Saturday is the beginning of the annual "Crazy Season" I will be home reading a book and watching old bowhunting movies. ....
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
Amok: noun 1. (among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder.
-- Edited by john nail on Thursday 11th of November 2010 01:59:03 PM
You guys are lucky with your shotgun only seasons. Everyone around here thinks they need a 105 howitzer to hunt deer. Not safe in anything less than an M-1 Abrams. Rednecks around here can easily kill you while sitting on you're couch. I hate gun season, That includes muzzleloader season, they all use inlines that will outperform the ol 30/30. Its rough bowhuntin from here on out.
Why are you all hating on rifle hunting 100 x more people fall from treestands and die or are crippled I love Traditonal bow hunting but Iam not going to berate other types of hunting or seasons we probley all better stick together on hunting as a whole and i have very seldom heard or read about stray rounds hitting people or houses in KY why and what is this all about guys !! !! We get to start in September all the way thru the middle of Jan Firearms has 2 to 3 weeks wth an Archery season that long I dont think we have a gripe at all !! !!
-- Edited by hillbillyking on Thursday 11th of November 2010 09:29:49 PM
-- Edited by hillbillyking on Thursday 11th of November 2010 09:31:14 PM
Not belitteling anyone really. Some are not as lucky as us. For many, deer season boils down to opening weekend of gun. After this first couple days a lot of guys give up. Their hearts not really in it. They go for the enjoyment of deer hunting with friends. Camping, stories around the fire, poker games, a big pot of chillie, a couple snorts of Ky's finest. These are all very worthwile persuits. Not what some of us are really into though.
Ron went this evening down where we been hunting on public ground. There was a couple guys there sighting in their scoped shotguns. They stopped long enough for Ron to walk past. Gun season starts Saturday
Go to Wally world tomorrow night
We can stick with these guys all we want but where are they gonna be wnen we call for backup on something
I'm looking forward to this weekend mainly cause I need some of my all time favorite meat that you can't buy. I hope I don't get shot
My home is surrounded by woods, I really dont feel safe opening weekend of gun season, Its just that bad. Everyone is a deer hunter for 2 weeks. I cant go to Wal-mart or any gun store this time of year. The boasting and bull**** is just too deep. I hunt hard with a bow to see guys shooting deer from the roadside through their truck windows. Sorry to be a grump, but its discouraging. "Gotcher deer yet?" runs up and down my spine. The volleys of gunfire put the deer in a state of panic to the point of ruining my hunting here at home. The deer become nocturnal, and only the youngest,dumbest deer can be hunted from there out, if they survive orange clad army.
Well Randy for the most part the gun hunters are ethical hunters too and know when and where to take a shot and look behind the theire quarry where the round will go ( the 1st thing i taught my boys and am proud to say thay have passed many a shot for this reason ) And they" rifle hunters " have as much right to say what they hunt with as we do ! ive never seen anyone shooting deer from roadside and if I do will report them ! gun fire does not put them in panic Human presance does Deer are a noctunal creature anyway and these big bucks are seldom seen except during rut anyway1 and young deer as you know are always stupid ive know of quite a few nice bucks being taken after gun season but its colder and most hunters quit then ! I take advantge of rifle season too not my prefered way but i love venision and the fact tues i saw the biggest buck i ever seen alive on my place has got me pumped for this usually dont excited about it ! this my 42 deer season and still love it ! Good luck to you and youres Randy . And Dennis i hope you dont get shot too---- we would miss you Would'nt we Guys !! !!
-- Edited by hillbillyking on Friday 12th of November 2010 09:28:20 AM
-- Edited by hillbillyking on Friday 12th of November 2010 10:12:34 AM
My post wasn't to belittle anyone. It was to remind you all to BE CAREFUL. I hate to lose any of you, because there are only so many people who will laugh at my jokes. 8^)
My post wasn't to belittle anyone. It was to remind you all to BE CAREFUL. I hate to lose any of you, because there are only so many people who will laugh at my jokes. 8^)
I know that John ! and i always laff at youre jokes and and dont want to Lose anyone either !! !! Dennis & Randy don't get lost !! !!
Hillbillyking, No, not all gun hunters are slobs. I used to gun hunt myself, and enjoyed it imensely. Than this archery bug bit me, and no other weapon had the same appeal. I have witnessed a roadshot and it happens here, and a lot of places, a lot of the time. Thats fact. My neighbor witnessed a very large buck shot from the road not ten yards from my property line, on a 2 lane state highway at high noon. Thats bold! We have one local around here in particular that kills several bucks a year from the window of his pickup. Yes, it seems to bring out the worst for 3 weeks a year. Maybe it isn't the gunshots that put the deer in a panic, but sightings definately decrease during and after modern gun season. Its either due to gunfire, human activity, the decimation of the herd, or a combination of all 3. I'll go with the last one. Thats just my take, but I feel its pretty accurate.
Boys, the real problem is that we've bred ourselves away from the table. There are more people alive today, than have BEEN alive in recorded history. Think about that. Habitat reduced by a full 3/4, and millions more people. At this rate, the world will be standing room only in a few hundred years, barring some modern Plague. Ethics have been replaced by laws. The Human competition gene is sill strong. I'm just glad Squirrels don't have horns.
That is a grim picture you paint. However, I think I have a cure for this one. Take a drive. Just start driving in any direction. In maybe 2 hours you'll hit more habitat than you know what to do with. I remember driving up through Sault Ste Marie and on into Canada when I was 18. Most kids take their spring break in Florida but I knew better. 18 is the drinking age in Canada.
Man, you want to talk about habitat. That place is so sparse your the one getting hunted. If you park your vehicle for a couple of weeks in one spot and they catch you, they deed you the land. You have to pay a really small sum per acre. This is called purchasing Queens land. There aren't nearly enough people.
The reality is it feels crowded in THIS country because the Gov zones off tiny plots of land for the masses to fight over and crowd into. It drives the prices of land and rent through the roof and makes us all slaves to the bank and dead end jobs.
You could take every family on earth and give them a house and a yard and they would all fit in the state of Texas.
When they talk about habitat disappearing they are probably referring the the Amazon basin. True, it's bad, but we won't be hunting there any time soon. And on the bright side they are slashing and burning all that forest land so that they can raise cattle for Wal-Mart.
Hey Dorian. I went fishing up in ontario a couple times back in the early 80s. We went about 50 miles north of the Sue. Alot of country up that way.
John you really need to move down here .
That's my kind of fishing trip my friend! I'd go there for a visit right now if they didn't require a passport these days. Passports are REALLY expensive for no other reason than to visit Canada.
John, if you've never seen Canada, the lakes are bright blue. I've been to the Great Lakes and so forth and I cannot tell you what the difference is. However, every lake I went to in Canada glowed blue.
I've considered moving there more than once. I have a friend who lives in Canada. Looked at New Zealand as well.
But if you're looking for something more tropical Belize has an American retirement visa. You can live out the rest of your days in paradise for a relatively small sum of money. To make things even better, English is the official language in Belize, unlike the wonky banana republic hot spots.
Personally, I decided to relocate to Alaska in five years.
-- Edited by Dorian on Monday 15th of November 2010 07:24:41 PM
I have my eyes set on Newfoundland... summers only! Maybe early fall too. Rough country! Even today the newfies live on survival mode. Vikings were tough SOB's and after 100 years or so they could not take any more of Newfoundland and decided that Iceland, of all places, was easier living and left... forever. They never returned! But boy oh boy, it is virgin, a very beatiful and rugged country. Best of all it is close.
I keep telling myself that one of these I will stop working and retire... It is getting close, I can feel it in my tired old bones.
I have my eyes set on Newfoundland... summers only! Maybe early fall too. Rough country! Even today the newfies live on survival mode. Vikings were tough SOB's and after 100 years or so they could not take any more of Newfoundland and decided that Iceland, of all places, was easier living and left... forever. They never returned! But boy oh boy, it is virgin, a very beatiful and rugged country. Best of all it is close.
I keep telling myself that one of these I will stop working and retire... It is getting close, I can feel it in my tired old bones.
John, I envy you.
God bless,
Jose
Jose' there is a cruel side to Nature: By the time you convince yourself to stop chasing Baal, you're too old to enjoy it fully! I say again-- your life is made of TIME not money!
My point being, quit ASAP, and do what you want to, instead of what you think you HAVE to
-- Edited by john nail on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 08:25:18 AM
Sage advice John...As soon as Drew has flown the coop, I'm bustin' out of this pop stand of Indiana! Don't know where I'll land, but somewhere with some wide open space and land that isn't $2500-$5000 per acre and someone of middle class means can get a piece of it!
Sage advice John...As soon as Drew has flown the coop, I'm bustin' out of this pop stand of Indiana! Don't know where I'll land, but somewhere with some wide open space and land that isn't $2500-$5000 per acre and someone of middle class means can get a piece of it!
Woody, sadly I fear you are in for disappointment. Land is rediculously expensive everywhere, with the possible exception of Siberia. I once moved to Wyoming for 6 months. Loved the people, and the hunting attitude, but there were no trees to speak of. It was like being in a stone quarry. Alaska aside, it had the smallest population per acre I could find. I'd like to smell around Southern Arkansas and Northern New Mexico....
Dorian, all that glitters is not Gold Belieze:
Monthly Budget (in U.S. Dollars) for Middle-Class Couple
This budget reflects the cost of living for a 55-year-old expat couple that owns their own home in Placencia. It assumes that the couple has paid for their US$150,000 house and therefore do not have a house payment. Also assumed: their 2002 Ford Explorer is paid for and that they choose to purchase health insurance, which includes medevac coverage, from an international insurer.
Electricity (750KW a month) $158
Telephone (including long distance) 110
Butane 45
Groceries 320
Cable TV 25
Internet 50
Entertainment and dining out 200
Property tax 24
Auto insurance 20
Health insurance 300
Out-of-pocket medical expenses 150
Home insurance (at 2% of value) 300
Gasoline (40 gallons a month @ $3) 120
Auto maintenance 100
Clothing 75
Other personal expenses 150
Household help/care taker (part-time) 200
Other 125
Total $2,472
-- Edited by john nail on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 03:32:40 PM
