Kill Shots (For the predators)

This was my opening day harvest....big bodied spike..had irreg horns....one was 6 in. and the other was 10...any way it filled the freezer and would be considered a cull buck....now cull or not it would have got shot..i am a meat hunter.(that is what all hunters say when we don't get a nice rack on a buck..but then again i would rather the nice rack on a chic than on a deer)
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sorry no pics of the dressing, but i was by myself...
 
:grumpy: YOU GUYS ARE SICK AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOUSELVES!!! I see a a crap-load of deer meat, and no PMs or visitor messages asking if I want any? Sharing is caring bros.....


:D It looks like some of y'all have been blessed with a good hunting season, congrats :thumbup: , about the only hunting I've gotten to do is squirrel with a pellet rifle when I've came in from college once or twice, sorry no pictures of cleaning or anything, all though I did use an Izula to cut it's tail off, I took the tail back to college and gave it to a fellow ROTC cadet whose a good buddy of mine, and a little squeamish when it comes to hunting.
 
Super X said:
When I see threads like this, I always like to share information with my hunting brethren. Not only do I love to hunt, I hunt to live as well. I also grow a large organic garden, where I grow all sort's of good grub. I see so much waste all the time from people who dump carcasses down here at the river by my house and like to plant ideas into people's heads when I get a chance too. Everyone is aware that Pork Hambones/Neck Bones go good in soups and beans. Those Deer bones do just as good if not better than hambones. I just ate some Purple Hull Peas and ButterBeans for dinner and why it's fresh on my mind. Give it a try my friends, you won't throw them bones away anymore after you do. I use the front shoulder bones, hindquarter bones, rib and neck bones of Deer and Hog :D
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Quality post
I put in a lot of additional time while cleaning out game, as opposed to other hunters I know. Paying close attention to the little in-betweens on the animal, all those little scraps add up and can make a good few pounds of burger or jerky. My rationality behind the extra effort is driven by logic and respect. Logically hunters can understand the amount of money, time, and effort that is involved within one successful hunt, thus it is illogical to half ass the job and lose out on what you've spent time, money, and effort upon obtaining. The respect portion just comes back to my environmental conditioning; my family raised me to respect others even when they may be prey. Not preaching it to be the model of morality but it is enough to demand my conviction.
All of this is purely subjective to ones desire, when I find a buck’s torso skirted and left with all meat intact to feed the forest, I try not to judge a head hunters desires, because they are just as valid as my own, just different in their manifestations.
 
I'd just like to add that, if anyone is offended by this thread, and is about to sell off an ESEE 4 or a Junglas, I would really appreciate an advance PM. :p
 
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I was at Walmart and I saw this beast at the end of the isle. I was able to catch it and skin the wrapper with my RC4.
 
my esee3 works good on predators, thinking about an izula for the legs, tail and face areas where a smaller blade excels

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Here are a few.....the first two were from my last deer I took in 2010 and the last a few pigs that week took earlier in the year.....sorry but no ESEE pics in the last few but hey.....they are kill shots none the less!

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Awesome hogs! I'm heading down to my family farm on Friday for 10 days of hog hunting. Hopefully I'll have some good pics to add here. :D When hunting with dogs, I've always used a knife that my grandfather made from a lawn mower blade but DAMN I am thinking about a clip point 6 now. :(
 
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Quality post
I put in a lot of additional time while cleaning out game, as opposed to other hunters I know. Paying close attention to the little in-betweens on the animal, all those little scraps add up and can make a good few pounds of burger or jerky. My rationality behind the extra effort is driven by logic and respect. Logically hunters can understand the amount of money, time, and effort that is involved within one successful hunt, thus it is illogical to half ass the job and lose out on what you've spent time, money, and effort upon obtaining. The respect portion just comes back to my environmental conditioning; my family raised me to respect others even when they may be prey. Not preaching it to be the model of morality but it is enough to demand my conviction.
All of this is purely subjective to ones desire, when I find a buck’s torso skirted and left with all meat intact to feed the forest, I try not to judge a head hunters desires, because they are just as valid as my own, just different in their manifestations.
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Crowdog, I agree 100%. If you take it's life, then use all you can and respect the life you have taken. I see deer sometime's with the backstraps taken and the rest left to rot. I see plenty of meat on carcasses that is good food, not to mention chemical free and healthy for you too eat. We are on the same page my friend.:thumbup:
 
Super X said:
Crowdog, I agree 100%. If you take it's life, then use all you can and respect the life you have taken. I see deer sometime's with the backstraps taken and the rest left to rot. I see plenty of meat on carcasses that is good food, not to mention chemical free and healthy for you too eat. We are on the same page my friend.:thumbup:
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Now that shit drives me over the bend. I hate "sport hunters" or scavengers, if I kill it, I use as much as I can. Good call Super, good call.

Moose
 
I was talking about going to Alabama with Charlie Edmonson, a custom knife maker that made my chopper, and hunting hogs with him. I asked him what caliber gun I should use. When he replied, "Gun? You'll shoot my dogs. We hunt hogs with knives". I knew I might be out of my league.
 
MHill said:
I was talking about going to Alabama with Charlie Edmonson, a custom knife maker that made my chopper, and hunting hogs with him. I asked him what caliber gun I should use. When he replied, "Gun? You'll shoot my dogs. We hunt hogs with knives". I knew I might be out of my league.
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You should give it a try at least once. I took some other NW natives (from Seattle) down with me to the farm in Alabama they were *shocked* to say the least. The only guy that was actually willing to step up was so stoked that when he got home he immediately proposed to his girlfriend. It's not pretty and you probably won't want to do it more than once, but assuming you manage to keep your legs intact, it will be the best hog you have ever eaten! :D
 
I must say that I am terrible offended by this tread, how dare you all post picture of your kills and you using these knives to clean and process such beautiful creatures. How dare any of you post up using these knives as they were meant to be used, it is just terrible to see these amazing knives with blood on them.




Okay actually you all have me very jealous as I just started hunting a few years ago and have not been able to harvest a deer for my freezer yet. Oh well but I do appreciate hearing that people elsewhere do share my feelings towards the respect of the animal and using as much as you can. I find way to many deer carcasses out in the woods with the antlers and backstraps cut out and the rest left to rot. It really upsets me to see an animal taken and laid to wast like that.

Great thread and I am glad to see so many people who were able to fill there freezers.
 
I have ZERO problems with sport hunting nuisance animals such as hogs. Zero. Kill the bastards and let them rot on site and feed the buzzards is fine by me. Luckily we don't have a problem (yet) with them on our farm, but I do that with deer here in the spring because they ravage my garden. I have friends in Texas that battle the hogs constantly. (Wait, maybe it's illegal aliens they're shooting and the hogs they're feeding...can't remember), but anyway my point being all you sacred do-gooders that think you must eat everything you kill I call bullshit on. You've never had to deal with an over-abundance of nuisance animals, you probably have never farmed a day in yoru life and probably don't weed your garden (if you ever had one). So, until youve had to deal with the problems of nuisance animals go back into your sacred little holes that you justify your killing with. ;)
 
R.A.T. said:
I have ZERO problems with sport hunting nuisance animals such as hogs. Zero. Kill the bastards and let them rot on site and feed the buzzards is fine by me. Luckily we don't have a problem (yet) with them on our farm, but I do that with deer here in the spring because they ravage my garden. I have friends in Texas that battle the hogs constantly. (Wait, maybe it's illegal aliens they're shooting and the hogs they're feeding...can't remember), but anyway my point being all you sacred do-gooders that think you must eat everything you kill I call bullshit on. You've never had to deal with an over-abundance of nuisance animals, you probably have never farmed a day in yoru life and probably don't weed your garden (if you ever had one). So, until youve had to deal with the problems of nuisance animals go back into your sacred little holes that you justify your killing with. ;)
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I should have been a little more clear on my definition of sport hunting. What I consider sport hunting is killing just to be out killing. If you have a reason behind what you are doing, I'm all for it, but I don't believe in taking life for no other reason than you wanted too.

When I hunt, I hunt for the meat, not the kill. I've been paid to shoot nuisance animals before, and I have no problem with it, but the guy that shoots a big Whitetail deer, laps off the head for a trophy and leaves the rest laying is a sorry sack of shit. That's my opinion.

Moose
 
I didn’t pull one weed out of my garden last year, best corn yield I’ve had yet. :D I loathe weeding. Something to be said about bringing your own food out of the ground though. Got some sweet corn in my lunch today, mmm mmmmm.

Population control has to be done. The property we hunt had deer so thick for a while that one year when they lost some corn out of the truck the deer were walking up and eating it while they were scooping it back in to the truck.

This was the first year I can honestly say I was out there for purely the meat and the first deer that came out was getting the hammer. If it weren’t for the meat, I probably wouldn’t hunt any more. Instead of patiently waiting in silence and stillness I’d rather go for a hike and work on friction fires. I successfully turkey hunted for about ten years and just lost interest.

Guy here at work preaches how unethical it is for guys to shoot (and successfully kill mind you) deer with the .223. Then in that same year shoots a 130” buck, capes it out taking only the head and hide because “he didn’t want to make a bunch of noise dragging it out and messing up his hunting for the rest of the year.” They’re animals but I respect them but won’t kill game animals for sport. Food and population control, not a problem.
 
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