Hunting myths that will mess you up!

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Hunting: The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something.
Sitting in a tree over a bucket of corn doesn't meet that criteria.
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Then I am assuming that hunting agriculture (like alfalfa) or food plots, or the travelways to the food source doesn't meet your criteria either?
 
True. I've personally (via tractor) ground up entire families of soft, cute, little cuddly bunnies, all the while trying to prepare the ground to grow some food for vegans!!
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Pretty ironic, huh?

Yeah, wyohome, you'd better go out of your way to NOT hunt any animals that are on their way to feeding grounds, in order to conform with your own ethics. Maybe you should stop the game and ask them, and then if they say, "no, not going to eat right now; just wandering around", then you say "Ok" and shoot them.
 
True. I've personally (via tractor) ground up entire families of soft, cute, little cuddly bunnies, all the while trying to prepare the ground to grow some food for vegans!!
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Oh I know just the vegan to tell that to the next time I see her. :evil:
 
#whatever, "It's okay to crawl under that bush(or rocky ledge) for a hunting blind, the snakes aren't out in January(in Alabama)." Or,more simply,"There aren't any snakes out during hunting season".
 
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Oh I know just the vegan to tell that to the next time I see her.
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Logic and common sense rarely work on such people. You might suggest her getting into edible wild plants, though. She IS killing 'em to eat 'em, though. A TRUE lover of life would only eat the fruit/seed, not greens or roots. And, they'd pick or harvest the crop without destruction of the crop. How they'd plant the crop, not sure. Maybe go through the field shooing all the rabbits away?

But, in reality, planting crops is destroying species diversity (not desirable). Hunting is controlling wild populations (desirable). So, we quit planting and live off the land and let the city folks starve, eh?

There's always more to a story than meets the eye. Too many folks just look for simple answers. RECYCLE and SAVE THE WHALES! :rolleyes:
 
I'd say big white tails can be just as dumb as anything.

I saw a 180 class deer just sitting in a field, easily within range, watched me for at least 5 minutes, while I loading my gun to go look for pigs.
 
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I'd say big white tails can be just as dumb as anything.

I saw a 180 class deer just sitting in a field, easily within range, watched me for at least 5 minutes, while I loading my gun to go look for pigs.
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LOL the deer I just killed was even funnier. I was STROLLING down a creek bed on a drive toward the wife and this buck just for the lack of a better word MOSEYS out in front of me out of the overgrowth head down intent on crossing the creek not 30 yds away. We just kinda literally bumbled into one another with much the same reaction as two folks meeting at a hallway corner........only I had a GUN;)
 
I got a deer in a strange way last season. I had been hunting a fairly large 10pt all season, and was headed down to a bean field to try and find him. On the way down I see two does bedded down, I'm still driving on a lease road and decide that I'll pass them. About this time, the buck with them, that I hadn't seen, gets up, walks 50yds away from me (so, towards me), stops in the two tracks and proceeds to start pawing the ground and and staring me down. At this point I can see that he's mature and a wide spread with good mass, no idea about any points though. I get out of the car, get my gun out of my metal case, put on all my blaze orange, kill the truck, sit there for a while, and decide that its been over 2 minutes, this has got to be legal, shot him in the heart, and he proceeds to paw up the ground furiously. I take another shoot, thinking that I had missed him, and screwed the pooch here. I'd used my door as a rest, and at this point he was slowly trotting, I hit the mirror as I pulled the trigger which put my shot a little further back, the deer kept moving at the same speed. I found him dead 8yds later, just far enough to be out of sight when he went down. At that point I decided that even old white tails can be stupid.

As for mulies being hard, shooting a big mature muley seems hard to me, only time I've seen one within shooting range was on a pheasant hunt. He knelt in the grass, somehow concealed his horns, and our line of guys was no more than 10yds apart, and he slipped through the middle, and exploded out of there after he was about 10yds behind us. Scared some of the guys pretty good, but he looked like he would have been at least a 180" deer.
 
True. I've personally (via tractor) ground up entire families of soft, cute, little cuddly bunnies, all the while trying to prepare the ground to grow some food for vegans!!
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I'm so glad I had that shirt made that says "Wheat is MURDER!"
 
"Wheat is Murder". Classic. Now I want the shirt, with a picture of a sadistically grinning farmer grinding up bunnies with a combine. The combine should have "Go Vegan" and "Meat is Murder" slogans on the side of it.
 
John Parker - You might find something like that from a Celiac website (celiacs cannot eat wheat, it really is damaging to them). Wifey has a "seperate the wheat from the chef" apron.

uhh.... deer can smell fear? - to keep it related to topic :)
 
Myth...

That any cartridge with the word "Magnum" in the title, produces unmanageable recoil. Rubbish! To pick an example, I'd like a $ for every forum-hunter who insists that his .30/06 will produce almost identical ballistics to a .300Mag, but at a fraction of the recoil. So when did the laws of physics get suspended? Recoil managment is something that you learn. Almost everyone accepts the benefits of learning to shoot accurately, and the ethics of doing so when shooting at game, but few keyboard hunters seem recognise that learning to shoot a more adequate calibre accurately is also a part of the hunter's responsibility.

Myth...

That "efficiency" in a cartridge is important.
Your rifle, clothing, binos and boots cost you thousands of $$.
Your 4WD hunting rig costs tens of thousands of $$.
Your average hunting trip costs hundreds of $$ in food, fuel and etceteras...
But $5 difference in a packet of ammo that may well last you all season is a vital consideration when making a calibre choice.:banghead:

Myth....

That you can do/use/get-away-with something makes it a good idea.

Myth.....

That all shots on game are either a lethal hit or a miss. This is the justification for using less-effective calibres on larger game.. "It's not what you hit it with, but where...." All of our game animals have areas adjoining the vital zones, a hit in which is marginal or slowly lethal. A bigger hole puts the odds in our favour a little bit more. Nothing is certain, but it's foolish to ignore the odds.
I dare to suggest that there are only three categories of hunters. Those who have wounded game. Those who will. Those who don't shoot very much.
 
#4235 - (Told multiple times over the last month to a brand new deer hunter) "You'll never get a deer in North Carolina stalking or still hunting. You'll have to use a stand or blind."


(Proven wrong twice this morning. :D )
 
3. "Hunting behind hounds is unfair and easy that it shouldn't be considered a true hunt."
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First time I turned the hounds out this year, I started to them (without my compass) at 10PM, and walked out of the woods at 8AM the next morning - soaking wet and still didn't have a coon - or the dogs for that matter.
 
H&H...On #12...A head shot will drop them in their tracks.
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Only if you hit that gray squiggly thing inside the head called the brain. Far to many attempted "head" shots don't get that done. But thanks for the heads up.;)
 
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