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Offline EmeraldBullet

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2016, 05:32:20 PM »
Stick it. My only unethical hunting shortfall is I believe if I own property (one day) & there is game on it and I need meat to feed my family they will be a living target for bow practice. Most call it poaching, I call filling my tag/ kids tummies out of season.

If you literally NEED the meat to feed your family, as in they would otherwise starve, then it no longer poaching but rather survival.

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2016, 05:47:19 PM »
Dont hesitate!!!!

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2016, 06:14:53 PM »
Stick it. My only unethical hunting shortfall is I believe if I own property (one day) & there is game on it and I need meat to feed my family they will be a living target for bow practice. Most call it poaching, I call filling my tag/ kids tummies out of season.
if you get to the point that you own property with game on it you wouldn't need to poach to feed your family. You would be a property owner things couldn't be bad enough to poach if you can afford to own property.
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2016, 06:18:35 PM »
Stick it. My only unethical hunting shortfall is I believe if I own property (one day) & there is game on it and I need meat to feed my family they will be a living target for bow practice. Most call it poaching, I call filling my tag/ kids tummies out of season.
if you get to the point that you own property with game on it you wouldn't need to poach to feed your family. You would be a property owner things couldn't be bad enough to poach if you can afford to own property.


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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2016, 06:28:10 PM »
Stud buck, great pic  :tup:
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2016, 07:14:28 PM »
Nice one Dave.  Someone's (or some car) going to take that guy - legal or not. 

I used to have a great photo that I got off the Oregon hunting board showing a guy in cowboy boots, cowboy hat, running shorts and a T shirt on a dead run(shot from behind) with lasso spinning in the air and a 3-point blacktail buck running from him as it looked over his shoulder at the "cowboy" in fright.  Absolutely hilarious.  It was my Windows Desktop background for years, but I lost it when I sent my laptop in for repair.   :'(
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2016, 07:35:16 PM »
He definitely looks rutty dumb to me.
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2016, 07:41:30 PM »
Thats a pig!

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2016, 08:27:05 PM »
That's a total stud!

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2016, 09:23:38 PM »
Stick it. My only unethical hunting shortfall is I believe if I own property (one day) & there is game on it and I need meat to feed my family they will be a living target for bow practice. Most call it poaching, I call filling my tag/ kids tummies out of season.
if you get to the point that you own property with game on it you wouldn't need to poach to feed your family. You would be a property owner things couldn't be bad enough to poach if you can afford to own property.

....unless you're talking about six years ago, when everyone was loosing their homes to bad mortgages.  That'll never happen again, well at least for a few years anyways.
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2016, 09:31:37 PM »
It's not illegal if no one hears it  :chuckle:
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2016, 06:37:39 AM »
Let that bad boy spread his genes! Nice buck!

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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2016, 06:45:03 AM »
Very nice buck
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2016, 07:34:31 AM »
WOW!  :tup:
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Re: Maybe I should be hunting blacktails in my driveway
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2016, 07:49:38 AM »
Stick it. My only unethical hunting shortfall is I believe if I own property (one day) & there is game on it and I need meat to feed my family they will be a living target for bow practice. Most call it poaching, I call filling my tag/ kids tummies out of season.
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