RE: Dead deer in public view???
I have followed most of this post, although I haven’t read all of it.
I have never paraded my kills around, not because I am opposed to it, but because I have never really thought about it. Also, I have never killed anything large enough for the rack to show over my truck bed, but maybe some day. Most of the people that I see with their kill visible seem do out of necessity rather than pride. Their vehicle does not have a truck bed or the bed of their truck is full of 4-wheeler so the deer is strapped to the 4-wheeler’s rack. Most of the hunters that I know understand that once you have killed the animal it is time for the real work to start. Personally I don’t have time to gallivant around town showing off my kill, as I have to go home and skin the animal, quarter it and get it to the butcher (and taxidermist if I’m lucky). If I want to show it off I call my buddies and they can come over and help me skin it. It actually offends me more to see 18-wheelers packed to the gills with chickens or hogs rolling down the highway headed for the slaughterhouse. While you are in DC try to get them to throw a tarp over those things too.
Red, I believe that most of the ire that you have drawn from this thread comes from the “It just urks me too no end when I see some REDNECK, backwoods, toothless, banjo pickin inbred rolling down the road in his jackedup 4x4 with a dead deer lying in the bed of the truck” quote. This was in your very first post. In my opinion it was uncalled for and I am as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours, regardless of how many deer you have killed or how long you have been hunting. What you may not understand is that “redneck does not equal stupid” and just because someone does not share your opinion that does not make them stupid either. I consider myself a “redneck” and have 2 four-year degrees, one of which is one of the most difficult under graduate degrees to complete. I currently working on my masters and hold a high level position at a Fortune 500 company. Luckily we have a good dental plan, so I have been able to hold on to all of my teeth. I guess my point is, “Try and show at least as much respectto your fellow hunters as you want them to show for their game.”