Congrats, Kate. Buck or doe and what area, maybe a picture forthcomming, no?

The question is, Kate:
How far was that shot?
Bragging about distance is the big thing.

You got a doe?

mmmm, deer sausage.

Now if you ran down a buck, snapped it neck, ripped it's throat and drank its blood, then I might be impressed.

/kidding

Still hellbent on pissing off PETA, huh kate. You and Sarah - quite a team.

What make & model?

Nice.

Congrats.

What gun did you use?

A nice bit of venison makes the Christmas Holiday Season complete. Enjoy.
( must try some before it's been frozen some day, I know)

I got one this morning too! Unfortunately it was with the front bumper of my car :>( It just makes me a little more determined to fill a tag this year and help reduce the population of these "rats with antlers". Mmmm deer sausage....

One shot, one kill. That is the discipline.

Without a picture, it didn't happen.

(although I'd tend to believe any lady packin' heat)

Congratulations Kate!
From the land of the giants.
http://www.kingsoutdoorworld.com/stories/hanson_story.htm

Three days of sitting and still hunting Northern Ontario and nothing yet. Our camp has done very well this year but I have yet to click off the safety.
Heading down to N.Y. State this weekend where the hunting is usually easier.
Bowhunting back in Ontario after that and then the icefishing season begins.
I ate the last of the venison Jalepeno/cheese weiners yesterday.

Happy Hunting for those of us still at it.

Congrates Kate. Nothing like a venson stew.

Robert DeNiro (The Deer Hunter) would be proud of you. Me too.

P.E.T.A

People Eating Tasty Animals :-)

For a minute I thought Kate was in a cat fight with Kady O'Mally!

p.i.t.a.: people for the intestinal treatment of animals

But...but...but you can't kill an innocent deer like that evil Sarah Palin. Women don't kill deer!

/Sarcasm off

For a minute I thought Kate was in a cat fight with Kady O'Mally!

Posted by: Eskimo at November 17, 2008 2:24 PM

------------------------------------------------

If that were the case the headline would have been:

Kate 1,BIMBO 0

Once you've got one with a flintlock, there's nothing else. Like the difference between bait fishing and flyfishing or a Cessna and an Ultralight.
It's a real rush. And the venison tastes just as good.

Bang on Kate!

... pardon the pun, couldn't help myself... and Yum!
Great read on the thread LOL

Spotted a four-point deer early Sat. morning.
But since we were at home, still in our pj's, coffer still being made, we only shot it with a camera.
;~)

I could have had a multi point buck saturday nite, at 45 mph in a buick, in the fog...
but I had just completed a brake job...
and the reflexes are still ptetty quick...

good one Kate

CanuckinMI haven't your heard?

It's:

People
Easting
Tasty
Animals

Large doe, about 30 yards, bolt action Savage 30-30, no scope. Lung shot, died quickly, little spoilage.

So, a good morning, and it's back out for another (hopefully).

Kate, you must have been taught by an old-school meat hunter. A no-frills rifle and cartridge to get the job done and a nice tender doe. Shot placement in the boiler for a quick kill, gives a good blood trail if needed, and minimum meat wasted. Well done.

Talk about empowering!

Oh and by the way, you tell people it's Bambi's mother you shot.

Great, I feed 'em, you shoot 'em. But, as mentioned earlier, a gunshot by a responsible hunter is far better than a bumper shot or worse a bumper glance where they die slowly. As it is, it is hard to understand why populations remain so huge as fragile as these animals are. Their legs are no stronger than porcelain china. Our "Gang of 9" as my husband terms them, always have one member limping around with broken or sprained limbs. Right now we have a "Gang of 15." They're hell on the bird feeders. Cracked corn for the main event, bird feed for dessert.

Let me fix up that story for you Kate:
The deer was running full tilt through the trees about 150 yards away. I trained the sights of my trusty 30-30 and followed until the deer came to a small clearing. With perfect timing, i expertly placed a shot right in the boiler room, and the deer dropped like a stone.
Sheesh, no hunt is complete without a story like that.
Blatant lying is quite acceptable, dare i say even expected.
Anyway, I wish you continued good hunting.

Happy hunting, K.

Looks like you've got yourself quite a few days' worth of free meat on your plate there... I'm envious... I actually gotta pay for mine! Mebbe I oughta get meself a shootin' iron and fetch my own meat for a change. Save a lot of bucks by wasting just a couple... And, hey, I just had a brainstorm... why not grow my own veggies? Wow! Who'd a thunk such a smart idea? Now, that's something them big city liberal folks ought to be told about... they'll crap themselves silly at the brilliance of the concept of country livin' to save money on groceries, a cool idea seeing as food's gone up in price quite a bit... and then tell 'em that your grub ain't got no carbon footprint, save for the deers' farts! :)

A pic is worth a thousand words Kate. Grin.

They always taste better when you bag them yourself. Any thoughts of renaming the site 'Large Dead Animals' for the rest of the season?

Venison pie all winter (O:}

"Once you've got one with a flintlock, there's nothing else. Like the difference between bait fishing and flyfishing or a Cessna and an Ultralight.
It's a real rush. And the venison tastes just as good."

OTOH, you could starve to death trying to hit one with a flintlock and actually bring it down. Like the difference between a good kill and having to beat it to death with the buttstock... :)

Iowavette, maybe you should quit feeding them and allow them to reach their natural range level.

The doe got off easy, when you consider it could have gotten the complete butt kicking that Matt Good and Paul Wells received.

Ah, yes. I am reminded of an outstanding deer hunting song by an east coast favourite, Evans & Dougherty, singing "The Second Week of Deer Camp". Perhaps our friend Vitruvius could share it with us; or tell me how to do same.

I'da bin impressed if'n you'd baged a liberal:-)))))

Well I evened the score today. Me, 0, Bambi, 1 still roaming. I also needed only one shot to achieve this.

Back at it tomorrow.

Our dear season ended this past weekend. I have been shut out these last two seasons. We saw a lot of dear this year but they were all in the back of other peoples pick-ups. As punishment we had to eat vegetarian this evening for supper.

Congrats Kate.
I've been skunked so far this year. Too dang warm out! But maybe on Saturday.

Good shooting Kate
My week went well - two less to run out in front of cars in Ontario and still have bow season for another month
Jim

Mmmm, yummmiiii!

"There's room for all God's creatures.
Right next to the mashed potatoes."

-- Unknown

Hey, beats havin' a sex life, right? :)

Somehow I think the word "beats" has quite a lot to do with real's sex life. ;)

Savage ?!?
Pffft! If it wasn't a Marlin I'm not interested!
If you like 30-30, THIS is what you want:

http://www.marlinfirearms.com/Firearms/centerfire/336C.asp

Of course if you really want some knockdown power, and you're man (or woman) enough, you might want to give this bad boy a try:

http://www.marlinfirearms.com/firearms/bigbore/1895G.asp

Nice shooting Kate.....Real...not so much.

Syncro

p.s. Wherever Real is taking ESL classes should be applauded...that's some improvement in mechanics even if the underlying motivation is suspect.

Where are you people hunting?

I had my doe within 30 minutes of going out, we came back and dressed her, had lunch, went to town for a couple of errands, back out and took the second within the hour - all within a mile of the house.

But this is a pretty cool place to hunt whitetails....

Oh wow. Kate can shoot fish in a barrel. I'm soooo impressed.

Got any elk around there? mmmmmmelk roast and thick, rich dark gravy. now my mouth is watering..

Got any elk around there? mmmmelk roast with thick, rich dark gravy. Beats the hell outta the safeway chicken I'm having.

Something about a woman that hunts that turns my crank.

"Oh wow. Kate can shoot fish in a barrel. I'm soooo impressed.

Posted by: manny at November 17, 2008 8:34 PM"

If she was shooting fish in a barrel,manny,you bottom feeding socialist lieberals would be the first scum gone.

Great shooting,Kate.How many you allowed in Saskabush?

manny at 8:34 PM

manny's here to give real a hand beating????

So Kate, when are you sending me those marinated deer steaks for my BBQ?

I have one strapping son, and two daughters to feed.

You will be shipping me those flash frozen yummies PDQ. God Love Ya, Lassie!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

That's decent Kate.
Way to go.

Just noticing how the 'low boys' always attack any smart woman's talent using a "sexual inadequacy" poke when they can't thing of something intelligent to say.
So this blog must be hell on 'em. heh.

:)

Aw, I think it's cute. Manny formed a sentence!

"Once you've got one with a flintlock, there's nothing else..........

OTOH, you could starve to death trying to hit one with a flintlock and actually bring it down. Like the difference between a good kill and having to beat it to death with the buttstock... :)

No dice Skip; a .45 Kentucky hits just as hard as a 30-30. The 30-30 starts out at .30" and mushrooms out to where the .45" starts. Velocity; about the same; bullet weight; the same.

Interesting. Manny hates farmers and now hunters. Just where does he get his food from? The tofu fairy?

Must just kill him to walk into a Safeway, where capitalism is practised while selling the products of those he hates.

Way to go Kate! You asked where the hunters are getting skunked...sounds like Northern Ontario for most. Our guys have not done so well...lots roaming around until 2 weeks ago.The gardeners are getting frustrated, and ask the hunters for help. I'm sure the deer have calenders.

So did "real."

Wonders really never *do* cease.  ;-)

Garth

Bolt Action Babe.

ROFL, the Tofu Fairy.
And this too, is a keeper.
:D

Manny hates farmers and now hunters.

I don't hate farmers or hunters, only phonies...such as freeloaders who fancy themselves capitalists, or shooters who pretend what they do is in any way sporting.

You murderer Kate -- women and children too! Eh...

Canada's own "Sara Palin". Please take a run at politics, You could be running the country before long.

Since they curtailed the bear hunt and a couple of wolf bounty hunters died off in the Kawartha Highlands, the deer have been getting real thick, Can pretty much bump 'em off with the bush bars in the front of the truck. Haven't set about to trying it yet, but almost did by accident on a couple of occasions.

The 308 is getting rusty.

Good for you Kate.

What's next, Kate?

Going to go hunting houseflies with a sledgehammer, or moths with a bow and arrow?

Keep us posted, will ya? ;)

When i grow up - this is what I need:

http://www.christensenarms.com/rifles.html

Click Hunter.

I think my 5 year old (who by the way is named Hunter - no hugging trees in our household) needs one of these and he can just grow into it ....

I get the impression that when Kate is in the mood for smashing insects she prefers leftard political strategists.

They're not nearly as hairy as moths and half as smart as houseflies.

Syncro

Manny, may the next venison you eat be served over your steering wheel.

Brava, Kate!

At the recent conservative convention I stole a line from Ted Nugent (heard on dennis Miller Radio) and wished the hunters in the delegation a "Happy Rut".

Looks like Kate is certainly having one...

(ps- Vitor sends his regards, kate)

Ed Teach has a good point.

My .44 Marlin, short barrel lever action will be with me until pried from my cold, dead hands.

Manny, maybe that doe was on her way to the Post Office to pick up her farm support cheque.

Interesting; the latte lapers always assume they have the moral high ground. Those of us who grew up where, if mom wanted chicken for Sunday dinner you just went out and chopped the head off one, are always villainised or worse. The up country people are always the ones who provide the food and earn the real wealth of the country, but are the but of the jokes. Take Sarah Palin for instance; and Kate.

Can I come and hunt within a mile of your house Kate? When you and your pals have filled all your tags. I got skunked down in Z24 last season and this season I've spent several days in Montrose PFRA seeing nothing until I missed my doe this morning.

Gave up and went to the range to figure whether I just screwed up that shot or screwed up my rifle. Trying again tomorrow.

Yeah, there are always people who think they're "moral" because they get their meat shrink-wrapped at Safeway.  Doncha know it's more moral to make someone else do the killin' so's you can do your eatin' without rememberin' those soulful eyes of that poor little meat animal?

Meat is Murder.  (Tasty, tasty murder...)

Garth

So what is it to these loons when animals eat other animals. Or cute squirrels raid a robins nest just to kill the chicks or bust the eggs up?
I've watched them do this, they just destroy the young not eating them, just kill and leave.

If your idea of fast food is running over a deer at 160KM ... you might be a redneck :(

Congrats Kate.

I got my first white tail buck last night. 120 yards with a 30-06, just south of Rocky Mountain House. We had deer steaks tonight. Mmmmm, tasty.

Like Manny and Real I am a latte-sipping city vegetarian. OK I don't want milk in my coffee and prefer Americanos. Unlike those morons I have no problem with people killing animals in order to eat them, even if I am too squeamish to do it myself. It's the most honest way to eat meat, so enjoy those venison steaks! Don't forget to spare a moment to honour the life that is sustaining yours.

Hey there

While you're at it, why not shoot one of your dogs through the lung, dress it, and roast it up for din-din too?

Or does that offend your...logic...?

Good partridge hunting country south of there in the gov. pasture. Had a blast doing that a few years back.

Darwin award for deer here this last weekend.

My partner here was out Saturday and had an 8 point buck in the brush. Took the shot and the brush screwed up the shot. Deer runs off.

On way back to the truck at the end of the day, decided to check the area out again and there was the same buck sitting in the same area.

He did the deer population a genetic favour.

Well done Kate!

I got a 6-pointer last week, with a Remington 870 12-ga and slug, 20 yards away. It's being cured now in the garage before heading in the freezer.

I for one won't shoot at any big game farther than 100 yards with a rifle, and 30 with a shotgun. If you want good meat you must have a quick, clean kill. The closer, the better.

As Dick Cavett recently commented, "has anyone observed that hunting animals with high-powered guns could only be defined as sport if both sides were equally armed?"
So, when does Bambi get a chance to even the score?

Although I am an animal lover who has no interest in hunting whatsoever and doesn't particularly have happy feelings about it, I will put about 3 planets distance between myself and the leftards here.

So long as you aren't hunting endangered species (and deer are anything but,) and you aren't wasting the meat, there shouldn't be any question about it. To each their own. You want to go out and kill sh*t, go ahead.

Two, any time you have wild animals in areas where they are legally hunted, you may get lucky and have an easy kill but you sure as hell aren't shooting "fish in a barrel." Animals are not as stupid as liberals. They learn. When they know an area has hunters, they become wary of people and tend to make it much more difficult to hunt them. Animals in protected parks, etc, are not the same thing.

And shooting ones dog is not the same thing as shooting your next meal. Only a retard or other liberal would make such an idiotic statement.

As for the other side, I suspect that there is more BS than actual carcasses being passed around on this post… lol. "The fish was THIS big!!"

30-30 bolt rifle? Practical!

Guys always go for the howitzer, 8mm Schnauser, 30.06 or something as if we were hunting for T-Rex.

Truewest asks: "So, when does Bambi get a chance to even the score?"

When Bambi grows opposable thumbs. ~:D

I see manny and real are trolling again. Dear lower case trolls, the hallmark of tolerance is to let other people have their fun in peace.

Of course the hallmark of the lower case lefty troll is you lot wouldn't know tolerance if it jumped up off the road and started chewing on your nose.

Note how the morels of the leftards are so big for the wild animal, a source of food for humans, yet they will encourage, for themselves or their suddenly pregnant girlfriends to 'get rid of it, fast'. Can't be bothered eh?

Speaking of peta, this thing looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen. It's also hilarious.

http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp

Warwick I suspect it's the gloating over the kill that I think most people find unpleasant, more so than the kill itself.

TJ,

Most likely true. And the gloating is usually done by those who feel the need to compensate. lol.

Countdown to abuse: 3,2,1...

TJ said : "Warwick I suspect it's the gloating over the kill that I think most people find unpleasant, more so than the kill itself."

Its called a feat of arms, TJ.

I myself have never shot a deer. But when I used to shoot, before I came home to Trudeaupia and was forbidden, I used to hunt the elusive 100 yard bullseye. At one time I was in such good practice that I could hit a quarter at 100 yards pretty reliably with iron sights. This is an achievement of mine, a feat of arms I am justly proud of.

Finding and hitting a deer properly is harder than hitting a quarter five out of five at 100 yards. Deer can move, you see.

Feats of arms earn you bragging rights.

And the gloating is usually done by those who feel the need to compensate. lol. Warwick

As aptly demonstrated by the lefttards who swoon endlessly over 0's media win on this site.
Like little ones left unsupervised - they'll play in their own shit and love it. Excusable when a toddler does it, damn sickening and dangerous when an emotionally depraved adult does it.
And there legions of them, from top down in every institution that affects our lives.

Phantom,

I shot skeet once. Not easy. I did shoot 50% out of 50 rounds. I was told that was pretty good for a first time with a gun in my hand although I was frustrated at the time.

The only other time I've had a gun in my hand I was taken to a range by a soldier and put on a range with a C7 with a scope with a little red dot in it (not a projected dot from a laser, just a lit-up dot in the scope itself.) They had both stationary and moving targets. The one was cool. They had a city projected and you had to shoot the moving people.

I tied for first in a group which had a good number of hunters. The soldiers wanted to sign me up for sniper school (there were mostly kidding but were definitely impressed and were serious about trying to get me into the reserves - I declined.)

If I'm shooting at stuff, targets or terrorists are my preferred options.

...Kate's running for Govenor?

Warwick, you make multiple posts about something you admit you have no knowledge of and then expect to not be taken to task for it?

When the knowledge lacks the digits should not tap.

AtlanticJim

The digits "lol" generally refer to something said AS A JOKE. You know what a joke is, don't you? I even went so far as to make it obvious with the "lol". Would you like a more obvious disclaimer?

My post afterwards was typed prior to reading ldd.

As for ldd, read my 10:53 post. Where Obama or leftards are included in that, you'll have to explain.

Why do I need to explain?
I got your "lol".
????
And yes that IS my IMHO style of commenting.
I'm not responsible for your feelings, you are.
Otherwise I do not 'get' what you're now going on about.
This medium is not the best at communication and posters do need to consider that. All the regular non verbal cues are also not present, the subtle movements of expression on the face, the tone of the voice, and etc.
More should realize this instead of assuming a defensive position. Some of us communicate way better verbally and maybe some are also trying to learn to be concise with our written words, have patience please.
Be surprised how the rancor goes down with straight forward questions instead of smears, jabs, attacks and thus giving leftards and media alike the ammo to shoot us all down with. Again.

Why do I need to explain?
I got your "lol".
????
And yes that IS my IMHO style of commenting.
I'm not responsible for your feelings, you are.
Otherwise I do not 'get' what you're now going on about.
This medium is not the best at communication and posters do need to consider that. All the regular non verbal cues are also not present, the subtle movements of expression on the face, the tone of the voice, and etc.
More should realize this instead of assuming a defensive position. Some of us communicate way better verbally and maybe some are also trying to learn to be concise with our written words, have patience please.
Be surprised how the rancor goes down with straight forward questions instead of smears, jabs, attacks and thus giving leftards and media alike the ammo to shoot us all down with. Again.

"Why do I need to explain?"

You don't have to do anything. But I didn't get your point. Hense the REQUEST to explain what the dig was about - if in fact it was a dig.

As per the "lol" issue, that was under the "AtlanticJim" part of my post. It was not directed at you.

Just re-read the whole thread and my take on 10:53.
Lets just say, I recognize misplaced defensiveness -IMHO and leave it at that.

I don't hunt, but if I did, my weapon of choice would be to use a leftard as a club.

Kentucky windage, Kate?

Oh how stupid of me!
The wind never blows in Sask.

Warwick: "shooting your dog is not the same as shooting your next meal"

How so? In other countries they do in fact eat dogs. How is it not the same? Does the moose feel it less than the dog? Does it deserve death more? Please explain.

Oh and Kate: people who write on their own widdle blogs "I rule" generally don't ...rule...except maybe in their own minds...

M'kay?

"On way back to the truck at the end of the day, decided to check the area out again and there was the same buck sitting in the same area."

Well, duh.

The reason it took a half hour to bag the first doe, is that it takes that long to walk there.

By the way, "real", the only person I know of who still uses the insipid "m'kay" is a slovenly neurotic Floridian known for squatting on First Nations reserves so that she can qualify for free Canadian medicare.

Only a half hour to bag the first doe?
Tough go.
Hope you enjoy hearty roasts, juicy steaks and many great meals from your efforts Kate.

O/T
Sorry Warwick for an obvious misunderstanding on my part above. Seems I'm also affected with the O effect. :( -esh!

I ate so much deer growing up, I don't like it much any more. I remember almost 50 years ago, getting up early with my dad. We went to the shed with a big knife, and he sliced some thin steaks off the hanging deer. A cast iron frying pan, and some butter, and it seemed like things were as they should be. I still remember that smell like it was yesterday.

My dad hunted for survival, it was that or steal. He'd usually go for a head shot to save on spoilage. The 22 was his favourite weapon because the shells were cheap. As I got old enough to hunt, things began to change. My dad didn't teach me how to hunt, because he wanted me to have a different life than he had. Well, he got his wish, but I almost feel cheated sometimes. I've hunted, and killed deer, but it's always felt like I'm out of my element. I feel unworthy to take part in the big hunt.

I'm glad when I see that people are keeping the tradition alive. Who knows, maybe I'll get back into it one of these years. The deer population is at least 5 times what it was 35 years ago when I started hunting. At least it is in the maritimes, where I grew up. No one down there shoots them anymore. They really are getting to be pests.

Connecting the dots:

By the way, "real", the only person I know of who still uses the insipid "m'kay" is a slovenly neurotic Floridian known for squatting on First Nations reserves so that she can qualify for free Canadian medicare.

Posted by: Kate at November 18, 2008 8:17 PM

Kathy Shaidle
#11. November 17th, 2008, at 11:32 AM.

BTW: please inform my Jewish friends who call Bernie a “Kapo” how “offensive” they’re being, m’kay?

"Does the moose feel it less than the dog? Does it deserve death more? Please explain."

Ok, pain's lower, I'll give it a try, in this country we hunt wild game; then we partake of it's bounty of nourishing food for us. In my neck of the woods the left over 'remains' are sent to those in the market, antlers, hides, hooves, etc. Actually little is 'garaged' and sometimes a lucky large dog or two, gets a large leg joint to chew on for a few days.

We do not eat captive dogs from cages, nor do I believe do we eat dogs period, equating the two is simple minded.
By the way, young moose steak is one of the finest meat I've ever tasted.
Although reindeer roast is a close second.
We also eat buffalo, wapiti, beef, pork, chicken, fish, seafood and etc, wanna go and inventory their 'feelings'?

Could be a good job for a MSM journalist though;
"Here, little shrimpy shrimpy - how do you feel about being human food?" ...
Oh dear, you're about to be cooked!
Has this ever happened to you before?"

Be sure to send in the clip with the moose's take on things, will 'ya?

Now as many of you know, I am a VietNam vet and

I have killed my share of men. Kate's deer story

reminds me of the time I had to go mano y mano

against a siberian tiger somewhere south of the

DMZ. To make a long story short, lets just say

It was a bit touch and go for awhile. Still, Kate

has killed like a champion and I for one find

the thought of kate covered in steaming blood

and offal stirring in a way most carnal.

Oh, a mother, well, let's just let all the stops and rules and integrity out because somebody decided to breed with no consideration as whether that would be in the best interest of the child.