Doc

Yeah, I always hold out for those sway-backed, toothless ones. If I can find one that has the ribs sticking out, and most of its hair missing, that is a buck that is ready to harvest. A little arthritis, blindness and failing hearing also helps determine the proper harvesting age...... lol.

I wonder if they are protected by law? If they're not, the solution is to start shooting the damn things. If they are start legal activity to sue the state and the original owners of these critters for any damages.

Somehow I missed any description of the stand. Is it a purchased portable stand, or is it a wooden construction (boards and nails). To me that makes a difference as to what is to be done with it. If it's boards and nails, rip it down and dispose of the wood. it apparently belongs to no one who is willing to claim it. If it is a purchased portable, take it down and store it in your garage. Do the same with the trail cam. If no one comes to claim them, consider them a gift to you, the land owner. I assume that your name and address is on your posted signs, so anyone looking for these items knows how to get in contact with you. You can leave notes on the trees where these things were mounted, but that is optional. As far as I am concerned, these gifts are abandoned property, and I would not exert any more effort at finding the owner. If they come asking for them, hand them over if you want, unless they start giving you grief over it. Seriously, if they walked through your posted signs and began using your property as their own, the items that they left behind are gifts to you. So it is up to you as to whether you should refuse their gifts or not.

I am of an age where these losses have become frequent. I have lost many friends and many hunting partners. But I have never had to say goodbye to one at such a young age. That is even more heart-breaking. All I can say is, celebrate the times you had together and appreciate the fact that he was in your life for the time that he was. Though the pain will eventually fade, the good experiences and memories never will.

I never did see him with another deer. It could be he was being shunned by the others.....lol. Kind of like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Or was that Ambrose the Amber-a$$ed Antelope? Anyway, I never did see him in person. could it be that all of his good-looks went to more brains instead of beauty?

Quote: "Hows your garden doing?..." This year, I am expecting a good crop of cattails. I can't get enough good days together to even get the tiller out there. And walking around trying to hand-weed winds up with some ugly soil compaction that turns every place I step into cement. And you watch......before the summer is done, we will be deep into a drought ...... lol. Plants look crappy. Most of the seeds never came up so I re-planted them and no sign of germination yet, but I have my fingers crossed. We might get beets and carrots and radishes. I had a thought of not even putting in a garden this year when I couldn't even get the thing tilled. I think I should have followed those instincts ..... But I am stubborn.

And what all your foolishness has to do with "strange racks" is certainly a mystery, but apparently it all fits nicely into that wacked-out mind of yours. Oh, in case that confuses you, strange racks was what this thread was about until you went crazy on us.

You really are a strange duck, aren't you? You just randomly insert some idiotic non related blathering into any old random thread just to continue your little tantrum. What the heck is wrong with your mind? Something is badly broken there.

I guess if there is anything anti-trump in there, it is going way over my head. The presidential masks seem to be from every party and ideology. But I must be missing something somewhere because the lyrics and the video don't really seem to have anything to do with each other.

What on earth are you talking about? I think you are really losing it! Really, to just blurt out this nonsense that has nothing to do with anything in this thread really seems weird, to put it mildly. Is there some kind of medication that you been skipping or is that disjointed mindless raving just the way your mind is working these days?

What? ...... After I gave you such a wonderful compliment, you start calling me names......lol.

I'll have to keep my eyes open for some. I love just about all berries.

Now here is a real "strange rack". My unicorn.

I have never had a mulberry. Do they sell them in the grocery stores?

I wonder what kind of owl that is. It looks kind of small. Nice of him to stop in for a pose for your camera.

It's amazing how much irresponsible behavior there is that can be justified in the name of Jesus. Or at least, so some think. I may be doing it all wrong, but making demands on God to take care of my irresponsible acts is not quite the way religion plays into my life.

Just another tip from our resident deer hunting expert.

So how do these gun manufacturers let people know when there is a recall? Do they contact the individual purchasers, or just hope that word-of-mouth gets to enough people. I mean, some of these recalls that I have kind of blundered into have to do with potential life endangering design flaws. With all the stinking gun purchase records that are kept, you would hope that they could tap into them somehow and give people a heads up that they are shooting a ticking time-bomb.

Yeah, there are lot of guys that are looking so hard for the easy way to get deer that they don't even hear (or want to) hear those that try to bring them back to reality. They see this new wonder-weapon on the market that carries all kinds of manufacturer's speed and performance claims, and envision it as an alternative to a gun, that now gives them access to bow season. I suppose after a few wounded deer they will learn for themselves that nothing is like a gun except a gun..

OK.....Now I get it. But being the site's official cheapskate, I think I'll use my memory sticks for periodic back-up.....lol. But at least I can see what people are using external sites for. It does make sense.

Ha ha ... and there is no doubt that in your mind you honestly believe all of that.

What is the purpose of Photobucket as opposed to simply posting out of your own computer hard-drive? I know there must be some obvious benefit or they wouldn't be in business, but it hasn't occurred to me yet.

And, I have no doubt that we will see similar cases of over-confidence and misunderstanding of a weapon's limits in the new rush to crossbows. The best way to get into a primitive weapons season is to be honest with yourself about personal limitations and the physical limitations of these weapons of hunting challenge. If you can't do that, then you have no business participating. I am a believer that the more primitive the weapon, the more attention that has to be spent understanding the limitations. When you don't do that, you cannot blame the weapon, but rather have to look at the hunter and his motives, impatience, and expectations as well as his willingness to spend the time to master and fully understand his weapon of choice. And all of that does not assume that gun hunters do not have the same problems of unwillingness to understand their own limitations and needs for practice and familiarization. It all speaks more about the hunter than it does about the weapon.

Ha-ha..... did I upset you with my comment in the other thread, Bunkie? I'm just having a little fun with you. Don't be so serious.....lol.

Look, I understand that I am not going to change your personality. You have a pathological need to constantly boast about what you perceive in your own mind as your "hunting perfection" (to the point of being obnoxious), and I nor anyone else will ever change that trait. So just forget I even brought it up.