#1779779 - 02/10/10 05:44 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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bowriter
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Good read Coach. My daughter use to curl up in my lap and holler, "There's one daddy!"
But I started thinking about my uncle today and started a story, a bit of a work in progress. I was remembering how he use to point at things with is pipe stem and ask, "Boy, what is that?"
Sometimes it was a tree, sometimes a hog or deer track or whatever. Made me physically hurt to think back to those days. I thought of a day, many years ago.
We were sitting on a cypress log at the end of Belles Break. He took the pipe out of his mouth and quitely said, "Boy, you hear that?" I strained my ears and couldn't hear a thing and shook my head no.
He smiled and said, "That is the sound of a silent swamp. It is not a natural thing. Something is coming." Then he raised his shotgun and killed a spike I hadn't even seen.
God! the memories!
Edited by bowriter (02/10/10 05:53 PM)
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#1779857 - 02/10/10 06:23 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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Taylor
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I tend to define "best deer hunter" differently these days. Don't know if the sport has changed, or I have changed. Either way, I am nowhere near the "good" category, much less "best." LOL.
But, I know and have known some really good ones, some really lucky ones and some who simply possess a really good spot to go.
"Technically," I guess the best are the ones that routinely kill trophy bucks (130-140-plus) with a bow, and I am talking more than one--every year, here in the Mid-South. (Think about that, and there's not a lot of folks out there that can do that, either.)
But "generally," the ones that I consider the "best deer hunters" today are those that enjoy it the most--kill or not. These are the ones getting the most out of it. Look around camp, you will see 'em. They are the ones that certainly seem to be having the "best" time.
Of course, that JMO.
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#1779867 - 02/10/10 06:28 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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bullzeye
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Probably my grandfather he always seemed to be in the right spot at the right time. When he went he came back with a deer 9 times out of 10. Never seen anything like it.
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#1779904 - 02/10/10 06:40 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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This is going to sound really weird.
I loved my dad, and I owe all my outdoor fanatasism to him, but I didn't really start to improve my deer hunting until I started to forget what he told me and started learning on my own.
The one person that I probably learned the most from was my own son. I don't know where he got his talent, since I was the only guy that took him hunting regularly, but by golly, I take his advice in a better light than just about anyone else.
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#1780779 - 02/10/10 09:36 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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RKenney
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The first time I heard a buck grunt, I thought a pig had got
loose in the woods. It was about 1968 and I didn't even know that
a deer grunted. I was in my stand on the edge of a drop off, and
I could hear something running back and forth causing a
disturbance down below. I said to myself, "a farmer's hog has
done got loose in the woods.
After I got back to camp, I told my New York friend about the
"hog" I heard. He started to almost die laughing. He said son
"that was a buck chasing and tending a doe". I said "what was he
tending to do?"
My friend almost died........again!
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#1780954 - 02/10/10 10:03 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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mrjim43
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I have always swore that my brother, Grandad and his brother in law were born 150 years to late. Never got lost in the woods day or night. Natural hunters and we learned from them. No deer in our area until the late 60's to amount to anything. If it had I would still be hunting. Hard to beleive about Humpherys county?
We coon hunted ever were. We would go to places we had never been at night and hunt all night and never get lost. Aways killed game and never came home empty handed. Seen them catch rabbits bare handed under banks in the snow. They could live off the land and never have to worry about getting hungry. Back in the 40's and 50's and we eat what we killed just part of life back then.
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#1780976 - 02/10/10 10:06 PM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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Taylor
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LOL @ RK. The first time I ever heard one grunt, I thought the same thing. I was kid, squirrel hunting, and I thought, "somebody's hog has gotten out." Walked right into the deer in a place I didn't think had deer. (We were both surprised to see each other from the look of things, though.)
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#1781237 - 02/11/10 03:28 AM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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bowriter
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Good post Taylor. The best deer hunters I have known in my life didn't give a dam about killing.
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#1781314 - 02/11/10 07:08 AM
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The best deer hunter I ever knew was not a deer hunter but a fox hunter. My PawPaw or Grandpa showed me as a young man how to be a outdoorsman. He knew I wanted to hunt the big deer and he would always smile when I would say that...He would say " you have a lot to learn before you hunt the wise deer of the woods." He put me through the normal hunting stages: squirrels, rabbits etc. and along that journey he would show me the sighs of deer and explain there movements and why. I owe my mentor a lot. The love I have for whitetail is beyond words and its all because of a man that didn't hunt deer...I miss him...
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#1781448 - 02/11/10 08:20 AM
Re: Best deer hunter question?
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My Dad showed me and all of my brothers how to hunt and gave us a good base to start with. Then it was just up to us and how well we liked to hunt and take in all the little things each season and used them the following season. My younger brother never grasped that part and still hasn't to this day and struggles when it comes to deer hunting. I start planning for next season while I'm still hunting this season, what I'll change and won't do the same. I get a lot of ribbing from the group I hunt with, but a few days before season starts, I get a lot of questions about where should I place my stand, how's the weather going to make them act, what time are you going in and what time should I?
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