Hortontoter
Senior Member
I feel for you, Chuck. My dad and yours sound a lot a like. My dad always tells me "You have to many rules". My dad is a good hearted guy and when someone says they could use some venison he is gungho to shoot one for them. I'm good hearted too, but I feel if you want some venison, get off the couch, knock on doors, burn some gasoline, buy a tag, sit in the cold, wind and rain and go shoot one yourself.
If you come to hunt my place you hunt by my rules, plain and simple. I do allow one doe for my stepsons freezer each year. Sometimes he shoots it and sometimes I shoot one and give it to him. I only own ten acres and think a bit like your dad in one respect. One of the neighbors will probably kill the doe anyways.
Whether I kill a buck or not has no bearing on the measure of my success. Some of us do hunt hard most of the season and don't kill a deer. This doesn't mean we are doing things wrong or don't know how to hunt. Some of us set goals higher than others. I don't need to strap a 50 pound fawn across the hood of my Jeep and parade around town to stroke my ego.
If you come to hunt my place you hunt by my rules, plain and simple. I do allow one doe for my stepsons freezer each year. Sometimes he shoots it and sometimes I shoot one and give it to him. I only own ten acres and think a bit like your dad in one respect. One of the neighbors will probably kill the doe anyways.
Whether I kill a buck or not has no bearing on the measure of my success. Some of us do hunt hard most of the season and don't kill a deer. This doesn't mean we are doing things wrong or don't know how to hunt. Some of us set goals higher than others. I don't need to strap a 50 pound fawn across the hood of my Jeep and parade around town to stroke my ego.
