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The No-Shame Thread

I would rather sleep on the floor than in a bed.
I have to put condiments on everything.
There has been days were instead of hunting I stay home with the family, drink beer and smoke meat.
If it weren’t for my wife and kid I’d move south in a heartbeat.
I spit on squirrels instead of shooting them
 
I have a tally of the number of squirrels and chimpmunks I have hit with my car this year...I don't swerve to miss them, just the opposite... I"m trying to give the ones living in my vehicle a premonition of the tasty blue-green eviction that is headed their way if they dont move out on their own accord...
 
Letemgrowitllshow said:
I have never watched lord of the rings or star wars and I never will
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Star Wars does nothing for me. I think there's a wonderful idea buried in it. The hope of a universe ruined by fear and hate born from the love he has for his wife and mother, and redeemed by the love of his children...that's a good story. But it's just very poorly realized. All over the place and too many money-hungry hands in the pot.

Now the LOTR...that's some good stuff for me. I'd ask you to just watch ole Samwise's soliloquy at the end of the Two Towers. The story of a few simple, humble, and very small friends who stop an insurmountable evil not because they're powerful or even have a high-minded sense of good and evil, but just because they want to go home to their wives and gardens and they want the same for their buddies.

And, every time I'm out scouting and crest a hill or round a river bend, I hear that music....

Yeah, I'm a nerd.
 
I have killed a buck in bow season for the past 5 years in a row...
...but still to this day, I have never killed a buck with any type of firearm. I have been hunting for 23 years.

I killed my first deer (doe) with a bow at age 14 from the ground after school one day, and it was 100% luck. I did nearly everything you could possibly do wrong. I took an ill-advised shot and started tracking 15 minutes afterwards. Luckily (for me, not her), she jumped the string, and the broadhead ended up going through her neck and cutting her jugular. The blood trail looked like a horror film murder scene. I found her 50 yards from the shot location.

I killed multiple deer (does) with my bow and a flintlock muzzleloader as a teenager before I ever killed one with a rifle in my 20's.

I love the concept and tradition of gun season, but I hate the hordes of local yokels it brings out of the woodwork.

I hate that my state legalized crossbows. Even though I now own one, and have killed 2 bucks with it, I still hate it. I used to go bowhunting and see NOBODY. Now the woods are almost as crowded as gun season. I understand the point was to expand the sport and allow more people to hunt (women, kids, seniors, etc) in archery season, but I still hate it.

Non-Hunting Confession: I have played baseball my entire life, including in high school and college. For years, guys would try to get me to play on their beer league softball teams. I always said I would never play slow pitch softball - The day I couldn't play "real" baseball anymore, I would be done for good. Well...I have been playing softball now for 5 years and I absolutely love it, haha.
 
Vtbow said:
I"m the guy that brought carbon fiber bolts into the scene..... I gained to much weight to continue to use them safely and sold them. I"m overweight.
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Me too! Had to switch to titanium. It's like eating deer sausage and beer for lunch everyday while working from home is bad for you or something.
 
On the star wars/lotr thing.

Hunting kinda scratches the itch for two different facets of who I am. On one hand, my dad's kid is a salt-of-the-earth, traditional values, oldies country, man's-man kinda guy. Straightforward and no BS. On the other, my mom's kid loves the romantic and thrives on adventure and grand stories of beauty and danger.

I'm not saying I run around the woods with elf ears or anything, but it feels awesome to wander the wilderness with my bow and quiver like a mysterious ranger or fleet-footed wood elf. Deer hunting is a grand quest.

Also, I love video games. Not for the arcade violence, but for the rich storytelling and imaginative world building some of them have. Dark Souls is a work of art, and the latest God of War game spun a wonderful story.

I'm not saying I'd be down for a little Dungeons and Dragons at the deer camp, but heck yes I am saying that because it sounds frigging awesome!
 
BackSpasm said:
I like to strap my saddle to the support pole in my basement, put on some lacy french delicates, pour myself some fresh, warm doe milk, and swing there scrolling through each of your profiles while combing my hipster mustache.
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I have always wanted to try doe milk, but can't figure out how to get to in without sucking a tittie or sticking a knife in and udder and spilling it everywhere. Also have no idea if pasteurization is really all that important and I'm risking some terrible illness or not. I've never read of or talked to someone who did it.

They say it's really high in fat content, which i imagine I'd quite like. I like cow milk and goat milk, so I can't imagine it'd be horrible.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I noticed you looked a lot meaner and leaner this year. Good for ya!
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Well I secretly dig that you noticed. Ha ha how’s that for shameless.
Sadly though while getting leaner I didn’t get much meaner. I try to work out and keep some kind of nagging injury. Speaking of I had got to where I could space my bolts 30”. Then two weeks ago I did something to my knee either dragging my deer or my buddy’s. Around lunch my knee was getting stiff. By the time it was time to climb down I couldn’t make the step down. I was really happy I wasn’t using carbon bolts during my half jump to reverse pull-up descent.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I have always wanted to try doe milk, but can't figure out how to get to in without sucking a tittie or sticking a knife in and udder and spilling it everywhere. Also have no idea if pasteurization is really all that important and I'm risking some terrible illness or not. I've never read of or talked to someone who did it.

They say it's really high in fat content, which i imagine I'd quite like. I like cow milk and goat milk, so I can't imagine it'd be horrible.
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Try a big 'ol syringe?
 
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