..you've been managing your hunting lease for trophy potential for the last 25 years....



..and they cancel your lease.


kill 'em all.

Stacked like cord wood, seriously.

Holy Sh#t. I don't know how to feel about that one.

I would hate to see the taxidermy bill for that day.

Why are there only spikes and fork horn bucks left around here? Son of a .......! That is some funny shiat.

Is there more of a story behind this one Stam?? Where is that?? Looks like midwest 2 me. . .

thats the worst display of outdoorsmen ever, i would be emabarrased, and ashamed to be in that picture

Cabelas decorating staff?

That story reminds me of something I was involved in. When I was growing up, our property bordered about 75 acres of reprod, that was surrounded by developments on one side, farms on 2 sides, and vast forest land on the back. It was full of deer. Several nice blacktails made their home there. We were very protective of them, and access to the area was very minimal. No one hunted it.

I had the bucks pretty well memorized and knew their habits/hangouts enough that I could find a few nice deer within hours. I used them to practice stalking, and watching animal behavior. Well, my folks decided to sell and I was there when the husband was going through the place. He started talking about how he knew there were big bucks back in there, and how he couldn't wait to cull a few.

That got me thinking, and I more or less decided that I would determine what bucks were left for him (this was completely based on selfishness, as far as I can remember - I was about 18 or 19). He is a nice guy, I shouldn't have done it to the degree I did. I started taking friends and friends of friends back there to hunt those deer. They all shot bucks. I even had a guy come out and borrow a rifle, and shoot a tremendous 4x3 within about 2 hours of his first hunt ever. He came with little opera glasses on a stick for binoculars for Chrissakes!

I can say I saw a lot of people shoot their first deer, but looking back it was a mistake, to wipe out all of those bucks. I never shot one myself, but if I ever wanted any meat I had like 12 different numbers to call.

No sh*t!!

possibly a deer farm? who would take a pic of that mass slotter any ways

Over a million Deer,get harvested in some single States alone. Why is it "bad form" to lump a few together,for a picture?

I figure it far worse form to use "slotter" as a word.

Is a bucket of KFC frightful?

Some states have rules that allow harvesting multiple deer in a single day. Alaska is one (residents can get 10, non residents 4 in certain areas).

Would you feel differently if it was 11 guys standing on a beach with legal limits of coho or pinks stacked up in front of them? Hmmm...

Deer are Vermin in some locales,just as Doves are. Pretty tough to lose sleep over Resource Management being instilled in common sense accords.

For some reason,I'd even go so far as to say the group photo will not skew relative tablefare either.

There I fixed it for you--and yes I would feel differently

2 deer per person? whats the big deal?
So what if they put them altogether for a group photo.

I have looked at that pic several times this week and am still not sure what to think.

First I thought, HOLY SH-T.

Then I thought, there are some very nice bucks in there.

Then I am thinking, why the hell dont they get those things hanging so there is no meat spoilage.

Now I am pissed because I was invited to the slaughter.

Hard horns and the garb associated,hardly hint at sweltering heat and instantaneous meat spoilage.

Always funny to me,how those that do the least,bitch the most.

Ol' Dirty Bucket they should have called ya...

Huh....

I didn't post it to start a controversy.....just an interesting photo as I was impressed that anybody, anywhere, could stack up that many that fast of that caliber.

Killing and photographing them one at a time may seem more sportsmanlike to some, but a dead deer is a dead deer whether it's in a pile or solo.

I have no details other than those in the original post.

Liked your story Red Rocket, no need to feel you did wrong.