Things you see on your way back home from a hunt..

[droid1963]

I parked in the alley behind our church in downtown Calgary with 3 deer under a tarp in the bed of the truck... I can just imagine the crackhead or wino that came down the alley and thought "Hey, I wonder what's under here?"

 

[Gatehouse]

Watch out, the ethics police will come and tell us that we should always hide our activities so they will leave us alone.

 

[Republic of Alberta]

I stuffed a white tail buck in the back of a 1983 Chevette.

The only thing "wrong" with that whole episode was owning a 1983 Chevette.

 

[DFarmer]

Years ago, I recall meeting a VW beetle coming down the highway with the head of a 2 pt hanging out of the trunk. It was a good thing it was daytime as the head completely blocked the one headlight.

 

[Colin]

This thread calls for this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybU8M4mTuj4

 

[Lex]

In about 1959 or 1960 my buddy and I had a yellow 1952 or so Morris Minor convertible. We called it "The Lemon", which was very appropriate. One day in a snowy November three of us guys, for want of any choice in vehicles, went deer hunting out east of Winnipeg in the Sandilands Forest Reserve in "The Lemon.

One of us, old Lou, who had been a WWll veteran (tail gunner in Lancasters) could shoot the head off a tree-perched sharptail at about 100yds with a peepsight on a .303 Lee Enfield. I was just thinking about him yesterday, November 11th. He died a few years ago. Me and my buddy were a hell of a lot younger than Lou, who had no family and had steel plates in his skull from the war. He liked to hunt and fish with us twenty-something youngsters. In retrospect I think he was pretty lonesome and also pretty PTSD, something we didn't know much about back then.

Anyway, germaine to this thread, old Lou shot a really big 5x5 with that old .303 of his and of course we had to figure out how to get the buck back home to Winnipeg in the little bitty convertible with three pretty big guys and only four small seats.

Well, I guess you can see this coming from way off. After the buck was good and stiff we sat him up in the back seat of "The Lemon" with the convertible top down and enormous rack rampant to the air and the public view on the Trans-Canada. I was sitting beside the buck and started to notice the double-takes from passing motorists. I asked the guys in the front (old Lou was driving) if they could imagine what this looked like to passing motorists. After a long pause I could see old Lou's shoulders start to shake and then he started to guffaw out loud. We laughed all the way home and for years afterward.

I just wish we had a photo or two.

 

[coyote]

We see this in N-B al the time for the longest time it was the law to have it in full view.

 

[savagelh]

sometimes you just have to use what you have available

 

[flipincanadian]

One of my first time out hunting a friend of my dad took me. His hunting rig was a Jacked up Ford Bronco. Not wanting to get the interior any more of a mess, we threw the doe up on the hood, we each held a set of legs for the drive home. The looks on peoples faces as we drove through Tim Hortons with the hood and windshield covered in blood was something of a chuckle.

 

[Cranky Pants]

Used to go to a hunting camp by boat. One year we came back with 3 bucks strapped to the bow of the small Doral boat. Have the pics around somewhere but that was back in the 35 mm days.

 

[04rubicon]

Personally I have no problem with people seeing deer or moose on the way home from a hunt. I prefer to keep them covered, but I have been on a few hunts, this year included, where the deer were visible on the drive home. The anti hunters will never stop trying to stop us, nothing we can do about that. We do have to be mindful of the majority of people out there who are neither hunters nor anti hunting. My parents for example are not hunters but are happy that I hunt. My concern is that if people are parading their deer around in a disrespectful manner they will turn people who don't care one way or another into anti hunters. The other concern I have is that we must show respect for the animals we take. I don't think that strapping a deer to your four wheeler so it looks like its riding it or making sure the tongue is hanging over the tailgate shows the respect that an animal deserves.

 

[longbranch*]

Personally I have no problem with people seeing deer or moose on the way hoe from a hunt. I prefer to keep them covered, but I have been on a few hunts, this year included, where the deer were visible on the drive home. The anti hunters will never stop trying to stop us, nothing we can do about that. We do have to be mindful of the majority of people out there who are neither hunters nor anti hunting. My parents for example are not hunters but are happy that I hunt. My concern is that if people are parading their deer around in a disrespectful manner they will turn people who don't care one way or another into anti hunters. The other concern I have is that we must show respect for the animals we take. I don't think that strapping a deer to your four wheeler so it looks like its riding it or making sure the tongue is hanging over the tailgate shows the respect that an animal deserves.

Well said. "Outa sight, outa mind".
Geoff