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LittleGrayTiger [2012-01-24 00:10:52 +0000 UTC]
That's a heartbreaking story, but an incredibly beautiful animal. As a taxidermist and hopefully-someday hunter, I admire what you did in trying to help him to start with. I also admire that your thoughts when you saw him the second time were again of concern and mercy, not just, "Heck yeah easy kill!". That's a real hunter, someone who cares about the wildlife they hunt.
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soulstrifer In reply to LittleGrayTiger [2012-01-24 00:35:36 +0000 UTC]
For us as hunters there is no fun in an easy kill. If we just absolutely need the meat we will take anything that walks out and is legal. If we have the choice we like the hunt. Its amazing to have to throw down a three hour stalk on your belly to get that shot. Part of hunting is just getting to be out there. Listening to the nature around you seeing everything there is to see. Its a bonus if you make the kill but the best part is being with friends and family and getting out of civilization. There needs to be respect for the animals that give us food. Without it we just wont get anywhere :3
I do mostly bow hunting but I guide as well. It's just my thing I guess. We have a group here on DA for the hunters or aspiring hunters. We post up the vast majority of our kills there and stories. [link]
Feel free to join and post up any Tax and stuff that you want to show off. We have one guy in Australia who posts wild game recipes.
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hipknowtizer87 [2012-01-21 06:27:52 +0000 UTC]
Looks like good eatin'.
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greenzaku [2011-12-10 13:35:08 +0000 UTC]
I don't know much about deer, but....are his antlers asymmetrical? Its intriguing...
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soulstrifer In reply to greenzaku [2011-12-10 23:23:22 +0000 UTC]
Yep. Hes got a drop tine off the one side behind his ear. They grow abnormalities like that not just from genetics but also from injuries. What is interesting is that the abnormality will grow on the side opposite the side that got injured. They call it Non-Typical.
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greenzaku In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-11 00:48:05 +0000 UTC]
Not only that, bu the antlers on that side look a lot thicker too, and branch at different areas. What's with the black bands on the tip of the antler on the 'normal' side?
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soulstrifer In reply to greenzaku [2011-12-11 02:46:51 +0000 UTC]
Thats where his tag it taped on. You have to have a tag to tag a deer here it helps the game and fish officers pick out those taking deer legally and those killing them illegally.
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Amnicore [2011-12-02 06:01:50 +0000 UTC]
I remember a loooong time ago in a land far far away when my neighbor went hunting and brought back a deer he shot, it looked so cute, like it was sleeping. I climbed in the back of his truck and sat with it and pet its head... then that night they made venison burritos XD
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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 04:35:13 +0000 UTC]
Wow, is that an 11 point buck? He looks gorgerous! But what a shame about the poachers trespassing on the property poor guy with the wire. )= kinda sad that he shouldn't have go on with his final moments in pain from his broken back, but I am glad your cousin did.
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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 04:46:17 +0000 UTC]
Hes actually got one more up top on the side with the drop tine that ticks out the back there on that little fork but its just barely big enough to count. Hes a beaut ain't he? I was so mad finding those damn poachers on the property If the role had been reversed and my cousin had the knife and me the gun I think I would have shot them. It really made me mad. The poor thing had been scared out of his mind half crazed trying to get out of that wire. That's why we just let him go during the bow hunt. He had seen enough trauma. It isn't fair chase when he's tangled up in the wire and looked perfectly alright when we walked off. Seeing him fall after jumping and that sound it really did make me sick to my stomach. I might be a hunter and I might get bloody when we field dress but that doesn't mean I don't care about the animals that give their lives to put food on my table.
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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-02 04:55:47 +0000 UTC]
Ah, so a tweleve point then? Hmmm, I think shooting the poacerswould have been extreme, but I wouldn't blamed you that they tried to slow the buck down with the barb wire in the first place. I hate seeing animals being traumatized and I'm sorry you had to hear it. No amount of gore just from hunting an animal will ever ever match up to the gore from intent harm. . . Makes me mad to see how there are people who only go to hunt for trophies than for meat and think it's funny to hurt an animal. The bastards.
But still he is a beauty. How much meat you think you'll get off of him?
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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 05:30:56 +0000 UTC]
Well field dressed he weighed in at a little over 195 hes a big boy. lots of good meat there and a good hide to tan up and work with. Saving shoulder blades, rib bones and some of the larger leg bones to carve on.
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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-03 05:26:03 +0000 UTC]
Wow, that's alot of meat. And bones are just so mystic feeling to hold in my hands, I can't wait to see what kind of carvings you do
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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-03 05:44:09 +0000 UTC]
^^ I have a rune set on wolf knuckle bones that I adore. I will make sure to post pictures
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