There were a fair number of commercial hunters among that lot. Sport hunters nowadays, of which I am one, don't go around blasting everything that looks remotely like a "target."
Come hunt up here, we need hunters that don't shoot our dairy cows mistaken for deer or moose. I have seen whole herds of cows where every 4-5 have in day glow COW painted on both sides.
BTW, as a kid I was never allowed to wear white mittens or hat during hunting season. Some hunters would see a flash of white and fire at what they thought was a dear tail .
I wonder what happend to the practice of tying the deer to the side of a truck or car to get it home, dressed and hung to bleed out.?
School was let out for the first couple of days of deer season, kids as young as 10 would go hunting with family. If no deer, then wild turkey were plentiful for the Holiday season.
Some people cheated and hid salt licks in the woods to keep the deer in that area, old timers followed the time ordered practice of Peeing on trees in the area to draw the deer to the salt in the urine.
Interesting practice, I found on line an explanation for this act. In Finnland the Raindeer herders use urine to draw in and domesticate the deer. it's the salt. A whole Continent away the Eskimo stores urine to loosen their dog sleds frozen in the ice.
Boar hunting is very dangerous, a lot of darn good dogs have been taken out by those monsters. We have wild boar way up in the woods but few people are willing to hunt them as they do in the South.
Loosing a good hunting dog or two is not worth bagging those suckers.
I am against deer stands, if one want to tie themselves way up in a tree to shoot down on pray, so be it, but these stands have morphed into tree houses. They can accommodate 4-5 people, have coolers stocked with beer and sandwitches, folding chairs, all the comforts of home. To me this is not hunting this is murder.
