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Random Musings From Your Resident Contrarian and Underage Curmudgeon

I forgot...non rubber, well fitting boots are awesome. Hell, I pee from my tree after years of toting a stupid bottle.
 
Ha! I learned something from this thread.....if someone quotes something and you want to go back and find the original post all you have to do is mash the little arrow thingy in the top right of the quoted post and it will take you right to it. +1 “Like” for JibberJabber. Awesome.
 
dalton916 said:
Ha! I learned something from this thread.....if someone quotes something and you want to go back and find the original post all you have to do is mash the little arrow thingy in the top right of the quoted post and it will take you right to it. +1 “Like” for JibberJabber. Awesome.
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Tradeoffs!
 
I love all of this. I’ve never been a super successful hunter and all the times I’ve seen deer it was mostly by chance and luck. @Vtbow can attest, VT hunting is hard.

I jumped into saddle hunting hard last year and guess what... I’m no more successful than I was before. I’ve learned that it’s definitely a difficult process to learn. At least I have rope rescue experience to fall back on. I’m looking hard at getting back to the ground with a leafy suit.

With that said, I have no complaints to share because guess what... I’m still a F.N.G.
 
Squirrels said:
Now I know why your post was so long. Mine would be equally as long. But my #1 is people asking the same questions and beating to death topics that have been discussed and questions that have already been answered. SEARCH FUNCTION!!!!
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I went there back in August, can't agree more, use the damn search! http://www.saddlehunter.com/community/index.php?posts/412072

Here are just a few of my peeves so I can vent and feel better too! The BOLD items are for you guys who can't or don't read!
  • Nothing in hunting is absolute, even a 7 year old B&C buck will be taken dead downwind while smoking a cigar on a rare occasion. Scientific study and statistics on deer behavior are gold standards. If you want to be a more consistently successful hunter, stick to the %s on where, how, and when you hunt. Nothing wrong with going out on other times, but you will not be consistently successful doing so. Hunting harder or longer is not always the best answer, it's OK to do other things and NOT hunt, it won't kill you (if you knew me during my early hunting career, you would know how radical that is coming from me).
  • Hunting tools are not always necessities or necessarily better than an another option (got news for some of you, but a Summit Viper still beats a saddle in some applications, and visa versa).
  • ALL STICKS SUCK!
  • WIND + TERRAIN on great/good deer land is king, everything else is just outdoor writer fodder (scrapes, rubs, tracks, calls, scents, scent eliminators...).
  • Mature bucks are a different sub-species than does and small bucks, at least here in the pressured South (no they are NOT more intelligent, but have slightly different habits, and must be hunted differently accordingly). And to pressured states, I'm sick of hearing about how Michigan and Pennsylvania are the worst, I challenge any of you to come down here from there and compare, it is more like a tie in that respect, at best, and you don't own that, but I wish you did and it wasn't like that here.
  • The bias toward bow hunting on this site and hunting shows irks me - the best hunting takes place during muzzleloader season and the first week of gun here. Bow season is generally too hot, and while you can take a big buck then (usually on a bean field or a bed, it is the exception more than the norm.
  • And hell yes, you can use an HSS rope for saddle hunting, and you should have already known that 10,000x by USING THE SEARCH feature!!!!
This past weekend, I challenged myself to leave everything I didn't truly need in the truck and the items I took had to fit in cargo pockets of my pants. No pack, no worries! ML, license, cell phone (in AIRPLANE mode), lwhc, and saddle/ropes = more fun and a freeing experience for me, you should try it sometime!
 
I couldn’t have done it without this saddle (that I’ve conveniently taken off and spread open across my dead deer next to my 3 bottles of attractant, scent killer and some mystery spray)


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What about people who voice an opinion and even after being shown that it is wrong fully defend it almost to the death. It would be better it they simply said, "Well I was mostly right". Most people on SH are right most of the time but no one is right all the time.
 
Nutterbuster said:
And I'd agree that deer hunting is not a particularly intellectual pursuit. I hate folks who complicate it or try to pitch big bucks as wise old warriors or cunning survivalist or whatever.

They're goats who will try and hump a rubber decoy...
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You’ve got to admit button bucks are much easier to kill than mature bucks.
 
I hate coming on here and reading a never ending post advising me not to take advice on the internet.
FYI my pouch contains my linesman’s, tether, ros, recliner, and hys strap. It not as big as you think and I do it that way because it works nearly perfect for me.
 
Dump pouch can be good to keep some FAK stuff on your person. I hate ppl pushin first aid but they shove it down in their pack. Good luck getting to that IFAK when your on your back 20ft below with a helium step UYA.

I also hate acronyms

I hate when ppl hang stuff from tree to mark their way in. I usually take the white trash down.

You just made a fancy “blood trail marker” that reflects light? You can buy a roll of surveyors tape for $.88 that was literally made for marking trails in any light condition. Stop Making things diy all the time

When I see a stack of rocks to mark trail, Those get the sweet chin music every time no exceptions.

If you “save” your camp spot on public land by leaving your crappy walmart tent or run down trailer a week in advanced without occupying the site within first 24 hours and every night there after. Im coming for you

I hate deer camps that hang signs with a cute deer camp name nailed into the tree. They usually get left illegally and the camps are usually filthy with fire rings full of stuff that doesnt burn and micro trash everywhere outside it. Not to mention multiple fire rings because the last guys location wasent good enough. Just dig a dam hole
And burry it. Gkys



Old men who complain at deer camp that they cant ride trails anymore and “they” are closing them all down when the trail wasent legal to begin with and you have never heard of the actually trail system in the area.

I hate OHVs especially ones with a huge lift, mud tires, and speakers being pulled by matching lifted truck. $65k Riding around bumping top 40 junk country, yeti cooler in back and yeti wife with a beer belly that looks like she would rather just be at home than riding shotgun in one of the worst financial decisions you have made together since birth of baby number 1-5

Posts about blood trail help (guilty). We are NOT there and didnt see your crappy shot on the “monster”. Back out and look next day then move on.

I cant stand to watch people drink soda pop. Its 2020. Where have you been?

My dumb posts


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EricS said:
You’ve got to admit button bucks are much easier to kill than mature bucks.
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For sure. More of them, less likely that they've had a bad experience with a hunter, and they are traveling with their maternal herd still. Not a meaningful gap in intelligence though. Maybe some natural selection going on if the button buck is genetically more disposed towards curious than suspicious.
 
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