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Shamu
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Posted: March 02 2015 at 10:35am |
I can see I need to tell the tale of culling the nuisance
deer, but didn’t want to clutter up a different thread.
I was working in Haslemere, Surrey, but still living in Bristol, about 120 miles away. I was just there part time covering for a guy who’d busted ribs skiing on vacation & needed time off to heal. As a favor the boss let me have every Sat & Mon off so I could go home at weekends. In the week he’d cooked up a deal with this lady locally who had one of those “Agatha Christie Country Murder Mansions” where the butler killed everybody. It had a good sized piece of property & lots of trees, but the introduced deer had become a nuisance as they were breeding in the surrounding wooded rolling hills & hunting was minimal & there were no natural predators. A local guy (who I think was lusting after her) was a hunter & he’d come up whenever he could to do a cull as they were ringing the trees & killing them & rooting in the garbage cans. There was a tale (I don’t know if it’s true or not) that if you killed a deer & dragged the skin round the edge of the property no deer would cross the scent line, so that was the plan. Unfortunately for him the deer weren’t being co-operative & weren’t there when he was. I got permission to hunt them as nuisance animals, but my FAC wasn’t good for Surrey, just Avon & Somerset, but I could get a shotgun permit, so I did & borrowed a 12-gauge from the estate as her late husband had been a shotgun shooter. Talk about dying & gong to heaven! The “gun room” was all glass & oak with shotties everywhere & a snooker (billiards for idiots) table in the middle. I picked a nice side-by-side with a cylinder bore & got a box of solid slugs. I’d never seen all brass 12-gauge she!!s before, really impressive with the big grey ball peeking out from that huge brass case! The unloaded, broken open gun rested against a side table adjacent to the window & 2 she!!s were on the table top. I stalked that property for days, but wasn’t able to even find a deer. Eventually I took a night off & left the shotgun In the “gun room” 3 floors down & at the opposite end of the house & guess what? Yup! The little antlered rodent was kicking the metal garbage can about, rooting for snacks, making a heck of a noise & mess just below & off to the side of the window. I was so mad I took my heavy, steel shod thick leather motorcycle trials boot that weighed probably 4 pounds & hurled it at him as hard as I could. I went down in the morning to retrieve the expensive boot, assuming I’d scared him off & there he was dead as a doornail! When we butchered him it turned out I’d broken his neck with
the metal heel plate & killed him. We ate venison & even made a real
“Umble Pie” from the organs & so on because there was virtually zero meat
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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paddyofurniture
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I thinking it was the smell the eminating boot that did it.
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Shamu
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Possibly!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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paddyofurniture
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A great way to get a deer.
I am envious. |
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hoadie
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Shown off..
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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White Rhino
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Yea, a lot better than my Son, He hits them with his truck !!! LOL!!!! Year before last he hit one , we put that one in the freezer...then his buddy got one behind the house so we got half that one ...then the kid next door needed help cleaning his and I got some of that one !!! Never even made a decent hunt and got deer in the freezer ..this season only got half a deer from Boogies Buddy hunting in the back .... But hey ya cant complain if ya dont have to clean it !! or drag it out the swamp !!!
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paddyofurniture
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I hit a deer with the blade on my snow plow when I lived in Connecticut.
It was only got half a deer never found the front half. |
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Shamu
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EWWWWW!
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paddyofurniture
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Yes it was road kill but it was warm and free.
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Canuck
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And to think you also didn't have to use up a .303 round! Awesome!Something like what the indigenous peoples of North America used to do by running herds of buffalo over a cliff...narry an arrow used for that. Great story, Shamu!
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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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hoadie
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Whats the name of that place Canuck???.."Head smashed in Buffalo jump"? or something like that
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Canuck
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Yah, I'd have to look that up but it does sound very familiar.
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Canuck
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Here's what I found..Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. Link wouldn't paste for some reason, probably me and my lack of pooter skills.It's on Google.
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Shamu
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Hows this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump Different link to the same place. |
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