Slob hunter rant

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OK, seasons have been open here in SK for 2 months. Not a lot of hunters around, but...
some a**holes drove thru standing crop, got stuck, 2nd truck came and pulled them out. A real mess of ruts, similar to the Corb Lund song.

smallish 3x3 whitetail dead in the yard, appears to have been shot in the guts with an arrow. You can see for 17 miles here, shouldn't have been hard to find this guy

Nice 5x5 whitetail, maybe a 170 score, left hind leg flopping. Prob. a 50 cal hole in the leg bone. Poorprick could't get out of a fenced 1/4, yet whoever shot him could't find it.

Small buck, forkhorn, dead in the field, 100 yd. from road, 2 bullet holes, 1 in the hip, other in the rear of the rib cage. Boot tracks all around this one. Maybe not as good a buck after the shooting ended, so left for the coyotes. School bus driver called me about this one. Asked if I could remove it from my field, bothering students on the bus.

Am I getting old and crusty or what's up. This kind of crap goes on steady, lazy slobs are getting noticed, guys are posting no hunting so at least the CO's can check out vehicles found on private land. We are all getting painted with the same brush guys. Some self policing is in order before the public perception of hunters gets even worse. Mark
 
Never saw anything like that out here but I had kids with me opening week. Had them picking garbage bags of beer, pop cans and Timmie cups, bear bait buckets, KFC buckets etc all over the forest area as well as Sh*t piles and toilet paper right along the trails.
Makes me angry
 
We went up to check our tree stands, found somebody had been using them, not that big of a deal but it was what we found littered on the ground and in the stand....beer
bottles, empty 30-06 cases and ..get this,....condom wrappers ..WTF
 
It's not just in the prairies or Ontario either guys. :mad:

I went on a daytime reconnoiter into a new region the other day. The shear amount of shot-up road signs & logging equipment, and empty beer cans leaves no doubt in my mind why logging companies want to gate the access roads into their forest license areas. We also came across two dead Angus calves in an open range area. I guess if you squint your eyes just right they may have looked like black-bears. :rolleyes:
 
All that stuff happens over hear in this corner of the province. A couple years ago I found 2 deer dead, you could see were they were shot by the blood trail and they only wandered off maybe 100 yards. The sad thing is one of them was shot in a wide open field and they didnt get it. Makes me think they thought it was a buck and shot it, then reliazed after that it was a doe so they left it there.
 
that s**t is never ending and the closer you are to a city the worse it is.
When I lived only 15 miles from a city...
Had a pet doe,raised from a fawn gut shot 20ft from a no shooting sign 60yds from my house.
Found a doe shot with a small caliber rifle in my front yard in a shotgun/archery only zone.
caught a dik with a muzzle loader walking out of my bush(right beside a no trespassing sign)that he had been denied access to 2 days earlier...it didn't end pretty and I guarantee he never came back!
those are just a few of the highlights...
the least of which was the K-Fry garbage all over the country side 10 minutes after the shotgun season opened...
That s**t must make good cover scent for the vehicles those road warriors cruise up and down the back roads in...
Those are the fv<kin @55holes that give all hunters a bad name!
 
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Yup, proximity to a city=stupid sh#t going on.
Last year I listened to a guy fire about 15 rounds, fairly rapid, so I assume he missed the first shot and then just lay into the bush with multiple magazines. If I'd have been closer I would have had a word (or a foot) with him.

A few years back I was walking down one of my usual trails and came across 2 large body deer. Heads gone, everything else left. That p!ssed me right off. Should be illegal if it's not already. Certainly deserves a hard buttstroking.:mad:

And then there's the roadhunters.......:ar15:
 
lister said:
A few years back I was walking down one of my usual trails and came across 2 large body deer. Heads gone, everything else left. That p!ssed me right off. Should be illegal if it's not already.
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Definitely illegal in ON not sure about other provinces though but i'd be surprised if it was legal anywhere. It is a criminal offence to "waste" the meat of ANY game animal...

The only exception being if that animal is unfit for consumption as was the bull moose my friend shot this year. They knew it wasn't right when they opened him up, but called the MNR to have it inspected and were told NOT to eat it.
 
wayne37 said:
We went up to check our tree stands, found somebody had been using them, not that big of a deal but it was what we found littered on the ground and in the stand....beer
bottles, empty 30-06 cases and ..get this,....condom wrappers ..WTF
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Hmmm....maybe a couple of mo's found your stand and decided to Christen it? :eek: :ar15:

Yeah, that sucks when you find #### like that. WTF are people thinking?? Makes you want to bang a few heads together..
 
Had to stop reading after the first page. I was taught to only shoot what I needed and to be darn sure of what I was shooting at. Always respect the land owner, as it is his right to allow you on his land. I am always amazed at how disrespectful people can be when they know there is no one watching. bunch of A$$ hats. Give good people/hunters bad names as we get put in the same group. I could go on for awhile but I will quit while my blood pressure is still o.k.
 
in regards to the condom wrapper



maybe it started raining, and they didnt want water in the barrel? lol



as for wasted meat... Ive seen seagulls and comerants, and even some ducks thrown into a pile by duckhunters that just had to fire off some shots

and those coyote hunters who leave carcasses laying in the middle of a feild..... there are better places for it
 
Just keep in mind, the "a-hole hillbilly hunters" seem to only exist within easy driving distance of large cities from my experience.

Not that I'm sure there aren't similar examples in rural areas, it's like everything else. A small percentage of the population are dicks, and the higher the population, the more of a sausage fest it becomes.
 
The problem doesn't just lie with hunters, it seems like people all over have a general lack of respect for the land itself. These selfish people are only living in the moment, with no regard for property, people or animals.

You see this same lack of respect at campgrounds also.
 
I had to post our land as the road warriors would even drive through our yard to get down into the creek valley behind our place then drive around the field on their way out.. They leave all their garbage for me to pick up.:mad: However, when I take my daily walk down the road to get the mail I usually come home with a couple of dollars worth of cans that I add to my gun fund.:) Hey! Every little bit helps.
 
Last year I found a nice mule deer buck (scored just over 165") that someone had shot and then covered up with logs. I assume they were hoping to get something bigger and if not then come back for this one. I promptly phoned the DNR and took the officer to the spot. He was unable to find any evidence so no charges were laid. Stuff like this makes me sick. What a waste of a beautiful animal.
 
Brutal! Morally/ethical distastful and not what the hunting community needs. Sorry you are running into all that BS that would take some of the sweetness out of the hunting season.
 
You know, sometimes a mirror shines a useful light on a problem. As an older, very infrequent hunter, I real these kind of threads, and the "ethics" threads, and all the yarns about hunting in many popular publications. Over the past 50 years, the emphasis has changed from hunting, to bragging. In two or three of the above posts, the writer felt the need to describe a wasted carcass by its B&C score, as if a somehow we would all be more offended by the suggeston someone wasted a bragging rack than just a simple forkhorn, or doe.

Homegrown hunting rags focus on solo tactics, so no one gets to share in your trophy experience. Folks get secretive and territorial about where they may have seen a large antlered deer. We even have regular columnists advising on how to become and maintain excellent physical fitness, not to better enjoy a healthy life, but to be able to go beyond your neighbor into the back country, or higher on the mountain where there is less 'competition."

The male of the human species has evolved into the fraternal creature we are essentially to be successful in the communal gathering of animal protein for the communal pot. Think about it. A couple of guys get into each other's faces, and exchange a couple of bumps and pushes, maybe a swing or two, get broken up, and laugh and have a beer. Then they both push the third guy's truck out of the mud and go hunting. Two women get near punches, and thirty years later they can't stand the sight of the other.

The hunt is supposed to be a social event. Old guys teach young guys. Young guys learn, become successful, get old and pass on the skills to the young guys. By young, I mean early teens. Yet I read guys here, and on many hunting forums, that they leave the 12 yo at home, and wonder why the 17 yo didn't come home. By old, I mean mid -30's. (You know, when you should have your own 12 yo.)

Make the hunt about fatherhood. Teach the kid to hunt. Make a camp. Teach your buddy's kid to stalk, break wind, make a fire, drink beer, clean a rifle, gut a deer. Teach your own kid the same. And, pick up your own litter, qualify a hunt successful because you got outside, had a weapon, were in game country, maybe even saw tracks or hair, had friends and loved ones with you, and conducted yourself with dignity and honor. Hey, if in the process you kill and recover something good to eat, super. Just don't measure it.
 
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