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mullet:
Wow those racks look good for Florida. All ranching around here and very little farming.
crooketarrow:
Sleek a lot of people use that I'M A MEAT HUNTER. Because hunting doe's is all know. Makes meat hunting easy.
I shoot a doe or 3 alone the way. But around here when a buck hit's 4 1/2 he might not be a 130". But he'll go 200 pounds. WHO'S PICKING A BANGER HERE who's the real meat hunter here.
Sorry sleek just venting earlyer had the I'm a meat hunter speach. Bud you boys are missing the big picture. If shooting a few does is all you wish out of hunting so be it.
I passed that stage years ago killing doe's for food for real.
Eric Krewson:
I have hunted places where there seemed to be a deer behind every tree and other places where one could hunt for two weeks and not see the first deer.
My best spots would be clear cut, change hands or have some other drastic change that sent me looking for a different place to hunt.
One of my best leases had comercial (selling deer meat) spotlighters killing deer every night year round out of the bean fields, deer sightings went from 20 a day while hunting to rarely seeing one. Game wardens finally caught the spotlighter but the land was clear cut the following year.
On the land I currently hunt, big time farmers killed over 90 deer in one year on the land around the farm I hunt on crop depredation permits. Deer sightings plummeted. We still hear that tripod mounted .300 Win Mag go off on a regular basis when we hunt and know the farmers are still at it.
My point is; people with an abundance of big bucks look down on us folk who fill the freezer with whatever, but everyone's situation is different.
burchett.donald:
Roy,
I'm pretty sure that NA didn't care how big the horns were...I also think that a mature doe is a supreme trophy...They generally are 10 times more cautious...With primitive tackle I will take any matured deer and be proud and have some real good vittles to boot...If a Pope & Young walks by at 15 yds. well of coarse that would be nice...I don't usually bring up numbers but I have around 35+ bow kills, ranging from mature does to 19" spread 9 point, and I was proud of every one of them...I wouldn't consider myself a " Meat Hunter" just a well accomplished "Deer Hunter"...
A person who goes in the woods with a primitive bow and kills mature does on a regular basis is a supreme hunter and has my highest respect...
Don
JoJoDapyro:
Private land hunts here in Utah will run you some cash. Farmers get land owner permits and will sell them if they have a good number of animals. Private Hunting "Clubs" (Deseret Land and Livestock, owned by the LDS church) cost far more than just a simple land owner tag. The vast majority of hunting here is done on public land, and access is open to all. You never know who is going to stumble into your area. WE have limited entry hunts that are on a lottery system, and then just open areas. There are some good animals if you're willing to work. Here are 2 monster desert bucks. Hers was her first deer ever, it'll never be the same for her!
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