Beckerheads, do you hunt?

Mrwhitetailfanatic

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I was just wondering if anyone else hunted? Im a big bow hunter and given by my SN Im a whitetail nut!If you do what Becker do you carry with you? I dont carry a Becker because I didnt own one last season. Ill prolly carry my 14 form time to time this year. Im going to try and tag a deer this year with a recurve first attempt at that! So whats your fancy? I think this might be my last thread to apply for a Beckerhead number
 
I hunt whitetail, turkey, and bear. I use a 12ga shotgun for all three. I usually carry a Mora Triflex, or a BK14. The BK9 stays in the pack until needed. I've been remiss the last few years on hunting, it seems something always gets in the way during season. Never fails, deer season comes on, and I get sent to SoCal or New York. Sometimes both.

I plan on getting out this year, for some turkey and whitetail. If the hunting Gods favor me, I will be makin' some jerky for Christmas. Bear season is pretty thin here, and unless you belong to a club that has tons of acreage, and cultivates the bear and boar population, your pickings are slim.

I like a light, thin knife for hunting, though my BK2 has made a few gut piles in its day, I find the Mora more suited for field dressing, and the BK2 better for skinning.

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i dont hunt
and now, at age 33 regret that fact

seems to me that hunting is a skill a man should have....
course my father didnt hunt so i never really learned *shrugs*
 
If it runs, swims, or flies...it dies! :cool:

As far as knives go, I like a small, easy to manuever blade like the BK14. I also have a small David Farmer drop point that's a freakin' laser! If I look at it wrong, I bleed...so it's gonna get a lot of use in the field!
 
I had my first hunting license at 10 and hunted until my mid twenties. I just lost interest in pleasure killing. At this time if I needed to feed my family, no problem! But just to blow something away or bleed it to death for no more than my own personal entertainment....No thank you.
 
I'm more of a fisherman, but I like to hunt. I don't have as much time for it as I used to, but I hope to remedy that in the next few years.
Turkey hunting is my absolute favorite. I also will hunt deer, dove, and quail. I wouldn't mind doing some boar hunting, but have never tried it.
If you hunt BTW, you're probably going to want that clip point Tweener in your pack next year. Or maybe the mini-Camp. Or maybe that drop point. :D

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Oh, and this guy hangs out in a nearby state park. I saw him a lot last winter. :D

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i don't hunt. yet :) i has the gear, and the skills, but lack the license, and a buddy to go with. there's a certain amount of local lore i want first... covered in the course. hope to take it this year.

simple motto, if it's alive, and you shoot it or stick a knife in it, you need to DO something with it (like harvest it). otherwise, you're an idjit ;)

now, target stuff, oh yeah, i'm all over that. long bow. shorty recurve. plinking AND marksmanship.
 
Hunting and Fishing are my passion and are the main reason I spend the time I do outdoors. I love to bowhunt, but when looking for a more social outing it is pheasant, squirrel, rabbit, quail...

I am also new to the awesomeness that is Becker! My little locking folder has taken care of every cleaning chore I've put it against. I carried my 11 turkey hunting this year and it performed really well.

This guy was hanging out around the stand a little too long in 2009 and I couldn't resist :)
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I do all kinds of hunting and fishing, but hands down, my favorite is hog hunting. I have killed 5, and there is nothing as fun, or as tasty as smoked hog!! MMMmmmmmmmmmmm Good!!
 
I hunt! But I didn't grow up hunting. I was in my late thirties when I started, with the help of friends. I'm now in my mid 50's and look forward to every season. I have hunted whitetails, muleys coyotes, badgers and pheasants. I didn't have a Becker until recently (BK2). My skinning/butchering knife is a Swamprat Howling Rat. For me, it's the perfect blade to have at my side in the field. Still love my Becker though! I also have 4 ESEE's. I'm not really a knife collector. All of mine are users and their finish shows it.
Oh, and this past season I bagged my first deer with my bow! That was a thrill I will never forget! I have been stationed in Idaho for the past 4 years. A great state for the outdoorsman. In about 6 weeks, I will be moving to Minot North Dakota. I have heard that North Dakota is a sportsman's paradise. It may be tough competition with Idaho. I have really enjoyed my time here.
Cheers
Balding
 
I hunt.....
Kind of a blanket statement for me. I was a sharpshooter in the Army for eight years and found hunting to be a relaxing way to keep my skills up when I got out. I am also part of the Mid-Atlantic-Primitive-Skills-Soc so my kills are used far more than average. We tan hides and furs and use bones for tools and flint knapping equipment, and tendons for backing bows and wrapping arrows, etc...
I also shot on a pistol team for a few seasons and that actually got me interested in small game hunting with a .22 handgun for the challenge. I never thought much of squirrel as a quarry but I have to admit that its been growing so quickly on my that I take a pistol on all my hunts and as soon as we get a deer I'm right off into the woods stalking grey squirrels. I shot half a dozen last time I went out. Four were head shots and two were center chest shots because they stood up and looked at me.

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I also shoot ground squirrels. Not for food or sport but for population control. They make colonies on cattle farms and when left unchecked they leave so many holes that the cows breaking an ankle is a common and expensive occurrence. I don't pick then up because they also carry Bubonic plague and a few other nasty contagions but the vultures and coyotes take care of the clean up. This is my yarmint gun. Its a 22-250 savage with a Shilen Barrel.

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I'm a hunter as well - whitetail primarily. These are my tools (that and a BK11 or BK14).

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The bow is a Howard Hill Halfbreed named Chili Maker and the BK9 isn't nearly as pretty now - heh.

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GingivitisKahn said:
I'm a hunter as well - whitetail primarily. These are my tools (that and a BK11 or BK14).

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The bow is a Howard Hill Halfbreed named Chili Maker and the BK9 isn't nearly as pretty now - heh.

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I remember seeing Howard Hill shooting aspirin tablets thrown into the air.
 
Having grown up on a farm in central Ohio, this was standard initiation for enrollment into the "Ohio Farm Boy's Hunting Guild" . . . :)
Some of my best memories of childhood were the hunting and fishing trips on Saturday with my dad, uncle, & grandpa. The evening was spent sitting at the table in my grandma's kitchen listening to dad & my uncle replay the day's events for my mom and grandma, while whatever game we had taken that day was cooking on her stove, along with biscuits, gravy (with mandatory lumps, of course), and some sort of vegetable. My best birthday was my 12th when my only present was a single .410ga. shell that dad gave me & told me I was ready to go out alone if I wanted to.
I am very fortunate for my son is just as addicted to the outdoors as I am. Thanks for reminding me of some great times from my childhood.
Be safe.
 
I've done a lot of bird hunting, quail, pheasant, dove. We used to road trip up to Nebraska each year for some pheasant hunting on opening day.

I also manage to do some coon hunting a few time each season.

I intend to but a rifle this year for deer season, and I really want to go hog hunting, both the rifle kind and the dog and knife kind.
 
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