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Offline HUNTER2

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Do you shoot them because you like the meat, or because you like to shoot deer? I like the meat myself and so does the wife.
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Offline Cody Gruchow

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MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT!!!!!! cant find no better anywere else

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Do you shoot them because you like the meat, or because you like to shoot deer? I like the meat myself and so does the wife.

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Offline ChrisWallace

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I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian!!

Depends on the season for me!

Bowhunting I love the intimacy of the hunt. Setting up in a buck's core area and knowing that if your off by 100 yds you might as well be off a 100 miles. Watching their patterns evolve as the snow leaves and everything starts to green up to when it starts browning and the leaves start dropping. The summer evenings glassing, the working the fields, the predator management in the winter. Watching the leaves beneath the deer than hearing that sweet double thud of a pass through, watching the blood pour and die quickly, I usually try to whack a doe right off the bat to get some new meat, usually close to gone by then and to shake the jitters out.

Rifle season is about the kill, we stack em up something fierce. This fall was our worst in 10 years, we took 13 for 6 guys, were usually high teens. This year we took 2 bucks and both of them going on the wall.


Not trying to sound like a savage kill em all guy, but we eat what we kill, we donate the hides, we waste nothing, we dont glorify the kill. We appreciate the chase the deer gave us and our way of respecting that animal is leaving nothing to waste. We mostly enjoy each others company in deer camp.

But I enjoy the hunt, I dont think veni would taste as good if you bought it from Cub foods.

But dont you kill em to eat em?
« Last Edit: December 12/25/08, 12:49:44 AM by ChrisWallace »

Offline MnDeerStalker

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going to have to say for the meat but I also love the kill or actuly my favorite part is just before when you are drawing back and the antisipation of whats to come I shot my biggest deer this year and to take him with the bow was even better the rush is what brings me back time after time but like most of us hunters we ( my family ) eat what we kill so I guess its kinda both for me!
« Last Edit: December 12/27/08, 11:23:19 PM by MnDeerStalker »

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What ChrisWallace said.   It varies a lot for me depending on the time of year and season.  Sometimes I leave my weapon in the truck and go with the camera.  Sometimes I'm out for food and will shot any doe I see.  I guess the big thing is a lot changes from the middle of September until the end of December.   :dancinred:

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Offline Faceman

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I love the whole thrill of the hunt and the kill. But I only kill for the meat. My whole family loves venison.
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My family loves venison...but I agree with faceman and love the thrill of the hunt!   :fudd:
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Offline Go Big Red!

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To annoy PETA!!!

Seriously, for the meat.  Most importantly, the chance to hunt with my Dad.
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Offline BiggA

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I think the thrill of shooting deer is unreal. But the ultimate goal is filling the freezer. I think if I said it was all about the kill I would feel kind of evil.

Offline JCAMERON

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To me - shooting a deer is deffinatley a rush. But the main thing is to put some meat in the freezer, and its not just to put any meat in the freezer; it is to put game in the freezer that I genuinley worked hard for and experienced mother nature in the process
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Offline GRIZ

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Myself for the meat. I take the 1st nice doe I see then I'm done. Not interested in a buck so to speak but if a trophy came by I'd take him for the wall and eat a bunch of hamburger.

I know plenty of others that don't care for the meat or should say the wives don't but they like to hunt anyway. Well I usually get 3-4 deer a yr this way just to put in my freezer. Some yrs. I have never even hunted just got deer from people who did and give them to me. I prefer venison over beef, prolly cause I grew up eating more of it.
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Offline Randy Kaar

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we didnt get out much this year.. never seen a deer when we did.
i too prefer vension over beef, the wife doesnt care for it.
well maybe next year! :happy1:

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Offline Moving2thecountry

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Food.  If it didn't taste good, I would stop.  I've only gotten one doe, but she's tasty. 

Offline Ryan

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I have to be honest and say I like huting for the thrill of shooting a deer.  Don't get me wrong, I do like the meat and make use of it.  If I did not enjoy the hunt so much I probably wouldn not be eating any venison.  To me there is nothing more exciting than when my heart starts going a thousand miles an hour when I see that first deer of the season.  The only thing that might top that is warming up my hands by pulling the guts out of that animal after I have harvested it.

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  I have to agree with Ryan. Although I love the meat, it is more for the hunt. Pound for pound you could buy beef or pork cheaper than you can hunt deer for the meat. Sit down and figure your time, fuel, equipment, etc. and you will have to agree. Remember I said pound for pound. I have three in the freezer and am going to try and fill 4 more tags with black powder next week in SD. I will buy zero beef this year, but pound for pound it would have been more economical. None will go to waste but getting together for the hunt, and the experience of the hunt is the real reason most of us do it.
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Offline Moving2thecountry

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Pound for pound you could buy beef or pork cheaper than you can hunt deer for the meat. Sit down and figure your time, fuel, equipment, etc. and you will have to agree.
If you include the price of the guns, the most expensive meat I eat is Pheasant, and the next most expensive is deer (assuming I get a deer next year). 

I buy beef, too, but you can't beat all natural home butchered game.