Posted on 01/21/2016 7:15:04 AM PST by w1n1
Is this really Hunting?
Deer season is pretty much done for most of us across the country. We know the real struggle of it, too. Sitting out there through the wind, snow, ice, and all around terrible weather conditions hoping to fill our freezers can be rather daunting.
But isn't real hunting all about roughing it out in the wilderness cold? However, there are some that hunt out of luxury deer stands that don’t share this pain.
These hunters, the other half, sit on sofas and watch TV while hunting. If it starts to snow, they grab a blanket, turn the heater up, fix another cup of hot chocolate, and cross their legs - all the way - while watching soccer instead of football.
You don't believe me? Check out these five luxury deer stands and see what I mean.
1. Yep. That's the high life.
and the inside
If you have a heater, TV, card table, and slide window with comfy chairs, you ain't hunting like most.
2. Need a little nappy?
Sometimes you just get tired out there!
3. This Struggle is real
This deer stand might as well be a hotel. See the rest of the luxurious deer stand here.
Fantastic! If we got one of those I might agree to go hunting again! Sitting in a tree is not a great idea for someone my age.
Sorry but that aint hunting.
May as well take your rifle to the zoo
I'll take one in olive drab.
5.56mm
The deer are pests (albeit tasty pests) and the goal is to kill and butcher them with the least effort possible.
These are not just deer stands, they are weekend getaways and prepper bugout destinations.
Exactly. You should have seen my wife back in the early 70’s in Houston when one of my bosses was bragging about one of these and having a deer feeder about 25 yards away. All summer long he would take food out to the feeder and the newest fawns would get used to even walking up and eating out of his hand. Cautiously though. Then when deer season opened he would go out to his deer blind with food and when they came in to feed out of his hand he would shoot them in the head with a pistol. My wife went ballistic on him, probably didn’t help me on the career path there. I left shortly after that.
Ironically, he accidentally blew his head off with a shotgun while putting it behind the seat of his pickup after a day shooting skeet. So I guess karma exists.
That is WEIRD!
[Sorry but that aint hunting.]
You wouldn’t have to worry about the deer ticks. They’re rampant in my area.
I got a better one! I simply set in my warm den, look out the back window and when I see a legal deer open the window and take a shot, close the window.
Then I say..”WOMAN! I just shot winter meat about 100 yards from the house! Go cut it up-quick!”;-)
Then I go back to piddling around as I was doing before I looked out the window!
No elevator? Feh.
It was all so foreign to me and my wife. We were used to hunting in Colorado where you buy a license and go hunting, usually on federal or state land.
But in Texas almost all land is privately owned. Not only do you need a license but you had to buy/lease rights to go hunting on the owners property. This particular guy owned his own property and that is why he kept the blind there all season and fed the deer in the summer. He was killing his own almost domesticated animals.
Ticks and cold and rain are part of REAL hunting
“Ironically, he accidentally blew his head off with a shotgun while putting it behind the seat of his pickup after a day shooting skeet———”
Good——couldn’t happen to a more serving person.
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I’ve killed more deer with my car than with a rifle.
see pic above
A tube television?! Luxury my @$$, that's some serious roughing it!
“when I see a legal deer open the window”
What...what kind of deer do you have there? Most around here can’t open windows. They have no thumbs. What do you do when an illegal deer opens the window?
A little heavy to carry.
A heater? Really?
What? Wrong! If he feeds them all year, then he needs to cull the herd from time to time. If he raises cows for beef, do you object to him killing one for the freezer or to sell?
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