Now that Hunting Season is over, Just wanted a hunting recap!
- Thread starter sirhrmechanic
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Point of order good sir......Hunting season is NEVER over........ Carry on....
I always get the one brother Darryl confused with the other brother Darryl , have to remember one has blonde hair and the other dark- but I can’t recall which is which
Darryl is the one wearing the Johnson Wool Mills shirt that hasn't been washed. Ever.
Hilarious vid. Hard to believe that anybody could hunt before the advent of full coverage camo. Deer must have been dumber then. lol
One of my hunting mentors (Sam) and I stood in red Johnson wool mills jackets and green Johnson pants... in the middle of a herd of 20 doe one time. Just standing there. Does as close as 20 feet away. We just stood still and didn't move. Hoping for a buck. No bucks. Does wandered off. Sam was an ice cube around deer. I was just following his lead. Didn't move. Amazing moment.
Sam was the best sniper instructor in the history of sniper instructors. And didn't even know it. He died this year. I could not bring myself to go to his funeral because I hate funerals. Visited his grave after...
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Those that purport to know believe that- before the invention of missile weapons, primitive humans could just about walk up and touch some “prey animals” like deer.
Dodo birds were hunted to extinction, not so much because they were “dumb,” but because they evolved in an environment with no predators. They lost all fear of predation and as a result were easy picking for the humans a domestic animals (dogs and cats) they brought with them.
Humans evolved as “persistence hunters.” Our adaptations to long distance running (ie, ability to sweat) allowed us to literally run prey animals to death. Native Americans were documented to do just that with wild turkeys. They just ran them until the birds couldn’t run anymore and then clubbed them.
In Texas, rifle hunting season on public land is from the first Saturday in November to the first Sunday in January. Archery season starts before that, however. And yeah, in Texas, you could be hunting deer in just a shirt and pants. They still move down here. And not always at the crack of dawn, either.
