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Good luck
I am lacking good enough friends to take me out on their land. If they had land.

I guess my Thompson Center Hawken will remain quiet for another year.

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That is sad to hear Andrew. We could hunt together if you were close by. I actually hunt alone but it is just as well. Only one hunter can pull the trigger anyhow. I want to take my wife but she probably would yell at the deer, “Run! Save yourself sweetie! Run!”

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

Andrew, No public land?

Go git ‘em Jerry :-)

We had a nice buck shot at the range in Tacoma by a target shooter. The buck went behind the target at just the wrong time ;-(( That almost happened to me too.

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Wow Topa, that is wild. Never heard of that ever happen. I bet that buck ended up on a dinner table.

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

Come on up here. You can sit on my deck have a beer and take your pick of the dozens of string healthy deer that live in my woods and take their mornings and afternoons in my yard. Sometimes I gotta elbow ‘em out of the way to park my car.

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They walk across the range while people are shooting all the time. It is in town, so there is no hunting and they don’t care about the noise after they get used to it.

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Neat. Actually there are several residential neighborhoods in San Antonio where the deer run and play in yards and they are fairly over populated. Of course there is no hunting those areas and the locals in those neighborhoods see them as exotic pets. The deer in those areas are very friendly and seem to know they are not getting shot. But out here in the country, well they are not as easy to come across. They will move about and feed about an hour or two before sun rise and take cover soon after.

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

I always wondered why they seem to know when season opens and closes ;-)) Seems like we see lots so deer during elk season and elk during deer season and nothing when they over lap!!

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LOL :)

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

Public Land is a killing field here in my part of Michigan. Bunch of idiots.
Did the Public land thing 20 or so years ago. Found a spot made a hide from dead fall, couple of days prior to season. I get out to it and there is some asshat in it. He had the Kahounies to say that I made a great hide… If I knew which car he had, I would have put all three bottles of cover scent on it.

-- If A equals success, then the formula is, A = X + Y + Z, Where X is work, Y is play, And Z is keep your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein.

That is too bad there are so many A-hos in this world. The last decade I hunted here in WA, I went archery and muzzleloader. There are separate seasons for them. Hi Power rifle is where all the idiots go.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Hi Jerry. I think I’ll pass on deer hunting this year finally. I used to go every year and we go on state land about 30 miles south of Grand Rapids. We have worked our way out into the woods during the dark and found a good vantage point at which to sit for the coming of the morning. Most years when it got light out, there was orange in every direction. There must have been at least 5 guys I could see standing or sitting just like me. I was afraid to shot if I saw a deer!!.
I like to walk , I can’t sit for more than 30 minutes. Once when my son and law and I were coming out of a field, we each took positions on the high sides of this draw coming out of the field. Soon a doe came out and up the draw and we did not have doe permits, but someone did. Shots rang out from the edge of the field and slugs hit all the tree around us. You have to just lay low and behind a tree for while. That kind of soured me on deer hunting.
Now that I am retired, I had been hunting during the week and there are a whole lot less people out on state land. the deer population is still pretty slim to make it worth while…..............Jim

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Hey Jim, Yeah I can understand not wanting to take a chance of being shot. I would have some serious reservation. My neighbors and I hunt our private land and are set up to be able to take a safe shot that is down hill with high sides in surrounding areas where the bullet will just imbed into the ground. I am new to this actually but I have a good concept of gun safety. I am shooting from around 200 yards and my neighbor is about 25 years older than me and prefers his shot around 75 yards. Either way I cannot even imagine missing with a decent scope, though I am sure it happens.

I did get my first deer this year though. The bag limit is 2 doe and 2 buck and so I plan to try and get one or two more, just enough for our family to eat this year. I don’t have a blind on my property so I just hide out and relax a good distance away. My neighbor has a blind on his property. I did try to hunt from his blind and seen just one buck, he walked right past me and appeared to have no clue I was even in the blind. Sun was just beginning to rise so it was still kinda dark but light enough to see and I just did not notice him until it was too late, so I never had a shot on him at all. He walked peacefully into the brush.

-- Jerry Nettrour, San Antonio, www.topqualitycabinets.net

I always wondered why they seem to know when season opens and closes ;-)) Seems like we see lots so deer during elk season and elk during deer season and nothing when they over lap!!

They are sentient. They have thoughts and can reason.

Even insects appear to posses mental skills well beyond the “instinct” and nothing more so many of us were taught to believe they had

Take an ant, trap it in a circle of some offensive substance: Gas, DEET, mineral spirits, alcohol, pepper whatever.
V Just draw a complete circle around the ant trapping it inside.

Then watch while the and probes every possible millimeter of the circumference of the inside of the circle.
Eventually the ant demonstrates what appears to be frustration and takes a running start and charges across the offending substance. It’s quite amazing to watch.

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