Meat hunters or Head hunters?

[firehog]

Which do you classify yourself?

For me, it usually depends on how much meat I have in my freezer before season. I usually package my meat to last at least through a year and into the next season, if it last that long. I also usually wait till the last part of the season to get my meat, in the freezer. If I haven't killed something with good head gear. But I get really tempted to take a nice young doe, for meat at the beginning of season but I sure like to hang my deer for a week late season when the temps allow it. .

[CDay]

I am just a deer hunter. If it is legal and a deer I take it. Sometimes they have large head gear somtimes they don't. :biggrin: But I have never had one with spots. :smack:

[Buckhunter]

In eat deer meat and make darn sure that none goes to waste. That said, I hunt antlers.

[ARGROUNDSWATTER]

Meat hunter all the way. If it is legal it is in danger. I have took one with a bow that still had spots. :razz: It tasted GOOD. :thumb:

ARGROUNDSWATTER

[firehog]

Do you harvest does with yearlings with it?

[Hilltop]

My first deer was a spotted fawn. Killed it with a bow.

I was 12 years old in a camp of 6 or 8 grown men. They gave me a good natured razing about killing such a little fawn. Did not hear one "complaint" the next evening when we had her for supper.

As it turned out on that 3 day hunt I was the only one in camp that brought meat in!

[CDay]

Do you harvest does with yearlings with it?
Yes then try to used the other bullets in the gun to take the yearlings. Drop the mature doe and most likely the yearlings will stay around.

[Hilltop]

Yes then try to used the other bullets in the gun to take the yearlings. Drop the mature doe and most likely the yearlings will stay around.


If I am trying to thin does I like to take the does that have a buck fawn. He is more likely to stay on my place not having mama run him off.

A yearling to me is a year old ( about a year and half old during rifle season). Fawns of the year are not yearlings to me. Am I wrong about this yearling thing?

[firehog]

Yes then try to used the other bullets in the gun to take the yearlings. Drop the mature doe and most likely the yearlings will stay around.

Dang Clyde, I do like to hunt a little through the season.

Thats reminds me of a person or two I know, one kills his limit as soon as he can, and the other is a little different he loves to deer hunt, he swears he is the greatest deerhunter in the state, don't believe me, just ask him, buts thats another story, but anyways he will kill anything that walks in front of him. Yearlings with spots, does, nubben bucks, it doesn't matter. I suspect he gets other folks to tag his deer, and they allow him to waylay on the deer. Now I ask you, is that a hunter or a killer? Does he respect the deer, or is he just trying to be a numbers killer to prove he is a good hunter. Reason I ask, is to me a hunter is one who doesn't have to shoot every deer in front of him. Obviously a hunter wants meat, but I know of a few occassions where this one particular person had plenty of deer, in his freezer. I just don't understand the mentality of I GOTTA KILL EVERYTHING IN MY SIGHTS. I believe a person should kill what ever the legal limit says, but I hear these guys go around, and ask, other hunters, you want a deer, if you will tag it, I will kill it. I simply don't like that mentality..

[ArkyGal]

well, as it has been pointed out by ya'll... Yankees up north:biggrin:,we just about have deer on every corner down here in the South. Matter of fact I was sittin on Mamas porch 2 blocks from Main street last night watching a doe and two yearlings. If you want meat you could harvest a deer on any given day, so if at the end of the season we have no meat, than a doe is easy enough to come by. I have more fun trying to get one bigger than my last, and enjoying the meat as well.

[CDay]

I do too that is why I hunt other states as well. You figure three here 4 to 5 in Indiana 8 in Mississippi and this year possibly 200 in Tennessee. Myself I could easily used 10 to 12 deer a year in the freezer. I have rarely ever passed up a deer the ones I have are small bucks. but if a doe is legal and comes into range she is down unless I am out of tags.

Today so many hunters do not shoot does and are only after bucks. so I try my best to take up the slack for the betterment of the deer herd.

So I guess that makes me a shooter/killer than a hunter. Just like every other type of hunting I do my best to take a limit every time I am out.

[junior]

fire hog i would'nt hunt with that guy, i only hunt bucks now dont shoot does for any reason , nothing against it the other guys that hunt with me shoots the doe ,i seem to always be trying to help some kid or guy that has;nt killed a deer ,by locating the good spots and putting them on it ,most of the time they dont care if its a buck or doe i just love to help someone get their first deer , so if i save a doe and put someone else on it i;ll have more fun than they did , :biggrin: god i love to see their faces :thumb:

[ARGROUNDSWATTER]

The deer I took with spots I took with a bow. Late in the season if there is a doe and a fawn together most of the time I take the doe. The only time I took the fawn instead of the doe I was nearly 2 miles from my truck and no ATV. I try to avoid taking button bucks. I have seen the bumps on their heads and passed on them.

ARGROUNDSWATTER

[Hill Farm Hunter]

I suspect he gets other folks to tag his deer, and they allow him to waylay on the deer. Now I ask you, is that a hunter or a killer?...but I hear these guys go around, and ask, other hunters, you want a deer, if you will tag it, I will kill it.
Believe that would make him a poacher. :frown:

I guess I am both, but ever head I ever shot had plenty of meat attached. :razz: I'll shoot a doe for meat before a small/young buck.

[Bowcrazy]

Both I like the meat and I like the horns.

[CDay]

I would say any hunter that fills out of his tags is a good hunter. First we must remember that hunting is the best and most effective management tool available for states to control and manage wildlife populations. The hunter that takes his three deer wether they be the first three or uses the whole season to accomplish this is a good and effective hunter in the deer management game plan. But what happens too often especially in long seasons is too many hunters start passing up deer early in the season thinking and hopeing something better comes along and figures he can wait till closer to the end of season to fill their tags. Often the case happens that at the close of season opportunity does not present itself to fill those tags.

Who says it has to be deer season for me to go out and sit in a stand and enjoy everything. I hunt deer every chance I get 365 days a year. But it is only during deer season that it includes a weapon. Even after filling my tags it is still leagal for me to go to a deer stand and sit with no weapon is it not?

[Ty-Bo67]

Depends on how I feel while hunting, if I feel lazy like I don't wanna hassel with it I will head hunt but if I feel good and noone thinks I am good enough to get one I will take the first legal deer that walks by.

[possum]

First I hunt meat. Then when that's took care I worry about the head gear a little more.

[rjet]

Both.
Will take one or two doe early for meat, and let small bucks walk till the last few days of my season. When time is short will pop a small buck.

[Buck]

I'm a head hunter,but when I get tired of waiting,aint nothing safe.

[ArkyGirl]

Shoot I'm a head hunter all the way-the meat's just a side benefit! :thumb:
How often do ya'll eat deer anywho? It takes us all year to eat one deer (we eat it bout once every week or 2)!
YT if you're 6 foot I don't think anybody's gonna be bullyin you inta shootin a deer. Even if you were a peewee like me, JUST SAY NO! Shoot whatcha want (as long as it's legal!) we know your good enough! :twothumbs

[rjet]

How often do ya'll eat deer anywho?

Depends on how many I take. :biggrin:
I ration it out so I run out just before October.

[ArkyGirl]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/ArkyGal1/deer13.gif

This says it all! :biggrin:

[Buck]

We usually eat 2 or 3 a year,but most of its gone by April,cause by then we're eatin crappie and turkey breasts,then by Sept,we're eatin squirrel,and that leads us into Oct,and it starts all over again. :thumb:

[Hilltop]

For the most part I am a horn hunter. I eat a bit of deer meat but not crazy about it. If I do shoot a meat deer it's a doe.

If I do just hunt for meat it will be a 40 to 60 pound pig.

[mossyoak_archer]

i am a headhunter,a very specific headhunter,i will take a doe for meat,my wife doesnt like deer meat so i dont take all i can, i take what i can use. i dont like the word headhunt,im a trophy hunter because its more of a challenge.if i think more than one doe needs to be taken out of the herd i will take it and tag it and give it to someone who will use it.