first venison of the year

[Lloyd Smale]

brower in law went to camp and found a doe who somehow got its head caught in his camp gate. said it was still alive and he put it down. hes on his way over to drop it off. still love venison but dont have the want to kill one these days. ive shot so many in my life that the excitements gone and i leave the hunting to the nephews.

[ironglow]

brower in law went to camp and found a doe who somehow got its head caught in his camp gate. said it was still alive and he put it down. hes on his way over to drop it off. still love venison but dont have the want to kill one these days. ive shot so many in my life that the excitements gone and i leave the hunting to the nephews.

  I know what you mean..perhaps I havemellowed in my old age, but I too would leave most hunting to the younger ones.

[gypsyman]

  I've got to the point, if I go hunting, it'll be for something that matters. Shot many rabbits, squirrels, pheasants, ducks and geese, and a few deer. If I'm going to skin, gut, and butcher a carcass, it'll be for more than lb. of meat.

[Drilling Man]

  I've got to the point, if I go hunting, it'll be for something that matters. Shot many rabbits, squirrels, pheasants, ducks and geese, and a few deer. If I'm going to skin, gut, and butcher a carcass, it'll be for more than lb. of meat.

  You mean like this?



  DM

[Lloyd Smale]

id probably be in the woods if i could score that. im a meat hunter and right there is a pile of meat

[Land_Owner]

6 Stages of Hunter Development

1) Shooting Stage

2) Limiting Out Stage

3) Trophy Stage

4) Method Stage

5) Sportsman Stage

6) “Give-Back” Stage

https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/hunter-education/online-course/responsible-and-ethical-hunting/six-stages

I am a meat hunter without the benefit of a plethora of bucks to see in daylight.  I envy those that have decent bucks to PASS UP in order to chase a single deer.  I am not so fortunate.

I am perpetually stuck in STAGES ONE (1) and TWO (2). 

I have does, and should have bucks, but the doe do not participate in the only three designated days of antlerless deer in FL and the bucks remain nocturnal.

One doe and one buck per day may be taken for a bag limit of three bucks and 2 does, which is the season limit. The truck must not have more than four FL deer in it or that will be a violation...as if.

Yes, it is true that there is an overabundance of feral hogs here, a LOT of trigger time expended, we kill a lot of them, and apparently there is no End of Line in shooting hogs.  It is good white meat, but venison is better RED MEAT, and I would love to shoot a deer for a change. 

Perhaps this year on or after Nov. 3rd, our modern gun season opening, I hope to be on stand that day, but it is looking rather glum as I am still recovering from a pulmonary embolism surgery with lower weight, no muscle, following 60 pounds (1/5 of my body weight) of muscle weight loss in under 11 weeks (three surgeries - back, brain, and embolism), which has knocked me back by a significant amount and left my mind wanting to do more than my body can. 

I cannot drive due to the last (second) seizure being in June in ICU.  FL law says no driving for 6-months after the last seizure, to which I agree to abstain.  I do not feel like driving - yet. 

I can barely sit to stand and it has been 7 weeks since the embolism surgery.  Two hours and fifteen minutes (2.25 hours) I was on the operating table while Dr. Schue "catfished" the embolism off of my lungs.  There was a lot of blood loss and the attendant loss of an additional 12 pounds of muscle following surgery has me roped and tied.




That's a big fat ugly SOB, which took a year(s) to accumulate (Long Covid spike protines?) the Dr. said would ordinarily be identified on an autopsy table.  I dodged another bullet. 

I am alive and Life is Good.  I will take life, and temporary weakness, over the alternative, which is in Him and His plan for me is apparently not over.  My Faith is strong.

Still, there is significance in the passage of time. The passage of time...oh, you know, you know the thing!

I still have a sense of humor but it isn't having any real fun.  I WANT TO GO DEER HUNTING WHERE THERE ARE MORE DEER THAN SHOOTERS!  Before the embolism, I was looking for a Georgia lease.  They have a better bag limit than FL (10 deer), reasonable non-resident licensure, and a long season. 

I am still searching for something within four hour's drive with two- and one-half hours to the FL/GA line from Cocoa, FL.  Know of anything?

[Graybeard]

Dunno where in FL you are but Alabama has a two deer per day limit, only one can be a buck and you can only shoot 3 bucks a year, one of which has to have four points on one side.

I sure have no contact info on where to hunt in south Bama but they got more deer there by far than up here where I am. Pretty sure there are some WMAs down there, public hunting so no connections needed.

I gave up hunting, I don't eat the meat anyway so no real need to shoot one only to have to find someone to give the meat to. I'd be afraid to get out of sight of my truck cuz I might not be capable of walking back to it if I went further. I'd prolly not be able to gut it and for sure couldn't drag a deer back to the truck and couldn't load it on my own.

I went thru all those stages you mention and am no longer mad at the deer so don't want to kill them.