First Big Buck!

tacotanker27 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2007, 02:40 PM

I've been deer hunting for the past 3 years and havn't been able to drop a single deer until this weekend. It was the open season for youth, and being 15 I was barley eligable to hunt. I went out with my 30-06 for the morning, and didn't see a thing so I came back and grabbed my .22 and started to do some squirrel hunting. About 10 minutes after I got into my stand a 9 point walks straight out and stares at me, then starts heading right towards me. I was flipping out. I was in a tree stand with the biggest buck I've ever seen 20 yards away while I had a flipping .22 (their not meant to even kill racoons). I decide to take a shot anyways and I put the crosshairs right between his eyes and shoot and he drops like a stone. I was so excited I litterally jumped out of my stand to the ground and ran up to him. As soon as I figure out how to post pics, I'm get some up. He's an easy 8 point, but he has 2 little stubs on the back that one counts as a point, and the other is too short.

DB6150 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 01:01 AM

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doggymad · #3 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 01:39 AM

is he taking for real or on a game?

XxSNIPERxX · #4 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 11:38 PM

by the way hes explaining bow he "jumped" out of his tree stand AND how hes going to take pic of it im guessing hes for real..plus games dont have "hunting season age limits" lol but a little tip for next time maybe instead of using a .22 pee shooter try a Barrett M107 .50

DEFINATELY the most beautiful firearm currently on the planet

doggymad · #5 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 12:24 AM

Hunting laws in the UK have tightened, but not enough, hunting should be illegal everywhere - we have no more right to be here than an animal does!

**Ash** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 12:33 AM

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Hunting laws in the UK have tightened, but not enough, hunting should be illegal everywhere - we have no more right to be here than an animal does!

Foxes are vermin, just like rats. Hunting kills the weakest of them and it's actually an instant death. More foxes mean more farmers animals being attacked, and the only solution to that is to keep the animals in a shed for their entire lives...

doggymad · #7 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 12:40 AM

nature is nature, if a fox kills a farmers animal, then tough, but just because we are human we don't have the right to intervene in everything! - they are still living creatures at the end of the day!

**Ash** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 01:11 AM

In that case then, we should stop fishing, meat farming, eating eggs, etc. Come to the countryside and you'll see why we are against the hunting ban.

XxSNIPERxX · #9 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 02:46 AM

haha yeah i have to agree with ash.. farmers lose alot of their live stock to not only the foxes but also diseases they bring in from forign countries and such.. i remember a while ago in the UK a certain state was offering a money reward for every fox which was shot.. it was on TV and this one farmer had a shed full of dead foxes lol i would have started breeding them and shooting them for free cash

besides killing things is fun! i used to kill soooo many birds when i was a kid with a homemade sling shot... besides deer arnt an endangerd species when they start hunting elephants and tigers it becomes a problem but killing a "mass breeding" animal isnt soo bad

**Thaylok** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 03:27 AM

Take this not as a tirade in either direction, but what it is, my opinion, and only my opinion.

I was raised in the country, also I have an Ag degree from a University that was established to teach Agricultural Sciences, Thank you very much, but I am not addressing those issues as I make the following points.

Consider this: Sure we can outlaw all hunting, letting poor little Bambi starve to death this winter. A very slow painful death, starvation. How very "humane" to let them starve. Of course, feeding them so they become dependent on us to survive (a very real problem in Austin Tx) is just as "humane" so that when we move off, can't afford to feed them, or die we can no longer keep feeding them. Well, they could also start to become huge problem in this situation when they constantly dart out in front of our cars and trucks in the suburbs where the bleeding hearted folks created a dependence situation. That is not wise (to create that situation)

If I take an animal, I eat it! We are designed to eat meat, and I will

If you choose not to, more power to you. Some of my best friends won't eat meat. But don't bemoan me if I do.

And Like Teddy Roosevelt, I'm against the mindless slaughter of captive animals. That's not hunting. You will find that being a Conservationist is not being an extremist in any direction. It is making wise use of the resources. Bag limits, and other limits on hunting are set up, and paid for by hunters who want to take care of the resources. We want the same to be available to our children.

Again, If you choose not to hunt, or eat meat, I'm glad, I will even support you, and not eat meat around you if I know you are THAT opposed to it.

doggymad · #11 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 08:06 PM

I am not against the killing of animals to put them down or to eat them, I believe putting them down is right (I agree with euthanasia to an extent for humans) and I also believe that we are a large part of the food chain and therefore we all should eat meat. I am against killing an animal for fun and as a sport, and maybe Bambi would die from starvation but so do a lot of Africans, what should we do, bomb them?

Windows Guru · #12 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by doggymad

I am not against the killing of animals to put them down or to eat them, I believe putting them down is right (I agree with euthanasia to an extent for humans) and I also believe that we are a large part of the food chain and therefore we all should eat meat. I am against killing an animal for fun and as a sport, and maybe Bambi would die from starvation but so do a lot of Africans, what should we do, bomb them?

I would have no problem with that!

**wickedwindwalker** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 10:00 PM

HEAR HEAR!
i have no problem with hunting, and i have hunted before, and anyone who has a problem with that can kiss my rear end. i see nothing wrong with killing an animal to provide food for your family, especially if the animal is not endangered. even hunting for sport is o.k., but on the grounds that the animal you are hunting is a nuisance or pest.

doggymad · #14 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 10:06 PM

that is my problem, how do we defy a nuisance or a pest? it isn't fair - because farmers lose out, boo hoo! Someone said foxes are vermin, so are Cats! Us killing to eat is the food chain, us killing to prevent suffering is humane, us killing because we can is wrong

**Ash** · #15 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 10:24 PM

Farmers lose out enough already with...
-Foot and mouth and blue tounge
-Restricted livestock movement and export
-Global warming
-Competition from EU and worldwide imported food
-Supermarkets demanding lower and lower prices

Believe me, if you came to the countryside and saw what farmers have to put up with, I think you would change your opinion

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