General Deer Opener

[halflife65]

Well, Dman, I've left to go hunting with a full-sized t-shirt and came home with a half shirt tank top.  

[NRA4LIFE]

Oh god, here we go.

[Dmanmastertracker]

Well, Dman, I've left to go hunting with a full-sized t-shirt and came home with a half shirt tank top.  

 Do you remember the night before coming home?

 Maybe your memory has blocked it out?

[ICEMAN]

Since we are so far off topic I might as well throw this in too;

If you need to drop a Chalupa on the trail, please move to the side a ways and bury it in a cathole!

Plus, why must some guys drop their load in the middle of the road? Are we afraid of the dark and the woods and have to lean against the bumper to take care of it? Good god!  

[yelp]

Since we are so far off topic I might as well throw this in too;

If you need to drop a Chalupa on the trail, please move to the side a ways and bury it in a cathole!

Plus, why must some guys drop their load in the middle of the road? Are we afraid of the dark and the woods and have to lean against the bumper to take care of it? Good god!  

Man I was taking the wife to Mexican dinner tonight..not now..   Yeah "Bury your Chalupa" and wrapper!  Great bumperstick Ice. 

Chalupoo!  OK enough... 

[Red Dawg]

Ice when ya gotta go you gotta go. On elk camp diet there is never anytime. Always a photo finish.

[piledup]

Getting back on topic, I've never seen anyone "scope" me but maybe without me knowing and I wear orange all the time rifle hunting with a orange cap too. These are not just orange that I'm wearing, they are blaze orange too. In 204, I know there's a lot of hunters during rifle season (especially on opening day) and I swear about half of those hunters don't wear orange at all

If I got scoped, I'd be pissed like everyone else had said too.

Maybe we should start like a poll after the the season starts to see how many of us on here got scoped? I'm pretty sure there's going to be "VENTING" posts.

[HuntingFanatic]

I just bought a yard of blaze orange fabric that I am going to attach to mine and my dads Packs! lol

[runningboard]

was in 113 last year and snuck past a guy not wearing orange while I had mine on and he never saw me. we swapped ends of the clearcut and he looked back as I sat on a skid road in full view and scopes me! I used my middle finger to let him know he was #1 and he walks off. after sitting and glassing for a while I go down the road towards my rig and get to where he was when he scoped me and I see him and his buddy on the road below me walking towards their truck straight away from me, 1 of 'em looks back and sees me in orange standing on the skid road and the @$$*#%le scopes me again! I ducked and considered shooting their truck right thru the timing cover but crouch-walk away. my friends tell me "they would have come after you if you shot their truck." I say, " not in that truck!"
I met the guy the previous year in another cut close-by and I see them at the local store getting gas and I take their plate and call it in, get told they'll call and have a talk with the guy but nothing they can do, I said "well he didn't have orange on ticket his @$$ for that."
oh yeah, this was an older guy who obviously never had to attend a hunter ed class so he never had an instructor pound it into his head that you NEVER use a scope to ID a target.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 "he never had an instructor pound it into his head that you NEVER use a scope to ID a target."


 Unfortunately that's part of the problem. The three week hunter's ed. I took when I was a kid used only iron sight guns and didn't even address scopes at all. Perhaps that has changed now, but I would be surprised if all hunter's ed. courses addressed that issue.

[runningboard]

understand your point Dman, on page 11 of the latest hunter education manual there is a safety tip, Never use a telescopic sight to identify your target! use binoculars first, and then use your riflescope. never point a firearm at another human or livestock! word for word, so hopefully most instructors are as adamant about it as the people on here who have been scoped personally.
also page 74 in current hunting regs, under Hunter's code of conduct: Fire your gun or bow only when you are absolutely sure of your target and its background. use binoculars, not your rifle scope, to indentify your target.
too bad most only read what applies to them as far as seasons go and such. I have been guilty of that one myself in the past.

[Thenewguy]

im takin a young kid from church(18) up deer hunting this season, its going to be his first time deer hunting as he just passed hunters ed, we were talkin about gear a coupla weeks ago and i was goin over what he already had and what he needed, got onto the subject of binos and he said he didnt have any i told him he needed to be getting a pair and pronto, his response was "cant i just use the scope on the rifle", my response was pretty adamant and needless to say he now has a pair of cheap bushnells but at least he'll be lookin through those instead of a rifle scope at someone

Good for you, makes you wonder how many "noobs" simply do this as no one has taught them better

[alanger]

I get scoped like 5 times a year for deer and elk. I'm covered in orange sitting down  orange pants and an orange coat someone walks oh 200 yrds away thru a clearing i am glassing around  WITH BINO"S and they pull up right on me so i moved  to show i wasnt an freckin elk wearing orange and they got on me again too i finally moved to the other side of the log pile. GET BINO"S theres lots of poeple going for the same spike but use common sense, elk dont wear orange.  i bet their gun was loaded also.
Dont people remember things from hunter safety anymore??
Don't point a gun where it's not safe.
don't point a (LOADED) gun at a person.

[wastickslinger]

I will never forget the first time I got scoped. It was also the first time I would have been afraid of my grandfather had I been on the other end of the lashing the dude got from him. Needless to say, I seriously bet that guy went and bought a pair of binos. Man grandpa was PISSED!

Another time I heard him talking to a total stranger. The guy had a scoped gun and no binos. Grampa kindly said "I see you dont believe in binos, I really hope I dont catch you looking down the barrel of your gun at us later on" Guy said he couldnt afford binos. Grandpa said sell the scope and buy some, learn to shoot open sights until you can save up for a scope. The guy didnt like his criticism.

Too many knuckleheads out there!!!!!!

[BIGINNER]

correct me if i'm wrong,  but arent you required to wear hunters orange at this time of year? quail and chukar season is open already,   i was out looking for coyotes the other day, i wore orange just to be safe,  not sure if its required yet,  but i saw a quy, looked like he was out for chukars,  no arange, i was curiouse to see if it was anyone i know, so i took out my binos to yake a look,  and i get a middle finger, (some people would rather be scoped than looked at through binos  ,   (lucky i only use open sights)