Outdoorsman Thread

[kootenay joe]

Old Hunter and tree farmer, thanks for taking the time to explain how that style of hunting operates. I live in south central B.C. (due north of Spokane WA.) and no commercial activity to do with hunting is allowed. The only exception is licenced hunting guides which are needed by non resident hunters (mainly Americans) to hunt here.
I have 90 acres of mountainside bush with deer elk & bear on it much of the time. I can either allow others to hunt here or make it no hunting for anyone, but i cannot ask a fee or even meat from others to allow them to hunt.
In the mountains everyone lives along a little ribbon of land at the valley bottoms. All the rest of the land surface (about 97%) has no resident people and for the most part no people even passing through for decades at a time. So there are endless wild places to go hunting.
Tree stands don't work because there is so much cover the deer rarely take the exact same routes. I have a 30 acre field with bush on 2 sides. Suddenly in the middle of the field i'll see some deer about 150-200 yards away, but they were not there 10 seconds earlier. I never know where they came in from. They continually change their entry points.
So it's slow bush hunting on foot, lots of thick brush and deadfall in most places. Whitetail season here ends Nov 30th, rut peaks around Nov 25-30th. If we get some snow on the ground at the end of November that is the best hunting. You can see if they are around. If no tracks start hiking until you find some. And the bucks are truculent, fiesty, if they hear you coming they might just want to check you out instead of taking off.
kj

[treefarmer]

Whoa! Y'all back up a page to page 206 here on the Outdoorsman Thread. SteelMyHeart85420, what you got layin on the ground under the "modded kitchen knife", my friend? Looks like some kind of venison to me, tell us what went on !
Treefarmer

[SteelMyHeart85420]

That was indeed a large doe that joined us for breakfast Saturday morning, via my woman's car. Roadkill steak! One front shoulder and the ribs were busted up, the heart, backstraps and hind quarters are gonna be some fine eats for a few months. Be wary on the roads in November. I haven't gotten my deer this year, yet....hope I can use my bow or gun, instead of my Xterra.

[treefarmer]

Thank you Sir! Been there and done that 3 times personally , destroyed the whole left side of fairly new 1/2 ton Ford, one ruined the front of a Jeep Cherokee and one ran into the left front fender of a Ford Courier. Road kill is not the most profitable way to hunt but it does work, sorry y'all had that experience.
When I was working, there was a 20 mile stretch between the two towns where the schools we maintained were located. Several times over the years, one of the crew would call the shop and say, "Bossman, there's a fresh on the road, do we have time?" We were known to have a lot of Friday dinners at our shop, fish or venison was usually on the menu. Several times the elected school board Superintendent and elected board members bragged on the fine venison that the boys at the Maintenance Department fixed, never knowin' it started out as "road kill".
Treefarmer

[Old Hunter]

KJ, different worlds and different methods but all hunting, thanks for the insight.

SMH - I've always said there are more deer killed by GMC & Ford than by Browning and Winchester! OH

[garddogg56]

U gut that right OH and my Dodge did in a Moose

[SteelMyHeart85420]

Chalk up another for GMC (Chevy)....

[royal0014]

Deer are crazy. Years ago I had one kamakazi into the side of our ambulance;
we were running lights and sirens at the time .

I saw it when it bailed off the top of a small hill, heading straight for us. Nothing I could do but wait for the impact.
It hit just ahead of the rear driver's-side wheel. No damage, just blood and some hair under the chrome.
I don't know what happened to the deer.... we couldn't stop for it.

[jerryd6818]

Deer are crazy. Years ago I had one kamakazi into the side of our ambulance;
we were running lights and sirens at the time .

I saw it when it bailed off the top of a small hill, heading straight for us. Nothing I could do but wait for the impact.
It hit just ahead of the rear driver's-side wheel. No damage, just blood and some hair under the chrome.
I don't know what happened to the deer.... we couldn't stop for it.

So you're an EMT?

[royal0014]

Deer are crazy. Years ago I had one kamakazi into the side of our ambulance;
we were running lights and sirens at the time .

I saw it when it bailed off the top of a small hill, heading straight for us. Nothing I could do but wait for the impact.
It hit just ahead of the rear driver's-side wheel. No damage, just blood and some hair under the chrome.
I don't know what happened to the deer.... we couldn't stop for it.

So you're an EMT?

WAS an EMT (my wife was, too). Volunteer firefighter as well.
Long story .....

[Old Hunter]

Went to the woods this morning, a nice and brisk 35°, first good, cool morning we've had this season. Haven't seen a shooter doe yet; this eight point buck came out near my stand and I let him walk. He went into the woods, but he came back a few minutes later and gave me too long a look. Shot with a 130 grain Hornady hand load in a 270 WIN at 43 yards. Field dressed with a Buck 118 and cut up with an old Schrade USA 160OT. OH

Ps I didn't get a good photo of the 160OT, this is the closest I have. I'm being helped by a young man that has been hunting with me since he was 15 (he is 24 now) - a good, dependable partner and a steady hand and willing to work! If a young man wants you to take him and teach him do it - he might just become a great hunting partner.

[treefarmer]

Happiness is a fresh gut pile!
Congratulations, Bruce. Your a good man, I would have took a crack at him the 1st time but you did give him a chance .
Treefarmer

[CheckSix]

Awesome!! Nice buck and great knives to do the work with!

[TripleF]

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! Awesome pal!!!

What's even more impressive is your sharing the outdoors with another young man.....keepin' the outdoor spirit alive.

OK.......I'm wanting some venison jerky. I'll trade, barter cleaning/polishing svc, possibly pay cashola. PM me. The boys love venison jerky!

[bighomer]

Great stuff Bruce and a nice buck, thanks for taking a young man under your wing and mentoring in the art of hunting. On another note the turkeys came back this a.m.to my bird feeders first time in 6 wks after coming every day over the summer, I guess they findly ate up all the farmers leavings. .

[steve99f]

Nice Buck OH

[garddogg56]

Congratulations Bruce thats a great rack,what did he weight?I s your co-hunter the same young man from last year??nice job

[Old Hunter]

Thanks gents, appreciate all the congrats and well wishes. That is the same young man as last season; he could join a club and hunt on his own, but now that he is working and maturing I am just enjoying his company. His folks did a fine job raising him as he is really squared away. Dogg, I'd say that buck weighed about 150 lbs. Scott, I've never made jerky - I use venison for sausage, burger, and cubed for stews. OH

[Colonel26]

Very cool OH! Nice buck.

[philco]

Congrats OH. I hope to follow your lead in a couple of days.

[big monk]

Congrats Bruce -- nice buck !!!

[313 Mike]

Nice Buck Bruce, he will provide some tasty venison no doubt! I walked up on this scrawny little possum today in the woods...got right up close to him as he sauntered down the hill to his hole in an uprooted tree.....I was waiting for him to "play possum" but he seemed generally unconcerned about me. ....

[RobesonsRme.com]

If you had run up to him and started slapping him with your ball cap, he would have gone catatonic.

Saw a hunting partner do that once up on Sand Mountain. He carried that possum around the rest of the day by its tail. Every time it started waking up, he'd slap it some more and it would go back to sleep.

At the end of the day, he eventually carried it to his uncle, who caged it, fed it for a few weeks, then killed, cleaned, cooked and ate it.

Charlie

[garddogg56]

Gut the Vets fed back on the hunt...Ahhhhhh it ain't work

[TripleF]

Who's got it better than you DOGG?