What is the dumbest thing....
08-24-2007, 05:05 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: georgia
Posts: 3,297
What is the dumbest thing....
..that you have ever heard another hunter say to you---about hunting that is?
I was sighting in a new cope at a range,and started at the 50 yard section. I fired a couple of rounds, and noticed a couple real intelligent guys standing behind me, and overheard their conversation. It went something like, 'I wonder why he's over here shooting that gun instead of at the 200 yard range? Yeah, he must not be planning on shootin' no big deer!! If I have to explain it, then confess--it was you that day wasn't it?
I was sighting in a new cope at a range,and started at the 50 yard section. I fired a couple of rounds, and noticed a couple real intelligent guys standing behind me, and overheard their conversation. It went something like, 'I wonder why he's over here shooting that gun instead of at the 200 yard range? Yeah, he must not be planning on shootin' no big deer!! If I have to explain it, then confess--it was you that day wasn't it?
08-24-2007, 05:11 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Sadly I've heard all kinds of dumb things
I don't feel a doe ever needs to be shot, maybe down around the farms where there are lots of em, but not up here in the mountains where they have more food.
I want to use a crossbow for its knockdown power so I don't have to track a deer.
Many more things but I am drawing a blank after these 2.
I don't feel a doe ever needs to be shot, maybe down around the farms where there are lots of em, but not up here in the mountains where they have more food.
I want to use a crossbow for its knockdown power so I don't have to track a deer.
Many more things but I am drawing a blank after these 2.
08-24-2007, 05:11 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: down in a hole
Posts: 1,441
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Pet peeves rolls up in a tractor while I'm hunting a certain stand. He just waves and keeps on riding around for no reason. I get out and tell him to leave, and this is what he tells me: "If anything, this will attract the deer. They'll be curious and big bucks will come and see what it is. They'll probably follow me too, so its ok if I just ride around."
He's not being serious is he?
He's not being serious is he?
08-24-2007, 05:37 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Southport,Florida
Posts: 441
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
While sighting a rifle in one day I was about through when 2 grown men and 3 younguns pulled to sight a couple in-- I was using pillows off a old couch anda jacket laid on the hood of my truck-the one fellow started shooting offhand and adjusting his sights(others fellows gun)after shooting about 10 times I asked if he wanted to use my prop since i was through---He quickly told me that "HE DIDN'T SIGHT IN GUNS FROM A REST, CAUSE THERE WASN'T NO PROPS OUT IN THE WOODS"--- I decided it was time to go!!!
08-24-2007, 05:41 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2007
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RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Last year, I was draggin a big fat doe out to my truck and noticed this guy standin there with a bunch of camera stuff, must of been a bird watcher or something.
I get right up to him and he said with out missin a beat" I'm sorry for makin that deer run twards you but you didnt have to shoot it".
I get right up to him and he said with out missin a beat" I'm sorry for makin that deer run twards you but you didnt have to shoot it".
08-24-2007, 05:54 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 222
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
wow.... I my buddy had the same thing happen with the tractor...but his was a lawn mower....
I was riding towards this spot with the guy who's land i was hunting and we get to where he could have parked and he just keeps driving down the trail.... i asked him what he was doing and he says "The truck won't scare the deer as much as you walking on the trail would..." As a lound pop comes from his truck.... we ran over a little tree [:'(][:'(][:'(] got to love the smart people
I was riding towards this spot with the guy who's land i was hunting and we get to where he could have parked and he just keeps driving down the trail.... i asked him what he was doing and he says "The truck won't scare the deer as much as you walking on the trail would..." As a lound pop comes from his truck.... we ran over a little tree [:'(][:'(][:'(] got to love the smart people
08-24-2007, 06:10 PM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Posts: 6,006
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Had a customer come in a week or so back and while talking he said something along the lines of "I haven't shot a doe in probably ten years. Shooting does doesn't do anything to help the herd anyway."
08-24-2007, 06:53 PM
#10
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 57
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
I have two that come to mind...
Hunter #1 (ran into on an online voice chat): Claiming that game laws in every state are only meant for public hunting grounds and that private land owners can shoot as many deer whenever they want to on their own private land. Claimed that if the deer walks on his property it becomes a part of his property and that it was like choosing whether or not to mow the grass or cut down the trees on his property. Claimed him and all his neighbors hunt their own properties year round like this without any need for a hunting license. [&:] If I knew this guy's exact location I'd be having an Ohio game warden over to his house in a heartbeat! [:@]
Hunter #2: Claiming the best shot on a deer or elk was to aim for their back hip. Tried to tell me all the outfitters he's ever been to for elk and deer hunting told him that's where to aim instead of the vitals. At first thought he was joking, but he was dead serious and he actually had the gull to say that aiming for the vitals like I do is more prone to losing animals than how he hunts. [>:]
Hunter #2 (again): Claiming that his father killed and gutted a deer and while driving home with it in the back of the truck jumped up and ran away and lived. Again thought he was joking, but he was dead serious and couldn't understand why I started laughing and couldn't believe him.
Hunter #1 (ran into on an online voice chat): Claiming that game laws in every state are only meant for public hunting grounds and that private land owners can shoot as many deer whenever they want to on their own private land. Claimed that if the deer walks on his property it becomes a part of his property and that it was like choosing whether or not to mow the grass or cut down the trees on his property. Claimed him and all his neighbors hunt their own properties year round like this without any need for a hunting license. [&:] If I knew this guy's exact location I'd be having an Ohio game warden over to his house in a heartbeat! [:@]
Hunter #2: Claiming the best shot on a deer or elk was to aim for their back hip. Tried to tell me all the outfitters he's ever been to for elk and deer hunting told him that's where to aim instead of the vitals. At first thought he was joking, but he was dead serious and he actually had the gull to say that aiming for the vitals like I do is more prone to losing animals than how he hunts. [>:]
Hunter #2 (again): Claiming that his father killed and gutted a deer and while driving home with it in the back of the truck jumped up and ran away and lived. Again thought he was joking, but he was dead serious and couldn't understand why I started laughing and couldn't believe him.