Bow hunting in the woods behind my house

[Vulpine]

That's for sure..

Last winter I had a deer somehow get into my fenced backyard and my ex gf got pissed when I wanted to take it down. People generally dont understand or respect gun ownership...

:yes: "Oh my gawd, you aren't going to kill it, are you? It's sooo cute!"

Dude, have you seen how high deer can jump? Your piddly fence was like a speed bump. When I've been dogging them, I've seen deer on the run clear young pine stands that were 6 feet high and 10 feet across... *BOING!* Then, of course, I'd have to bust through it.:cuss:

I've heard of them clearing 8ft fences.

 

[youknowtherest]

I love still-hunting. Creeping through the woods, camo'd to my eyeballs, taking a step every 30 seconds. Time does not exist. A few years ago I had a flock of white-crowned sparrows land in the bushes all around me when I was laying up waiting on a buck. One of them landed on the tip of my bow. They just kept singing and flitting, like I wasn't even there. When you're that melded into your environment -- and it takes me a few days in the woods to slow down to that point -- you get that sense that you're not trespassing anymore; that you're moving through the world instead of stepping on it.

 

[youknowtherest]

Dude, have you seen how high deer can jump? ... I've seen deer on the run clear young pine stands that were 6 feet high and 10 feet across... *BOING!* Then, of course, I'd have to bust through it.:cuss:

I've heard of them clearing 8ft fences.

Yup. We have mulies out here that will stot straight up like they have f-cking rocket boots.

 

[Vulpine]

I love still-hunting. Creeping through the woods, camo'd to my eyeballs, taking a step every 30 seconds. Time does not exist. A few years ago I had a flock of white-crowned sparrows land in the bushes all around me when I was laying up waiting on a buck. One of them landed on the tip of my bow. They just kept singing and flitting, like I wasn't even there. When you're that melded into your environment -- and it takes me a few days in the woods to slow down to that point -- you get that sense that you're not trespassing anymore; that you're moving through the world instead of stepping on it.

Exactly. Last year I had a nub buck come straight across my path, stop 3 feet away, look straight at me sniffing, and continue on it's way as if "Hmm... I don't remember THAT being there." Definitely a cool experience. That same year, I had an otter snorting at me out of a hole in the ice for standing on it's slide, I almost stepped on a snowshoe hare, and an ermin (winter phase of a weasel) came through my campsite within a foot of me while I was eating dinner. It's great "rubbing elbows" with the critters like that. I'd never seen an ermin, snowshoe hare, or an otter in real life before. I got a picture of the otter, but it's not a good one.

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

Once or twice a year Mr. Pix and friends knife hunt for boar. He goes out on 4 wheeler, finds one, chases it on the bike or foot and jumps on it and cut it's throat. He speaks of this manner over bow or gun for a fast kill, supposingly it makes the meat better if it is a fast kill? Anyway, it is another option for hunting.

 

[Vulpine]

There is no place for a four wheeler or bike in the woods. The knife part is cool, but the motorized vehicles take any sport out of it. Why doesn't he skip any exertion and just jump out of a helicopter onto the pig? Sheesh. Better yet, why doesn't he put bait out in the same place for a few months and just stand there with a knife when it's feeding time?

Anyway, it sounds like some "Lord of The Flies" type action.

 

[Brian20o2]

Once or twice a year Mr. Pix and friends knife hunt for boar. He goes out on 4 wheeler, finds one, chases it on the bike or foot and jumps on it and cut it's throat. He speaks of this manner over bow or gun for a fast kill, supposingly it makes the meat better if it is a fast kill? Anyway, it is another option for hunting.

That sounds badass! lol Just make sure you chase it down on foot.:rockon:

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

There is no place for a four wheeler or bike in the woods. The knife part is cool, but the motorized vehicles take any sport out of it. Why doesn't he skip any exertion and just jump out of a helicopter onto the pig? Sheesh. Better yet, why doesn't he put bait out in the same place for a few months and just stand there with a knife when it's feeding time?

Now look at all the handy ideas you've gone and given him...I bet he is already calling for his pilot lessons now. I think the bike gets him back into the woods and the "or foot" part is for the kill, I am not really sure, I am at home making the fixins' for the cookout that lies ahead.

He does chum for shark, I don't know what is more fun for him, the hooking and reeling it in or the shooting it before he pulls it on the boat. Two sports in one kind of fun.

I won't even mention how he hunts deer, god he is a sick ba*tard at times, but I just hafta love him! LOL

Happy hunting, Pix

 

[S1NN3R]

Once or twice a year Mr. Pix and friends knife hunt for boar. He goes out on 4 wheeler, finds one, chases it on the bike or foot and jumps on it and cut it's throat. He speaks of this manner over bow or gun for a fast kill, supposingly it makes the meat better if it is a fast kill? Anyway, it is another option for hunting.

That's fcuking nuts. I wanna try! See, I just don't find it sporting enough unless the animal has an equal chance to have me for dinner.

 

[SELF-MASTERY]

I won't even mention how he hunts deer, god he is a sick ba*tard at times, but I just hafta love him! LOL

Do tell....

 

[Brian20o2]

Do tell....

Yeah, you got me hooked now too.

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

He uses tampons, the sick-o~

Yes, while he was packing his hunting duffel, I stumbled upon a box of Playtex, unscented, plastic applicators, large size tampons. I held them up and said, “Darling, WTF???”

So he told me, you buy this liquid buck bait; you soak all the tampons (still in the applicators) in the liquid bait until it is absorbed. Then you keep them in a zip lock. When you set up your tree stand or hunting camp, you dispense the tampons out of the applicators and you tie them to various trees with the handy tampon strings. The breeze carries the scent and deer come to check it out. Then you shoot them, remove all the tampons and put them pack in the plastic applicators, back in the Playtex box and into the zip lock until next season.

I do not hunt, camp, “rough-it”, etc… it is a guy thing, but just once I’d like to see Mr. Pix hanging tampons in the forest.

 

[Brian20o2]

He uses tampons, the sick-o~

Yes, while he was packing his hunting duffel, I stumbled upon a box of Playtex, unscented, plastic applicators, large size tampons. I held them up and said, “Darling, WTF???”

So he told me, you buy this liquid buck bait; you soak all the tampons (still in the applicators) in the liquid bait until it is absorbed. Then you keep them in a zip lock. When you set up your tree stand or hunting camp, you dispense the tampons out of the applicators and you tie them to various trees with the handy tampon strings. The breeze carries the scent and deer come to check it out. Then you shoot them, remove all the tampons and put them pack in the plastic applicators, back in the Playtex box and into the zip lock until next season.

I do not hunt, camp, “rough-it”, etc… it is a guy thing, but just once I’d like to see Mr. Pix hanging tampons in the forest.

:crackup:

 

[youknowtherest]

Baiting is for chumps. Sorry, but it is.

 

[S1NN3R]

Tree stands and bait is not hunting, that's target practice.

 

[Vulpine]

Actually, I use tampons to hold scent too. However, I tie the string to my boot when I'm walking. The tampon bounces along on the ground dropping scent along my trail.

I do it to mask my scent, not actually lure any deer. I think there would be enough "danger" smell to put off any deer from following the trail. Books I've read have suggested picking up deer urine soaked snow and rubbing it on yourself... uh, no thanks, I'll soak a tampon. It's fairly well known that certain scents are intended to mask, not lure, especially if they aren't used during rut.

 

[Bad_Lil'Pixie]

Actually, I use tampons to hold scent too. However, I tie the string to my boot when I'm walking. The tampon bounces along on the ground dropping scent along my trail.

I do it to mask my scent, not actually lure any deer. I think there would be enough "danger" smell to put off any deer from following the trail. Books I've read have suggested picking up deer urine soaked snow and rubbing it on yourself... uh, no thanks, I'll soak a tampon. It's fairly well known that certain scents are intended to mask, not lure, especially if they aren't used during rut.

Ahh, you beat me to it. It is a "mask" and not a bait. He corrected me last night. He also added that he bathes with a special bar of hunters soap to mask his scent and washes his hunting clothes in baking soda or non scented detergents. He liked the "hang on the boot" idea, he hangs them from his belt loops and sometimes they get in the way. Anyway, my fault, I guess I couldn't get past the visions of him hanging tampons in the bushes. LOL

 

[Vulpine]

He also added that he bathes with a special bar of hunters soap to mask his scent and washes his hunting clothes in baking soda or non scented detergents.

He sounds like he's way into it. Tell him not to bother with "special soaps". The second he breathes through his mouth: game over. There is more scent in his breath than on his body - breathe through your nose. Tell him to keep his hunting clothes in a garbage bag full of pine boughs during the off season... I personally use cedar because it smells nice, and there are a lot of cedars where I hunt. I don't wash my outer hunting clothes unless I get them bloody. I want them to smell like dirt and pine, and besides, the woods isn't a fashion show.

Scent isn't even a big deal, really. A hunter should be weary of the wind direction when he picks a spot to stop - down wind from where he hopes to see deer. I'm only into it because I'm on the move and wind directions swirl around, so I can't really make a choice... unless I pick an overall direction of travel through the woods, which I do to an extent, but it's not 100%.

 

[doctoroxygen]

Why hunt?

 

[Vulpine]

Hunting is the celebration of Man. It's a celebration of man versus elements. It's practicing survival, and honing techniques and talents. Hunting is a celebration of nature and animals. And, it's cheap meat and a cheap hobby.

Some fools will claim that it's a celebration of killing... those are the drunken rednecks that give hunting a bad repuation.

To quote Tool:

"This... is.. necessary. Life feeds on life, feeds on life, feeds on life, feeds on life."

Man has a place in the food chain. Hunting demonstrates this place.

Hunting is good for increasing your testosterone levels.

Without hunting, and with the abscence of natural predators, many animals would become over populated and cause a great deal of problems.