Calling all Hunters/Gatherers

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  • forestgypsy314
    forestgypsy314 Posts: 19 Member
    Don't know where you're from but you sound like my type of buddy :) we hunt/fish and raise chickens and forage.
  • MatthewG1973
    MatthewG1973 Posts: 69 Member
    Hi I am a hunter... Please add me. I enjoy upland bird hunting with my two dogs Tucker and Oreo. I also deer hunt and small game hunt as well...
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    Yes fishing counts! Adding y'all now :)
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    I'm in North Florida btw! But we hunt up in Alabama and GA also
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    roanokejoe50 wrote: »

    You, my friend, are doing it right. And thanks for taking me to school on the eating the heart thing. Freaky, but then so is oatmeal when you think about it.

    Lol I'm glad I can help clarify. Not everybody may agree with everybody's tradition or way of life. But I want as we understand where other people's point of use come from and not just judge them off that I think that will help make this world a better place in general. So I appreciate you being open minded :smile:
  • Tweaking_Time
    Tweaking_Time Posts: 733 Member
    edited September 2016
    Tonight is the night before dove season. I love getting ready about almost as much as going hunting. The anticipation and camaraderie is awesome.

    Checklist follows:
    • Shotgun (benelli super vinci) has correct choke tubes....check
    • Shells in backpack...check.
    • Cammo all laid out...check.
    • Water bowl and about 20 bottles of water for my sons black lab....check
    • Migratory bird and hunting license printed out and in ziploc baggie...check
    • Talked with my oldest son and best hunting buddy at least 3 times today...check
    • Batteries in head-lamp...check
    • 5-gallon haul/spent shell casing bucket in truck already...check
    • Alarm set...check

    Tomorrow morning I will be watching the sun come up with my oldest son and two of his buddies and an 18-month old black lab named Lacy. This will be Lacy's first dove hunt. She has been on a few duck hunts and she has had some excellent retrieves and a few that were still puppy-like. A working dog is a beautiful sight to behold.

    For those non-hunters that read this. FYI - we will police the area before we leave picking up all shell casings and any errant trash that has not made it into our buckets. Our motto is to take your legal limit and leave nothing but footprints.

    P.S. - I don't need to get my limit of 15 - I just need one more than my son gets B) But truth be told, it will probably be who get's their limit first. Bacon wrapped, smoked, jalapeno stuffed dove poppers will be eaten this weekend
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    IM COMING OVER!!! Lol hope you get a one up on your kid :sweat_smile:
  • trvshm
    trvshm Posts: 79 Member
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    Archery hunter here. Got my 10 yr old his first Tom this last spring. Scouting, shed hunting, and hanging stands are my favorite ways to exercise! Being in the woods is my reset button. Truly a relaxing place. Thankful for the amazing animals that provide my family and I with protein.
  • mapetry
    mapetry Posts: 16 Member
    What an awesome thread. My husband and my 10 year old hunt. We always have some deer in the freezer. So many people don't understand that hunters do a service for the forest and habitats.
  • JDMac82
    JDMac82 Posts: 3,192 Member
    Season opener in T - 7 hours!
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    trvshm wrote: »

    Archery hunter here. Got my 10 yr old his first Tom this last spring. Scouting, shed hunting, and hanging stands are my favorite ways to exercise! Being in the woods is my reset button. Truly a relaxing place. Thankful for the amazing animals that provide my family and I with protein.

    Nice! Happy to see that you're passing on the tradition
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    mapetry wrote: »
    What an awesome thread. My husband and my 10 year old hunt. We always have some deer in the freezer. So many people don't understand that hunters do a service for the forest and habitats.

    Absolutely!!
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    JdMcCoy82 wrote: »
    Season opener in T - 7 hours!

    Can't wait to see what y'all get this season! Be sure to post if you can
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    Friendly reminder :wink:

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  • Tweaking_Time
    Tweaking_Time Posts: 733 Member
    25 minutes until dove season. The sun is starting to outline the sunflowers.

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  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    How'd it go?
  • JDMac82
    JDMac82 Posts: 3,192 Member
    nojuicejustjin wrote: »
    JdMcCoy82 wrote: »
    Season opener in T - 7 hours!

    Can't wait to see what y'all get this season! Be sure to post if you can

    Most definitely, if I get the pic upload thing figured out. Haha.
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    Lol! You'll get it
  • subakwa
    subakwa Posts: 347 Member
    edited September 2016
    What are your views on this? 4hzdozoqyoyk.jpeg
  • Icheatonmywife
    Icheatonmywife Posts: 132 Member
    subakwa wrote: »
    What are your views on this? 4hzdozoqyoyk.jpeg

    Rich folks our chasing something they wont eat or use, Those little foxes don't have a chance against that mob... I bet you $100 that guy on that horse does not even know how to put a saddle on a horse correctly. He has servants to do that for him.
  • Chrisjuvers
    Chrisjuvers Posts: 2,692 Member
    subakwa wrote: »
    What are your views on this? 4hzdozoqyoyk.jpeg

    My neighbors hunt red foxes off of horses with their coon dogs just like this. They even wear the redcoats. It doesn't bother me but that's all they hunt. I don't want to judge them but it's a sport as well. To each their own. I would never do it.
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    Chrisjuvers wrote: »
    subakwa wrote: »
    What are your views on this? 4hzdozoqyoyk.jpeg

    My neighbors hunt red foxes off of horses with their coon dogs just like this. They even wear the redcoats. It doesn't bother me but that's all they hunt. I don't want to judge them but it's a sport as well. To each their own. I would never do it.

    Does he eat them? Or just skin them for fur? I'm not at all ok with sport hunting
  • BackwoodsDarlin
    BackwoodsDarlin Posts: 109 Member
    Hi everyone... just started on MFP, but have been huntin' and fishin' my entire life, since I was in my momma's womb LOL My dad used to be a taxidermist so it's just in my and remained in my blood. Rarely miss any local gun show. LOL and my favorite color is camo, I know, sad right. Heck, even my house is decorated in huntin' and fishin' LOL. The inside of my 4 wheel drive truck is camo and a "girls hunt too" sticker resides on my back window. LOL Fixed my dad squirrel for father's day LOL Have always processed my own meat (dad used to be a meat cutter too) so dressing out and filleting is definitely not new to me.... Oh my, the list just goes on and on....

    Heck, raised everything from hedgehogs to Ostriches, Boer Goats, to Quail, dove, rabbits, fallow deer, etc... even had a bobcat when I was a little girl.

    Going dove huntin' this Monday.. can't wait!

    Nice to meet everyone!
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    Welcome! You definitely fit right in. Share pictures on Monday of anything you get :smiley:
  • beautifulchaos135
    beautifulchaos135 Posts: 37 Member
    edited September 2016
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    For everyone that says "poor animals," do your research on how that beef, chicken and turkey you buy from the grocery store is housed and then slaughtered, and compare that to a deer living freely in the woods and giving its life to feed you, dying with one single arrow. Never knowing what happened when it dies. It's more humane to hunt your own food, if it's done right.
  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
    Just got back from the range. I'll be shooting the muzzle loader this year.
  • BackwoodsDarlin
    BackwoodsDarlin Posts: 109 Member
    nojuicejustjin wrote: »
    Welcome! You definitely fit right in. Share pictures on Monday of anything you get :smiley:

    Thank you... seems like a great little group here B) and I will depending on how it goes LOL
  • nojuicejustjin
    nojuicejustjin Posts: 112 Member
    BackwoodsDarlin wrote: »
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    Thank you... seems like a great little group here B) and I will depending on how it goes LOL

    Lol hopefully great. I'll be heading into the Everglades Monday. Let's see what comes back with me
  • subakwa
    subakwa Posts: 347 Member
    tak13517 wrote: »
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    For everyone that says "poor animals," do your research on how that beef, chicken and turkey you buy from the grocery store is housed and then slaughtered, and compare that to a deer living freely in the woods and giving its life to feed you, dying with one single arrow. Never knowing what happened when it dies. It's more humane to hunt your own food, if it's done right.

    Except that unless you only eat meat you hunted yourself, and avoid all dairy, gelatin and leather for a start, then you are equally as responsible for the factory farming as other meat-eaters.

    How about being veggie if it is all done for caring for animals and not just for fun? I hear a great deal of enjoyment language in these posts, and I know that, for me, that enjoyment of ending a life is part of the reason I am not a fan of hunting. It isn't a necessity, it is a hobby that involves killing:

  • beautifulchaos135
    beautifulchaos135 Posts: 37 Member
    subakwa wrote: »
    tak13517 wrote: »
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    For everyone that says "poor animals," do your research on how that beef, chicken and turkey you buy from the grocery store is housed and then slaughtered, and compare that to a deer living freely in the woods and giving its life to feed you, dying with one single arrow. Never knowing what happened when it dies. It's more humane to hunt your own food, if it's done right.

    Except that unless you only eat meat you hunted yourself, and avoid all dairy, gelatin and leather for a start, then you are equally as responsible for the factory farming as other meat-eaters.

    How about being veggie if it is all done for caring for animals and not just for fun? I hear a great deal of enjoyment language in these posts, and I know that, for me, that enjoyment of ending a life is part of the reason I am not a fan of hunting. It isn't a necessity, it is a hobby that involves killing:
    I don't eat anything animal related from a store. If that answers your question.

    Second, I don't get enjoyment from killing an animal. I get enjoyment from waking my husband and daughter up at 3AM, to walk into the woods together, climb into a tree stand, look at and enjoy Gods Country. To have a moments peace from life. If a deer comes by, then I thank God for providing for my family that year. I thank the deer for giving his or her life. Hunting is a necessity for some. It's the only way they can survive Go read Genesis 27:3.

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