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You have to accompany a kid on a youth hunt here in Michigan. Is that for sure? I know during regular firearm a kid that age (14) can be left alone on public land legally.
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Deer season is open in Michigan? Bow hunting? But then, who bow hunts deer in a un picked corn field and then lays down for a nap and doesn't wake up to the sound of a combine picking and shredding corn?
The story doesn't make sense. It's a 2 day youth hunt. Michigan's hunting version of a participation trophy for kids.
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Bucks will spend a great deal of time in standing corn. There is a tactic whereby a hunter can slip in with a bow and walk right up on them. The problem is what happens if you get lost. I never much liked the tactic, because visibility was about 10 feet at best. Once you're in, there are few directional cues. You can use a compass, a gps (nowadays), or listen for traffic on a nearby road. I much preferred to catch them going in or out, often using a small penninsula or other structure as a key. I can see where a 14 yr old got in, got turned around, and decided to take a nap before heading out. LOL Where do you come up with this fugking bullschit?
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Bucks will spend a great deal of time in standing corn. There is a tactic whereby a hunter can slip in with a bow and walk right up on them. The problem is what happens if you get lost. I never much liked the tactic, because visibility was about 10 feet at best. Once you're in, there are few directional cues. You can use a compass, a gps (nowadays), or listen for traffic on a nearby road. I much preferred to catch them going in or out, often using a small penninsula or other structure as a key. I can see where a 14 yr old got in, got turned around, and decided to take a nap before heading out. LOL Where do you come up with this fugking bullschit? Outdoor Life???? "It happened to me" picture story next to the last page maybe? I was gonna mention something. But I'm a nicer user now. I think?????
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Deer season is open in Michigan? Bow hunting? But then, who bow hunts deer in a un picked corn field and then lays down for a nap and doesn't wake up to the sound of a combine picking and shredding corn?
The story doesn't make sense. May be some sort of early youth hunt. You got it Gunner.
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A very sad deal. I do understand the being in the corn though, as there is deer in there. I have sat in it many times, never fell asleep though, but the sound of the wind in the corn is therapeutic and some kids can sleep in a microsecond.
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A very sad deal. I do understand the being in the corn though, as there is deer in there. I have sat in it many times, never fell asleep though, but the sound of the wind in the corn is therapeutic and some kids can sleep in a microsecond. Dunno if it was a factor but seems like most teenagers have earbuds/headphones nowadays. Heck, I've read of people getting hit by trains like that, and we had a kid in this town some years back run over by a car like that.
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Bucks will spend a great deal of time in standing corn. There is a tactic whereby a hunter can slip in with a bow and walk right up on them. The problem is what happens if you get lost. I never much liked the tactic, because visibility was about 10 feet at best. Once you're in, there are few directional cues. You can use a compass, a gps (nowadays), or listen for traffic on a nearby road. I much preferred to catch them going in or out, often using a small penninsula or other structure as a key. I can see where a 14 yr old got in, got turned around, and decided to take a nap before heading out. Man, if bullszchit were music.....
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Bucks will spend a great deal of time in standing corn. There is a tactic whereby a hunter can slip in with a bow and walk right up on them. The problem is what happens if you get lost. I never much liked the tactic, because visibility was about 10 feet at best. Once you're in, there are few directional cues. You can use a compass, a gps (nowadays), or listen for traffic on a nearby road. I much preferred to catch them going in or out, often using a small penninsula or other structure as a key. I can see where a 14 yr old got in, got turned around, and decided to take a nap before heading out. LOL Where do you come up with this fugking bullschit? Outdoor Life???? "It happened to me" picture story next to the last page maybe? I was gonna mention something. But I'm a nicer user now. I think????? I’ve tried walking for arrowheads in Willy’s graveyard spot while the corn is 6-7 ft tall It was nearly impossible, constant mouthfuls and eyes fulls of spider webs, sharp edged floppy leaves in your face,making little paper cut sensations on my ears, that and Garnett sets his drills at about 28” width. How in the fouck could you draw a bow, much less carry one around in that chit, THEN to be able sneak up on a deer in all that , or even to get kill shot? Spatially the alignment, the unimpeded path of your arrow, would have to be Ah fouck it Just ass shoot them with a 44 rem mag
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I’ve tried walking for arrowheads in Willy’s graveyard spot while the corn is 6-7 ft tall
It was nearly impossible, constant mouthfuls and eyes fulls of spider webs, sharp edged floppy leaves in your face,making little paper cut sensations on my ears, that and Garnett sets his drills at about 28” width.
How in the fouck could you draw a bow, much less carry one around in that chit, THEN to be able sneak up on a deer in all that , or even to get kill shot? Spatially the alignment, the unimpeded path of your arrow, would have to be
Ah fouck it
Just ass shoot them with a 44 rem mag
Don't forget your compass and/or GPS to navigate a fugking cornfield. JFC.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Bucks will spend a great deal of time in standing corn. There is a tactic whereby a hunter can slip in with a bow and walk right up on them. The problem is what happens if you get lost. I never much liked the tactic, because visibility was about 10 feet at best. Once you're in, there are few directional cues. You can use a compass, a gps (nowadays), or listen for traffic on a nearby road. I much preferred to catch them going in or out, often using a small penninsula or other structure as a key. I can see where a 14 yr old got in, got turned around, and decided to take a nap before heading out. LOL Where do you come up with this fugking bullschit? Outdoor Life???? "It happened to me" picture story next to the last page maybe? I was gonna mention something. But I'm a nicer user now. I think????? I’ve tried walking for arrowheads in Willy’s graveyard spot while the corn is 6-7 ft tall It was nearly impossible, constant mouthfuls and eyes fulls of spider webs, sharp edged floppy leaves in your face,making little paper cut sensations on my ears, that and Garnett sets his drills at about 28” width. How in the fouck could you draw a bow, much less carry one around in that chit, THEN to be able sneak up on a deer in all that , or even to get kill shot? Spatially the alignment, the unimpeded path of your arrow, would have to be Ah fouck it Just ass shoot them with a 44 rem mag While I can't speak for other areas, around here the corn right now is standing over 10'. With all the latest GPS on equipment these rows can be perfectly straight. Yes, it is a pita to get into it and walk without getting gnarly, but when one knows how to use it it is oftimes easier than walking the field edges which are planted right up to the fence and overgrown with burrdock, etc. Deer make a path through the corn, find it, sit downwind of it with a bow or gun and sometimes you have a shot. Kids do kids stuff, and I am just a 62 year old kid who likes to hunt.
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30 years ago you could bowhunt cornfields effectively but now the rows are planted much too closely together...at least in this part of the country.
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Deer season is open in Michigan? Bow hunting? But then, who bow hunts deer in a un picked corn field and then lays down for a nap and doesn't wake up to the sound of a combine picking and shredding corn?
The story doesn't make sense. May be some sort of early youth hunt. You got it Gunner. Lucky guess, sad deal all around.
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A very sad deal. I do understand the being in the corn though, as there is deer in there. I have sat in it many times, never fell asleep though, but the sound of the wind in the corn is therapeutic and some kids can sleep in a microsecond. Dunno if it was a factor but seems like most teenagers have earbuds/headphones nowadays. Heck, I've read of people getting hit by trains like that, and we had a kid in this town some years back run over by a car like that. Yep. That’s what I figured happened too.
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30 years ago you could bowhunt cornfields effectively but now the rows are planted much too closely together...at least in this part of the country. Same here, I am just across the river. I live on a farm, there is this one spot on this one field by a little swamp that always has this little open area where the corn has been decimated by coons and deer, about ten rows in from the field edge, it is a thoroughfare as the little water hole (on private property) is only 100 yards away. It is an ambush zone before the corn gets chopped or picked.
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Didn't the Wensels show how to hunt standing corn way back on the video "Bowhunting October Whitetails" ?
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Yep, seems kinda odd to be bow hunting in standing corn. Little hard to get a clean shot. The whole thing sounds very sketchy. Prayers go out to the family and the poor kid that was driving the combine.
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Didn't the Wensels show how to hunt standing corn way back on the video "Bowhunting October Whitetails" ?
Yeah that was a good vid.
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In Idaho, a kid can hunt alone at 12. If accompanied by a licensed adult, they can hunt small game at 8 and big game at 10. I got my 1st deer at 13. I was alone but Dad was maybe 200 yds away.
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another fatality in the same area:
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Boy, 11, shot and killed by stepfather during deer hunt in St. Clair County
CLAY TWP, Mich. (FOX 2) - An 11-year-old boy has died after he was shot by his stepfather while hunting deer on private property in Clay Township in St. Clair County.
The Clay Township Police Department said the shooting happened around 8 p.m. in the 6300 block of Benoit Road Sunday.
Clay Township Police said the 11-year-old was with his family in the woods, hunting for deer, when witnesses heard gunshots and saw the boy on the ground. The child had been hit by a round that was discharged by his 40-year-old stepfather.
According to police, the boy was being treated by family members when police arrived and CPR was being performed. While they were there, police said another gunshot went off.
Police said the child's mother had shot herself in the hand as she was trying to unload a gun and it mistakenly went off.
The boy was taken to McLaren Hospital Macomb where he was later pronounced dead.
His stepfather is currently in custody and the case is being reviewed by the St. Clair County Prosecutor's Office.
The boy is the second hunting-related death in eastern Michigan. On Saturday, a 14-year-old boy was killed when he apparently fell asleep in a cornfield and was run over by a harvester.
This past weekend was Michigan's Liberty Hunt, open specifically for minors and hunters with disabilities.
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