The Original Hunting Thread

[SCR]

Since many of you hang out here, I thought it might be interesting to start this thread to give those outdoorsman here a small place to check out while you're already on this website.
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<O:p</O:pSurely some of the guys (and girls) on here are avid outdoorsman. And although lying on the beach in Playa is done outdoors, this doesn’t constitute being an outdoorsman, at least for the purpose of this thread anyways.
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<O:p</O:pI’m really curious as to who the hunters, rifle or bow, are on here. If you think this is you, then please speak up and share an experience or two. I’d enjoy hearing from you; perhaps even uploading some pictures from past hunts. I’m very interested in how other hunters made out this year and where and what they hunt for. Within the next couple of years I would like to get down to the states and hunt Elk. Yes, I know we have them out west here in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><ST1:pCanada</ST1:p</st1:country-region>, but for me it’s not only the hunt, but the trip/vacation as well.
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I’m very lucky to have permission to hunt 160 acres of private that abuts 600 acres of Crown land 20 minutes from my house. I and two friends have been hunting there for years. All of our stands are built by us. Nothing fancy, but they work and they’re safe. I do, however, use the Gorilla Kong hang style for moose. But that’s only because I hunt moose on Crown land in a different area than I do the rest. As you know, I need it to be portable to take it home with me and to keep it from growing legs if I decide to leave it overnight.
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<O:p</O:pI hunt moose, bear, deer and small game (coyote, rabbit, grouse”partridge”). I’ve hunted ducks before but don’t generally plan any serious hunting around them. They taste great if they’re prepared properly. This year produced large numbers for the folks I hunt with. I alone shot two black bear, about 240lbs each (I know, small huh?). One of them at 207yds-on the rangefinder-with a .243WSSM, while I was lying on my belly in the grass. That new little magnum by <st1:City><ST1:pWinchester</ST1:p</st1:City> really packs a punch. And the other one at 32yds…on the ground! Spotted him (boar) at over 300yds and stalked him to 32. That was close enough. It was a little unnerving to say the least.
Anyways I also shot a cow moose at 160yds with my 7mm mag. No biggy. And I was fortunate enough to take an eight pointer during the deer rifle season, AND fill a doe tag with my bow late in the season.
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<O:p</O:pIn-between seasons, I get out as much as possible to scout and hunt grouse and rabbit. I generally pick up a shed or two, but I find after the mice get at them, they don’t quite look the same. I save whatever I find and give them to a friend of mine who is making a chandelier out of sheds. It actually looks quite nice; no to redneckish. Know what I mean?
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Anyways I thought I would roll the dice on this subject/thread and see what comes up. Hey, it they come up snake eyes, at least I took a shot at sharing with you folks what I’m passionate about.
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Here’s to living life in the outdoors!
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Happy huntin’!
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Shawn
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p.s. I’m still trying to figure out how to post a pic in here. I’ll have some up shortly. And I think it’s only fair that if you’re posting photographs, they be tasteful. i.e..no gore.


Edit: I've attempted to clean this original post up by removing the additional keystrokes that are sometimes added inadvertantly by MS Word.

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[kirbyfan]

Looks like you need to go smiley face hunting!

[jx2]

Hey Shawn I dont know what the heck a "Gorilla Kong hang style" is but I hunt a little. Not an avid crazed hunter type though. Just blacktail, and a little grouse when there sittin in the road. There is a fair amount of hunting around here, but its not what it used to be. There hasnt been enough logging and the high numbers of bear and cougar keep the deer populations down. Elk on the other hand are increasing in numbers(as they dont need the cuts). .

Mostly just a fisherman and the last year I didnt even get into that.

[roni]

I hunt in the meat section of the grocery store

I fish right next to that section

[Bumper]

THE DEER HUNT

1:00 AM - Alarm clock rings
2:00 AM - Hunting partners arrive, drag you out of bed
2:30 AM - Throw everything except the kitchen sink into the pick-up
3:00 AM - Leave for the deep woods
3:15 AM - Return home to pick up gun
3:30 AM - Set up camp. Realize you forgot the damned tent
4:00 AM - Return home for tent. Drive like Hell to get back to woods before daylight
4:30 AM - Set up tent
6:05 AM - Head out for the woods
6:06 AM - See eight deer
6:07 AM - Take aim and squeeze the trigger
6:08 AM - CLICK
6:09 AM - Watch deer go over the hill
7:00 AM - Load gun back at camp
7:30 AM - Back to the woods
11:00 AM - Head back to camp
12:00 AM - Hopelessly lost. Fire gun for help. Eat wild berries
12:15 PM - Run out of bullets. Eight deer return
12:20 PM - Strange feeling in stomach
12:30 PM - Realize you ate poison berries
12:45 PM - Rescued
12:55 PM - Rushed to hospital to have stomach pumped
3:00 PM - Arrive back at camp
3:30 PM - Leave camp to kill deer
4:00 PM - Return to camp for bullets
4:01 PM - Load gun. Leave camp again
5:00 PM - Empty gun at squirrel who is bugging you
6:00 PM - Arrive back at camp. See deer grazing beside tent
6:01 PM - Load gun
6:02 PM - Fire gun
6:03 PM - One dead pick-up truck
6:05 PM - Hunting partner arrives in camp dragging deer
6:06 PM - Repress desire to shoot hunting partner
6:07 PM - Fall into campfire
6:10 PM - Change clothes. Throw burned ones onto fire
6:15 PM - Take pick-up, leaving hunting partner and his deer in camp.
6:25 PM - Pick-up boils over - hole shot in block
6:26 PM - Start walking
6:30 PM - Stumble and fall. Drop gun in mud
6:35 PM - Meet bear
6:36 PM - Take aim
6:37 PM - Fire gun. Barrel explodes - plugged with mud
6:38 PM - Shit in pants
6:39 PM - Climb tree
9:00 PM - Bear finally leaves. Wrap *%!@#$% gun around tree
Midnight - Home at last

[SCR]

Originally Posted by jx2

Hey Shawn I dont know what the heck a "Gorilla Kong hang style" is but I hunt a little. Not an avid crazed hunter type though. Just blacktail, and a little grouse when there sittin in the road. There is a fair amount of hunting around here, but its not what it used to be. There hasnt been enough logging and the high numbers of bear and cougar keep the deer populations down. Elk on the other hand are increasing in numbers(as they dont need the cuts). .

Mostly just a fisherman and the last year I didnt even get into that.

Hey Jeff.

Perhaps I should have typed out the entire name It's called the Gorilla King Kong Tree Stand. Just a regular metal hang-on style. They were recently on sale at Wal-Mart for about 60$CAD.

I haven't had the pleasure of hunting in States yet, but look forward to getting down there one of these days for Elk. Ontario is trying to introduce these animales here but the numbers just aren't what we would like them to be; certainly not high enough to hunt anyways.

With all the bears and cougars running about there are seasons for these, no? I know a couple of farmers that "hire" me to cull their farmland of bears. It seems to be a real problem here in Ontario since the Gov't discontinued the spring bear hunt. Now they're scrambling to figure out what to do.

Ahhh fishing. Spring can't come soon enough for me. Last spring I hooked into a 12lb splake. (crossbred speckle/brookie and a lake trout) Being that the world record is 20lbs, that's not bad. And it was caught less than an hour from my home. By the way, do you guys have splake where you fish?

Shawn

[SCR]

Originally Posted by Bumper

THE DEER HUNT

1:00 AM - Alarm clock rings
2:00 AM - Hunting partners arrive, drag you out of bed
2:30 AM - Throw everything except the kitchen sink into the pick-up
3:00 AM - Leave for the deep woods
3:15 AM - Return home to pick up gun
3:30 AM - Set up camp. Realize you forgot the damned tent
4:00 AM - Return home for tent. Drive like Hell to get back to woods before daylight
4:30 AM - Set up tent
6:05 AM - Head out for the woods
6:06 AM - See eight deer
6:07 AM - Take aim and squeeze the trigger
6:08 AM - CLICK
6:09 AM - Watch deer go over the hill
7:00 AM - Load gun back at camp
7:30 AM - Back to the woods
11:00 AM - Head back to camp
12:00 AM - Hopelessly lost. Fire gun for help. Eat wild berries
12:15 PM - Run out of bullets. Eight deer return
12:20 PM - Strange feeling in stomach
12:30 PM - Realize you ate poison berries
12:45 PM - Rescued
12:55 PM - Rushed to hospital to have stomach pumped
3:00 PM - Arrive back at camp
3:30 PM - Leave camp to kill deer
4:00 PM - Return to camp for bullets
4:01 PM - Load gun. Leave camp again
5:00 PM - Empty gun at squirrel who is bugging you
6:00 PM - Arrive back at camp. See deer grazing beside tent
6:01 PM - Load gun
6:02 PM - Fire gun
6:03 PM - One dead pick-up truck
6:05 PM - Hunting partner arrives in camp dragging deer
6:06 PM - Repress desire to shoot hunting partner
6:07 PM - Fall into campfire
6:10 PM - Change clothes. Throw burned ones onto fire
6:15 PM - Take pick-up, leaving hunting partner and his deer in camp.
6:25 PM - Pick-up boils over - hole shot in block
6:26 PM - Start walking
6:30 PM - Stumble and fall. Drop gun in mud
6:35 PM - Meet bear
6:36 PM - Take aim
6:37 PM - Fire gun. Barrel explodes - plugged with mud
6:38 PM - Shit in pants
6:39 PM - Climb tree
9:00 PM - Bear finally leaves. Wrap *%!@#$% gun around tree
Midnight - Home at last

That's good Bumper! Incidently, I've encountered some of those myself in the past and can relate quite easily.

Shawn

[Banzoomba]

We used to have a cabin at Deep Creek in Maryland big hunting area one morning during deer season my Brother an I set up a golf tee on top the hill and started driving balls into the tree line.....you would not believe how many shots broke out as our drives crashed through the brush....pretty scary

[SCR]

Originally Posted by Banzoomba

We used to have a cabin at Deep Creek in Maryland big hunting area one morning during deer season my Brother an I set up a golf tee on top the hill and started driving balls into the tree line.....you would not believe how many shots broke out as our drives crashed through the brush....pretty scary

Yikes!!! Yeah that is pretty scary.

I recall years back I was hunting with a guy who was a freind of a friend sorta thing. Anyways were in the bush doing a stalk and walk and we hear something ahead of us about 40yds or so. He says to me, "i'll take a couple of sound shots and you keep "6". I turned around and walked out to my truck. That was the Last time I hunted with him.

Shawn

[SCR]

Originally Posted by roni

I hunt in the meat section of the grocery store

I fish right next to that section

Got any pictures?

Shawn

[jx2]

Originally Posted by SCR

Hey Jeff.

Perhaps I should have typed out the entire name It's called the Gorilla King Kong Tree Stand. Just a regular metal hang-on style. They were recently on sale at Wal-Mart for about 60$CAD.

I haven't had the pleasure of hunting in States yet, but look forward to getting down there one of these days for Elk. Ontario is trying to introduce these animales here but the numbers just aren't what we would like them to be; certainly not high enough to hunt anyways.

With all the bears and cougars running about there are seasons for these, no? I know a couple of farmers that "hire" me to cull their farmland of bears. It seems to be a real problem here in Ontario since the Gov't discontinued the spring bear hunt. Now they're scrambling to figure out what to do.

Ahhh fishing. Spring can't come soon enough for me. Last spring I hooked into a 12lb splake. (crossbred speckle/brookie and a lake trout) Being that the world record is 20lbs, that's not bad. And it was caught less than an hour from my home. By the way, do you guys have splake where you fish?

Shawn

Tree stand makes sense. Yes there are seasons for bear and cougar, actually they are the easiest tags to get, all you have to do is pay for tags. They outlawed dogs for cougar and ever since poulations have gotten to be a problem. They are impossible to hunt here without dogs because of the brush and the terrain. Usually just ranchers and govt. trappers that get cougar. Bear is pretty easy here, but who likes bear...yuck... except for the pepperoni sticks and who needs 300lbs of pepperoni sticks

No splake here. Just salmon(kings and coho)(springers and fall), steelhead(winter and summer), sturgeon, and lots of bottom fish in the ocean.

[SCR]

I just recently signed up at the Photobucket site so I hope this works. This was taken late November. If it does, this is the LARGEST buck rub I have ever seen! I'm 6ft tall so this is one large deer! And yes, it's a deer rub, not a moose rub. Check out how deep the antlers cut into the tree!!

I don't have a "working" digital camera (i'm such a looser) so my pictures are limited to hardcopies. But I do have some from my past hunts that friends have taken and will get those up.

Shawn

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...g/dd0fab8e.jpg

[jx2]

Originally Posted by SCR

He says to me, "i'll take a couple of sound shots and you keep "6". I turned around and walked out to my truck. That was the Last time I hunted with him.

Shawn

Thats what I am always afraid of, idiots like that I just dont understand how a person can shoot at something they cant see, man you could end up in prison for just killing an animal out of season around here, let alone a person. If ya just gotta shoot your dam gun at least aim it in the air, but a rock will sure let you know what it is. Heres your pic and that is huge, looks almost like a bear scratch?

[cpfstich]

Originally Posted by SCR

Yikes!!! Yeah that is pretty scary. I recall years back I was hunting with a guy who was a freind of a friend sorta thing. Anyways were in the bush doing a stalk and walk and we hear something ahead of us about 40yds or so. He says to me, "i'll take a couple of sound shots and you keep "6". I turned around and walked out to my truck. That was the Last time I hunted with him. Shawn

WOW! That guy is an idiot.

[SCR]

If you look carefully behind the that tree and directly beside the birch, you will see another tree like the one I'm standing beside with similar size rub marks.

This rub line goes for about 40yds in each direction at 10 yd intervals! It truely is by far THE largest DEER rub I've seen by far. It only took me 25 years to find it.

Shawn