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LOL, I wouldn't doubt it, but I am almost positive that the head pounding wasn't due to remorse over shooting a deer a few minutes before or after legal hours.

If you are a trophy hunter and that buck of a lifetime pops out of the bush 5 minutes after legal shooting hours and you drop him, or if you are a meat hunter and that doe pops out for an easy shot 5 minutes after legal shooting hours on the last day of the season and you drop her, I guarantee you that you, me or ANYONE else will have absolutely NO remorse about it. I don't care who you are. If you do, you are definitely a rare breed then and I'd still have a hard time believing you, because I honestly don't think there is a hunter out there who will pound his head against the wall for more than 2 seconds for doing such a thing.

Wow, this thread was started last night at 8:43 and we are on the 8th page already. We must be setting a world record here. Love him or hate him, you got to give it to the OP for lighting things up. I think he's owed a prize actually. At least a box of Rice-a-Roni for crying out loud!

I never said he wasn't. I could just see him swinging naked from his elk antler chandelier in his dining room even now in his advanced years. It's probably not a pretty sight, but I could see him doing something like that. LOL

Admit it Pygmy. You were one of the flower children rolling naked in the mud at Woodstock in '69, weren't you?

You must hunt public land. I've hunted only private land in NY since the late 70's and could count on one hand the number of times a DEC officer asked me anything while going or leaving the woods. I've seen them around a few other times, but they did not give me a second look, if they even gave me a first. I have been stopped at check points on roads, but that is a totally different situation. One would be pretty dumb to be transporting deer during hunting season if they didn't have tags, etc. in order.

LOL, really great way to put it! I feel the same as you. I've been at this game since the late 70's and I'm still looking for this mythical critter! Of course, someone will surely tell me that I must only hang around misfits, poachers, bandits, and other assorted low-life, so we'll probably never get our point across here.

No surprise that this thread went wild so quickly! I do hear what many of you say. We should strive to play by the rules, and it surely isn't a good thing to boast about bending or breaking the rules so openly. But, I have also been around this game long enough to know that many who claim that they absolutely NEVER break the rules are probably also full of $#!+ and full of themselves. To be perfectly honest, the chances of getting caught for bending the rules in hunting are very small to virtually nil. Most especially if you hunt private land. Those who claim that they unload their guns the exact second of legal sundown, each and every time they go hunting can try to tell me another story if they so desire, because I won't believe them on the first one. It's easy to proclaim yourselves to be so perfect as hunters since generally there is NO one around to prove it one way or another. But like I said, I've been around this game long enough to know what typically happens. Whether you guys want to admit it or not is a different story of course.

Bowhunters surely aren't going to get much sympathy from gun hunters with statements like that. Just saying. There are spray and pray gun hunters and then there are bowhunters who stick ten deer for every one they put down for keeps. What can I tell you? I've said it before, the percentage of idiots in the hunting world far exceeds most other pastimes. I think there can be NO denying that unfortunately.

I've been saying it for a good while now. Hunting has become a very selfish game, and it's getting worse all the time. Anyone who thinks it's not probably just hunts by themselves on their own property and hasn't been exposed to what's really going on out there or is very naive. It goes way beyond bow season vs. gun season also. You have people getting their trail cams, treestands, etc. stolen and damaged and this is being done by other HUNTERS, not by just some other idiot walking thru the woods. This is all done to screw the other hunter out there, in order to make hunting easier for themselves. We accuse anti-hunters for messing things up for us, but the truth is that we've messed up way more things ourselves.

Those get used on his western trips. He hunts Putnam county in NY which is shotgun only.

Wow, that's quite a turnaround! You went from wanting a magazine fed semi-auto to a tube fed lever action. I'm not a big fan of AR's OR lever actions, but I could see one having way more fun with a magazine fed semi-auto if putting lead down range is ones main objective.

The DEC SWAT team should be there any minute now!

Lawdwaz is the huntingny.com forum champion buck slayer. I've been here a few years and he puts a nice one down every season. Pretty impressive to say the least. I take my hat off to you, man!

Wow, great job! There are taxidermists out there who claim to have years of experience who couldn't do a better job.

Dang, that's got to be the ugliest rifle I've ever seen. It looks like a vacuum cleaner if you set it down on it's buttstock. Maybe you can suck up the empty brass with it once you fire off a few dozen rounds? LOL

So you'll be shooting if you see him again??

Thanks for reminding me of that one. I swear, the only reason some of these clowns look forward to hunting season is to joy ride on their ATV's. A lot of them could give a crap about the hunting itself.

These hunters aren't pissed, they are just the typical rural hunters without any teeth. So they won't be giving you a happy grin only to show off their dental deficiencies to the world. I'm surprised you didn't know this already!

Grow does have a point. I guess we will never know how badly this deer was injured, but if there was ever a time a deer should have been given some extra attention and care it would be this incident. Just think for a minute of the odds for an injured deer or any animal for that matter to walk itself thru a hospital emergency room door?? It's astronomical! Whether it was some sort of divine intervention here or just a fluke, it is still quite an amazing story.

Now if they would only do the same to uninsured humans that walk into hospital emergency rooms my health insurance premiums might not be as outrageous!!

The zinger of the month around here for sure! LOL

You are going scouting and you have no knife on you?? Moral of the story here for me is that it's better to have a knife on you or in your car instead of that .357. If you stab the deer or cut it's throat to put it out of it's misery, the DEC or trooper would have NO issue with you. If you shoot it with your handgun, you might have some explaining to do.

But how do you get back up, if you repel down? Rock climb back up, or find a trail that goes back up to make it easier?

So you repel down each morning? Then climb back up at the end of the day? Is there a trail back up, or is it a rock climb?