tweekster:
Wisconsin would like to have a word with you.

Like backwoods Adirondacks would be any better?

Sorry, not buying it.

LukeA: Also, going out into the woods with a scoped high-power rifle isn't deer hunting, it's deer shooting. Hunting is blackpower, bow, or less. Make it sport.

Funny you should mention that...






I don't go out with my .30'06 anymore. This is my private version of "Fair Chase": Use primitive methods.

I'm going to be replacing the compound bow with a bow roughly similar to the longbow you see there (that is an unfinished Viking longbow that I was borrowing from my father. He's currently finishing a Howard Hill-style American Longbow for me. That is what I'll be using next year instead of the "block and tackle" bow.

/I'd hunt with an atlatl if they'd let me.

Well, I haven't done any big game hunting in a long time. Gimpy knees and ankles plus a bad back means that my man Rochester would have to drag the deer out for me. This, however, is against his firmly held belief of not being in the woods when a bunch of white guys with guns are out there.

That said, a few years ago I made a cross-country drive and was astounded at the amount of road-kill deer in Pennsylvania. West Texas was a very distant second place and it's crawlling with dear down there. I say extend the season.

...another shoots himself in foot.

He should have worn orange shoes.

gloomduckie: dittybopper

No they don't.

Yes, yes they do. Granted, here in PA there are a few half-way mentally developed hunters, but the fact of the matter is that half of the population of my town would likely have some slurred words for you.

My brother-in-law and his family (large family that is a good example of the majority of this area) can't do ANYTHING without drinking beer all day long, hunting included. I'm amazed we don't have more HWI* incidents.

*hunting while intoxicated.

/It's a sad state of affairs when I have to stand outside to make sure some idiot doesn't shoot my dog because he's a full-grown collie and from a distance looks the correct colour because he's BEEN shot AT in the past!
//Thankfully the hunter was drunk off his ass
///missed and hit a tree in my yard.


Actually, I take that back. There are idiots around here, but they are mostly "Road Hunters". They drive around slowly in pickup trucks, looking at fields, shooting deer when they see them. Sloppy, lazy, and blatantly illegal in NYS.

Personally, I hate them. I am about the most lazy-assed person ever, yet even I can muster up the will to walk a couple hundred yards into the woods (actually, I normally go further, but that's neither here nor there).

I saw some of them on Friday when I was visiting my fathers house. They were stopped about 100 yards from his house, looking up into a field where I sometimes hunt. They drove by, and waved, and I yelled "Keep moving". They stopped the truck. I told them to get moving again. They claimed they weren't hunting. Said they saw a dog in a field. I said "A dog? Yeah, like I'm stupid".

Both my wife and father thought I was going to get into a fight.

Now, you have to understand something: I'm not the confrontational type. I *AVOID* crap like that like the plague. But if there is one thing that makes my blood boil, it is lazy, sloppy-ass road "hunters".

I should mention that they drove off and didn't come back again.

lilbjorn: dittybopper: your comment seems about as well informed as former governor Mario Cuomo's remark that hunters are people who "drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend."

Yeah, unfortunately they vote.


Unlike effete pseudo-intellectuals.

Norman Greenbaum: Tribbles
wait, what part of PA are you from? here in SE central we just had off because we could. only like 15 kids in my whole high school hunted.

Tribbles, it's not the kids the school was closed for. In my school district, it was the bus drivers who wouldn't show up for work en masse on Doe Day so it was easier just to not have school that day.


Yeah, that and the fact that roughly half of the high school students wouldn't show up.

Hunting is really as much about thinning us out as it is about thinning excess animal population, and that's cool with me.

gloomduckie: dittybopper

agreed there. The other ones I hate are the "spotters." I never understood the point of people in high school going out "spotting" for deer. And if one more punkass blinds me this year on my way home from work I'll probably end up in a fight myself.

/internet tough girl?
//Test my right hook
///double dog dare ya


Tell you what. I wouldn't dream of testing your right hook. But I can dream about you testing it with my wife, both buck nekkid, in some Jello.

/If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
//Also hates spotlighters.
///And the idiot who shot a deer with a crossbow last spring, and left it to die near my father's pond.