well it's that time of year again. good luck to anybody going out this weekend for the opener.
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we donate ours to the VFW each year(i think) they sell them to a glove maker or something along those lines and the money goes to charities.Swandazi said:lol i have 3 bags (ea bag has 1 deer hide) of deer hide sitting in my garage... i dont know what to do with it all... Does any one know any fly patterns that require tons of deer hair?
have you ever thought about a more challenging hunt?? it's not all about the killing for me. try a backpack in trip in the mountains some where...you won't be sorrySloan Craven said:Thanks, but I never found it that hard to get a deer. Not to toot my own horn, but I can get a deer while driving down the road at 50 mph with my lights on, horn blazing, and eating a bean burrito.
Mr Trout: There used to be a few more birds in the Durr Rd area, and of course wfdw releases the pen-raised roosters a couple of times per year, but you are right about the hit and miss. This was a short, quick hunt and that's what Durr Rd is good for. I am a chukar hunter, primarily, so I know you're right about some good numbers elsewhere in this vast area. I also hunt the Quilomene/Colockum a bit, as well as Oak Creek. Sure have to work for those birds, though!mr trout said:Cliff, Don't you just hate when people are so irresponsible... can really mess with a nice day out in the field. I've found that area around Durr road can be hit and miss for birds I think. I have seen bunches of them there and then I go back a few days later and it is barren. There are certainly spots nearby that have hordes of chukar and decent numbers of Huns. I saw probably 8 groups of chukar one morning hunting in early september in one of my spots in the Canyon. Sat there glassing for deer and was able to see and hear 3 different groups of Chukar within 150 yards of me. It was sweet.
Me too. I'm a bowhunter at heart, but a bird hunter almost as much. This is my dog's first fall he's old enough to hunt, so I'm getting him out as much as possible. He's new to hunting, so right now it's pretty much just running around in the woods. Hunted tonight, flushed one, no shot. But we did run into a huge bear on the way out!HogWrangler said:I had to weigh my deer hunting with my bird hunting, bird hunting wins...
The bean burrito is a must, but then you have to shout a muffled "Hoowwwrrrly shiirrrrrt"Sloan Craven said:Thanks, but I never found it that hard to get a deer. Not to toot my own horn, but I can get a deer while driving down the road at 50 mph with my lights on, horn blazing, and eating a bean burrito.
You know who makes use of that stuff is buckskinners, those mt. man reenactors. I did some of that back in the 1980's. They hold these rendevous which is a big camp out and muzzle loader shoot. Anyway you had to wear clothing that was in use in the mountains no later than 1840. Which meant you had to sew up your own skins. Whagh!Swandazi said:lol i have 3 bags (ea bag has 1 deer hide) of deer hide sitting in my garage... i dont know what to do with it all... Does any one know any fly patterns that require tons of deer hair?