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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 246
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Oct 2008
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No matter how many times I tell myself I am going to shoot a doe today I seem to talk myself out of it. Killed one with bow and need meat but I have lost the need for blood in my truck!!! Anybody else??
Do work son
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14 point
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I only shoot one when it's convenient. Early in the day and where I can pull the fourwheeler close to it.
Take your kids hunting instead of hunting your kids.
I'd rather be LOST in the woods than FOUND in the city.
Drive a hybrid, I need your gas.
Your mind is your primary weapon. Never let it get rusty.
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Joined: Jan 2013
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Freak of Nature
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Joined: Jan 2013
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Has been 3 or 4 years since I shot one and I used to kill 10 or so most years. Now it just seems like a lot of work.
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Posts: 183
3 point
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why
the taste better then a buck but meat is meat
suck it up,grow a bigger pair and love what GOD gave you
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 15,167 Likes: 7
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Joined: Mar 2013
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I hate having to drag one a long way but I still shoot several a year and say why did I shoot her back here.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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4 point
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4 point
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I usually shootem when I have a guest so they can help.
Do work son
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 22,605 Likes: 22
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Joined: Nov 2011
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We've stopped shooting does. We prefer to actually see deer most hunts vs decimating our herd. We have a low population to start with.
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I don't shoot many, and I just never kill one with a gun. For me it's because nobody else in the house eats deer, so I don't ever have one processed (I give them all away, or donate it to the Helping the Hungry program). It's just a "cost vs benefit" analysis for me... isn't enough fun to justify the work. I've killed does before in the evenings and tried for hours to find someone who'd take her.
Then also for me, I'm mostly hunting on two places now: One of which doesn't allow doe harvest, and the other place is has a low density, so I choose not to kill them there. I'm just sorta "horn huntin".
Last edited by ikillbux; 11/30/14 04:25 PM.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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I have so many hunts where I don't see any deer that when I actually see something I have a dilemma. I really want to shoot because I hunt so hard without seeing many deer but I feel guilty if I shoot a doe because I'm just adding to my first problem.
Does anyone know an estimate of how big an effect killing one doe has on the population in 5 years? I bet it's close to 15 less deer and keeps growing exponentially.
I'm not against shooting does but the places I hunt (mostly public land) there seems to be a low population.
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Booner
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Have killed 5 so far and may kill 20 more. Just depends on what the properties need. Much rather have doe meat in the freezer for sure.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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4 point
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When my wife isnt pregnant(we have a 15 month old and another due in march) I have no problem filling the freezer. She hunts to kill.
Do work son
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Have not hunted any properties in a long time that needed does harvested for management purposes so it has been a long time since I have shot a doe. The few we are allowed to shoot I leave to my members that need the meat more.....
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Barry, are you still in charge of the BHA hunts at oak mountain?
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12 point
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12 point
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I have been trying to kill 3-4 for the freezer since season opened and have only seen one I could get a shot at all I have seen is small bucks go figure you would think killing a couple does would be a lot easier in a place that is overpopulated.
If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Freak of Nature
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Proud Army and ALNG veteran
God Bless America!
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I've killed 4 and just getting started. I don't have a problem killing them except the fact that I can longer kill two a day. That hurts.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I've killed 4 and just getting started. I don't have a problem killing them except the fact that I can longer kill two a day. That hurts. Yup, when I'm in the mood, I'd just soon deal with two as one.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Our doe population is pretty level this year and I am a firm believer in waiting for something to join her in the field. Also, we typically take two weekends out of the year and run down to the farm in andalusia for all the meat we could ever need.
Bass Bandito
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Old Mossy Horns
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I usually shoot one but been telling myself I was going to buck hunt this year. I haven't ruled it out. One thing is no one much in family likes the meat but me and my daughter. But I've got a hankering for some deer jerky. Next one I kill I'm saving the back straps and making jerky out of the rest. Both kids and I love the jerky. It's just a lot of work and kind of expensive to make with the cost of the marinades.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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