Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game First antelope hunt imminent.... advice?

Ol' Piss Head it shall forevermore be. I don't think it's a dink though. I do believe it's downright respectable.

I'd shoot that public-land Colorado bull in a hot second, CH. As long as my lens cap wasn't broke, lol. Then I'd miss three times first.

Coyote Hunter,

You should thank sweet Lord Jesus in your bedtime prayers that you didn't jam a 280 shell into your 338 during a charge by one of those killer antelope. That might have been the end of it for you.

PS I highly recommend you get a will drafted before you head out into the sagebrush again. You never know when a set of prongs might catch up with you.

Don't be a dick, they allocate cow tags in some units to reduce the numbers.

If you want to feed homeless people give them money out of your pay check.
If a person wants to give game meat to a needy family fine, that is good thing.
Two different things.

If you want to help homeless people, it's none of my business.

My point is killing game animals to feed homeless drug addicts and alcoholics makes no sense to me.
If you want to help homeless people donate money to the rescue mission etc....

I was raised with the rule you kill it you eat it. Now that doesn't mean someone who dislikes game meat shouldn't hunt, but at least find a young family struggling to make ends meet and give them the meat.

To kill animals to feed druggies and alcoholics seems a waste of a precious animal?

Soup kitchens etc.... can fix them meals more appropriate to their circumstances.

The kill it and eat it rule does not apply to varmints obviously, unless you are starving or want to donate the meat to the homeless?

Does that make me a dick?

Good goat, Jeff. Congratulations.

Then don't do it.

And theyre not all drug addicts and alcoholics. Many are mentally ill.

Mr. Fubar likes to get his nose up in everyone's bidness.

I just killed a possum. Ears are still ringing, 16" .223 is pretty damn sharp. Yowsa.

I think rosco should name it.

I think irfubar should predict it's size, how I killed it, how much I respect it, and how that all reflects on my degenerate personality. .

Then he should eat it.

Mr. Beans should do a Euro mount.

Deflave should fück it. Save a sheep!

Smokepole should smoke it.

Sammo should not smoke it

Everyone should judge it.

Then we'll argue about it

Then we'll argue about arguing

Sound good?

Story and pics tomorrow.

Are you saying that it would be better to give homeless people (i.e. homeless drug addicts and alcoholics) money rather than donate meat for a meal?

Not too sure I share that same train of thought.

Actually, they have rather striking skulls, unlike anything else in North America. But why shoot a 'possum?

agreed.
Donating one's meat is a personal, spiritual and patriotic decision.
I don't have extra cash, but I got a lot of meat.
My meat doesn't discriminate. Addict, alcy or batshít crazy.......you can use my meat.

He raises a good point actually. At the bare minimum it's debatable. And it's a public forum, whether I agree with him or not. It was posted here so it's fair game. And some people deserve not only a nose in their business, but a foot in their ass.


One other point for irfubar, when non-hunters see hunters donating meat to feed the homeless it's a good thing, the kind of thing that can change people's attitudes for the better about hunters and hunting.

Agreed. I give away close to 20 whitetail does every year to hungry folks. Win/win for everybody.

No, I clarified my position, to be clear give the meat to needy family's, give money to the mission etc..... they can feed the homeless.
Giving cash to homeless is foolish they will buy more drugs booze etc.....

By some of the responses here it appears in different regions an over population of game animals darn near puts them in the varmint category?

In my neighborhood we have fed most of our ungulates to the wolves. Deer and elk have become somewhat scarce.

Only that it be commercially processed. Over the years they have received a lot of meat donations from us after the family freezers were full.

Do you pay for the processing?
If not who pays?

If my neighborhood was like that I'd feel the same.