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in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #62541
Thanks Jim!
I think they’re all self explanatory.
None of these pictures are of myself. I’m not old.
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #61544Ausjim was nice enough to send me his email and I sent him a bunch of pics to post. One is of my buddy Tom with a nice doe he killed. By the time we got to her (about 45 minutes), a group of pigs had eaten the majority of her head. That’s why we took the picture facing the deer’s tail.
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #61530That name just won’t work. The governor died. I will never die:D
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #58636Sorry guys. My laptop has been down and im doing all this by phone. Somebody post up an email address and ill send em out.
in reply to: The Hammock Seat #55827I have a compound buddy that bought one this year and brought it to the mtns to bear hunt with me. I will be buying one before next bear season. These things are pretty……… pretty………pretty good!
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #55823Boy did we have a big time again this year. I’ll post some pictures when I have the time. Out of four guys, we killed 2 deer, but there were two misses and another shot passed up on. I saw a nice spike but he stayed out of range. Out of 206 hunters, we killed 120 or so deer and about 30 pigs. It was unseasonably warm so the snakes and gators were out in force. As were the mosquitoes and sand gnats. We saw cottonmouths all over the place. Hunters were finding dead deer up and down the island so I’m assuming we got a late bout of EHD.
It was quite a time. I saw pigs, deer, gators, several species of snakes, dolphins, porpoises, wood storks, eagles, etc etc etc.
in reply to: On TeeVee hunting heroes #48312One of the best articles I’ve ever read. I haven’t watched an “outdoor” show in ages because of all this foolishness.
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #41239tailfeather wrote: Hate to miss it for the second year in a row. The new job may have some perks, but asking for vacation in the first week ain’t one of em. Next year!!
Have fun, fellas.:D
I’ve got a heck of a spot picked out too. If we get some weather, this is going to be the hunt of all hunts on the island. An extra 15% more deer and pigs (don’t care much about em), but also the lack of pressure from the first hunt should have everything moving like never before.
Don,
The PA game commission has been behind the times for ages. The only thing I really respect about them is that they work hard to catch violators and stick them hard when they get caught. They still don’t allow hunting on sundays. That, to me, is the most ridiculous slap in the face that we have to deal with. What year is it anyway?
Doc Noc,
My family has a deer camp in Perry county. It’s not very far from you and we have a bunch of bears now. Of course, they’re pretty much all killed during the three day rifle hunt by drivers, but we seem to have more every year.
Our camp is in the Tuscarora forest off of laurel run rd.
I was born up there at hershey medical and have spent a lot of time in both summer and winter in your area. My dad lives up there and used to visit him a lot. Spent a lot of hours fishing the susquehanna, stony creek, swattara creek, and the juniata. Favorite by far was pine creek up in tioga county.
Ptaylor wrote: [quote=etter1] I don’t know how many we kill every year but it’s definitely over 2000 by now.
Hey Etter, How many bears do you think Georgia has? In CA, the statewide quota is 1700 bears a year, and I would think we have a lot more bears than Georgia. You mentioned the state is trying to reduce the bear population, why?
In regards to the original post. In CA, we have to present the skull, so a biologist can pull a tooth for aging, and we get the tag countersigned, which is attached to the ear of the skin. But it doesn’t matter how it comes in, which is good. I’ve had the opportunity to shoot, but didn’t, bears 4-5 miles from my truck in rugged country. No way I would get those animals out in one piece.
I don’t have a meat cooler, don’t go to a butchers, and its usually too warm to hang meat outside for very long. So once I get an animal home I butcher and package it as quickly as I can. That being said, I’ve shot a couple deer in the middle of a hot day (80’s+) and boned out the meat into game bags, gotten home at dusk. Those deer were in the game bags all afternoon, and the meat was great.
I was high on the kill number. We killed 511 in 2011 in north ga. I dont know the estimated population but it is growing all the time and expanding out of the mtns and up from florida. I do know that i went on eight scouting hikes last summer and saw bears on every one of them.
in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #38353Just over one week away. The first hunt was cancelled due to the govt shutdown.
in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #38340Come on down. We’re covered with them here in the mtns. I’ve personally seen 29 since july 1. A buddy of mine hunted my spot one afternoon in october and saw 12 in one afternoon.
The law that requires that is ridiculous. As is Georgia’s law that a bear has to weigh 75 lbs to be killed. GA wants bears killed so it makes no sense whatsoever to limit the size of bears. I wouldn’t kill a small one anyway, but it’s completely illogical. In ga, as long as you have 75lbs of the animal, you are good.
I killed a pretty good one this year and was all alone. If I wasn’t allowed to cut it up in the woods and pack it out, I’d never have been able to get it out. In Ga, the bear must be checked in with a warden within three days. The guy actually drove all the way to my house to pull a tooth. I thought that was pretty cool. I don’t know how many we kill every year but it’s definitely over 2000 by now.
As far as meat care goes, I think people are way too squeamish about it. I see guys on the GA hunting forums that say if the temperature doesn’t get down in the 30s, you cant leave a dead deer out overnight. That’s pure foolishness. You can leave a deer out overnight in the summer and have nothing to worry about. I’ve done it and it’s just fine.
in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #37097Made bear burgers for some people without telling them what they were. They were raving about the burgers and two said they were the best they had ever had.
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