Fat Bottom Girls…

[Tater]

Nice!

[Glenn]

Sexy

[Rubberhead*]

I've tried. I just can't do it. I shot at one once. Missed her clean. Dad said it was psychological. As usual, Dad's probably right.

[2thDoc]

i've heard you say that before. what's your rationale?
its ok if its "i just dont want to shoot a doe". I get it.


i often quote my dad too. my son was shedding a tear after killing his first deer. he admitted he "felt bad" for shooting her. My dad picked up his chin, looked him in the eye, and said "if you dont have a pang of regret every time you take an animal's life, you're no kin of mine." As usual, my Dad was probably right, too.

[SCWOODROW]

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Y’all boys done broke out the boom sticks already?? Dern, it ain’t even December yet!!

[centurian]

We have tried to leave them for the kids and wives to shoot but they dont want to shoot them either. Once they kill a nice buck they dont want to shoot a doe. Not blood thirsty as I was when i started. we are going to have to put a few in their place as they are flash mobbing the corn piles not meant for them.

[Glenn]

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Y’all boys done broke out the boom sticks already?? Dern, it ain’t even December yet!!

Bows are for fun. Cheater sticks are for freezer fillin'. I got mouths to feed. When I have to put a block on the lid to hold the freezer shut I'll holster the iron and grab the bow again.

[Glenn]

We have tried to leave them for the kids and wives to shoot but they dont want to shoot them either. Once they kill a nice buck they dont want to shoot a doe. Not blood thirsty as I was when i started. we are going to have to put a few in their place as they are flash mobbing the corn piles not meant for them.

That's a taught and learned behavior. Someone along the way taught them to devalue killing a doe or anything other than the wall hangers. Make 'em earn a buck. You stack two slicks, you can hunt a buck.

[BigBrother]

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[Boduke]

I still remember the first nanny I ever cleaned. Had her on the tailgate of my grandpas Nissan hardbody. That's when I learned the value of hanging the deer. Its a whole lot easier to get the guts out hanging up, seems like the gravity keeps you from having to scoop them out with your arms.

Its just like fishing, if there's one thing that makes me not wanna eat fish, its cleaning fish.

Let me get the fish smell, buck musk stank, nanny goat milk, off my hands and maybe a shower before we get the grease hot!

[BigBrother]

I've learned the best way to clean a four legged critter, is to put them in a cradle and split the hide on the legs and peel them down. I hate chasing a critter around and around to make cuts and pull.

[centurian]

That's a taught and learned behavior. Someone along the way taught them to devalue killing a doe or anything other than the wall hangers. Make 'em earn a buck. You stack two slicks, you can hunt a buck.

All to true but we needed to rebuild a little after the brown and down members left now we need to thin a little.

[centurian]

I've learned the best way to clean a four legged critter, is to put them in a cradle and split the hide on the legs and peel them down. I hate chasing a critter around and around to make cuts and pull.

I see a lot of cradles down in the low country so i guess it works for them. Most in the upstate hang them as i ne3ver see them here.

[Glenn]

All to true but we needed to rebuild a little after the brown and down members left now we need to thin a little.

Holla. I ain't proud. I'll stack.

[Boduke]

Funnily enough the 2nd deer I killed I thought was a doe but was just a button buck. I wiped the milk off his lips and took him to my buddies house who had one of the "Cradles" like you're talking about. Seemed like he skinned him out in the cradle and then hung him by the legs once all the fur was gone.

Most the time my ole lady is with me when i've got one strung up and I make her hold onto the carcass so im not chasing him around the whole time. Though she doesn't get too excited about it.

[Glenn]

Funnily enough the 2nd deer I killed I thought was a doe but was just a button buck. I wiped the milk off his lips and took him to my buddies house who had one of the "Cradles" like you're talking about. Seemed like he skinned him out in the cradle and then hung him by the legs once all the fur was gone.

Most the time my ole lady is with me when i've got one strung up and I make her hold onto the carcass so im not chasing him around the whole time. Though she doesn't get too excited about it.

A bungee from hoist to gambrel solves that spinning problem.

Don't put your eye out.

[Larry Tank]

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[MolliesMaster]

This whole thread needs a like button.

I hope to contribute soon enough.

[Rubberhead*]

i've heard you say that before. what's your rationale?
its ok if its "i just dont want to shoot a doe". I get it.

It always seems like it's some active part of the breeding cycle going on. They either have dependent-looking halflings with them or they're probably pregnant. I just can't get mad enough at them.

We have "club-based" doe tags so I offer them to other guys who don't mind shooting does. Our neighbors think we don't kill enough does. Our neighbors think we kill too many young bucks. I don't know - we've done the same thing for three decades and it seems to be working and giving us the deer we want to hunt. I've probably got 25-30 young 8-points on camera with a few nicer mature deer and two that will easily make the book. Seems right for 900 acres.

I've listened to the intellectual arguments for thinning out does to the point where it's close to 1:1 buck doe ratio. But I like having an expanded "rut" with several "layers" of bucks chasing does over a 2-3 month period. With the weather in the lowcountry, I don't think a fawn born in April is at any advantage or disadvantage to one born in July.

[2thDoc]

A bungee from hoist to gambrel solves that spinning problem.

Don't put your eye out.

or a simple rope.
or maybe your buddy could hold it to keep from spinning?

just dont let that beat you.