Just got the call...my family and all the neighboring families EXCEPT ONE have been vigorously working at increasing and improving the deer herd for the last six years. We formed a game management zone and got help from the state. This area at one time was so shot up even seeing a buck was a miracle. Now we have a good buck to doe ratio, no bucks under 4 years harvested, and rack size has increased dramatically...not to mention the turkey are back...not in abundance but we see them regularly.
So I have been tracking and watching a seven year old 11 point with 20" inside spread to harvest on Thanksgiving. That ONE neighbor who everyone hates shot him. Yes he has the right to do so but DAMMIT he doesn't deserve it!!!!!! He drives in once a year, sits in the middle of the field, shoots anything that has a pulse. He has absolutely ZERO respect for the land and the wildlife that lives in it. The property has been in his family for decades (as is ours) and I guess he feels he has the right. I swear I am going to hang perfume bags along that fence line. He has killed two others out of season and left them to die on our property.
Anyway, needing to vent...we got six years of breeding out of him at least passing along his genes...I'll find me another old man this Thanksgiving...
So I have been tracking and watching a seven year old 11 point with 20" inside spread to harvest on Thanksgiving. That ONE neighbor who everyone hates shot him. Yes he has the right to do so but DAMMIT he doesn't deserve it!!!!!! He drives in once a year, sits in the middle of the field, shoots anything that has a pulse. He has absolutely ZERO respect for the land and the wildlife that lives in it. The property has been in his family for decades (as is ours) and I guess he feels he has the right. I swear I am going to hang perfume bags along that fence line. He has killed two others out of season and left them to die on our property.
Anyway, needing to vent...we got six years of breeding out of him at least passing along his genes...I'll find me another old man this Thanksgiving...
Look Brad, when I shot that deer, it looked like a 4 pointer to me
, so quit yer complainin-them baby meat deer be the best eating!!
It wasn't as tasty as a fawn in the spring, but still was pretty good to eat.
As far as those two dead ones ya found in the pasture when outta season, heck I would have got them and cleaned em but you all called the dang GW
and I aint gettin caught poaching outta season (now in season, that's another story).
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