Monday, November 20, 2006

I SHOT ONE BEFORE THEY DID!

Yep that's right went to deer camp right after work Friday and boys let me in...thought they had a cook lololol......hmm...looked in the frig ...no margarrita's....plenty of beer....looked in cupboard no tequila.....but plenty cans of beans...(cowboy billy brand even)....hey there's a cooler.....no mix in here either....one and a half packages of hot dogs.....let's see as I looked around the rest of the place I saw camo clothes hanging every where...how would they like it if I hung my panties, bras, and stockings all over deer camp.....to hell with it I put on my orange gard and grab my gun and headed out........went down along one of the lanes and just crested the hill before the woods and low and behold stood 18 of the little darlings...I stood their watching for a while then slipped over into the thicket and sat just waiting.....here she comes a pretty good size doe...I raised my gun and looked into the sights can't see a damn thing forgot to take off the sight covers damn-it...got them off and raised my gun again....she just keep coming towards me....boom.....she rared up and started to run but then came down...no movement I just sat there for a while longer...still no movement......oh damn here comes they guys.....well all I got to say is the guys have been in deer camp since the night before the 15th and not a one of them can put anything on the table....but they sure as hell want to run me out of here......and here it is almost a week into the first week of deer camp and they still don't have nothin' to show for it....went back to camp and there was some comment about who ever got the first deer didn't half to cook.....so it wasn't me at the stove all weekend...or the dishes...and I walked around those camo clothes hanging everywhere not saying a word......it came to Sunday about 7pm time to leave for home.....their all out in the woods, haven't come up yet...made them a pot of chili.....how hot was it....hmmm let me see if i remember I do believe I put a few extra chili peppers in the last batch of chili when I left they might run out of beer washing it down.....

How about some deer facts:

A buck will only travel in a 50 mile radius of where he was born. Deer do establish territory.

Does are still nursing there young during the rutt even though they can make it on their own, nothing like mothers milk.

During the rutt when all the chasing is going on and the booms from the guns the young end up getting permanently seperated from they mothers, that's why you see so many young hit by cars they have no direction to safety at this time.

You can tell by the look of the liver when you gut a deer if the deer is deseased, if it has white spots or, grayish discoloring round the edges despose of the deer properly.

Deer will starve to death before leaving their domain.

Deer can live up to 11yrs in the wild.

2 deer without predation can produce a herd of up to 35 deer in just 7 years.

A deer's hearing is far better than a human.

A deer's sight can see at 310 deg.'s around him without moving his head.

A deer can pick up a sent hundred's of yards away.

Antlers start to grow on bucks in mid-April. The antlers are warm to the touch and covered in a soft velvet while growing. By September, the velvet is shed or rubbed off when the bucks rub their antlers against trees making them pointed, sharp and cold to the touch. The antlers drop off by themselves in March, usually one at a time. Small animals and squirrels will eat the antlers (after they have been shed).

Does normally give birth to twins.
Fawns are usually born in May and June. They start to lose their spots in September and are then considered to be adult deer, ready to breed fawn of their own.

Deer shed their fur twice a year. In late August they shed their reddish-brown coat and grow a heavy grey winter coat. In March and April they shed their grey winter coat and grow a reddish-brown summer coat.

The first deer arrived here around 10 million yrs ago.

Deer are able to run up to 40 miles per hour, jump 9 foot fences, and swim 13 miles per hour. Wow, that's fast!

2 Comments:

Blogger BBC said...

So are you going to send me a little back strap??? Pretty please. Hugs.

7:26 AM  
Blogger BBC said...

I'm drinking a triple chocolate coffee with a rum & brandy mix at 7:30 in the morning. He, he, he.

Happy Thanksgiving hon. Hugs.

7:34 AM  

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