It was about 630 and I stopped by publix on my way home from an afternoon hunt. I was checking out and the guy bagging my groceries asks me if I am going deer hunting. I said no, I've already been, I'm heading home now. He says, oh I wasn't sure, I know a lot of people deer hunt all night...lol.

He's right

I wear an old pair of camouflage pants all the time while I'm working outside. Last week I cut my neighbors yard, raked up leaves and cleaned his pool because he just got done with back surgery. So I finish this up around 4:30 and knock on his door to let him know I'm finished. He thanked me and then asked if I was going hunting this afternoon.

After coming home from hunting, the Wife used to always ask, "Did you catch one?"

Had to explain we don't catch them, we kill them.

Checkout girl at the grocery store where I stopped on my way home from the woods:
"Ohmygosh did you go hunting...like BY YOURSELF? I can't believe you can shoot stuff...OMG I just love animals too much."

"I love animals too much."

But she's ok gobbling steak, chicken, pork and fish.

Had this same conversation a few weeks ago with an older woman. She just couldn't understand how I could see "a beautiful deer and kill it." Told her I didn't see a beautiful deer. I saw a shoulder and pulled the trigger.

It's an animal, not a person or something to be put on a pedestal. Damned animal rights freaks in NYC have convinced the new mayor to do away with the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park because they say that's an "inhumane" thing to do to horses and animals.

Inhumane? Horses are freakin' work animals. People are so $(#@*$# stupid.

I like putting deer on pedestals.

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Touché.

X2 except this was mom growing up and really still to this day

For real....I was like honey this ain't no Disney movie. This is meat for my freezer. They won't think twice about rolling through the McDonald's drive thru for a nasty cheeseburger but Lord have mercy don't shoot Bambi.

It's inhumane and the horse stables are on some of the most valuable real estate in the city... just sayin.

How is it inhumane? That's what a horse or different types of breeds are bread for. To work not to play polo at the downtown athletic club.

About a year ago I went into the local post office and the clerk said "Oh!! I'd love to be a game warden! I'd protect all the animals and shoot all those hunters!" It caught me off guard, but then I asked her if she'd shoot me since I hunt? From there I had to give a little lesson on how I protect a renewable resource and how I encourage the use of those resources. I still don't believe she understood what I was saying.... Some people will never understand. It's just sad that she thinks shooting a hunter...a human, is justifiable if they hunt animals.

Are you saying that if I put my horse up in a a stable out of the climate, give him grain and hay, that is inhumane?? Or am I misunderstanding?

PETA would say so...and put the horse down....

I think he was insinuating that the "inhumane" part was a cover for the real estate issue.

The stables in NYC are located by central park on a piece of property that if developed into apartments would sell for hundreds of millions a unit. THe latest communist to become mayor was very well funded by a real estate developer. The first order of business was to try to get rid of the horses claiming it was inhumane. Thus paving the way for development. Its just like Obongo fighting the keystone pipeline claiming its because he loves the environment when it is really all about the guy that owns the rail company that transports oil and the shipping company that floats it giving him tons of money.
The funny thing is when those horses are no longer treated lik e kings in heated stables they will be shot and ground up.

I killed a big 7pt around 97-98 and my dad decided to hang it over night at friend of ours taxidermy shop in his cooler. The next day we went up there to skin it using his skinning rack. We were in the middle of skinning him when a man walked out of the hotel next door. He hollered at us and said you can't do that here. My dad looked at him and said do what? The guy said gut that deer dad replied we already gutted him were skinning him. The guy said I don't care you can't do that here. My dad by this time was getting I'll and asked the guy if he owned the place or was just staying there. The guy said just staying to which dad said then my advice is to take your ass back inside and mind your business. The guy said well the cops are on their way. Dad being pissed at this point hands me his knife and started toward the guy and he ran inside. A few min later a lady cop pulled up and started saying nice deer can I have the tail for my husband for jigs then told us this was not the first time the guy tried this. She went in and told him to leave the hunters alone came back got her tail and left.

Cullman? I would have had to make the statement that I cant stand mail clerks that talk to much and if I was the mail agents I would have to shoot them to protect customers. That or ask if talk like that was allowed with all of the past going postal bull crap.

Old buddy of mine's wife always asked us "did ya'll catch any!" We never corrected her cause it was to dang funny.