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HAHAHA GOOD NIGHT KISS?

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Yea......I gut it!

SF

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My uncle puts em' up in a tree.

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My version of the European tradition of the "last bite"... I place a bit of vegetation in his (or her) mouth, and piece of the samevegetationin my pocketuntil I kill another.

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be a man take a bite out of the heart!!!! thats what i do. tastes like, ummmmmmmmmm heart!!!

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I have a buddy who lies on the ground and cuddles up with the deer for a couple hours whispering sweet nothings in its ear. Heck he should be out of the looney bin any day now. :D

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The first thing my dad told me when we recovered my first buck was that I needed to put the nuts up in a tree for good luck. I've followed this tradition on ever buck since and I know he has too. I'm assuming it came from Grandpa to start with. I'm starting to think it's more of a Wisconsin thing the more I read in this post. I know I have come upon gut piles multiple times during gun season and found them hanging in a tree nearby... so I'm not the only weird one :-) Outside of that, just a simple thanks for the opportunity to have experienced a successful hunt.

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Man that's one of the funniest things I have ever heard of. Gastler does your buddy play with the deer's nuts when he's layin' there whispering in its ear.Now THAT would be funny. You northerners are killing me:D

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We normally keep killing a deer low key. Many people don't think to highly of hunting these days anyway so we don't really provoke them. We say a prayer, gut it, put the carcass in the dump, go to town to get it made to sausage, and it's done.

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....I remove its heart in the field and drink from it. I smear its blood all over my face neck.and head ... .I eat the heart as soon as I can..( sometimes raw) in order to capture the animals soul ..so that he is one with me..I say a prayer for the spirit of the beast