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Post by swampdog on Sept 2, 2023 11:48:55 GMT -5
Never cared for showing off my kills. Cared about turning it into dinner or freezing for later. Never cared for trophies or awards and still don’t to this day. A game mount is more a room decoration and something that triggers great memories.
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Post by micciman on Sept 7, 2023 19:29:12 GMT -5
Case by case basis for me, Meat. That deer may have been alive all along and being bumped as you searched for it. Of course if I suspect it has been spoiling away in the heat for a few hours, I'm giving up on it. If anything I kill doesn't pass the sniff and visual tests, I leave it. That goes for everything, even a neck shot doe that drops in its tracks. Emaciated... leave it. Smells like dog shit without it being gut shot... leave it. Smells like dog shit when I open it up... discard it. Hell, I don't even cut off the rack most times from any deer I kill anymore. I do have a few 8 points scattered around the yard for the dogs to play with though. Racks are for googans to brag about... just not my thing. I'd rather open my freezer if I wanted to brag to someone.
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Post by micciman on Sept 7, 2023 19:34:02 GMT -5
Sounds like you let a lot of deer go to waist. Learn to not let them get away. Doe drops in her tracks is bad?? C'mon man.
Brag on your meat in the freezer and let those that like antlers brag on them.
Don't recognize your screen name from FS but see you have "senior" status on a short lived forum. You must like to talk/type.
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Post by One Man Gang on Sept 8, 2023 5:21:31 GMT -5
Sounds like you let a lot of deer go to waist. Learn to not let them get away. Doe drops in her tracks is bad?? C'mon man. Brag on your meat in the freezer and let those that like antlers brag on them. Don't recognize your screen name from FS but see you have "senior" status on a short lived forum. You must like to talk/type. Don't be a douche. A doe that drops in her tracks and she appears to be sick or on bad health, you eat her. I won't. Don't be an asshole who assumes to know everything, because trust me you know nothing about me. I was on the forum before and your lack of ability to put two and two together makes you assume too much and flap your lips. I have always respected your input in deer hunting, even though you are a among the braggards when you do kill one, but you're way off base this time. Now you're just another whining horn hunter with no experience hunting the glades,so go ahead and spout off that which you know nothing about.
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Post by swampdog on Sept 8, 2023 8:37:59 GMT -5
Over the years I’ve seen several deer that were shot and left because they were in very poor condition. Today we try to alert a biologist if we observe a sickly deer. I’ve also seen rabbits, squirrels and a turkey that got left because they were clearly sick. Heck I’ve taken meat back to the store that didn’t pass the sniff test.
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Post by meateater on Sept 8, 2023 8:54:15 GMT -5
i was skinning a hog at kicco few years ago that had a softball size lump on its back ham near the top, when i pressed knife against the lump maggots and puss oozed out , i just cut off that ham and kept the rest. just kidding left everything right there. only had 1 deer in over 40 years that i left in the field it was a skinny doe that had puss in its eyes, 2 hooves rotting , 1000 ticks and really stunk bad . felt bad about it but that thing was gross.
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Post by micciman on Sept 20, 2023 19:30:39 GMT -5
I won't stoop to your level fella with all of the big stupid talk. Just basing my opinion on what you posted.
Have a great season and hope you don't lose many or waist any.
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Post by micciman on Sept 20, 2023 19:33:40 GMT -5
One last thing, you must have a diseased population in the "glades" with all of the rotten/sick deer you mention. In 40 years of hunting I have never killed one that was bad unless I didn't find it within time before spoiling and that is very few.
Again good luck
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Post by One Man Gang on Sept 21, 2023 8:46:01 GMT -5
I've only left one deer lay that looked sick that I have killed, Mr. Assumptions, and that was in SC. I won't mention the forthcoming CWD herd up by your area, but I don't think I would knowingly eat one that I suspected having that disease either.
I trust MY meat inspections more than the USDA.
Your ignorance is glaring, but good luck to you as well this season. Don't corn 'em too heavy.
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Post by micciman on Sept 26, 2023 15:59:20 GMT -5
What was your screen name on FS?
Haven't done too much bragging at all really, haven't killed a deer by choice in 3-4 years and didn't brag on that one.
CWD heard and 3+ hrs from me?? OK. You must know of more that the one deer that was confirmed. If not, I'd say you are assuming. We all know where that gets us.
I may not be the sharpest person but far from ignorant. Your mouth proves you to be pretty smart though.
By the way, I've got several generations of family from the "glades". Immokalee to be exact.
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Post by anumber1 on Sept 26, 2023 20:12:27 GMT -5
Oneof our group killed a sickly 8pt in front of the dogs several years back. Dogs caught it, prolly didn't weigh 50lbs, and looked really bad. No visable injuries, landowner has been in state program for years so jawbone and kidneys were sent in along with weight.
Never heard anything back about serious disease, so..
No one in our group wanted the meat.
Western citrus county
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Post by bullfrog on Sept 26, 2023 23:04:53 GMT -5
I’ve only ever left boar hogs I didn’t feel like putting forth the effort in cleaning in case they had the taint. I never shot a deer that seemed unhealthy on the ground.
I did regularly see a buck one season that had a bunch of stab wounds from fighting. He had lumps all over his body and limped bad. Nice buck, but one point under club rules. I watched him heal has he visited a feeder every evening and filled up on corn. He was gnarly enough that had he been a club-legal buck, I might have shot him for the antlers and left the rest. But I was a lot younger then and hunting for pleasure. Now I mostly hunt for meat, and any enjoyment I get is secondary.
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Post by cyclist on Sept 27, 2023 11:25:39 GMT -5
I guess the panhandle has to deal with chronic wasting in deer now. Probably the rest of the state in the future. Keep and eye out. myfwc.com/research/wildlife/health/white-tail-deer/cwd/CWD Detected in Florida The FWC has confirmed that a road-killed 4.5-year-old female white-tailed deer in Holmes County sampled during routine surveillance activities has tested positive for CWD. Learn more
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Post by james14 on Oct 5, 2023 20:59:18 GMT -5
It takes much longer than most assume for one to go bad.
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