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There I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning, drinking my coffee and watching the rain. I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and there 30 mtrs away is a couple does. Now does are open season right now and I have tags, one doe and one buck, or two bucks. I watched them pick their way along the edge of my lawn within 10 ft of the house. All along the front and across the north lawn.........I did not grab a rifle, bow or even a handgun and lay one down. I thought about it, I even asked the wife if I should, she replied with "What ever you like, dear"........and yet I still never moved towards any device with which to terminate one of the does. I just moved through the house, window to window, and watched them work their way north until they were out of sight..........I think I should make a doctor's appointment, there seems to be something seriously wrong with me...........I can say if one had antlers, it would have been different, I'd have laid them both down, for sure. But I just couldn't get myself worked up enough to shoot a doe this morning.
I'm definitely getting old............
 
You don't want to kill a doe, you want to go hunting. Its hard feel like you're hunting if its drinking out of your garden hose.;)

Had a little one sniffing my blind the other day. I was considering whether I could grab it by hand and live to tell the tale.
 
c-fbmi said:
There I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning, drinking my coffee and watching the rain. I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and there 30 mtrs away is a couple does. Now does are open season right now and I have tags, one doe and one buck, or two bucks. I watched them pick their way along the edge of my lawn within 10 ft of the house. All along the front and across the north lawn.........I did not grab a rifle, bow or even a handgun and lay one down. I thought about it, I even asked the wife if I should, she replied with "What ever you like, dear"........and yet I still never moved towards any device with which to terminate one of the does. I just moved through the house, window to window, and watched them work their way north until they were out of sight..........I think I should make a doctor's appointment, there seems to be something seriously wrong with me...........I can say if one had antlers, it would have been different, I'd have laid them both down, for sure. But I just couldn't get myself worked up enough to shoot a doe this morning.
I'm definitely getting old............
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Meh, where's the fun in it if they're delivered to your front door step like a fresh pizza?

I probably would have done the same unless I was really hungry.
 
Dogleg said:
You don't want to kill a doe, you want to go hunting. Its hard feel like you're hunting if its drinking out of your garden hose.;)

Had a little one sniffing my blind the other day. I was considering whether I could grab it by hand and live to tell the tale.[/QUOTE]

Now that does bring forth an interesting and humorous mental video, doesn't it? I considered the same thing once upon a time as a calf caribou had it's nose inside my parka hood almost touching my nose.......
It brings to mind the story of the old cowboy who ropes a deer............
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c-fbmi said:
There I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning, drinking my coffee and watching the rain. I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and there 30 mtrs away is a couple does. Now does are open season right now and I have tags, one doe and one buck, or two bucks. I watched them pick their way along the edge of my lawn within 10 ft of the house. All along the front and across the north lawn.........I did not grab a rifle, bow or even a handgun and lay one down. I thought about it, I even asked the wife if I should, she replied with "What ever you like, dear"........and yet I still never moved towards any device with which to terminate one of the does. I just moved through the house, window to window, and watched them work their way north until they were out of sight..........I think I should make a doctor's appointment, there seems to be something seriously wrong with me...........I can say if one had antlers, it would have been different, I'd have laid them both down, for sure. But I just couldn't get myself worked up enough to shoot a doe this morning.
I'm definitely getting old............
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sounds like you now have some new pets ........
 
I shot a doe the other day. It wasn't all that challenging, but I was out in the bush. If she had walked into my yard I probably would have shot her, too, because I'm all out of wild meat and I have a bunch of homegrown pork to mix in with the sausages :)
 
You have just run-a-muck of the "home animal" phenomenon... most hunters love animals... love to watch animals and observe their behaviour... when they happen to frequent your property, you dont want the pleasurable viewing to end with just another dead animal... and you intuitively know that it is just grocery shopping when you are shooting out your kitchen door. For a number of years, I had a dandy WT buck, who my son named "Barney", cross our property twice a day, every morning and evening, he would walk around the deck and down the driveway and out the gate. Whenever he showed up, it was "break time," in the last year we saw him, he was a 145 point buck, nice for this part of Ontario. On a number of occasions he walked by while I was unloading a little meat deer taken at our hunt camp 2 hours away... always seemed funny to drive all that way to hunt and then watch majestic old Barney walk up the driveway right behind the tailgate.

Even if I had been inclined to shoot Barney, my kids would have shot me... but that buck gave us countless hours viewing pleasure... I even learned a couple things about deer from watching him.
 
Hoyt..... your story reminds me of a deer that used to come eat out of my bird feeder.... big deer, very solid 8 pointer / 4x4 / 4 pointer or whatever we are supposed to be calling them these days...... he got a free pass..... he had an injured back leg with a lump near the knee..... didn't effect his mobility....... my boy named him "Lumpy"......
 
hoytcanon said:
You have just run-a-muck of the "home animal" phenomenon... most hunters love animals... love to watch animals and observe their behaviour... when they happen to frequent your property, you dont want the pleasurable viewing to end with just another dead animal... and you intuitively know that it is just grocery shopping when you are shooting out your kitchen door. For a number of years, I had a dandy WT buck, who my son named "Barney", cross our property twice a day, every morning and evening, he would walk around the deck and down the driveway and out the gate. Whenever he showed up, it was "break time," in the last year we saw him, he was a 145 point buck, nice for this part of Ontario. On a number of occasions he walked by while I was unloading a little meat deer taken at our hunt camp 2 hours away... always seemed funny to drive all that way to hunt and then watch majestic old Barney walk up the driveway right behind the tailgate.

Even if I had been inclined to shoot Barney, my kids would have shot me... but that buck gave us countless hours viewing pleasure... I even learned a couple things about deer from watching him.
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I have 9 mulies and two whitetails in the yard on a regular basis plus a fox and a weasel. I also get a flock or two of huns quite regularily. The deer come to eat the landscaping or mow the lawn. The weasel has discovered that all the round rock amd mixed tree garden surrounding the Koi pond and homemade creek with waterfall is THE perfect place to hunt mice, voles and garter snakes. The Huns seem to just enjoy getting a drink from the Koi pond/ creek and sun themselves on the round rocks on a frosty morning. The fox has a fascination it seems with the pond after the pump is shut down and it freezes over. I see him often just standing on the ice doing nothing in particular? In spring there is usually two mallard pairs hanging around and eventually the hens nest in the shrubs. All of it so far has been safe from gunfire. However the crows are not safe. Many have met their demise to my Model 12 with a 3 dram load of 7.5's and this year the twin fawn mulies I have watched grow from birth in 2015 are sprouting a pretty impressive set of antlers. Something to see near identical twins only a few feet away pushing antler tines about 12"-16" in length. Dad was here two weeks ago. He shows himself on rare occasions and has really put on beef and mass since I first saw him two years ago. With an either-### tag its tempting but I am sure if I decide to take one they wont show for rifle season anyways?!
 
My goal in my "golden years" is too hunt several months a year and shoot just enough to keep from buying much meat. You've made it. On another note the kids just got 2 kittens. Guess who they like to nap on most? No diapers, no mice, no screaming. Not a bad deal.
 
I was so distraught with my performance, or rather lack of it, this AM that I took my 450 Ruger up to the shop and fixed it.........took several others to be Bubba'd as well.......an old Husqvarna 8X57 that is going to become an 8X68 Imp and a Vanguard and a Ruger, both 270s that are going to become something else. Not sure what, anything but a 270........one will become a 234 Penguin for sure, the other one is up in the air right now.............it's not like I have any holes in my caliber line up...........
 
Well it could be worse... Was moose drawn this year and went hunting which I did see a cow and calf feeding about 350-400y out. As watching, wondering on how to get closer for a good shot and started thinking about retrieval. One side was solid bush of swamp spruce which I have a rule to stay out of as nothing goods comes out of that sh?t. Other side is almost as bad but there is some high ground and at the far end it looks like the pond runs that way. Only have the quad with so it is going to be rough retrieval but hay, it could be worse.....Iam over 35 and partner is pops at 70 and I didn't bring the argo...... so I watched them walk away with out any hard feelings
 
Why would the decision to not kill something be an issue to anyone at any time?

I don't hunt in order to kill things; I kill in order to have hunted (who actually said that?) Hunting is NOT killing stuff. Killing stuff is not necessarily hunting. I love to hunt.
 
c-fbmi said:
Dogleg said:
You don't want to kill a doe, you want to go hunting. Its hard feel like you're hunting if its drinking out of your garden hose.;)

Had a little one sniffing my blind the other day. I was considering whether I could grab it by hand and live to tell the tale.[/QUOTE]

Now that does bring forth an interesting and humorous mental video, doesn't it? I considered the same thing once upon a time as a calf caribou had it's nose inside my parka hood almost touching my nose.......
It brings to mind the story of the old cowboy who ropes a deer............
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Your getting soft there c-fbmi otherwise you woulda popped the doe and cut a tag.
That or you where still in yer sleeping attire and didnt feel like putting yer clothes on.

Oh yeah, deer roping...what could possibly go wrong there ?

Rob
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Would not get motivated to hunt while having morning coffee at home either. Would do the same, grab my coffee and watch.

I once came home from a hard weekend of hunting, no moose seen, late in the season and lo and behold a bull moose runs out of my driveway just before I pulled in.
 
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