Deer Hunting starts 11/15

http://www.freep.com/sports/outdoors/deer12_20021112.htm ^

[FightThePower!]

Based on the weather forecast, hunters should have good to excellent conditions in most of Michigan for the first three days of the firearms deer season.

From Ironwood to Monroe, the forecast calls for cool temperatures and overcast skies when the 16-day season opens a half-hour before dawn Friday. Those conditions tend to make deer leave their hiding places and move about during daylight.

[FightThePower!]

Any body out there going hunting?

[aught-6]

Good luck and be safe.

[Seattle]

Our season here in Washington state started Oct. 12. We had 8 hanging in camp. Wish I could go again.

Good Luck, and shoot straight!

[Burkeman1]

Only hunted once in my life and we were after rabbit in Western Massachusetts. Didn't see a darn thing all day. I want to do it again someday. I have read about Moose hunting expiditions in Maine. One service flies you and your party into the vast interior of the Maine Forest (like 95 percent of that state is one huge forest.) It lands on a lake with a cabin waiting nearby and comes back a week later to pick you up. A skilled and licensed hunter is with you the whole time. From what I hear it is awesome country.

[Cobra64]

Well, if the hunting is not too productive there, come to my back yard. We have and eighteen count herd in our back yard here in NY. They stroll through every dawn and dusk. I'd shoot the bastards but don't like skinnin' em. Now if a certain guy from Harlem were to show his head, that is a horse of a different color. Of course, I'd let the turkey vultures do their work on that piece. No muss, no fuss.

[Cobra64]

Leave the wild animals alone and enjoy the countryside. DO NOT POLLUTE. Respect where you are visiting. I'm not an environmental whacko, just use simple common sense and understand that if you go there, just like visiting a foreign country, you are a visitor. You would not like anyone to shoot your animals or dump a McDonald's bag on your lawn.

Cheers.

[patton]

What dates are open in NY (rifle, and black powder)? Thinking of going up to the cabin this year.

Of course, then that dang "tirty point buck" song starts going in my head...

[mlmr]

A buck was taken out of my backyard on opening day, the first of November, within three hours. Now if I could find someone to shoot the darned does.....

[Burkeman1]

Darn. That was the first thing I was going to do. I was going to ask MCdonalds to provide me with the old time styrofoam containers - bring them to the pristine forests of Maine and strew them all over the place. Of course I was going to throw beer cans in rivers and lakes as well and take the plastic beer can holders and strategically place them so birds and fish suffocate. Then I was going to take my AK 47 and kill any animal I saw (of course while drunk out of my goard.) I was also thinking of bringing some motor oil and dumping it in springs and streams. Thanks- you opened my eyes.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'll be up in Waters.

[Slyfox]

There is nothing like Escanaba in da Moonlight.

[jdontom]

Watched a little of the tube tonight on Poaching, was on the Discovery Channel, the wardens are very tricky where they place those dummy bucks. They say shooting out of your vehicle is poaching, if so I have poached.....

[jdontom]

[Ditter]

I though poaching was shooting deer on someone elses property.

[gracex7]

"The blind I'm in has a roof, so I stay pretty dry," said Pallochi....

SISSY!!!

[FightThePower!]

Nice Buck! Where did you take it?

[Quilla]

Bow season started Oct. 12 in Alabama with gun season opening Nov. 23 - limits are set at two per day, only one of which can be an antlered buck. On opening day of bow season, my husband returned from the woods with nothing but descriptions of the three species of mosquitos swarming around him. It's been incredibly hot down here and with 45 cases of West Nile confirmed in our state, I'm holding out for cooler weather and a fairer fight (guns).

[Snowy]

Any body out there going hunting?

Where I live, people hunt with their cars. Where I work, this guy picks up deer off the side of the road and cuts them up at work. If you find one on the side of the road, you tell him and he goes and picks it up and gives you some steaks. I haven't done this yet - can't get over the thought of eating 'road kill'.

[Rebelbase]

LOL! Also, remember to release dozens of helium balloons to float towards the ocean and end up killing an ungodly number of sea turtles.

Oh, and bring a chain saw and cut down and scar as much green timber around the camp as is possible in your spare time.

[wearredcaps]

Bow season on in Kansas now, gun season opens Dec 4. I gun hunt. Have shot deer from same tree stands on our farm since 1980. I do my own processing of meat. don't buy much beef. Our deer are corn fed. Much better than store bought meat. Deer season is the best time of the year. I will take 3-4 weeks of to hunt, & get my freezer filled up. "Hunting, An American Tradition"