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Yes I’m with him

Do different then shooting from a shooting house or tree stand

I shot a big old 8 point a few years ago while sitting in my clown car. I was driving back to the truck after a morning hunt and had a doe jump across the road right I front of me. Glanced over where she came from cause I figured she was probably running from a buck. Buck was just standing there looking at me no more than 10 yards from me. He watched me reach over for my gun, load it and shoot. He was so close to me all I could see in the scope was the color difference of his brisket. I shot, he fell. Took 3 of us to load him I the bed. Everybody still gives me shucks about that one. When you get a gimme, you got to take it.

Er' time.

When I was younger....yes. Now a days, no. Just wouldn’t be right for me anymore. Not judging, just not my thing. Killing a deer is easy enough anyway these days.

A place I grew up hunting just never was a good place to see many deer little alone shoot many good bucks. Being young I was trying to let the the does go and raise a good buck. A few years later I figured out why the local herd would not grow. The locals controlled the population! Deer are attracted to a good buffet just like people. I fed the deer just not buffet style. Every morning for 3 days in a row about 7:00 am I would here a single shot...boom. On the forth morning I was ready for the shot and almost on cue...boom. Come to find out the neighbor that was disabled had planted a big field, an agricultural field with ten times what the herd could ever eat the entire season for that area. The deer were coming from miles to eat the buffet! The guy would drop his kid off at the bus stop, drive around to the field and drop a deer from his truck, come back, and clean it. Never could see more than one deer for very long on that place. For people with deer problems there is usually always someone nearby that will come out and control the population, this guy would be that guy if you have one nearby. I reckon after seeing that makes me almost always against agricultural farms shooting and leaving deer unless they make an effort to let someone control the population that can use the meat. Coyotes would have never stood a chance or any predator if it eat their deer meat on these folks land. These folks would sit day and night to wipe out all the predators, but they would leave just enough deer to have some for the next year. They should be the show Meat-eaters not on it!

Back in the '90s I hunted near Demopolis with an old guy. He'd hunt nearly every day from his truck. Shot a 25'06 and killed a crazy amount of deer.

Ears still ringing, huh?

Don't let one give me the opportunity...

Not my preferred method, but yeah I'd kill one like that in the right circumstances.

Surprised to see so many who would, I guess I'm not mad enough at them anymore. I have passed probably 10 three year old's this year and one who is at least four years old. I guess if it was the one I was after I might send it. The one I saw that day was the best I had seen all year but I just didn't think I'd take a whole lot of joy out of killing him.

Reminds me of when I started turkey hunting and my Grand-paw told me "Boy, kill 'em any damn way you can until you get good at it then kill 'em the way you're supposed to".

Was reading this and thought of a funny thing I did when I was about 30 years younger.
It is funny now but was not funny then. Was going to hunting property one afternoon and had to drive across about 100 acre field. Well about half way across I see a big buck standing right next to tree line. I stop the truck and put the 7 mag out the window. Excited and not paying attention I have the barrel resting on the window instead of the forearm .Well I pull the trigger and the window explodes. I killed the deer but it was an expensive lesson.

Was reading this and thought of a funny thing I did when I was about 30 years younger.
It is funny now but was not funny then. Was going to hunting property one afternoon and had to drive across about 100 acre field. Well about half way across I see a big buck standing right next to tree line. I stop the truck and put the 7 mag out the window. Excited and not paying attention I have the barrel resting on the window instead of the forearm .Well I pull the trigger and the window explodes. I killed the deer but it was an expensive lesson.

We had a pack of wild dogs roaming the farm when I was about 15 and we spotted them laying under some privet in the edge of a peanut field. We loaded up in the truck with a couple of shooters in the back and a door gunner in the passenger seat. We turned the corner in the field and opened up on the dogs, buckshot was flying everywhere and dogs were flopping around in a hail of gunfire that in my young mind was the closest thing to what allied soldiers encountered while storming the beaches at Normandy. When the dust and smoke settled we had killed most if not all of the dogs and the door gunner blew the sideview mirror clean off that old Scottsdale pickup! He said he had spun sideways in the seat trying to get a better angle and took it out on his second shot. That was a fun day!

WMA atv has to be shut down , rifle not loaded while moving, once shut down load up atv becomes my chair.

My old legs don't carry me where they once did , but my electric cart does. I have a few places where I can park and watch the woods. A little camo over the front and you got a blind.