15 Replies to “As I Was Saying”

  1. “Sean’s argument for quintupling the bag limit next year.” How many wives does a guy need?!
    just kidding…;)

  2. Count me in! So far this year I hit a deer that had to find out why the chicken crossed the road…$5000.00 damage. Then a month ago I hit a coyote that had been feeding on a deer that had tried to cross the road… another $1000.00. Last night, on the way to Wilke I came close to hitting another deer that was standing on the shoulder beginning to cross in front of me but turned back at the last moment. I am contemplating having one of those “cow catchers”, that they used to have on the front of the trains, installed on my van.
    In our area, zone 47, there were hunters that were able to get as many as 8 tags with the proliferation of depredation tags… chronic wasting disease… they are not wasting fast enough obviously!

  4. Me and my hunting partner were the only people I know who did NOT get a dear this year!!
    In our defence we didn’t get out until the last couple of days, and we could only get two days in the bush. We figured by then all the dumb ones were already in someone’s freezer.

  5. I live on the edge of Fish Creek park in Calgary. My neighbors regularly feed the deer taters and carrots in the winter. In the four years I have lived in this location I’ve seen the winter herd double.
    Last night one of my guys got to within five feet of a five point white tail buck. Not something I would do but more power to him. It did get me to thinking though. In the interests of global warming and in an effort to save a few mini-vans I’ve developed a plan.
    I’m unplugging my deepfreeze and moving it onto the lawn. I’m then going to encourage the neighbors to put their deer treats in my freezer.
    I have also whittled a nice prop stick to hold up the lid.
    This could work ……or maybe I’ve been watching too much Survivorman. But hey….Les caught a rat that way.
    Syncro
    Does anybody know where to buy a cross bow?

  6. Minuteman,
    If you can ever get tags for our area, it’s freaking crawling with the varmints. Crawling as in I saw 25(!) of them in the hay field across the road from me yesterday morning. You’ll be more than welcome to hunt on our land. My contact info is on my site, which is linked to here.

  7. Minuteman,
    Maybe you’re trying too hard. Just stand in one place for a couple of hours and pretty soon they’ll swarm you and you can have your pick! A couple of years ago my son and I were out. I had tagged out earlier in the day so we spent the rest of the day getting my son his buck. I posted him on a hill and I went down into the swampy bottom and rattled a set of antlers every ten minutes or so. After about 45 minutes a buck much bigger than the one I got earlier came in to challenge me. He came in with an attitude right for me. I had put away my rifle, expecting that my son would be the one to see and shoot the deer. He came within about 15 yards, caught my scent and took off. I waited for the shot as the buck ran right past my son. There was no shot so I worked my way back up the hill to where he was and asked him why he didn’t shoot. He said “At what?” He hadn’t even seen the buck go by! Oh well, we rattled in another later in the day and he didn’t miss that one! Happy hunting!
    Daniel

  8. I thought the “bag limit” had something to do with the number of immigrants allowed into Canada…
    oops…

  9. Too bad Kate didn’t bag the **** deer that jumped out onto the road and caused the car accident in which my minivan was totalled on 11/21! Plus various broken bones, cuts, bruises. 🙁

  10. At first I thought Sean was turning into one of them advent garde type of artists until I recognized a tyre.
    The British spelling (of tire)seems classy somehow, although the country itself is going to PC hell in a hand basket. Hard to believe they once ruled the seven seas and that the sun never set on the British Empire.

  11. Dave in Pa.: ” … minivan … ”
    Ok … I can accept in PA and SK hunting is done “differently”.

  12. “At first I thought Sean was turning into one of them advent garde type of artists until I recognized a tyre.”
    Good Lord, no. I don’t live on govt grants, for one thing. For another, I may be setting up a gallery to display my work, but the odds are good that you’ll walk into it and hear Toby Keith playing over the sound system instead of the generic Celtic crap most galleries tend to favor.

  13. If there;s that many deer in the area the crop damage payouts should reflect it.
    Lots of times when herd numbers are high there has been a great need for a predation licence to prevent vast winter die -off …but they are never issued in time ( usually a year late)….depends if you have wildlife management scientists in your MNR or PETA freaks….one dispenses herd management science the other, disasterous political wallowing that produces resource waste.

  15. Hey, I missed the pic of your buck Kate.
    Sweeeet!!
    This year I bagged a doe (150lb field dressed) in NY State that had a piece of wire fence wrapped around her chest and would not have likely survived the winter.
    My kill shots were the same as you described for your buck.
    I did not even see a part of a deer, from two days spent stand and still hunting in the Haliburton Highlands here in Onterrible.
    Congratulations; You, and Milo Hanson (Biggar Sask.)are my Saskatchewan heros.
    http://www.hunting-canada.ca/whitetail/hansonbuck.jpg

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