After losing dozens of chickens and ducks over the course of several years to foxes and hawks; we finally just gave up. We only managed to "catch" two of the foxes w/ a .22lr. Although, I also saw a bobcat getting ready to pounce one night, but was unable to get a shot off. I figured the...
Absolutely, daddy gave us 2-3 rounds to make sure we could still hit bullseye. That was over 30 yr ago, of course. I haven't hunted in that long.
Interesting story though: I hunted w/ a 1951 Marlin 30-30 336 w/ a Simmons 3x9 on it, this started in 1982. The scope was mounted back in the...
As a young hunter, 10-16ish, I hunted with a fully loaded 30-30 w/ whatever was left in the plastic carrier in my pocket. I often unloaded and reloaded after the adrenaline started pumping. I was a cowboy action hero after all :) Rarely was there more than one deer down or more than one well...
Thanksgiving Day 1988, shot two deer that morning. Hit and killed two deer that night in my truck. Dressed out the first two, did not try to salvage the last two.
Depending on which side of Douglas County you are leaving from, Roscoe Deer Processing isn't but 15-20 minutes from D'ville. It's on Roscoe Rd/Hwy 70 in Coweta. My daddy has been using him for several years and is pleased.
You can go on the county tax website to look for the property owner's name. Just stop and ask. Worse they can say is no. I know because of liabilities and unethical hunters (this guy was one); a lot of property owners do not want people on their lands. Good luck w/ the hunt!!
I used to work w/ a guy that could walk across the parking lot to get something out of his truck and come back w/ 3 places to hunt and 5 fishing holes. I don't know how he did it, but he was a master at free-loading. :)
I have never been around him when he has a reaction, but he claims that he died at his wedding reception dinner by eating a piece of steak and the paramedics brought him back. I know, at least that time, he ended up in the hospital over night from it.
It is supposed to very rare, but I know 3 different people with it. 2 (husband and wife) don't eat any 4 legged meat at all, the third one takes a chance from time to time. He has been brought back from the edge 2-3 times that I know of in the back of an ambulance. The Epi pen doesn't...
Loose dogs chase and kill all kinds of native wildlife. My father got out of having livestock after the neighbor's dogs killed dozens of goats. Neighbor claimed dogs were not his (as it was sitting on his porch beside a dog bowl). Animal control wouldn't do anything because they never caught...
You've met my father, so you answered your own question. But, seriously, this country has gotten so litigious that land owners are too afraid of law suits to allow strangers to hunt their land. Can't say as I particularly blame them.