Text 11443, 80 rader
Skriven 2008-02-21 16:49:14 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 11374 av Jeff Smith (1:14/5)
Ärende: mark lewis
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21 Feb 08 01:44, Jeff Smith wrote to Roy Witt:

 JS>>>      Hitting deer is fairly common around here outside the
 JS>>> cities. people that will go out hunting and if they shoot a dear
 JS>>> or any animal for that matter and then just leave it. On several
 JS>>> occasions I have found a woulded and dying animal and put it out
 JS>>> of it misery. Killing animals for food is one thing. But the
 JS>>> needless killing of animals  for no particular purpose is
 JS>>> something I don't understand.

 RW>> Two reasons, especially in your area.

 RW>> Most farmers think of them as pests, as they eat crops. I found a
 RW>> .22 in the butt of a deer I harvested in Colorado. It was probably
 RW>> from some farmer who found the deer eating in his fields. (Lime bean
 RW>> capitol of the world)

 JS>      There have been dear harvesting permits issued to hunters the
 JS> last couple years which allowed a hunter to take a larger number of
 JS> dear.

Probably a good idea come too late. California had issued doe tags some
years ago and they don't have an over population of deer.

 JS> The dear population in some areas of Minnesota is growing abruptly.
 JS> It is like a second hunting season.

My former BIL will probably be among those who get a few extra doe...he's
in Illinois, who probably have the same problem there. I'll ask my
'present' BIL about it, he's an avid hunter as well.

 JS> There is also the doe permit which allows a hunter to take a dear of
 JS> either sex. It used to be only a buck of a minimum age.

That was here and California too. Today it's just as easy to get a doe
permit. And that is the way it should be. One buck can have mulitple
offspring with dozens of doe, but a doe can have only one fawn per year,
unless she carries twins.

 RW>> The other reason is a deer that's been shot during season and the
 RW>> hunter couldn't find it after it ran off. Or the above scenario
 RW>> where the shot only wounded the deer, but he bled to death.

 JS>      I am sad to say that many years ago I managed to shoot and only
 JS> wound a dear. I followed that dang dear for a couple three miles
 JS> before I lost it's trail. Never did find it I am sad to say.

I've seen that happen in Colorado. Shoot a nice buck and he tumbles off a
cliff, out of reach. Only the scavangers will have a good meal then. I've
also had friends who've experienced what you have, when bow hunting. The
blood trail suddenly stops as the bleeding wound coagulates and the deer
keeps on moving. Somewhere they find shelter and lay down and die.

 JS> Over the years I have lost the feeling that I NEED to shoot something
 JS> when I am hunting. I don't mind waiting for the right shot.

I've gotten over that feeling. Sometimes it's just as nice a feeling
making your way through the woods and enjoying being with nature. So much
so that a covey of quail will set your heart to racing as they catch you
off guard when they suddenly flutter into the sky.

 JS> Some days I never fire a shot at all. Not that I don't see dear that
 JS> I could shoot at. Usually the angle is wrong or I can't see well
 JS> enough beyond the target to KNOW where the shot will end up if I
 JS> miss.

Where I live now and in California, there isn't a deer the size of the one
I harvested in Colorado, so I gave up deer hunting. If I needed meat, I'd
take it up again, though. The deer in Texas are so plentiful and tame
because the people feed them. None I've seen ever get much bigger than a
Great Dane. I did see a nice sized buck the day we drove across I-10 to
I-35 on Highway 46. About an 8 point buck, standing behind a fence. I
could tell he was nervous. It was also hunting season about then.

                R\%/itt



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