Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting New freinds

[Bill Stockard]

Nice just like a carnival shooting gallery, Bill do you hunt with a gun or a camera. In my trucking days driving thru Texas I have seen some Whitetail deer that are the size of Mule deer. But never have hunted them

No, I don't hunt them. My wife "shoots" them with her camera. If I shot one, I, like you, would have to sleep with one eye open. :-laf ... and I'm too old to learn.



Our rancher friend mows our hay meadow for hay each summer. When doing the first early summer mowing, he has to be very careful not to run over the fawns hidden the tall grass. There are usually one or two fawns hidden and left by the doe while she goes to forage. They won't move with the approaching tractor and hay cutter. Only if the rancher gets off his tractor and approaches them on foot will they jump up and run off out of the way.



Bill

 

[GCroyle]

Ya I like to ride bicycles as a kid I was into cross country and could just enjoy running for runnings sake. Then when I did more grown up things like go to Viet Nam on Dec 22 1973 I was running for another reason (my life). When the VC hit the wire and I ran out of ammo ya I admit it I RAN but not fast enough lost part of my leg and so running was kind of like driving with a flat tire. Thump Thump Thump. Had an substance abuse problem and had to rehab some how I always like the feeling of air rushing around as I ran. Cycling gives me that same HIGH. At 6ft 6 in tall and around 200lbs (210lbs French food is very rich) I can wear cycling short's and not be ashamed about it. Try riding a bicycle for 100 + miles in a day not at the beach but try the mountains. And then do it for 3 weeks and thats what the Tour de France is about. Those guys are hauling some serious A** not out for some spin around the block. And most of all I like it

Bignasty,



I have read this several times, and all I can say is thank you for your service and sacrifices for us and I wish you many many miles of cycling air rushing on you. Montana is a beautiful state, had the pleasure of traveling thru on on business a couple of time.



Best regards Sir.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Bignasty,



I have read this several times, and all I can say is thank you for your service and sacrifices for us and I wish you many many miles of cycling air rushing on you. Montana is a beautiful state, had the pleasure of traveling thru on on business a couple of time.



Best regards Sir.

Well thank you for the kind words. But do me a favor next time and from now on when you see one of our Military People go over and say THANK YOU TO THEM. They dont get to hear it as much as the should. I make it a personal obligation to great each and everyone of them I see. If they are in a store or restaurant I pay for their meal or coffee what ever it is. When I came back it wasnt politicly correct to be for the Military people use to say all kinds of foul I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER to us its not right and I swore that I wouldnt do anything like that. On the other thing Montana is Great I just wish that I could find snow tire's riding on a stationary trainer with a fan is just not the same.

 

[BIGNASTY]

No, I don't hunt them. My wife "shoots" them with her camera. If I shot one, I, like you, would have to sleep with one eye open. :-laf ... and I'm too old to learn.





I to have become more of a camera hunter. I dont know why? it just seems like I dont have to drop one to enjoy the hunt or the outdoors anymore. But at last it is July about the beginning of Sept. the hormones will start to flow and Ill be running around outside marking my turf get all hairy and my neck will swell and my trigger finger will start twitching :-laf

 

[GHarman]

No, I don't hunt them. My wife "shoots" them with her camera. If I shot one, I, like you, would have to sleep with one eye open. :-laf ... and I'm too old to learn.





I to have become more of a camera hunter. I dont know why? it just seems like I dont have to drop one to enjoy the hunt or the outdoors anymore. But at last it is July about the beginning of Sept. the hormones will start to flow and Ill be running around outside marking my turf get all hairy and my neck will swell and my trigger finger will start twitching :-laf

Yep, Got that problem, too. My Wife complains cause I get kinda gamey (Hey I shower daily!)and BOTH trigger fingers itch, my nose is always upwind whilst trying to see behind me. It really ticks her off when I get down on all fours and sniff a track:-laf. What really set her off was when I found a track, in the mud, outside the mall

I just tell her; "Shes got issues, monthly. Dont bug me, Its my turn"Oo. ! Greg

 

[BIGNASTY]

Greg it refreshing to know that SOMEONE ELSE has bigger issues than I :-laf Others wont know what we are talking about unless they hunt it is an addiction

 

[HHhuntitall]

Greg it refreshing to know that SOMEONE ELSE has bigger issues than I :-laf Others wont know what we are talking about unless they hunt it is an addiction

Addiction?!?! That's putting it mildly!! :-laf More like the hormones and my neck swells, like you said... . it's in the blood!! :grunt: :grunt: And with nightfall coming early, I work less, eat more, and hunt all the time..... My cousin and I used to work our butts off for 9 months and it was given not to bother to even call us after Oct 1st. We're not so lucky anymore, but the kids do know what it means to "be quiet, wait here, I'll be back in a minute. " My daughter gets excited when the muzzle reports, especially when we're hunting hogs. She sees me get mad fixing water lines, fence, and looking at fields they've destroyed, so she loves for me to shoot 'em..... won't be long, she'll be using my . 243 to cap a few, herself!!



I love to see deer, but I also love to eat that venison!! Something about having earned it, too..... Nothing like a good steak after packing a nice Muley 5-6 miles in an afternoon!! And always a good nights sleep afterwards!

 

[BIGNASTY]

I hear ya. In my family only my wife and I hunt the kid's have tried it and dont care for it. They sure dont push away from the table when it's for dinner but they dont like the hunt. Hay it's not for everyone. But put them on a stream/river/lake with a pole in there hand and you cant get them away from it. Now my BIL and his crew They actually live hunting because he is an outfitter and that's money to them. We always have the last 2 weeks of the season to hunt together and it makes it nice to be with just the family hunting. I dont know if I will be getting much hunting this season. My BIL has basically built my house while I was in France so as a return to him my wife and I are going to do most of the packing for him this year during the season. The wife and SIL are great camp cooks (give them a box of Bisquick and a package of Skittles and they make a gourmet meal). One of my BIL's sons is going to live in our house in So Cal and go to school to be a wildlife Biologist. So for the next few years Ill take his place as the packer of game and equipment. It really doesnt matter to me I just like being out in the mountains do da ing around and making sure some of his clients get what they came for

 

[HHhuntitall]

That's the life!! I like the cowboying and mechanics here on the farm, but I also love to hunt. I'm fortunate enough to get a little of it all, so it keeps me from being bored. The camp cook is always my favorite. My dad's got a good friend in Northern NM that's a guide, and I've made friends with some of his guides, so it's a good getaway in the fall. We'll hunt mulies around Aztec and Farmington, and the guides have taken to Dad, Cuz, and I pretty well, as we'll just bail out and fall in when tracking and stalking. The first year, I made the guide wish I'd just shoot something after about a 30 mile, all day, hike/run, HA!! I used to guide with the local Dodge Sales Manager up in Colorado and Wyoming, and I was the camp cook/guide/wrangler/*itch!! It paid good, but lack of sleep was a little rough!! I quit after the second year when he wouldn't hire any help for me. I was so tired, I'd go to sleep while glassing and my snoring would spook the bulls!! That's where I met Chris, and he's pretty good. The bucks are few and far between, and only rarely are there any big bucks found, but it's a good, challenging hunt, if you like it. Being on the draw, it's kinda take what you can get, these days(and what you can afford!!!). I'm planning a scouting trip in two weeks, in fact. I've got my eye on a nice buck in one unit. They've got pics up from last year here: Trophy Room 2010 The first row, center pic, is my Dad and the buck he killed last year. 6th row down on left is Anthony, one of the guides I really like, and I think that's the buck he took with a bow late in the season. 17th row down, middle pic: that's us in the back of Chris' truck with the three we killed last year. All were great eatin'!! The meat wasn't gamey at all, and tender! I've got just a few steaks and some hamburger left.



I'm just the opposite for fishing. If it's exciting, and the fish are biting, I'm ok, but I get bored if I have to work it too hard to get a bite... ... of course, I'm also the one who got a ticket for "illegally harvesting" a shark in the Gulf this winter... ... . seems the . 45 is considered illegal for fishing!! Go figure! (SOB should have left my redfish alone!!!:-laf)

 

[BIGNASTY]

Next time you fish with firearms I like grenades dont have to wait long and the fish just float on the top. Ya I just like the atmosphere in a hunt camp. The work like you said is tuff but sleep like a log. The one nephew that is leaving and I did allot of miles with a pack string he and I would talk for days to and from camp packing. Got so tired many times he would lead the string I would tie off to the back mule put my coat over the saddle horn and lean forward and get a 1/2 power nap or the first river crossing what ever came first then it was his turn. I will miss him ! My BIL want's me to become his partner in outfitting but I dont like the kiss of the A** that has to be done just because the guy paid for the kill and that is what most of guiding is just the kill. There is really no hunting my BIL or wife and I have spent a group of time in the off season scouting and lookin for game so when some guy comes in from the corporate office out of shape with all his new fancy hunting dud's smelling like some May Company perfume counter. I guess in actually there's nothing wrong about this it's just not hunting to me. As you said go out and run the hills before daylight and come back after dark and do the leg work for a successful hunt then its something to be proud of and look at as a hunt. But in our world most dont have the time the money comes easier than the air in the mountains. I know that some of the pack mules look at the people that the horses have to haul in and think MAN IM GLAD IM A MULE

 

[HHhuntitall]

Next time you fish with firearms I like grenades dont have to wait long and the fish just float on the top.

Oh, I'd love to see that..... seems they don't trust me with high explosives... . Flash-bang grenades work okay, but I bet they don't have the "effect" of steel compressed hot gasses inside a cast pineapple!!! Oh, I can only imagine what that'd do in the river with some big Alligator Gar swimming by... ... mmmmm

There is really no hunting my BIL or wife and I have spent a group of time in the off season scouting and lookin for game so when some guy comes in from the corporate office out of shape with all his new fancy hunting dud's smelling like some May Company perfume counter. I guess in actually there's nothing wrong about this it's just not hunting to me. As you said go out and run the hills before daylight and come back after dark and do the leg work for a successful hunt then its something to be proud of and look at as a hunt. But in our world most dont have the time the money comes easier than the air in the mountains.

I completely agree. I love the thrill of the hunt, even if I don't get a kill. It's a blast to be 3 feet from a big Mulie doe and she never knows you're there!! Even more so if there's a herd of 'em! I'm not much for pictures, I have those in my head, and a camera slows me down or inevitably gives me away fumbling with it. Hogs are about the only thing I kill unmercily, and without hesitation..... well, not counting a fresh gold Banquet Brew.....

I know that some of the pack mules look at the people that the horses have to haul in and think MAN IM GLAD IM A MULE

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! THAT'S NO LIE!!!!! (What sucks is when you have to help them on..... been almost far*ed on a few times, there, but they tipped well. Humans are the nastiest animal on the planet!!)

 

[BIGNASTY]

Its not funny but we have placed tree stumps BIG ONE'S that are at just about the time that most need to take a break. The horse's got so used to it if we forget they pull up to the stump and look like OK STUPID GET OFF