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What do YOY do for enjoyment? Doe it include any challenges?
OP stated that he was a Marine. One of their mottos is supposed to be something like, "you have to test yourself daily, otherwise it is a wasted day". Maybe the OP got all challenged out during his service.
OP stated that he was a Marine. One of their mottos is supposed to be something like, "you have to test yourself daily, otherwise it is a wasted day". Maybe the OP got all challenged out during his service.
Nice pun with "doe" - intended or not
I have never heard the motto you described. The Marine Corps motto is Semper Fidelis. Do you have any more lame personal attacks to post.
OP stated that he was a Marine. One of their mottos is supposed to be something like, "you have to test yourself daily, otherwise it is a wasted day". Maybe the OP got all challenged out during his service.
Nice pun with "doe" - intended or not
I served 22 years, and never heard that. That one you posted sounds like a motto for the Air Force, but I think it starts out "You have to play with yourself daily..." or something like that
I served 22 years, and never heard that. That one you posted sounds like a motto for the Air Force, but I think it starts out "You have to play with yourself daily..." or something like that
For the record, I go watch my deer herd, and kill all the hogs, coyotes & bobcats I see. I do take at least one deer a year.
It better be a big `ol doe, a very special buck, or a crippled deer for me to take him/her. I do fill the freezer every winter and it gets us all the way thru the year on meat.
I strictly bowhunt. No smokepoles for me.
It is my release from the rat race of the city and life in general. I think about all kinds of stuff before showtime.
I took a drunk deer. I thought I was putting down a wounded deer some other hunter shot. That deer was sick looking and waggin around like a drunk.... Upon a wee exam it was stuffed full of rotting apples LOL
Best eatin deer I ever had. It was so drunk it didn't know it's brain got shut off. 0 panic, no adrenaline rush to taint meat. I was just unhappy since it was early on in the season and it ruined my time to hunt.
I could have clubbed it instead.
I use flinters... bad collar bone isn't legal bow string friendly. On really bad days I might bring my old winnie 30-30.
I also get a lot more than meat.... I tan hides with the deer brain, I remove and dry the sinew from the back strap and legs to use for sewing. I use the natural bone called ulna as a sewing awe, which it just IS. I use the toe bones for cherokee dice a gambling game where you need counters. I use the hooves to make rattle musical instruments, and if you boil the hoof you can press it flat between wood in a vise and make a knife sheath liner using raw hide as a main sheath or case.
I use antler to make handles, grips, toggle buttons, and flint knapping tools. I use the skulls painted for things you probably know. I could go on and list a lot more things, but it is good enough to know that for me a deer is just a walking tool kit and food on 4 legs.
All the super man talking here would probably end pretty quick just gutting out a deer.
And doing that i one make 1 cut. When skinning I make 4 more cuts, unless the head will be face mounted which gets into a caper knife and you get fussy cutting little bits here and there. You probably know that too, but i get the idea in this thread there might be 6 guys who hunt.
The bad part for me is NH only allows one deer by gun, no matter what kind of gun it is. So if i use a black powder gun I am as all done as if I used a more modern gun.
It take 3 deer to make a females dress, and more to dress a man... So if i want a frock coat I am forced to buy smoked brain tan hides.... That's a tad steep in coin.
I would rather wear brain tan than the best velvet suit.
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