3 deer in just over a day's hunt.

[GettnHuge 2]

My dad and I went to the southwest corner of Meeechigan, a couple hours away. Every year we get bucks

out of there so we both bought buck tags. Of course in their crap state to get to their excellent deer, you have

to pay $138 for each tag...and you CAN'T use them for either sex. Doe tags are $100. Focking keeryst they

like to stick it to nonresidents who are doing them a service by hunting.

 

anyway, both of us set up blinds because the weather ahead looked poor. Damn good thing we did, all day thursday

was rain, snow, sleet and windy. My dad shoots an 8 pointer about 10am a few hundred yards away from me. Because of the

weather, we were going out to lunch so we load it up and go, he picks up a doe tag as several were also running around.

 

3pm a big doe is about 120yds away. What the fock I'll take a shot. missed...missed again. Focking-a I'm not having a

good day. Almost 5pm, thinking about quitting and a 4 pointer with a doe walks up to within 20 yards of me. Didn't miss that one.

 

Today we sit about a hunnert yards apart with the doe tag between us. 8am a doe wanders up the path closer to dad,

10am we're eating breakfast, 1pm home. Good trip.

 

Both bucks were just how I like my women. Small racks, huge corn-fed bodies.

4point

8point

[Isotopes 1]

My dad and I went to the southwest corner of Meeechigan, a couple hours away. Every year we get bucks

out of there so we both bought buck tags. Of course in their crap state to get to their excellent deer, you have

to pay $138 for each tag...and you CAN'T use them for either sex. Doe tags are $100. Focking keeryst they

like to stick it to nonresidents who are doing them a service by hunting.

 

anyway, both of us set up blinds because the weather ahead looked poor. Damn good thing we did, all day thursday

was rain, snow, sleet and windy. My dad shoots an 8 pointer about 10am a few hundred yards away. Because of the

weather, we were going out to lunch so we load it up and go, he picks up a doe tag as several were also running around.

 

3pm a big doe is about 120yds away. What the fock I'll take a shot. missed...missed again. Focking-a I'm not having a

good day. Almost 5pm, thinking about quitting and a 4 pointer with a doe walks up to within 20 yards of me. Didn't miss that one.

 

Today we sit about a hunnert yards apart with the doe tag between us. 8am a doe wanders up the path closer to dad,

10am we're eating breakfast, 1pm home. Good trip.

 

Both bucks were just how I like my women. Small racks, huge corn-fed bodies.

4point

8point

 

He shot the deer that was a few hundred yds (300) away? Is he a sniper or something?

[TheNewGirl 1,639]

Killing animals for sport is so sad.

[BiPolarBear 497]

Good hunt! I'll get me a deer one of these days. Maybe a hog too now that I am in Texor.

[GettnHuge 2]

He shot the deer that was a few hundred yds (300) away? Is he a sniper or something?

 

a few hundred yards away...from me

[GettnHuge 2]

Killing animals for sport is so sad.

 

I didn't exactly spike a football on the carcasses and dance.

[Isotopes 1]

a few hundred yards away...from me

 

Oh ok. That makes sense.

[shovelheadt 72]

Killing animals for sport is so sad.

 

For the animals it is.

[hoytdwow 202]

[shovelheadt 72]

Gettnhuge ain't sh1t!

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/1...eer.slayer.klrt

[TheNewGirl 1,639]

For the animals it is.

 

 

You bet.

 

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

[shovelheadt 72]

You bet.

 

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

 

Weak, leave the insult attempts to the guys.

[kutulu 1,724]

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

 

 

I love Thanksgiving.

[GettnHuge 2]

Weak, leave the insult attempts to the guys.

 

I'd post the pic of the doe, but it still had the drag rope around it's neck and tongue hanging out.

Also it would seem like I'm making fun of Lurch.

[porkbutt 897]

You bet.

 

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

stop it now. the man killed a dear and followed the regs. congrats to him.

[NorthernVike 2,105]

Congrats on the good hunt. On Nov. 3rd I bagged a real nice 8-pointer and my buddies got an 8(about the same size as yours) and a 5. We were done by noon the second day

 

 

 

 

As far as being cruel to animals GO FOCK yourselfs. Self-righteous hypocrites. Oh don't shoot a deer, but order a double bacon cheese burger from some fast food place You do realize that you have to Kill two animals for your morning snack

 

 

 

People

Eat

Tasty

Animals

[wiffleball 4,799]

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

 

You should never beat a dog.

 

 

Now a woman...

[wiffleball 4,799]

My dad and I went to the southwest corner of Meeechigan, a couple hours away....

 

Hi. First time caller. Love your show. Two questions:

 

1) Ideally, where do you shoot the Deer for a "kill shot"?

2) How the hell do you find a deer that takes off after it's been shot? Looks damn near impossible on TV.

 

 

Thanks. I'll hang up now and listen.

[Cdub100 3,996]

Fock you if you don't like it hunt in your own sh1tty state.

[BMoney 0]

You bet.

 

No different than beating a dog with a rake IMHO.

 

 

would you prefer that they walk around and starve to death? (which is what most do anyway)...

 

or would you maybe prefer that they run around desperate for food..only to run across the highway..being hit by a car and maybe killing a kid?...

 

theres a reason for a deer hunt....

[DuckStupid 40]

Hi. First time caller. Love your show. Two questions:

 

1) Ideally, where do you shoot the Deer for a "kill shot"?

2) How the hell do you find a deer that takes off after it's been shot? Looks damn near impossible on TV.

Thanks. I'll hang up now and listen.

 

1) Between the eyes

2) GPS

[Yer mom 2]

My dad and I went to the southwest corner of Meeechigan, a couple hours away. Every year we get bucks

out of there so we both bought buck tags. Of course in their crap state to get to their excellent deer, you have

to pay $138 for each tag...and you CAN'T use them for either sex. Doe tags are $100. Focking keeryst they

like to stick it to nonresidents who are doing them a service by hunting.

 

anyway, both of us set up blinds because the weather ahead looked poor. Damn good thing we did, all day thursday

was rain, snow, sleet and windy. My dad shoots an 8 pointer about 10am a few hundred yards away. Because of the

weather, we were going out to lunch so we load it up and go, he picks up a doe tag as several were also running around.

 

3pm a big doe is about 120yds away. What the fock I'll take a shot. missed...missed again. Focking-a I'm not having a

good day. Almost 5pm, thinking about quitting and a 4 pointer with a doe walks up to within 20 yards of me. Didn't miss that one.

 

Today we sit about a hunnert yards apart with the doe tag between us. 8am a doe wanders up the path closer to dad,

10am we're eating breakfast, 1pm home. Good trip.

 

Both bucks were just how I like my women. Small racks, huge corn-fed bodies.

4point

8point

 

Nice job, most of my buddies hunt also but I wish the deer had a fair chance to shoot you in the fockin face

[OakHeadFootball 1]

Nice job.

 

My opening day went like such

 

Just set up a new stand a few days before landowner season and was not comfortable at all in it. Was shifting around a lot and making noise because my back was bugging me and had pretty much wrote the evening off.

 

Well right around sunset I get the old familiar "crunch, crunch" of a animal behind me. I get stood up and turned around and glass a large doe crossing 75 yards or so behind me heading for a shooting lane. I take a nice broadside shot on it and it bolts just out of site heading towards the huge swamp I am next to.

 

When I cycle my bolt the empty brass gets jammed backwards in my chamber and I focused on getting the jam cleared in case I needed to take a follow up shot. So I sit tight for a few listening and looking for any sign that the deer I just shot. Fairly confident but not sure that the animal was down I unload and start climbing down when I hear brush crackling right on the side of me in the direction the first deer was circling. So I assume that this is the only deer that was close to me and start to fret that I just wounded it.

 

I climb back up quietly, reload and as soon as I close my bolt a deer hops out of the swamp right next to me. It sees me in the stand, throws up its flag and bolts about 10 yards away and stops. In the few seconds I had to make a decision I thought I might have seen it limping and assumed this was the animal I just fired at. So I draw on it and take a second shot at its vitals even though it is quartering away from me. The deer starts running and goes into a small depression where I lose sight of it again.

 

So I sit and wait some more. It starts getting dark and I decide to get down so I can mark a blood trail if I have to track it in the dark. Half way down the tree stand I hear brush cracking again in the swamp. So I climb back up, again, and listen to a deer next to me, trying to get a peek at it through the scope. At this point I don't know what the hell is going on, 1 deer? 2 deer? both wounded? It gets dark enough that another shot would be sketchy even if I had full view of it so I get out of the stand again and make some noise to see if the animal would run away full speed or if I could hear it struggling in the swamp. It runs away full speed and I start walking to the depression the deer ran into when I took my second shot and see a dead deer lying in it. Wow, great I said to myself, a good clean kill. But it looks quite a bit smaller that the deer I shot at first now that I am standing over it. So I mosey over to the first shot and not 20 yards from it I got a huge doe laying dead. My first double and I was not even really trying to. Both nice clean vital shots.

 

I have passed up taking 2 at once several times in the past because it is a major job hauling them out, tracking, butchering, ect and I try not to be greedy knowing I have only so much freezer space. But boy I have to say it felt REALLY good seeing the second deer laying dead and just knowing I did not have a wounded animal gimping around the woods. I REALLY hate that. It was nice to know that I made good decisions on shot placement, patience, ect and even though my goal was not to take 2 animals if it went the same way again I would react the same. 10 years ago this would have probably had a very different outcome and not a season passes where I don't end up saying "I have never seen that happen before."

[Boomer2 0]

Hi. First time caller. Love your show. Two questions:

 

1) Ideally, where do you shoot the Deer for a "kill shot"?

2) How the hell do you find a deer that takes off after it's been shot? Looks damn near impossible on TV.

Thanks. I'll hang up now and listen.

 

1) Behind the front shoulder, lungs/heart area

2) If hit in said heart/lung area, finding is very simple.....Follow the blood

[GettnHuge 2]

Hi. First time caller. Love your show. Two questions:

 

1) Ideally, where do you shoot the Deer for a "kill shot"?

2) How the hell do you find a deer that takes off after it's been shot? Looks damn near impossible on TV.

Thanks. I'll hang up now and listen.

 

Just behind the front shoulder RinK

Go for the lungs and heart as marked on the target.

If you shoot in in the chest or further back with a gutshot, it will likely run a bit. The one I hit didn't go far.

Shooting at the head or neck is considered unsportsmanlike among hunters. Not cool at all. Shooting it in the

rear happens sometimes if they jump or are moving, that ruins a good bit of meat.

 

Follow the blood trail. I'm sure you can see how blood looks on the ground in the pics.

[OakHeadFootball 1]

Just behind the front shoulder RinK

Go for the lungs and heart as marked on the target.

If you shoot in in the chest or further back with a gutshot, it will likely run a bit. The one I hit didn't go far.

Shooting at the head or neck is considered unsportsmanlike among hunters. Not cool at all. Shooting it in the

rear happens sometimes if they jump or are moving, that ruins a good bit of meat.

 

Follow the blood trail. I'm sure you can see how blood looks on the ground in the pics.

 

 

 

I will disagree on the neck shots. The swamp I hunt the edge of is nothing you want to be dragging or tracking an animal through. I have taken many neck shots over the years when I get them in very close to avoid it. IMHO they are the cleanest kills you can make. They feel no pain and drop instantly if you break the spinal column. I did have one that I hit low in the neck several years ago that I needed a follow up shot on but mostly because I didn't want to see it gurgling while it bled out.

 

Head shots I completely agree that they are a poor choice for the simple fact if your shot is off you are going to basically maim its face and it is going to run and suffer.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Sweet, good hunt.

 

BTW, non-resident liscenes are so high because probably 70% of the populaton in Michigan goes hunting in the state and they really don't need more people hunting in the state, but, whatever.

 

I haven't been hunting in about 7 or 8 years, if i went hunting, i would go bow hunting though, a lot more skill in bow hunting IMO.

[Cdub100 3,996]

Sweet, good hunt.

 

BTW, non-resident liscenes are so high because probably 70% of the populaton in Michigan goes hunting in the state and they really don't need more people hunting in the state, but, whatever.

 

I haven't been hunting in about 7 or 8 years, if i went hunting, i would go bow hunting though, a lot more skill in bow hunting IMO.

 

I would say 70% is a little high

[CantTouchThis 23]

I would say 70% is a little high

 

Nope, you are wrong sir.....

[potts17 4]

Nope, you are wrong sir.....

 

 

So there are 10,095,643 people in Michigan according to an estimate by the Census dept. in 2006. Are you seriously trying to tell us that 7,066,950 people in the state of Michigan currently are avid hunters?

 

According to this link Link

 

which is from 2005, only 671,000 hunters (total, not just Michigan residents) hunted deer that year in Michigan. You are only off by about 6 and 1/2 million people.

 

Here is the actual chart of hunters buying licenses for resident/non-resident/youth, etc, which shows all licenses purchased in 2005, note that many people buy more than 1 tag, thus the 1.2 million sold total.

 

Table 2. Number of Michigan deer licenses purchased and harvest tags issued, 2003-

2005.

Number Purchased or Issued

Licenses or Harvest Tags 2003 2004 2005

Change

Between

2004 and

2005 (%)

Firearm Licenses

Resident 296,570 267,661 244,210 -8.8

Non-resident 14,791 13,229 12,107 -8.5

Senior 32,719 32,638 31,967 -2.1

Military 27 444 559 25.9

Subtotal 344,107 313,972 288,843 -8.0

Archery Licenses

Resident 51,724 47,984 44,486 -7.3

Non-resident 3,122 2,840 2,853 0.5

Junior 8,946 8,337 7,653 -8.2

Senior 3,182 3,166 3,103 -2.0

Military 19 135 161 19.3

Subtotal 66,993 62,462 58,256 -6.7

Combination Licensesa

Resident 309,319 307,592 294,660 -4.2

Non-resident 1,688 1,738 1,637 -5.8

Junior 33,040 33,895 33,179 -2.1

Senior 27,650 29,074 30,050 3.4

Military 157 356 649 82.3

Subtotal 371,854 372,655 360,175 -3.3

Antlerless Licensesb

Resident 575,077 568,138 484,734 -14.7

Non-resident 4,930 4,824 3,413 -29.2

Junior 4,941 4,667 4,084 -12.5

Military 23 266 486 82.7

Deer Management Assistance 6,434 6,728 5,182 -23.0

Managed Deer Hunt 0 0 1,156

Subtotal 591,405 584,623 499,055 -14.6

Total Licenses Sold 1,374,359 1,333,712 1,206,329 -9.6

Harvest Tags Issued

Firearm 344,107 313,972 288,843 -8.0

Archery 66,993 62,462 58,256 -6.7

Combination 743,708 745,310 720,350 -3.3

Antlerless 631,734 584,623 499,055 -14.6

Total Harvest Tags 1,786,542 1,706,367 1,566,504 -8.2

aCombination licenses included two harvest tags. Other license types had one harvest tag.

bIn 2003, two harvest tags were issued with 40,329 antlerless licenses sold for eight management units in

northeast LP.

[tubby_mcgee 702]

Both bucks were just how I like my women. Small racks, huge corn-fed bodies.

4point

8point

 

 

Why'd you shoot such puny things? And why just take a picture of the deer laying there in a pile? Why not get the hunter, the deer, his gun all in the pick, and have the hunter holding the deer by his antlers, both facing the camera?

 

I used to think you knew what you were doing.

 

The deer laying like it is, makes it look like roadkill.

 

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Yes, I just said serioustly.

[mobb_deep 921]

Got to love white trash. AMERICA FOCK YA!

[GettnHuge 2]

Why'd you shoot such puny things?

 

because your mom never wandered close enough?

[JWD 0]

Congratulations on a good hunt .

 

Try cutting some of the backstrap into small cubes, wrap them with peppercorn bacon and splash some of your favorite BBQ sauce on them. Throw them on the grill and cook them to your liking. Ummmmmm there is nothing better.

[GettnHuge 2]

Sweet, good hunt.

 

BTW, non-resident liscenes are so high because probably 70% of the populaton in Michigan goes hunting in the state and they really don't need more people hunting in the state, but, whatever.

 

I haven't been hunting in about 7 or 8 years, if i went hunting, i would go bow hunting though, a lot more skill in bow hunting IMO.

 

I also bow hunt on my own property and at my parents. We own enough land to write up our own tags.

There were deer everywhere, they are well fed with so many corn fields in the area. But go farther north in the lower

peninsula and you will find smaller deer. Their population is getting out of hand and there's not enough food already.

[Big C 0]

Congratulations on a good hunt .

 

Try cutting some of the backstrap into small cubes, wrap them with peppercorn bacon and splash some of your favorite BBQ sauce on them. Throw them on the grill and cook them to your liking. Ummmmmm there is nothing better.

 

 

WTF?!?!? Ruin a good backstrap with bbq sauce!?!? The nerve of some people, Backstrap goes straight from the deer when you gut it onto the portable grill with minimal seasonings. Also if it is your first deer you must drink a cup of its blood

[TylerRoseFan 16]

I don't own guns. I don't hunt. However, most hunters are the most green conscience people out there. Most of them understand the limits of the hunt and why they are there. More importantly, they abide by the laws. Of course there are rogues out there who give the vast majority a bad name, but they are fare and few in between.

 

TNG is an idiot for her post.

[Jwood 0]

congrats on the deer.

 

i love hunting.

[AmbassadorOfKwan 0]

Why go out and freeze my nutz off when I can get the same deer meat without putting forth all that effort. Seems like hunters favorite thing to do i share the kill with non hunters. On the other hand, anyone who has ever tasted moose, I guess they could understand it all.

[CantTouchThis 23]

So there are 10,095,643 people in Michigan according to an estimate by the Census dept. in 2006. Are you seriously trying to tell us that 7,066,950 people in the state of Michigan currently are avid hunters?

 

SARCASM, my gawd people, calm down. I am not an avid hunter, but, a lot of people in Michigan are, obviously no where near 70% though. Michigan sells more fishing liscene's than any other state(at least that is what i heard) at about 2.5 million, and that is still only about 20-25% of the population, and hunting liscenes are ALOT more....