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Hair brained or genius?
susie
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May have been the pain meds last night but I have a solution to not miss the doe season that starts tomorrow. I can set up my hunting chair and shooting stick today here on the farm.
Tomorrow morning I hike to my spot and hunt as a lefty with the stick supporting my firearm. I have a mini-14 with which I can hunt. Light weight to make it easier.
Genius or harebrained?
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And you have someone there to field dress the deer and get it back to the house and hung and skinned and all that jazz?
I'd probably sit this one out, Susie...
Yep, Brother and Nephew will be hunting here on the farm as well.
Go for it ! had a tooth extracted yrs ago and was put out to do it. I wake up and dentist and assistant have me in a wheelchair out of the dentist chair. They wheel me down the hall to the side door and I tell the nurse..hey I my Wife has a Mustang just like that one... she gets me out and I crawl in the passenger seat to ride home. I am feeling pretty good. Then a couple hours later I shoot a deer in the field next to the house still feeling no pain.
question is can you make a good shot left handed???? I wouldn't want to wound a deer just for prides sake........
Will do some target shooting today if I decide to go with it.
Got anyone close by to assist with recovery of your critter?
Mule
As long as someone is around to drag, hang and clean, Why Not !!!
Priority one is protect the shoulder repair. If you can do that give it a go. A fall could prove disastrous for your shoulder so keep that in mind.
I've taken a few critters with left handed shots (I shoot right handed) one was a decent buck. I was in a tree stand and he was behind me over my right shoulder. I could hear him and knew the way he was traveling he was going to go over a steep hill to the creek bottom. I wasn't sure it was a buck but I knew if it was I didn't have time for extra movement and no way I could make a right handed shot on it. I peeled my gun around the tree left landed seen is was a good buck and shot him left handed before he could figure out what I was.
Of course he went on over the hill and i had to get him from the creek bottom. That required dragging a boat to the creek and back out along with the deer.
Well then, if you can make a clean kill left handed and you've got the heavy lifting covered I'd say go get 'em!
Id say hairbrained at best.
my son had the cartilage replace in his knee shortly before thanksgiving, i sorta did what you are talking about with him. i made a ground blind on the shooting range berm, put him a folding chair there and gave him a shooting stick. he killed his first deer there so your idea will work.
After a few minutes to think about answer, hair/hare brained. Too much can go wrong, heal up and deer will still be there next season.
Not too confident in a mini 14 for a well placed shot.
Seems like I always trip on vines, weeds, loose branches on ground ect. I myself would pass just cause I know my limitations now and if I had your issue.
Won't try it this weekend. Nerve block is starting to wear off and I will be under the influence. Depending on how next week goes I will make a decision about next weekend.
If #1 doesn't have to work Sunday I may go sit with her and let her use my .06. She needs to be shown where the deer come out. A second pair of eyes is a plus as well.
As long as there aren't any Nerf guns laying around out there I'm not worried about tripping. Lol.
Have an amazing time!
Myself, I enjoy it so much more when my kids shoot the deer! Albet mine are still minors, it's just amazing!
It's all about the fun.
I had to ask myself the same questions this year regarding the deer hunt. Just a couple days before our rifle season started Nov. 15th, my lower back began acting up. Not sure what I did to hurt myself but had severe sciatic nerve pain down my right leg to the toes. I did make it out to my blind opening morning and sat for 4 hours which was a mistake with the pain aftermath I endured later that day. Thankfully, Bambi did not show up!
Sure, it has saddened me greatly to miss this years hunt but by taking it fairly easy these last 2 1\2 weeks I am slowly feeling better. Hunting alone has its drawbacks for one my age. PAIN IMHO was invented by God to induce COMMON SENSE!
A friend of mine has had 3 rotator cuff surgeries, foe 2 she didn't follow docs orders .
She is good on one shoulder , the other, not paying attention to doc she needs a replacement shoulder
Stay home, let the kids get the deer, save yourself major surgery
My deer hunting has been impeded by my pain from my kneels , taking care of my mother in law (dementia ) and life in general . With my up coming knee replacements, dec 8th ,what spare time i have has gone into trying to get everything winterized ,finished before being down for a while. Heal up and take care of yourself .