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I Saved Bamby Yesterday
Nighthawk
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I was on routine Patrol about 7:00 PM last night and was driving on a back road.Where people go to see Deer and Turkey and an Ocasional Black Bear.Its Illegal to stop and look at something because it causes traffic congestion and people tend to sit and watch game until it leaves,then others miss it.So we ocassionally when we have time,ride through view game and see that traffic keeps moving.I have never in my career wrote a citation to someone stopped just had them move on,not to say I want.But yesterday they were about four maybe five cars stopped and people were standing outside their cars.I figured a Bear had been spotted so I pull up beside them,and see a Baby Deer with its spots still on,with its leg caught in an old fence.So I approach calmly and the little fella started panicking.So I try to untangle its leg and successfully freed it,unharmed just scared.I looked around a little Bit and Mama and Bro or sis standing not more than 35-40yrds up the hill.She seemed gratefull as she threw her tail strait in the Air and hopped off with her two young.Then I got applauded for freeing the Deer.I seen a total of 39 Deer and 20 some Turkeys,and once again was reminded that my Job is very rewarding.
Rugster
Rugster
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GOOD JOB RUGSTER
SMILE...MAKE EM WONDER WHAT YOUR UP TO
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
Gonna give my standard reply anyway.
I am a hunter, and have no qualms about saying so. I have absolutely no problem with those who choose not to hunt, as not everyone is willing or able to make their own meat. The only people that I have a problem with would be those who put down hunters while enjoying their fried chicken, burger, steak, etc.
If you are willing to pay somebody else to do your killing for you, which is exactly what you are doing when you get a burger at your favorite drive-through, please don't fault me for being willing to do my own killing. Doing so makes you a hypocrite. Rant off.
Have found l thing after all this time that I agree
with SP on. Still waiting to found something to
agree on with HeDog.
OOPsss what was that sound, oh it is all those stars
crashing down on my head.
JBB
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them.
Saxon, I don't like killing either, but I still want to be in touch with the hunt, and I agree with .280 on being able to do the killing of your own meat. Or your dog when the time comes. Personal thing.
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
"Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
Bravo! I agree. Love leather jackets, tested medication, and juicy steaks. I like buckskin too but you just don't walk into Walmart and get it. Saxon sometimes I find myself rooting for the deer even though I hunt them. Especially when some city slicker has his sights on that eight pointer I've been chasing all season.
True sportsman know the value of fair chase and game control. Hunt black bear in Maine. You are allowed to take any bear on the hunt. This includes sows with cubs. Yes it is legal. Just because it's legal is it ethical? We have this discussion every time we hunt out of this lodge as we sit with our guides and hunting parties. The lodge as well as the hunters agree that if a sow comes in with cubs we let her walk. If we see a bear come in alone we give it time to mill around to see if any cubs are with it before we harvest. If those cubs are without mom they will not make mature bears. Yes, bear meat is very tastey. Shoot straight and with respect for the game you hunt.
"Save the whalers, they need jobs too."
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
I think that sometimes one of the hardest things for a non-hunter to understand about hunters is that even we root for the animals at times.
The biggest smile on my face often comes when some critter totally outsmarts me after a long period of cat and mouse. I tip my hat, smile, and wish them well, for on that day, I certainly met my match, they beat me, fair and square.
After so much work freeing Bambi he runs toward his mother at the other side of the road and a 18 weeler doin at least 78 just turn
the beast into grinded meat at the wink of an eye! .....
Well I saved some meat and it sure was tender and delicious.....
MMMMMMM ! Finger licccccckkking goooooodddd !!!!!!
JD (Better him than me!)
400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
"It was like that when I got here".
as for all of the non hunters i don't mind if you don't hunt as long as you don't mind if I do when you start moaning about cruelty to animals as others have stated get off your leather seat out of your leather shoes throw your burger in the trash and don't take any medicine that has been tested on animals
and btw way to go rugster i hope it turns out to be a 400 class typical and you get to take it
you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
"It was like that when I got here".
Sounds like you have a new Pet.
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Now as far as the non hunters go, you are entitled to feel that way, I'm glad you do, more critters for me!
For those of you who think hunting is cruel, go to a commercial packing house, just go one time. Ever see a commercial feed lot? While I have a cold heart when it comes to killing animals I will say this, packing houses are the some of the most cruel means of obtaining meat, it is also sickening to those with a weak stomache. When you go to the grocery store and buy that hamburg, steak, roast, pork chops, ribs, chicken and all the other kinds of processed meat think of this. Those animals have no chance, they are dead from the day they are born. They are raised in areas that offer no freedom, just penned up until the big day. Deer and other game animals have a chance, most live normal lives in the woods right up to the point of death. Beef cattle and other animals raised for slaughter are nothing more than a vegtable plant waiting to be picked, no chance, no life, just a pen and a date with death. Until you witness a truckload of cows or hogs going thru the process, don't call hunting cruel.
JD
400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
I find that as I get older that I can just watch all those small critters without fetching the gun. But I still like fried rabbit and quail pot pie!
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AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
To the stars through difficulties
It actually IS a word. It means "Prophetic; able to foretell the future".
The context in which it was used makes me wonder, though, if that is the meaning that the Judge was ascribing to it.
In respect to Rugsters rescue, Good job! Good for the deer , good for the public image. Last May I came upon a group of vacationers throwing rocks at a newborn fawn that was huddled behind a soda machine at our resorts outdoor pool. I politely directed them away from the fawn with a grade stake I found nearby, picked up "Bambie"(they are strong and can really kick) and walked a short distance to the tree line where mom was snorting,carefully put the slimy little thing down and backed away. It and mom were soon out of sight.Deer giving birth within view is not to uncommon on this 5000 acre resort, but it was hard to imagine why a family with young kids would engage in throwing rock at a day old fawn.
Bartman