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chromebumpers

chromebumpers

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I tried using several different repellants around my landscaping but nothing works on the mature deer.- This one buck is destroying thousands of dollars in small trees I planted. He bends them down to the ground and rubs the bark off everything. Forget the 120 Junipers ruined the year before, they eat the limbs up to the 6 ft level and never grow fast enough before consumed again. His big fat companion eats my Holly bushes to the last leaf by Feb each year. I'd shoot the SOB but I need someone to come get it afterwards. If it dies anywhere on the property my dog will eat it and roll in whatever is remaining (isn't that nice). Years ago I allowed someone to hunt on my property. He shot the deer using a Bow & arrow and the deer took off after being shot, this guy was so lazy he didn't track where the deer ended up which was later found in the woods, my dog dragged one of his hind legs home to chew on. My goofy neighbor says he hunts but never around home, he wants the rack but not the deer if I bag him - yeah right!
 
It's been a month since I first applied the Deer Out Deer Repellant. Either there's a learning curve or I have some really belligerent Deer around me. Seems the stuff lasts about 2 weeks. I just got a farmers permit that allows me or anyone I designate to hunt and keep.
 
chromebumpers said:
It's been a month since I first applied the Deer Out Deer Repellant. Either there's a learning curve or I have some really belligerent Deer around me. Seems the stuff lasts about 2 weeks. I just got a farmers permit that allows me or anyone I designate to hunt and keep.
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too an experience deer hunter, thats a really valuable thing to have!,
is there a daily limit!
(not that you would want to kill and process deer at a rate greater than you could easily package and freeze the venison, but Im curious)

(and having once made the mistake of shooting two deer in one day .. (legal here in florida) Id suggest avoiding that, as its much more work that you can easily do in one day) correctly butchering and packing the 60-100 lbs of venison
 
Grumpy, My permit is to lesion a nuisance, so unlike a "Season" permit there's No daily limits. The only rules I have to abide by is no selling of hunting rights, no shooting after dusk and not on Sundays or holidays. Not even a gun type restriction. Oh, no selling of the dear.
I still have to find someone as 1). I'm disabled at this time. 2). I never gutted any animal - but I have dissected animals in my College A&P labs. 3). I don't know how well it will go over with the family and liking/eating Venison. 4). I don't have a big freezer. 5). I'm lazy.
I just realized, I'm in severe trouble when the Zombie Apocalypse comes!
 
Having dressed out, boned out and packaged dozens of elk and deer I can assure you, that the first couple times you dress out and bone out a deer carcass its not all that much fun , most guys are at least marginally grossed out, but after you get better at the process and gain experience you'll find you learn a few tricks, and the first one is where too shoot vs where NOT TO SHOOT a deer if you want to make the process FAR less distasteful
the second is that hanging the game and skinning and gutting the game some place where you can keep it clean and easily dispose of the internal components ,that youll pitch in the trash, will make the job far faster and easier.
you quickly learn that a good heart shot placed just aft of the front legs, passing thru the chest and exiting , is vastly preferable to dressing a gut shot deer, so you learn not to take shot angles that will result in a really messy job dressing out the deer/elk..obviously that requires a understanding of the games anatomy, and selecting bullets that expand in a controlled manor and exit rather that turning to glitter on impact, and turning the whole impact area to bloody , stinking mush! a properly place bullet of the correct type zips thru doing fatal damage yet destroys a very limited area of the vitals, the wrong bullet or one badly placed makes the processing procedure a stinking, mess
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provided you use a controlled expanding bullet ,shots placed in the red + in my experience tend to drop elk or deer quickly with minimal meat loss , shots in the green + will destroy even less meat but tend to result in a 30-70 yard run before game drops, but if you hit the off side leg bone its going to get messy
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The wife has set me Free to complete sidejobs once again Rich.
Doctor Brian is back making House calls.
All auto & truck repairs at my discretion.
Weekend planned roadtrips.
I have expanded my base to 750 miles.
Driving back from Eastern Kentucky.
Apalachian mountains.
Repaired a members 1985 Corvette in person this past weekend.
Good challange for me .
Owner 100% satisfied.

Pennsylvania not out the question for me to show up in person. before 1st snow fall be best.
Not much of a hunter like Grumpy.
But I am the
 
87vette81big said:
The wife has set me Free to complete sidejobs once again Rich.
Doctor Brian is back making House calls.
All auto & truck repairs at my discretion.
Weekend planned roadtrips.
I have expanded my base to 750 miles.
Driving back from Eastern Kentucky.
Apalachian mountains.
Repaired a members 1985 Corvette in person this past weekend.
Good challange for me .
Owner 100% satisfied.

Pennsylvania not out the question for me to show up in person. before 1st snow fall be best.
Not much of a hunter like Grumpy.
But I am the
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Sounds good to me. We just got a new guestroom set up with a brand new pillow-top queen sleigh bed nobody's ever slept in. About the only project (I hope) I'll have by then is installing the interior to my 71 (see avatar).
 
Brian, how's the new baby doing?

Oh PS - I'll be up front because otherwise I'll be embarrassed when anyone comes. I have the best lift money could buy but the cheapest array of hand tools and not much in specialty tools. I buy tools when needed to do a certain job and that's how I have - what I have.
 
87vette81big said:
Pennsylvania not out the question for me to show up in person. before 1st snow fall be best.
Not much of a hunter like Grumpy.
But I am the
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Your snow fall or mine? Typically we don't get snow here until later in January, until then it's in the low 40s with sometimes an inch or two at the most.
 
Grumpy,

I know you mean well, but I wouldn't bet on me anytime soon going to all that trouble (trouble as defined by me). I just can't picture myself playing in deer guts. And cutting? well . . . I have trouble cutting up fish let alone cutting up a deer! :lol: Maybe, I say maybe, I would watch somebody do their catch once or twice before I would ever attempt anything on my own!
 
chromebumpers said:
Brian, how's the new baby doing?

Oh PS - I'll be up front because otherwise I'll be embarrassed when anyone comes. I have the best lift money could buy but the cheapest array of hand tools and not much in specialty tools. I buy tools when needed to do a certain job and that's how I have - what I have.
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I unloaded my Snap On tool box.
Diagnostic tools brought with too.
10- Seat Suburban can carry alot.
Can always pull my 18-foot car Dual axle car trailer too.

No Blizzard or Ice Storms.
Can drive in it but it sucks.
Trip takes forever then.

BR
 
Brian, my wife has driven to and from Naperville at least a dozen times and she averages 15 hrs. with kids. I have enough tools to do most anything - I'm lacking a lot of specialty tools, and some tools I don't see anybody using (like a Mini-doctor), but I'm slowly getting there.
 
Anything you have for tools is a Bonus Rich.
We needed to make a Front timing cover oil seal installer. Made it from Flat washers about 2" OD & 1-1/2" ID. Notched it out with a plasma cutter for cranksihaft keyway. Worked like a charm.
Good mechanic & home mechanic improvises on the spot if need be.
 
87vette81big said:
Anything you have for tools is a Bonus Rich.
We needed to make a Front timing cover oil seal installer. Made it from Flat washers about 2" OD & 1-1/2" ID. Notched it out with a plasma cutter for cranksihaft keyway. Worked like a charm.
Good mechanic & home mechanic improvises on the spot if need be.
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I don't know about this? Do you have a picture/drawing of this or the factory made tool? I do have a 230 V MIG welder with a gun wire feed for Aluminum work and a Plasma Cutter and the worlds safest 2 post lift. :cool:
 
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