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JustBen

JustBen

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Today I was out in Saskatoon doing some xmas shopping when I saw one of the most disturbing things to date. There was a blaze orange clad driver in a little red toyota truck going right down the middle of downtown on 3rd ave. No tailgate in his truck, and about 3 or 4 skinned deer carcasses in the box on some poly. Its one thing to shoot deer and butcher them, but its another to drive down the street with a bunch of meat in the back of your truck for everyone to see. I wouldn't transport a side of beef just out in the open like that, and I definitely wouldn't do it with game. Not just because its a good way to get the meat all dirty, but its also crude and unsightly. I mean, how much money does a tarp cost? Its definitely cheaper than giving the anti-hunters one more bit of ammo!

Just made me mad. Figured I would share.
 
If its legal, then whats the problem? Aesthetics is just that, a personal choice. Those who are anti hunting dont become more "anti" by seeing this sort of thing.
 
Uhh....isn't the man in question a little late to the party?? I thought it was okay to wear a pumpkin suit until the end of deer season....but after that is kinda weird??:confused:

I wouldn't worry about the meat getting dirty, he's the one eating it. Just to add, when I see vehicles with deer in them, I only think of "musta had a good hunt"
 
you sound like my wifey,when i dropped a deer hind on kitchen counter to process it.........

but after it was done:eek:.......she said so when we having some? :D
 
I never got the "hide your dead ####" admonition crew. Show it off. The more of us that do, the more accepted it will be. Keep hiding it and then every time someone happens to see it, it will be construed as being "abnormal".

Kind of related but after a deer hunting trip to the south of Alberta, we all stopped into Calgary for lunch on the way back. I kept getting strange looks from people who passed me from behind. It was only when we stopped at Vietnamese restaurant on 17th that I realized that the 4 deer carcasses in the back of my truck (cap on it) had been leaking blood in a rather thick stream out of the tailgate and down the bumper.

I waited for the ERT for a couple of days but they never came -- so I guess people caught on.
 
Ty lost a quarter out of the back of the truck a few years back going to cut up meat at a buddies-he backtracked but couldn't find it. A few months later I'm at the Calgary Stampede having coffee with a chuckwagon buddy- he proceeded to tell me about this good feed of venison he had-off the quarter that had fell out of our truck lol.
 
My wife's cousin lives in the middle of Hamilton. Her husband says he laughs at his neighbor, cause every fall he comes home with one or two dead deer strapped to the roof of his minivan....

It shouldn't be something to be ashamed of.
 
I'm really surprised that nobody here shares my opinion. It's one thing to see in small town Sask, it's another to see in the city in front of Midtown Plaza. I guess I'm the only one who cares to wrap up my meat into a tarp before I haul it around in my truck. Is it wrong to show some respect and courtesy to those around you?

I just think that if we as sportsmen wish to promote and advance our hobby, we should approach it with a higher degree of integrity.
 
:sucks:


but seriously this almost tops the time I seen a lady at the store with a chicken in her cart.
 
JustBen said:
I'm really surprised that nobody here shares my opinion. It's one thing to see in small town Sask, it's another to see in the city in front of Midtown Plaza. I guess I'm the only one who cares to wrap up my meat into a tarp before I haul it around in my truck. Is it wrong to show some respect and courtesy to those around you?

I just think that if we as sportsmen wish to promote and advance our hobby, we should approach it with a higher degree of integrity.
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You mean hiding it? Ya, that's going to do us a lot of good.

The only mistake he made was continuing to wear his "pull me over to check my firearms" orange, once out of the field.
 
He shoulda strapped the head to the hood!

I just got back from a holiday in Florida. While there I saw the naked PETA people on a corner "showing off". While they weren't the supermodel crowd, there were a few worth looking at.

Either way, I yelled at em to let em know I was going home to eat some polar bear.... which 4 days later I did. Very tasty.

Anyway, I see JustBens side. And honestly, I do try to "present" my game in a manner that would perhaps make people curious about taking their own game. And I use a tarp, but mostly because I don't want my meat dirty. That being said, I am happy I'm going back to small town Saskatchewan, where it's customary to do a victory lap around town to let everyone know you got yours!!! :)
 
No offense - get bent.
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Times 2, except you're a lot more polite than I would have been. Hunters have nothing to be ashamed of, and therefore nothing to hide.


As to the coveralls after the season, its a real practical way staying a bit cleaner when you are loading 3 or 4 carcasses by yourself.


but seriously this almost tops the time I seen a lady at the store with a chicken in her cart.
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Did you avert your gaze, and shudder in horror? Will you need counselling?:eek:
 
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