MelaniB
11-man fan
OFB my friend what is the BBC. It sounds like a place for the insane and punching Piers Morgan is a sight I would of love to seen. That guy is arrogant.
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MelaniB
11-man fan
I hope I haven't grossed everyone out I just God's Great Outdoors.
oldfat&bald
Six-man fan
British Brodcasting Corporation.
MelaniB
11-man fan
Where are all of your hunting stories. We can all learn off this. I know you have em to tell so let us hear your adventures. I love the stories. I love all of you.
MelaniB
11-man fan
Oh ok OFB, see I'm learning off you elite guys. It means lots to me. Is their broadcasting system better than ours?
MelaniB
11-man fan
Smokey do you make deer jerky? That is a pleasant surprise for all us when Jerry makes it. It's gone before we ever leave my mom and dads house.
MelaniB
11-man fan
Westexas do you make venison jerky. It is so good and dang near fat free taking all of the fat off. Do you have wild turkey and not the kind you drink and quail on your place? I bet you have a beautiful ranch.
MelaniB
11-man fan
My Elite friends I guess I've talked your fingers off. I'll let my sixman family take a rest from me the rest of the night. Sleep well and know Jesus loves you.
smokeyjoe53
Six-man pro
Nope, I don't particularly care for venison. I guess I'd kill a few if I did. Don't really care for jerky either. I like my meat medium rare. Jerky kind of reminds me of chewing on the sole of a boot.MelaniB":c6uws0sb said:
westexasflats
11-man fan
MsB we have BOTH kind of wild turkey on the ranch, quail come and go.the best jerky in my opinion is Sweet Baby Rays.MelaniB":zz7uu76i said:
Wild turkey is best chicken fried, just cut the breast into strips cook just as you do chicken fried steak
MelaniB
11-man fan
I can't sleep yet. I've been probed stuck with 4 vials of blood and was given a hat. Please pray my kidney numbers are ok. I would so much appreciate it. It's like my daughter said about DSH going hunting. He needs to quit watch doe's fight and get one. I think he's going to tough out the rain this weekend. The deer might be moving good.
Shane
11-man fan
MelaniB":ga92cbdp said:
I am probably the only person here who can honestly say that he has gone hunting during halftime of a 6man football game and actually killed an animal on the football field before the 3rd quarter kickoff. True story......
In 2011 during the EPIC game between ACHS and Ira (at Ira), an apparently rabid skunk wandered out onto the field during halftime. I was on the sideline taking pictures, as usual. People were coming out of the stands to take cellphone pics of the skunk. Most of these folks were coming up to the downwind side of the skunk and getting REALLY close to him to get a cellphone pic. I kept waiting for somebody "official" to come out and do something, but the only people coming out to do something were the folks with the cellphone cameras.
I had my camera monopod, which is basically a 6' stick. I went out - from UPwind of the skunk and coming at his FACE, not the tail - and used my stick to nudge the skunk off the field. The halftime clock was running down fast. Teams were coming back to the sidelines, and refs were getting ready for a kickoff. I finally got the dang skunk off to the sideline down near the east endzone. I worked him over near the fence, hoping he'd run off. He was just messed up. He'd stumble around and get back up and try to go back toward the field. Whenever he'd raise his tail, I'd push it down with my stick. He sprayed a little a couple times. Finally, I just knocked him in the head a few times. Of course, he unloaded then, but at least he wasn't going to wander up under the stands or onto the field.
I went over to the concession stand and got a trash bag from the ladies there. I went back and put the skunk in the bag and carried him to the west end of the field so he'd be downwind from everything. There was still plenty of stink on the ground where I killed him though, so the 2nd half of the game had a different aroma than the 1st half did.
MelaniB
11-man fan
I haven't ever been crazy about Wild Turkey but when he gets one I'll try it the way you cook it Westexas. I've never heard of the Sweet Baby Rays jerky. DSH buys the Jack Link Pepper Jerky. He found a way to keep me out of it. That stuff burns to bad to taste the jerky. I like the tender jerky. I don't like eating a cud for an hour lol. I like where it goes down nice and easy. Really I can't wait until my dad gets a deer so we can try his dehydrator. I just know it's going to be good. I love all of you so I'm going to try and see if I can't drop off. Another doc's appointment tomorrow. Dreading it. I hope when I get home there will be lots of hunting stories no matter what happened. Good night hopefully.
MelaniB
11-man fan
LOL Shane you did a good job. If that skunk was rabid and the people running down to get a picture of him it might of been sad day for them. They would of had to go home and be drowned with tomato juice. I love this story and it's neat that theirs brave hunters that take on any challenge. I know you have more because you and your son are avid hunters. Lets hear the other stories that your keeping to yourself lol. You definitely saved the day and game. Hoo Ray for you.
Shane
11-man fan
Here's one that's different than normal. I wrote this down after it happened in early December 2009....
Well, it was fast and furious - short but exciting. I had hoped to take off work early today to spend the afternoon hunting, but a late appointment with a client kept me from getting off early. When I got home at almost 4:30 (still early, but not as early as I'd hoped), I decided I might as well make a mad dash out to the lease 12 miles away to see if I could get lucky during the last 30 minutes of the day. I threw my camo on and grabbed my rifle for the first time this year instead of my bow since I was rushed for time.
About a mile from the gate, I thought that I had better get my gun loaded before I drove into the place, just in case. I didn't want to see a buck driving in and not be ready, so I reached back and got my rifle out of the case in the back seat and loaded the magazine as I drove up to the gate.
When I pulled in, I had only driven 75 yards when I saw a nice buck standing about 300 yards ahead of me. But there was a problem.....he was on the wrong side of the fence, about 40 yards to the north of my property line on the neighbor's place. I knew if I drove any further that he'd run farther out into the neighbor's pasture, so I stopped and backed back out of the gate. I turned and drove up the county road about a quarter of a mile past the buck. He kept standing where I'd seen him. I knew he had a girlfriend in the bushes. When I got passed them, I revved my engine a couple of times. I turned around and spun out in the gravel to make even more racket. I was hoping to scare the deer back over the fence onto my lease.
When I turned back into my gate, I saw the deer had just jumped the fence and were moving across my pasture. I took off up the road, and the doe stood next to some brush about 50 yards off the road. The buck took off running towards a pond towards the middle of our place, and I took off in the same direction up the road. He was getting very close to a fence line going into our middle pasture, and I knew when he jumped the fence he would be in thicker brush and over a hill and gone.
He was running parallel to my road about 125 yards away. I gunned the ol' pickup and stuck the gun out the window as I got ahead of him just a little. Then I slammed on the brakes and got on him. I found him in the scope and followed him as he ran through the tall CRP grass. I saw him getting VERY close to the fence line as I put the crosshairs on his shoulder and kept following him. Then the .240 Weatherby roared, and POP! He went down.
I drove on through the cattle guard and around the road, ahead of his path, just in case he was still moving. He wasn't. I walked down to the fence, and he was laying right where I hit him - right in the middle of the other road along the fenceline. I backed around to him and loaded him up to take him to a more scenic spot since the sun was about to set. I wanted to get some good pictures with the sunset in the background, so I drove to the top of the little hill and set him up. With the camera on the tripod and remote control in hand, I was able to fire off several pictures.
It wasn't much of a "hunt", but it sure was exciting!
Oh, and a few months later I saw a photo contest that Heritage Safe Co. was having. I sent this photo in to the contest and forgot about it. A few months after that, I got a call from them saying that I won a gun safe. That was one lucky hunt for me.
Well, it was fast and furious - short but exciting. I had hoped to take off work early today to spend the afternoon hunting, but a late appointment with a client kept me from getting off early. When I got home at almost 4:30 (still early, but not as early as I'd hoped), I decided I might as well make a mad dash out to the lease 12 miles away to see if I could get lucky during the last 30 minutes of the day. I threw my camo on and grabbed my rifle for the first time this year instead of my bow since I was rushed for time.
About a mile from the gate, I thought that I had better get my gun loaded before I drove into the place, just in case. I didn't want to see a buck driving in and not be ready, so I reached back and got my rifle out of the case in the back seat and loaded the magazine as I drove up to the gate.
When I pulled in, I had only driven 75 yards when I saw a nice buck standing about 300 yards ahead of me. But there was a problem.....he was on the wrong side of the fence, about 40 yards to the north of my property line on the neighbor's place. I knew if I drove any further that he'd run farther out into the neighbor's pasture, so I stopped and backed back out of the gate. I turned and drove up the county road about a quarter of a mile past the buck. He kept standing where I'd seen him. I knew he had a girlfriend in the bushes. When I got passed them, I revved my engine a couple of times. I turned around and spun out in the gravel to make even more racket. I was hoping to scare the deer back over the fence onto my lease.
When I turned back into my gate, I saw the deer had just jumped the fence and were moving across my pasture. I took off up the road, and the doe stood next to some brush about 50 yards off the road. The buck took off running towards a pond towards the middle of our place, and I took off in the same direction up the road. He was getting very close to a fence line going into our middle pasture, and I knew when he jumped the fence he would be in thicker brush and over a hill and gone.
He was running parallel to my road about 125 yards away. I gunned the ol' pickup and stuck the gun out the window as I got ahead of him just a little. Then I slammed on the brakes and got on him. I found him in the scope and followed him as he ran through the tall CRP grass. I saw him getting VERY close to the fence line as I put the crosshairs on his shoulder and kept following him. Then the .240 Weatherby roared, and POP! He went down.
I drove on through the cattle guard and around the road, ahead of his path, just in case he was still moving. He wasn't. I walked down to the fence, and he was laying right where I hit him - right in the middle of the other road along the fenceline. I backed around to him and loaded him up to take him to a more scenic spot since the sun was about to set. I wanted to get some good pictures with the sunset in the background, so I drove to the top of the little hill and set him up. With the camera on the tripod and remote control in hand, I was able to fire off several pictures.
It wasn't much of a "hunt", but it sure was exciting!
Oh, and a few months later I saw a photo contest that Heritage Safe Co. was having. I sent this photo in to the contest and forgot about it. A few months after that, I got a call from them saying that I won a gun safe. That was one lucky hunt for me.
rainjacktx
Six-man fan
I killed a deer with a pickup going 55 mph, at night, with my headlights on, and the horn a blowin'.
Shad Kline
Six-man fan
Elusive creatures, aren't they!!!!rainjacktx":5aib6517 said:
Shane
11-man fan
rainjacktx":hzob43cq said:
Sure was tender on the table, I bet.
MelaniB
11-man fan
My goodness Shane that was a very lucky day. To see a gigantic buck and to know how to get him over into your pasture. I can imagine how hard your heart was beating. That day God sent Mr Buck your way and to drop him with one shot and using a bow is fantastic and shows your ability as a hunter. Then on top of that winning a gun case. I'd say this is a hunt you will never forget. He is big and beautiful. Great job. Some hunters would of shot him on the wrong side of the fence but your one of a kind that hunts the way a hunter should hunt.
MelaniB
11-man fan
Hornkeeper they really are. You have to use smarts when you see any deer that big. Luck was on Shanes side because the buck was in rut but Shane used his head to figure out how to get him in the right place for the right shot. Shane is also an honest hunter. Usually Bucks that big stay in the brush and trees. They let the doe's go first then they may come on out or not.
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