Author Topic: Concerning Whitetailed Deer Killing Range (Read 9583 times)

Daryl · « **on:** September 09, 2014, 05:42:13 PM »

How close do you get to these things before you shoot them?

SCLoyalist · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2014, 05:45:27 PM »

Not only do they get close, you get a quartering away shot!

Kermit · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2014, 06:33:51 PM »

At that range, a pike.

smylee grouch · « **Reply #3 on:** September 09, 2014, 07:33:00 PM »

Be carefull of the powder burns.

Vomitus · « **Reply #4 on:** September 09, 2014, 07:58:03 PM »

Got the neiw wee knee yet Daryls?

RonC · « **Reply #5 on:** September 09, 2014, 08:17:48 PM »

You can use the same technique I use for South African Springbok, except I do it bare-handed

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Jerry V Lape · « **Reply #6 on:** September 09, 2014, 08:51:05 PM »

I missed a deer with a bow at half that distance (opposite side of a sheep fence and I hit the wire!) That was shortly before I quit bow hunting!

Daryl · « **Reply #7 on:** September 09, 2014, 11:48:23 PM »

LOL - new knee in 6 days, LB.

WadePatton · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2014, 01:14:33 AM »

Quote from: smylee grouch on September 09, 2014, 07:33:00 PM

Be carefull of the powder burns.

If you singe the hairs upon the hide,

then you were 2 steps too close.

dismissed!

Don Steele · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:24:58 AM »

We don't shoot the "Yard Deer"..!!

George Sutton · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2014, 03:35:38 AM »

My Lab is bigger than that thing.

Centershot

nosrettap1958 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2014, 04:57:21 AM »

The deer has a look on its face, "What's that two-legged varmint doing in my yard."

axelp · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2014, 04:58:30 AM »

Like my buddy who works in Yosemite Natl Park says... "You can hunt them here with a bag of potato chips and a ballpeen hammer."

David R. Pennington · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2014, 05:42:53 AM »

I had a nice buck cross the hollow below me once. I just got a glimpse of him through heavy cover, but when he crossed my trail he turned and ran straight at me. If I would have had a bayonet on my rifle I could have nailed him as he went past. I let him get past me about 40 yards before I shot.

Kermit · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2014, 06:22:01 AM »

Quote from: Ken Prather on September 10, 2014, 04:58:30 AM

Like my buddy who works in Yosemite Natl Park says... "You can hunt them here with a bag of potato chips and a ballpeen hammer."

My wife LOVED that!

heelerau · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2014, 08:00:13 AM »

I sneak up on kangas, gently feel between the legs to make sure I am not going to shoot a doe with a joey in its pouch, then sneak back to a respectable range and take my shot !. Poor skippy skip !!

JB2 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2014, 08:09:58 PM »

Skippy?! I haven't heard a reference to "Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo" in years! funny.

Levy · « **Reply #17 on:** September 10, 2014, 09:15:34 PM »

When I was about 17, I had a large buck walk up on me in the swamp at my Grandfather's house. He stopped about 2 leaps away and I had the great idea that it would be fun to watch him turn inside out when I jumped up into the air and scared him. Well...it didn't work out that way. I jumped and he spun around facing me with his head dropped down low and pawed at the ground. He leapt toward me and I jumped backwards swinging my hickory walking stick for the fences. The blow caught him on the base of the horns. He stopped, shook his head and trotted off. I couldn't speak for about 30 minutes.

James Levy

axelp · « **Reply #18 on:** September 10, 2014, 11:27:03 PM »

The local non-migratory does decided my (young at the time) Aussie-border collie was fair game and stomped her a couple times. One day I was returning from a walk with my dog on a leash, and a doe faced us and began to high step towards us intending to stomp my poor dog again. I stepped in front of her and started waving my arms and snarling "unrepeatables" to said doe. She finally tore her eyes from my dog and realized that I was bigger and "human" and trotted off. I would have loved to drop her with my 45 long colt repro. My dog would have loved it too. But the local deer sheriff would have frowned on it.

Now days my Aussie-border collie is full-grown and gets joy out of "herding" the deer. She chases them off the property on a nightly basis. She stops at the fence line every time, so I let her have her bit of revenge. We have had as many as 15 deer bed down in the field by the house. But when the dog goes out, they all have to leave the property.

K

David R. Pennington · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2014, 03:56:26 AM »

My Dad was wade fishing the Greenbriar River and had a doe tree him on an island one day. He didn't think it was as funny as I did.

D. Bowman · « **Reply #20 on:** September 11, 2014, 01:49:06 PM »

This close enough???

blackbruin · « **Reply #21 on:** September 11, 2014, 03:55:25 PM »

Is that a full size mount of that ancient buck you shot several years ago?

Levy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 11, 2014, 05:45:29 PM »

A friend of mine, Joe Hutto, has 35-40 mule deer that like to winter in his yard. He lives ioutside Lander, WY on the Slingshot Ranch PBS/BBC just did a movie about it, which I haven't seen yet. he lives near a rock face and along with the deer came mountain lion.

James Levy

WadePatton · « **Reply #23 on:** September 13, 2014, 04:00:36 AM »

Quote from: David R. on September 11, 2014, 03:56:26 AM

My Dad was wade fishing the Greenbriar River and had a doe tree him on an island one day. He didn't think it was as funny as I did.

is that where those fish-eating whitetails live? No really there are some up North i've read.

or maybe he was fishing with a bucktail?

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Author Topic: Concerning Whitetailed Deer Killing Range (Read 9583 times)

Vomitus

nosrettap1958

JB2

D. Bowman