Whole Deer

[Bean Counter]

I've had a bad day or two of posting.    I'm fortunate people are mostly gracious around here, so I thank you all for letting me stick around 

[6x6in6]

I'd get a ban for multiple reasons if I posted what I really thought.

So I'll just leave it with what a moronic post was started here. 

[grundy53]

I'd get a ban for multiple reasons if I posted what I really thought.

So I'll just leave it with what a moronic post was started here. 

I agree. I actually had to take a minute to calm down before I wrote my post. I didn't want to have to ban myself.

[Bigshooter]

 

[6x6in6]

I'd get a ban for multiple reasons if I posted what I really thought.

So I'll just leave it with what a moronic post was started here. 

I agree. I actually had to take a minute to calm down before I wrote my post. I didn't want to have to ban myself.

I lost track how many times I wiped my typing out and started over. 

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Hah, Even the Dept of Game in Idaho is obviously promoting "lazy" road hunting with these pictures on the cover of this year's regulations. Those old time hunters even brought elk out whole.  The point is, if you can, why not? To prove something?

[jay.sharkbait]

Excuse my rant. I'll try and keep myself contained. So this is the backcountry forum...what comes to mind when you read the subject "Whole Deer"? I'll expand...whole deer in the back of a truck, whole deer on the back of an ATV, whole deer on the side of a logging road. What are your thoughts?
The first things that come to my mind are: road hunters, you sure worked hard for that one, tough pack out eh?, and again, road hunters...
By my nature I jump to negative conclusions. I know there are circumstances when you simply get a whole animal out due to sheer luck (e.g. you blast one near uphill of a logging road, shoot an elk in an open field on the coast, you're driving down a road in the mountains, etc). Also I understand that not all hunts can be backcountry hunts, see Entiat late hunts or other hunts with roads everywhere.
I understand that some (many) people don't hunt hardcore or pack into the backcountry but I've found that nowadays any picture of whole deer (other than those in the field) draw virtually no interest for me. Not that their not nice animals but am I supposed to admire your hunting skill because you filled the truck/ATV with gas that morning? That being said I killed a deer road hunting this year but I'm not bragging about it and my partner and I admitted that we were "Dirtbag road hunters" before the got in the truck, not to mention we were on our way home after we'd spend 4 days camping in the snow at 9,500' and actually hunting. I also feel like I don't want to be a killer. I want to be a hunter, I want it to be difficult, I want to be hurt afterwards, if I am to take another life I should suffer as well.
Also with a relatively new wife and a new kid (aka baby) my future undoubtedly holds many hours of finding easy, non-backcountry, killing hunts. Of course the great hope is those easy hunts will lead to a desire for more hunting and less killing...
So I guess the easy answer is "To each their own", right? And maybe we should be happy that tens of thousands more people don't know that backcountry hunting isn't "hunting" at all, it's a religion. Perhaps going against the spirit of organized religion I should not condemn people who don't have the same beliefs as I do.     -Backcountry Addict

PS: BLUEBULLS is 100% responsible for this uppity post because he created a monster when he made me go on a backpack hunt with him

Consider yourself lucky sir.....Someday you won't be able to be all *censored* and cool. Someday you might just consider yourself lucky to just get through a work week without barfing.

The shiny slick stuff in your hips, knees and shoulders won't be there forever...Are you still gonna be all cool then?

My guess is at some point you will be faced with a decision. Either Quit hunting or join the evil ranks of  Roadhunters you hate so much.

[2labs]

Wow, who whizzed in yur mountain house? At 51 years old and 20 plus deer and 1 elk All came out whole! As stated, it's really not that tough to get a deer out whole. As I've gotten older and wiser, I plan better. A lot of my hunting now is out of my boat.
Guess that makes me lazy " boat hunter" but my drags are down hill.

[h20hunter]

Usually on Sundays the sermons that get preached aren't by someone that is full of themselves OR full of *censored*e.

[Alan K]

Wow, who whizzed in yur mountain house? At 51 years old and 20 plus deer and 1 elk All came out whole! As stated, it's really not that tough to get a deer out whole. As I've gotten older and wiser, I plan better. A lot of my hunting now is out of my boat.
Guess that makes me lazy " boat hunter" but my drags are down hill.

 

[Jonathan_S]

Sounds like somebody isn't strong enough to drag a deer to me     hit the weights bro

I've never quartered a deer in my life until I'm back to camp.

[Toptwo]

All I can say is wow!

  I am 57, and hunt almost exclusively by myself. Got my deer last year about 2.5 miles back behind a gate. Managed to get it out whole all by myself. A 1000 yard drag up to the road from the bottom of a cut, (took me about 2 hours) a 2.5 mile walk back to the truck to drop my stuff off and get my wheel barrow, 2.5 mile walk back in to the deer, and then 2.5 mile wheel out. Guess I am just lazy! Should have shot it farther from the road, and farther behind the gate. 

[huntnfmly]

Wow you must be like that guy on the dr. Pepper commercial lol you must be awsome lol
what a tool.

[Hilltop123]

 

[Mr Mykiss]

Edited because I'm an idiot.