IT'S HUNTING SEASON!

[Pat Riot]

[Pat Riot]

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[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[sassnetguy50]

For those Chicago hunters who think 22 and 223 are the same.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

A tale of woe and embarrassment"

I and my wife, Bill, (my best friend) and his wife and kids were all up at the cottage we had on a trout lake, with a great deer bush behind us.

November deer season, with snow on the ground.

Off Bill and I go, before dawn and get into our stands.

And Wait

And Wait.

It starts to snow more heavily and Bill walks into my watch and says: "I don't think they'll be moving in this ****"! Let's head in for lunch and some coffee."
We walk into the road into our cottage and we see deer tracks getting covered by snow. Looking at them, we determine at least one of three is a buck. A big one. Not running, just walking towards the water.

"Well, isn't that something! Right headed to the lake, right between the cottage and the garage where we store the Skidoos!"

We stomp the snow off our boots and brush ourselves off before we enter the cottage, only to be stopped by Eileen,(Bill's wife) and Sherron, (my wife), who remark:

"I don't know why you guys get up so early and spend the day out in the cold, when the deer come to us."

The kids are giggling like crazy.

"Don't bother taking your clothes off. You have work to do. Go look in the garage."

And there was Mr. buck, nicely opened and drawn, lying on the floor, on top of some plastic sheeting, because they couldn't find the chain fall hoist or get it hung.by themselves.

A shotgun and a slug in the hands of some women is a useful tool.

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[watab kid]

well , based on what i processed through our range today it should be exciting out there tomorrow - our opener is tomorrow , [wonder if gov walz will show up after that defeat ?

 

part of me didnt want him back here bad enough to vote for him - bt that was the irrational , juvenile , selfish side of me that i have tried to leave behind for all these last  7 decades 

[Rip Snorter]

I lived in MN for a long time, saw the slide, but that was not why I left.  Just look at this and consider what is vs. what was (a KAMALA clone) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/08/tim-walz-hard-to-understand-why-voters-rejected-democrats-vision-for-america/

BTW, see the pictures with his cat.

[watab kid]

yea , he is not the first communist to be elected here - just the most recent , i moved here under perprich , he gave everyone a check every year after he overtaxed us to buy back our votes , im only still here because of our grandbabies , as soon as they are old enough we are gone - cant come soon enough for me , but i got to sell a lot of stuff off first - been here since 82 and in this house since 91 , there is a lot of stuff in this house , 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

AHH!

True Love.

Makes me all misty eyed just looking at this!

[watab kid]

im all for either , had folks into the range today that did the deer hunting in the morning but their "scope" was off [ read that as loose or abiout to fall off] had to resight in to go back out in the PM , 

 

on the good side i saw two deer taken around the range getting hauled off for processing - two less i have to watch for on my way to work in the morning , had one run into the side of my last truck a few years ago lots of cost for the damage , we need to cull thatr herd folks get out and do your civic duty and shoot them , walz wont , but you can , i got faith in you , 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I can NOT count the number of times I have driven by a herd of cattle , with deer mixed in with them 

 

  they know where they are safe 

 

  CB  

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

good thing it's not a short barrel rifle ........  🙃

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[watab kid]

hmmm , your getting nice targets on your cameras 

[Savvy Jack]

 

 

Bear #1

 

Bear #2

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Choose wisely Grasshopper.

 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Choose wisely Grasshopper.

 

and so I became SINGLE again for the winter , come spring , it was all ya want to do is FISH 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Eyesa Horg]

10 hours ago, Savvy Jack said:

 

 

Bear #1

 

Bear #2

 

Were you up in the stand when the bears came in??

[Savvy Jack]

16 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Were you up in the stand when the bears came in??

Not this time. I was a few weeks ago but he passed by about 100 yards further down the spur. It was too thick and I couldn't get a shot. Last year he did the same thing to me. They do come out during the day, and they sound like a herd of elephants walking through the woods. This year bear season runs through Jan starting back again mid Dec. This weekend starts deer season for guns...in the meantime, I hunt "coyotes".

 

 

https://sites.google.com/view/44winchester/hunting/2024-hunt

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Eyesa Horg]

50 minutes ago, Savvy Jack said:

Not this time. I was a few weeks ago but he passed by about 100 yards further down the spur. It was too thick and I couldn't get a shot. Last year he did the same thing to me. They do come out during the day, and they sound like a herd of elephants walking through the woods. This year bear season runs through Jan starting back again mid Dec. This weekend starts deer season for guns...in the meantime, I hunt "coyotes".

 

 

https://sites.google.com/view/44winchester/hunting/2024-hunt

 

Ya can't make this up!! 50 minutes ago, a bear came up on our deck and took 2 bird feeders and 2 suet feeder baskets. The hanger flew off and hit the door and alerted us! Holy crap it's a bear on the deck!! Hunting season ended yesterday for bears.

[Rip Snorter]

Had similar, but I was lucky enough to see him romping up the driveway and scare him away with warning shots.  8 rounds of HST, the last close enough to kick dirt and pebbles on him. Hasn't been back.  Last year I had one, apparently in residence,  and a friend with a Spring Bear license came and got him.

[Michigan Slim]

At our Michigan cabin. My wife thought it was cool. For a while. Then not so much. 

[Rip Snorter]

I hate walking the dogs in orange with a rifle.

[Eyesa Horg]

10 minutes ago, Michigan Slim said:

At our Michigan cabin. My wife thought it was cool. For a while. Then not so much. 

Yep, same here!

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

IF the bears and big cats leave me and my stuff alone , I do the same 

 

 but if they don't it be on 

 

  CB 

[Savvy Jack]

11 hours ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

IF the bears and big cats leave me and my stuff alone , I do the same 

 

 but if they don't it be on 

 

  CB 

 

Yeap, the bears, coyotes, beavers and groundhogs are destructive and the property owner wants them gone. I kindly oblige! 

[Michigan Slim]

Buck down!