Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was field-dressing a buck. Third year in
a row I've gotten a deer before lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a hundred thousand other
people. Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

In article , Doug Miller
wrote:

Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was field-dressing a
buck. Third year in
a row I've gotten a deer before lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be
able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a hundred
thousand other
people. Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.

Way to go, Doug.

--
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I
like fishing because it¹s the one thing I can think of that probably doesn¹t. *
John Gierach

In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in
a row I've gotten a deer before lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to
be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other
people. Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

I know a guy who shot one from his bedroom window a few years back.


--
When the game is over, the pawn and the king are returned to the same box.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar.org

(Larry W) wrote in news:k896ha$lmb$1
@speranza.aioe.org:

In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in
a row I've gotten a deer before lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to
be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other
people. Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

I know a guy who shot one from his bedroom window a few years back.

According to Jeff Foxworthy, then, he might be a redneck. That's one of the criteria: "if
you've ever shot a deer from your house..."

Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a hundred
pounds of venison in the freezer.


100lbs? Geezus - that must have been a monster buck! Post pics. Most
average NE bucks only yield around 60lbs tops.

--

-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote in news:k896hk$hcq$1@dont-
email.me:

Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a hundred
pounds of venison in the freezer.


100lbs? Geezus - that must have been a monster buck! Post pics. Most
average NE bucks only yield around 60lbs tops.

No monster; by Midwestern standards, it's only medium-sized, even leaning a bit toward the
small side of medium. No pics to post -- it wasn't big enough to bother taking any.

I will say this, though: it's the biggest four-point buck I've ever seen. I was *really* surprised
there wasn't at least one more set of tines on the antlers.

Doug Miller wrote:
"Mike Marlow" wrote in
news:k896hk$hcq$1@dont-
email.me:

Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with
a hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a
hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.


100lbs? Geezus - that must have been a monster buck! Post pics.
Most average NE bucks only yield around 60lbs tops.

No monster; by Midwestern standards, it's only medium-sized, even
leaning a bit toward the
small side of medium. No pics to post -- it wasn't big enough to
bother taking any.

I will say this, though: it's the biggest four-point buck I've ever
seen. I was *really* surprised there wasn't at least one more set of
tines on the antlers.

Can't eat the horns anyway. Congratulations! I haven't been out at all
this year, but I do keep an eye on my woods through my den doors - I'm not
worried about being called a redneck for shooting them right off my deck.

Around here the average field dressed buck goes around 130lbs. Yields
around 60lbs of real meat (maybe between 60 and 80lbs), as I said before. A
180lbs buck is a big buck around here. 200lbs is an absolute monster. I've
weighed deer before, but I've never actually weighed the total meat taken
off of them. I've weighed parts of the meat - the amount of hamburger for
example.

--

-Mike-

in 1542539 20121117 213800 Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was field-dressing a buck. Third year in
a row I've gotten a deer before lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a hundred thousand other
people. Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

Not for the deer!

Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.

Here in the West, we have mountain lions.

Parklands in the cities have been over run and have become a real
problem.

Farmers OTOH, can get a little relief by opening their lands to
hunters.

Know a couple farmers in Michigan who would be happy if the hunters
shot ALL the "Bambis" on their farms.

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

--

-Mike-

On 11/18/2012 5:27 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

Then the coyotes are not doing their job. I believe the number one
cause of auto insurance claims is deer collisions.

You mentioned the Bambi complex. It is difficult to argue with a 6 year
old, when you are on a hike, that Walt Disney is not the ultimate
authority on the life of a deer. Especially when they are aware a
second fawn is following you 10 or 20 feet off of the trail as you try
to take pictures of the mother and her other fawn

Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 11/18/2012 5:27 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

Then the coyotes are not doing their job. I believe the number one
cause of auto insurance claims is deer collisions.

Nope - they can't keep up with the deer population. They are simply a
natural predator of deer - that's all I stated in response to Lew's comment.


You mentioned the Bambi complex. It is difficult to argue with a 6
year old, when you are on a hike, that Walt Disney is not the ultimate
authority on the life of a deer. Especially when they are aware a
second fawn is following you 10 or 20 feet off of the trail as you try
to take pictures of the mother and her other fawn

I did not mention that - Lew did.

--

-Mike-

On 11/18/2012 6:21 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 11/18/2012 5:27 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

Then the coyotes are not doing their job. I believe the number one
cause of auto insurance claims is deer collisions.

i had a deer hit me a few months ago. small female mule deer just before
sunrise. i saw it out of the corner of my eye coming up out of a ditch
on the side of the road, slammed on my brakes and was dead stopped when
it hit me on my vette's front quarter panel, rolled off the hood, and
kept on going.

You mentioned the Bambi complex. It is difficult to argue with a 6 year
old, when you are on a hike, that Walt Disney is not the ultimate
authority on the life of a deer. Especially when they are aware a
second fawn is following you 10 or 20 feet off of the trail as you try
to take pictures of the mother and her other fawn

in 1542557 20121118 102733 "Mike Marlow" wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

What about the runaway human population?

Bob Martin wrote:
in 1542557 20121118 102733 "Mike Marlow"
wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

What about the runaway human population?

Seems they are becoming less of a natural predator to the deer population -
except for when they're driving their cars...

--

-Mike-

Bob Martin wrote in :

in 1542557 20121118 102733 "Mike Marlow" wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.


Except for the runaway coyote population

What about the runaway human population?

If you feel there are too many humans, you know what to do about it....

On 11/18/2012 3:50 AM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

Should wind up with close to a hundred pounds of venison in the
freezer.

Life is good.
------------------------------------------------------
Bob Martin wrote:

Not for the deer!
------------------------------------------------------
The "Bambi" complex has lead to serious problems in several
suburban areas, especially in the Eastern half of the USA.

"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.

Here in the West, we have mountain lions.

Parklands in the cities have been over run and have become a real
problem.

Farmers OTOH, can get a little relief by opening their lands to
hunters.

Know a couple farmers in Michigan who would be happy if the hunters
shot ALL the "Bambis" on their farms.

Lew




we (farmers and ranchers) also have the out clause that allows us to
'drop them on site' year round if they are endangering livestock. Yep,
deer endanger my live stock by knocking down fences. So away they go.
--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:50:13 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
"Bambi" has no natural predators in the Eastern USA thus they have
multiplied like rats.

Florida Gators and Pythons? Of course, neither can be considered
natural deer predators, but you could export some of Florida's
predators out west to control the deer problem. Once the deer are all
gone, those exported predators should die off pretty quick.

Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a hundred
pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

From a Dilbert cartoon

Pointy-haired boss (PHB) - "I went hunting over the weekend and shot a
moose."
Secretary: "That doesn't sound like you. What am I missing?"
PHB: "It had a saddle."
Secretary: "And there it is."

"HeyBub" wrote in
m:

Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with a
hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a hundred
pounds of venison in the freezer.

Life is good.

From a Dilbert cartoon

Pointy-haired boss (PHB) - "I went hunting over the weekend and shot a
moose."
Secretary: "That doesn't sound like you. What am I missing?"
PHB: "It had a saddle."
Secretary: "And there it is."

No saddles on mine, just antlers.

Heading out again tomorrow morning at oh-dark-thirty with my son and his SWMBO. 'Bout
time to hit the rack.