The vote isn't looking good Fischer, better head for the medicine cabinet!

Well, for future reference a shot and downed vermin does not mean the deer will fail to appear. I've had them walk up to investigate dead hogs twice, the smoke hardly out of sight.

Use the approach I've taken in the past: You can shoot a deer any ol' day, but you rarely get a second chance at crats and yotes, or bobby too. Kill 'em all, like Clay sez.

Dan

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Having felt the cruel pinch of want myself, if Fisher Truly needed the meat, I would have to side with his decision. When I moved to Texas in '86, had three children under the age of 10, one of which was a boy who lived on a bicycle and had hollow legs. The amount of provender required to feed that motley crew was staggering. They had grown up on venison, and detested the ground burger from Winn Dixie. So I would load up and head back to TN to fill the larder every year the Saturday before Thanksgiving, would take the boy out of school, and we went deer hunting. By the time the women showed up for the big meal, we wanted to have five hanging, ready to process the Sunday before we left. The year that both nephews were in the service, one in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, I mailed over two hundred pounds of jerky to them, (and that takes more deer than one would imagine).

Clay, have run down the rattlesnake picture, my sister in Nashville has it. she says that the younger brother and Shorty, the guy who worked for us and would not ride in the back with the snake are in the photo with me. I have not seen it in forty years, so I am interested to see just what the skinny kid I was looks like just as much as you. She is bringing it down Thanksgiving, so I will scan and post as soon as I can.

On a brighter note, as I drove out my dirt field road Friday morning, last day of muzzleloader season here, no deer yet this year, did not draw my bow, have not had the right shot with the smoke pole. Been hot, and dry as a popcorn fart here, but tons of acorns and beech nuts everywhere from early season rains, (huge mast crop), the deer are in the river bottom eating white oak acorns and staying where they can get a drink, they are never the same place two days in a row, hard to pattern them right now. I did see two bucks running field edges, making scrapes as they walked and scent checking the field, so the boys are ready. But, as I drove out to head to work, down the same ditchline as the black and white I got with the .45 Para, a yellow shorthair was checking out that edge. I pulled up at about 40 yards and laid the .45 Omega on my coat, across the hood, and unloaded my gun. The two hundred grain Hornady Aero Tip in front of 120 grains of 777, made cat splat. I am 0 for 18 on deer hunts this year, but 2 for 2 on crat shots. I saw this 45/70 Encore barrel on EBay, hmmm; could I go 3 for 3 on crats with that caliber, in ’05? Would that be considered a trifecta?

"It were better to have shot the cat and hit than never to have seen a deer or shot." Alexander McKenzie,c. 1716A.D., Great Canadian Explorer and Knighted Red Mist Philosopher of the Canadian Society for the Extinction of the Lawn Leopard.

You shoulda killed the damn thing fisher!!!!!!!!,,skinned and boned it then run it through a cuber,,dip in egg and milk,,roll in flour and fry,,mebby a bit of salt-n-pepper somewhere in there,,,Kinda like city chicken You don't know what you're eating,,but tasty!!!!Kill'em All!!!,,peace and roadkill grease,,,,,,,,,Clay

Worriedman,,Looking forward to seeing the pic.,,Thanks,,Clay