grand. His rack went up forever. Pops didn't even flinch. I looked over at him and his fingers were trembling on the steering wheel. "Almost hit him....that would've made a mess" was all he said for the next hour.
I bet there was buck snot on the passenger side windows. It was CLOSE.
Same in StL. When we leave the office we have a 1:1166 chance of being murdered.
Assuming the City population holds steady 350,000 and the current murder count is 300 to date.
Probably a much higher risk than walking through the woods of SE Missouri.
Yeah, the bull elk will just stand in the middle of THEIR road. If you crashed into one of them going 90, yeah, it would make a MESS for sure. Did Pops slow down after that?
Many a night I've spent preparing a fresh roadkill from out front of the house that woke me from a sound sleep.;-)
Anyone who places a stand on my land had better be able to afford to have it disappear.
Made a very careful study of the most likely place for said stands to appear earlier. None were seen. Of course, they are really tough to spot sometimes. I'll make another round closer to December 1.
Being a surveyor in the area I practice has allowed me an advantage for being in the "woods" all year long and being able to recognize and keep up with the signs of wildlife.
I have located areas where the larger game tracks are and see and find the signs of wildlife such as turkey, bear and mountain lion that very few local people see in their lifetimes.
It is nice reward a good client with advice of when to be at a location and where to sit and wait for their trophy.
I will never run out of stories about city fellers that have come here and leased land years after year who return to their metro homes without ever having more than an enjoyable camping experience. I still have scattered thoughts of the group from the Ford plant that attempted using gasoline for cooking oil. :-/
We at least invite them into camp for a feast of what they are missing.
LRDay, post: 345885, member: 571 wrote: ...Did Pops slow down after that?
Nope. For a man that never even had fender bender he drove cars like he had stolen them.
