Deer on DISPLAY!

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spotit1st

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I am disturbed of how many hunters this year in Utah are displaying there Deer. I am sure that they thinks its somewhat cool or an act of manhood to show off the Heads of these animals but lets think about all the people that get offended year after year.

Their is no excuse in this world for this type of ignorance. I get tired of listening to people who complain about this subject, and alot of them are hunters, now the anti-hunters just love when we do this, its more ammo for them!

Lets all try to at least cover-up the animals so that people are left to wonder.

I am happy to say my wife shot a decent buck this year and this was the most important thing she was concerned about. Her and my son took Hunter Safety 2 years ago and she remembered this subject and how most people do not like to see dead animals on Display.

If in doubt about this concern you figure up how many hunters their are and how many nonhunters their are.
They way out Number us and thats what I am concerned about.

P.S. Go Cardinals beat Boston!!!!
 
Spot, I respect and understand what you are saying. But, I definately disagree. One of the big reasons I vivit this website is to see pictures and hear of the great success's people have. TS
 
tshuntin

I am not talking about the Web site thats why I visit here also to see what big boy was harvested.

I am refering to hunters in their vehicles on the Highway or Public roads!
 
I would have to say I have mixed feelings about this one myself. I am proud to be a hunter and always have been. Why should we hide it in the closet like we are doing something wrong.I could see if the animal was all shot to s#$% and brains hanging out but I see nothing wrong with displaying the antlers in the back of a pickup. I remember seeing my first dead deer of my uncles and all it did was light the fire inside of me to want to go hunting. From then on anytime we were coming off the mountain I was eyeballing every truck to maybe get a glimpse of a dead deer.I think we could end up sending the wrong message to the youth of today and the future hunters if we start making excuses for what we believe Like it is something bad.How about how we feel? It is our right to hunt and harvest game and I see nothing wrong with displaying as long as it is done in an ethical way. Remember we are the ambassadors of the hunting tradition.


Happy trails
Ridge Runner
"Now Pilgrim,you sure you can skin grizz"
 
I agree with ridge runner, When deer season rolls around, every truck that passes me im looking in my rear view mirror to try and catch some horns. I dont thing theres nothing wrong with it as long as its done in an ethical way. I dont see nothing wrong with head and horns sticking up over the bed of the pickup.
 
You all don't understand what DISPLAY means do you. I think its okay to have the head of the animal in your truck on the bed floor and horns up out of the bed.

Its not okay to tie the head of the animal to the bed so it will stay up, or to put the heads on the Cab of your truck with no body attatched, or to prop it outside of the truck so everyone can see it.

Their is not much you can do if you put it on the bed of the truck this way it won't be such an eyesore to those who don't like dead animals.

Think about it Boys think about it!!!
 
Ya i understand what display means and if i want to show the head and antlers in the back of my truck im going to, Im not gonna show blood or gorry stuff. maybe from the bottom of jaw and up so all the horns are shown, not just an inch of horn sticking up. The town I hunt in on opening weekend is just full of hunters everywhere, if someone from the big city is there and crys about it, owell, you cant please everybody. They can go back to there million dollar home and come back on a non hunting weekend. So your saying if a guy doesnt have a truck just a SUV, he cant hunt cause hell have to put the buck or elk on the roof and he'll offend people.
 
I was hopeing you would go there. I used to have a Suv but I would bring a tarp with me and cover the inside of the back seat and cargo area and cover the buck up so it didn't ruin anything. Like I said there is no EXCUSE. Be prepared unless you expect your not going to harvest an animal.

Hell when I was in High School years ago I put one in the trunk of my car!

Just being curious but why do you have to show the head! Give me one good ethical reason for this.

An ethical reason, not a because I can and I will!!
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-04 AT 03:29PM (MST)[p]Cause its HUNTING SEASON and theres hunters everywhere, everybody likes to see other peoples kill, well maybe you dont but I do, I dont go parading downtown with them. But you do your thing and ill do mine. Obviuously the game departments dont care cause they park right beside the road for game checks then they sit there with the head on the tail gate and cut into it to check for CWD right in plain view of all passers by.
 
KirkL

AS a hunter ed teacher your definition of everybody runs about 10-12%. Last figures (most all the same over the years) puts pro hunting at 10-12%, anti- hunting at 10-12%, which leaves almost 76-80 % as "fence sitters". The ones we need to positively affect.

Answer that little girls question, Mommy why is bambi's tongue out and flies all over it?

I'm all for seeing what we've killed. I take mine to my hunting buddies and pull it out of the camper and show them. I just think and agree we don't need to parade it around publicly. IF we could explain it to everyone that sees it that could be ok, but they see it, and it has no explanation, other than the assumed negative.

Thats why its bad. I don't like it that it has to be that way, but I"d much rather not push one of those fence sitters to the anti's side!

Jeff
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-04 AT 04:31PM (MST)[p]I love it when these a$$holes scream "ignorance" when someone has an opinion or lifestyle that differs from what they think is apropriate! It is usually the person pointing the finger who is the "ignorant" one!
By the way...... I don't "display" my animals, but it is by my choice and not some tree hugging, granola eating, better than thou hippie, city boy, soccer mom etc! I don't give a sh!t what anyone thinks about how I transport my legally harvested animals but I will guarantee that it will not travel in the cab or the trunk! If you don't want to look at it, turn your f-ing head!
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-04 AT 04:41PM (MST)[p]I dont see one thing wrong with setting it high enough that you can see the top of his head and his full rack. You dont need to be showing the eyes, toungue but there is not one thing wrong with what i described.

Polar, you calling me the A$$.

And I ditto what polarbear said

(QUOTE)but it is by my choice and not some tree hugging, granola eating, better than thou hippie, city boy, soccer mom etc! I don't give a sh!t what anyone thinks about how I transport my legally harvested animals but I will guarantee that it will not travel in the cab or the trunk! If you don't want to look at it, turn your f-ing head!(END QUOTE)
 
Kirkl
No way dude, I am not calling you an a$$. I am refering to the folks that honestly believe that anyone who does not share the same ideas and beliefs as them is "ignorant". I am just fed up with the liberal usage of the whole "ignorance" label. That's all.
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Eric
 
Honey, the reason bambi's tongue is hanging out is because Cass forgot to stick it back in it's mouth before taking the photos he won't let us see. It's a new world-record. The reason for the flies is because he forgot to gut it before he drove back to Vegas and you know how warm it gets here. Now let's hurry up to the babysitters so I can get to work and dance on my pole.

Seriously, this politically-correct bullshiiit propaganda needs to end. F#@k the bleeding hearts. Sounds like the brain-washing is working on some of us. Display 'em proudly, there's some of us that still like seeing monster bucks in the back of trucks. Be proud to be a red-neck. When I took hunter safety back in the day, hiding your animal was never even heard of. Look how far it's come in 10-20 years.

I think I found a new campaign slogan: F#@K THE BLEEDING-HEARTS.
 
Hey this saturday rifle opener I pulled a heavy horned 20 " 4 point dang right I was displaying . Even worse im 16 had to use my friends car trunk which could only fit the body except the head had to hang out . I was proud . This was the utah opener . Im not trying to pic anything but if your mad about displaying you must be jealous you didnt score . thats what i think

later , hunter cameron
 
Yep your right and with your attitude it won't get any better just worse!

Boy some of you get a little up tight or do you call it disturbed over a mild subject.

If you all start over at the top and read what this is all about you may see what I was actually trying to point out!

Its not that you should hide your trophy its that you should transport it in a ethical way. Its not ethical to tie the head up to the bed rail or cut the head off and strap it to your cab of your truck.

I know some hunters have suv or cars but they do sell tarps at your local store.

Also I would like to get some ages of you all it seems to me everyone complaining about this post is 16 years old like huntercameron, maybe not but thats about the maturity level of feedback that hits this post.

Its typical of hunters to want to argue instead of thinking about long term effects of everything discussed in the hunting world.
 
spotit1st,

I dont think anyone is trying to argue with you and I believe that they all respect your opinion. But I think they are trying to say just because someone doesnt agree with you you should get mad at them. Just because its your opinion it doesnt mean that yours is the right opinion! Oh by the way may age: I am 38 years old and have hunted for 30 of those 38 years. I display my animals for all to see but I dont tie heads to the bed or the top of my truck! But I am proud to be a hunter and even more proud to show it!


Horn
www.trophiesonthewall.com
 
Speaking about long term effects on our sport. When people think they have to hide what they are doing in terms of bringing back a trophy, what's next? Banning it altogether? This politically correct crap will end. Our local wildlife group The Dixie dipshiits, I mean Dixie Wildlife, has coyote-calling contests but they don't announce it to the public because they fear the pressure of the antis. Meanwhile many local hunters miss out because they hear about it after the fact.

Hiding in fear of the antis is crap. If people get offended by a deer head, their life is too sheltered, Waaaaaah!
 
I love to see a big buck in the back of a truck or tied high on a suv. Oh and I skin my deer in the tree in the front yard! Have a good day Ken.
 
What do they say? "oppression of the majority by the minority" what's that? nothing but political correctness, the road to hell that we are a long way down. We will not win this war by playing their rules.
 
RE: Who gives a sh!t how a deer is on DISPLAY!

Ok Spotit1st
First off, I am 39 and have been hunting since I was 4. I shot my first buck at age 6. I have been on numerous rifle and pistol teams & many different wildlife organizations. I have 5 P&Y, 2 B&C bucks, 1 P&Y Mt. Goat, & 4 P&Y bull elk. I have legally harvested more mature animals in my life than 5 or 6 average guys will harvest in an entire lifetime. What is the point that I am trying to convey? I don't need some bleeding heart city schmuck who's idea of hunting is driving the roads in their s.u.v. in head to toe blaze orange, looking for does and spikes to gut shoot, telling someone such as myself and many others who have devoted a huge portion of our lives to the outdoors, what is ethical and what is not!!!! And yes, I get pissed about it!
With that said, I do respect your opinion and you have the right to it. But DO NOT expect me to agree with it! I don't care what you think is ethical, do as you wish, just don't push it on me!
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Age 46 :) Here is another way to look at it. First off I would cover my deer if I had a town drive to do. Most the time the animal would be subject to flies, dirt and fall out from gravel roads and such so traveling with meat not covered is unwise anyway. If your into fresh blow fly eggs in your meat travel with it as you wish. Your post although un-doubtfully with good intention comes off as * Preaching *, and will get many negative responses here. I don't believe in telling others to live as I do. As far as the youth involved in this forum go, I could hunt with any kid in here and in a few short min?s show him a many reasons to cover meat when we travel with out trying to make his main concern the brat in the car beside him at the red light. Your always going to have guys that get off on rubbing it in your face just fuel the fire when it comes to hunting. I've always assumed then receive the same respect they show for others in their walk through life so they must get into some viscous circle of being a perpetual a$$ hole or some thing. Most will probably take it to the grave so it's hopeless to try and convince them of much hunter etiquette anyway. If I felt the need to make such a post I would have to consider my audience and word my post accordingly to insure a receptive reader and positive a response.


Cheers
Jeff
 
I'm from Wisconsin and here its the law that you have to have the animal and tag visible.(In plain sight) You cannot put it in your trunk or have your tailgate up when being transported.
 
My take , If the animal is cleaned up , not to much blood and poke that tongue back in, having the animal visible is a very respectfull thing for the animal and other hunters alike , this does not nessasarily mean on the top or on the hood but displayed in a way that is not smug .
It is much like a animal that has been placed in a window for all to see .
Tastefull and respectful .
 
Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Deer hunter.

Deer hunter who?

BANG!!!!

Get 'er done boys and be proud! Sometimes it's luck but most put a lot of work into hunting. Be proud of who you are and what you accomplish. To make a comparison...ol George W. didn't get elected by catering to the bleeding heart liberals and neither should we. Be proud of who you are...just don't be an A$$ about it and thats all I got to say bout that....

CPSANDMAN
"The Buck stops here...I hope!"
 
Stand up and be counted or lay down and be mounted. I'm with ya CPSANDMAN. No shame here.


Happy trails
Ridge Runner
"Now Pilgrim,you sure you can skin grizz"
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-04 AT 06:08AM (MST)[p]I love to see bucks coming home in the back of a pickup. I put my deer on the back of our utility trailer. I cover everything but the head. I couldn't care less if the granola crunchers don't like it. I don't like it when someone cuts off the head and puts it on his front bumper I think that's gross. Displaying your trophy in a tastfull manner is good with me....I LOVE SEEING THEM!!!!
 
Looks like we could well be on the way to having fewer fence sitters and more anti hunters. Even though when things come to a voting situaion you need around 50+% to win, it seems not to matter.

You may have forgotten that the 2nd amendment does not protect hunting. Its like gun rights in other countries. Look how they are eroded and then check out who can afford to hunt in those countries.

Folks, last time on my soapbox on this one, hunting and fishing are privileges and not rights. They cannot take away our rights to own guns(or can they??), thats in the constitution. But they can take away our hunting and fishing. Look at bear/lion/trapping bans already.

If you are fighting for your rights, folks tend to show their best side, not their damn the torpedos side... Especially when in the minority.

Personally I would like to agree with most posters, except that I understand how things work in our country and sometimes you have to work with what you have, not against it all.

Respectfully, Jeff
 
to me, the word "ethics" gets thrown around a lot. too much. as far as i'm concerned, ethics is just someone else's opinion. and opinions are like @$$holes. everybody has one, and all of em but mine stink. different opnions, different definition of ethics. look at what you can see on tv. you can see stuff on primetime tv that was considered pornography a few years ago. folks getting blown to bits in movies. politicians liein' their @$$es off. erectile disfunction commercials. on and on. i think someone letting the tailgate down so's he can show off a big buck is pretty mild. different strokes for different folks. anti hunters think everything hunters do is "unethical". i think most o' the crap the left leaning liberals o' this country do is "unethical". i feel a lot like polarbear. do whatever you want. but that's just my "opinion".
 
2 things here:

39?.. damn Polar your old ..JK lucky guy to have gotten such a young start in this madness we call hunting. I started just a few years ago and the learning curve is HUGE.

and like Kingfish I dont agree with the heads being roped to the bumper, that just speaks of inbreeding.

I rubber neck when I see horns in the back of a truck. If I pulled into a parking lot and saw horns in the back of a truck I would walk over and take a closer look.


My .02 cents
 
I try to cover mine just to keep from getting any harrasment from DOW.

HOWEVER! I think we need to quit catering to everyone else's feelings and how we might offend them, I am sick and tired of hearing everyone freaking whine because of something I have or something I did and they did not like it.
This is one of the main reasons are country is getting so screwed up. If these people don't like what I have, am doing or showing then look the other way.
 
Generally my harvests are loaded up on my ATV then driven into the back of my shortbed truck... there is little room to "hide" the animal.

That said, I've never yet had anyone make a rude gesture or even act offended. I've had TONS of people speed up and come along side to gawk / get a better look.

Once, coming home with my father and his Moose, we had a car follow us 10 miles, it was full of women and children who clearly saw the head... we thought "ah hell, we are in for a butt chewing" ... they followed us right to his house and pulled in the drive way. The driver got out and promply asked "Is that a moose???" We said yup. She then asked if all the kids could get out and look at it. They had always wanted to see one and didnt even know Utah has them. The kids got to touch it and thought it was "really cool".

It turned out to be a very positive experience.

I dont go out of my way to display anything unless it a monster critter. I to try to stick the tonge back in and orient it so the a$$ end is a little more obscured but thats about it.


-DallanC
 
BFE here, age 41 resident of BFE Utah.
Here are this candidates stance on the issues;

Anti-bloody mess.
Pro-discussing this topic.
Anti-tongue(one exception)
Pro-display
Anti-ethical diatribes

Note; this message was approved by the committee to re-elect BFE.

Did noticed several years back the Colorado proc. advising hunters to cover all animals.

Back to the tongue issue :D grab the tip of the tongue pull it out & cut cleanly with your knife, no more unsightly tongue, in you truck or photo's
 
>Answer that little girls question, Mommy
>why is bambi's tongue out
>and flies all over it?
>


Here Ya go.
"Honey, bambi is not real. He is a cartoon like mickey mouse and sponge bob. That is a real deer and that man is going to use it to feed his family, like the cows and chickens that we eat every day. Sometimes flies get on it like they do our food in the house. Do you want to go see it close up and ask if you can touch the fur?"

Easy
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-04 AT 10:00AM (MST)[p]33 here and been hunting since I was 8. I cant count the times when driving home from hunting camp and people speeding up to see the horns in the back of the truck and then pass me and give me a big smile and thumbs up. Ive never had anyone pass me and give me a look and mouthing words at me. So I will keep displaying my cleaned up buck head and have no regrets about it.

This year my two cousins shot big horn sheep, we pulled into a grocery store to get something to eat and people were walking over looking at the sheep, a guy who we didnt know was taking pics. a guy brought his little kid over and put him in the back of the truck to see and touch them. Those are the people im trying to please, If i can get a kid to look at those thats great for the sport. If some tree hugger granola muncher doesnt want to look, stay the hell away from my truck is my opinion.
 
Show those bucks and bulls proudly!!!!!!!!!! Hunting is Hunting and will always be hunting!!!! That is one of my favorite parts of it!!! Show it off!

NBJB
 
My wife harvested (remember, we don't say "kill" anymore, its not PC) her first mature mule deer about 4 years ago, a decent 27" 4 point. She couldn't have been more proud. Now I drive a Nissan pickup and keep my DRU (deer recovery unit or "ATV")in the back, so there isn't much room to hide the animal, not that I would anyway. This buck ended up strapped to the tailgate for the ride home. Prior to leaving the area, my wife wanted to go by the grade school where she taught for 2 or 3 years and visit her friends, show them the buck. When we pulled up to the school, it was recess or lunch hour and there was about 35 grade school kids in the parking lot. I thought, "oh great" theres going to be crying and pointing at the dead deer. Couldn't have been more wrong. I had a huge crowd of kids hanging around that deer, they started telling me stories about when they went out with their dad deer hunting or deer they had seen on the way to school. One poor kid just sat there and stared, rubbing the horns. That kid had the farway hunters look in his eyes and I guarantee he is chasing those damn muleys all over the place. It was a really cool experience and I am glad we did not hide that deer.
 
f#@k the bleeding hearts. And like Ted Nugent sings f#@k all the liberals. Vote for Ted. Bang 'em & Hang 'em!
 
OK OK I ADMIT DEFEAT IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT!

Hope everyone was a little irritated over the Subject!

One thing I would like to hold onto and I will never give up on is:

THE CARDINALS WILL BEAT BOSTON IN 7 GAMES LIKE IT OR NOT!

EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT WEEK.

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Last year buddy and I stopped at gas station to grab a pop, we were a might stinky after packing quartered moose out only minutes before, said moose was in back of shortbox Ranger.Women using station was offended and could not keep trap closed enough that we could not hear, her husband in toe got to hear the full of it. What was funny was that while she was going on, husband was holding Lhaso apso and taking behind her back{women} about how the dog would sure like to eat that moose. We had a good laugh.
 
The last couple of years I've been hunting near towns that these days are very rare. They have signs like "Hunters Welcome" and "Get your hunting gear here". It thrills me to see these signs up in store windows because it shows others, if nothing else, that we help the economies of these small towns and that they are not caving to this pollitically correct bullshirt. There's nothing wrong with wearing your camo or orange around town during hunting season and I donnot see a problem with putting your harvested critters in plain view. No bloody messes neccesary but clean bodies and heads are fine to view in my opinion. I don't care to cater to the agricultural based, fake lived, disconnected, semi-humans of every day city life. I'm sick of these sub-humans telling me how to live. Whoa!!! I better get down before I really go off....You know, the last time I had a whole bodied buck visible was in the trunk of a car on the highway and an old lady pulled up and gave me a thumbs up. Don't act ashamed but don't be offensive either..02cents
 
Andymansavage

Excellent answer. Very well done and well thought out. Maybe not perfect but I"m far from perfect myself.

But the problem there is we can't explain it to them as we drive. They assume whatever it is they assume and you can bet most soccer moms won't answer it like that unfortunately.

I suspect that out of sight out of mind fits best.

But we won't change my mind on it or many of our other posters either. I just hope its not doing any harm while folks want to brag about what they have.

Jeff
 
Steve, how about a 230 plus non typical from unit 44 displayed on the hood of a Rolls Royce? hehehe
 
Rost495, 50%+ ??? Do you mean to say all the hard work we did in Utah to get prop 5 passed is down the poop chute? I thought it was going to take 2turds plus to get one over on us? You would have a hard time seeing our deer on our way home as we generally have a half dozen trash bags full of slob hunters trash topping off our load. Happy Trails to all. As to hauling one inside the cab you must like picking ticks off your nutshells.
 
i agree with looking at every pick up that strolls by looking in the back to sneak a peak at some horn porn.myself, i usually try to just show enough of the horn out of my camper shell that it can be seen but not so much that it is offensive.
Casey
 
LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-04 AT 10:17PM (MST)[p]I'm another with mixed feelings on this. Guys that work their tails off in quest of their greatest (ok, maybe 2nd greatest) passion of life, are proud as a peacock and want to show off their prize. Real, real, real natural feeling there, no question in my mind.

Most of you know, I'm a Hunter Ed. Instructor. My Dept. of Fish and Game strongly recommends (and has me tell students this in the classes) that we don't throw a deer in plain view for a number of reasons, one being that it is offensive to others. Walt Disney messed up a lot of normal folk with Bambi, trust me on that one......

We don't want those folks who are "riding the fence" on hunting (read that as the majority of folks aren't anti-hunting, don't mind hunters, just don't want it thrown in their faces or feelings.....) to turn against us or our sport because we grossed them out. When you get grossed out, that memory sticks with you. Remember that these are the people that go to the polls and vote, and when there's an anti-hunting issue or gun measure on the ballot, the last thing we want to do is to have offended them so they vote for those bills.

Hunting isn't a right, it's a privelege, one that I sure don't want hindered anymore than it is or taken away. Yeah, we all want to show off our antlers on the way home (and I'll admit, this is way easy for me to say all this with the dinks I've taken the past few years.....), but do your best to show some restraint please, especially in bigger cities where most folks don't hunt. Rural towns those antlers sticking above the bed of the pickup might get you some thumbs up, but do us all some good in not showing a head with the tongue hanging out....that alone might scar a kid for all his or her voting life......

P.S. I disagree that this is an ethics issue at all. It's simply showing respect and consideration for other peoples (specifically, no less than 80% of the voting public) feelings & a small gesture on our part to preserve our hunting priveleges for the future. Sure hope that makes sense to some of you guys who hadn't given it much thought. Later......
 
Lance, if we're going to dream let's dream BIG. How about a 260+.....Rolls Royce, no,...your shoulders..he.he
 
I aggree freedivr2, doesn't matter where your from, how many giant animals you've killed, or how old you are! Bottomline is us as hunters are a minority in the voting population, unlike this website where everyone is a diehard outdoorsman. Hunting is a previlidge and in many states forms of hunting previlidges(e.g. baiting for bears, hunting cats with hounds) has been taking away from us only because the "left-wing, granola-eatin, soccer moms" decided after they saw a dead animal on the front of a chevy pickup or a animal rights commercial on T.V. that they didn't like hunting anymore. I personally show my animals with the respect of other people not because I'm embarrassed or afraid what some little kid is going to see on the way home from soccer practice, but, because that kids mom could vote to take my hunting previlidge away. Those of you from Washington (Democratic state) especially Eastern Washington no exactly what I mean.

Yoda...
 
I believe in covering the animal up and do so every year. There is a few reasons why I do it.
1)cover my meat from the elements and the dirt and flies.
2)I am hunting for myself and myself only I dont give a rats ass if someone sees my animal. That is not why I am out there. I am out there to enjoy something I love. Not because my friend does it and I have to do better. Hell if that is the idea and mentality of most people on this post why dont we WHIP OUR JOHNSONS out and go all over and look and see who has the biggest one and then sit there and wonder damn why wasn't I so lucky.
I think there is a time and place for that, to name a few hunt101, this forum, other forums, and the bragging board at Sportman's Warehouse. I have had some that I couldn't cover up all the way and I did the best I could. I don't do this because of some hippy, Hell I am the first to do something just to piss people off but I think it comes down to why we are hunting and the real reason behind it, To put meat on the table and enjoy a time out with friends and family. Not show off who has the biggest JOHNSON.
But if that is the way then I will start it out can anyone beat 9 inches??????????? Come on I have it out to prove it.
 
Nice Post whs I like it, the post not your 9 inches hell thats how big my buck was this year well a little bigger but who cares I needed some meat and it was deer meat not your meat!

Hee Hee Hee.

Your a stud!
 
Two hour drive down highway 89 in so.Utah gave me some insight today on this topic. I probably saw 15 or 16 deer displayed, & as such saw a good spectrum of how people differed in their choise of how to ride their deer home, the one's I didn't care for had one or more of the fallowing; Legs fully extended north & south, assend showing, rigamortus showing I.E. awkward posture, tongue hangers, open biscuit, blood bath, quickly stuffed in look, dirt dusted.
basically all the above had a common disinterest in how the animal appeared to bystanders, kind of a ....glad this whole thing is over, eye appeal. Some what of a disrespect for the animal they had shot. Also an arrogance of see what I can do to you now that I won (shoot you) look.
The other side of the spectrum all appeared like care had been taken to make the animal look good & non contorted. These animals looked appealing at first glance & invited the eye to get a closer look, these deer didn't look like they meet with a grizzly end, but lended a look in to the majestic nature of the animal.
One of the main premises of this post was to remind us, we are all ambassadors of hunting, & as such take time to wipe off your deer if you got it covered with dust, show reverence for these animals, which we are so passionate about
No one asks their taxidermist to mount their animal as if it were severely constipated, similarly take 5 minutes & make them look right.
Happy Halloween, let kids do the spooking.
 
I agree with BFE also...
Some people don't give a rat's a$$ what they display going down the highway. Those are the few "bad apples" that we all complain about. Then there are the others who respect the animal and present it in a way that is acceptable. I like the comparison to the taxidermist. If the animal has to be seen, it should look like something we are proud of, not something we just drug off the hill and threw into the back of the pickup like a bag of garbage. Would we want our taxidermist to mount our trophy like a bag of garbage????? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes what we harvest can't be covered completely, but if it looks like we respect the animal, then I feel it is ok...
I have used the "cut out the tounge" method for many years...really sucks to get your pictures back and find a big tounge hanging out...I have a hard time with photos of blood and tounges, as well as in the back of an outfit..
Cards in 7, huh???? Little hint, stay out of Vegas!!!

A bad day hunting is better than a Good Day at Work!!
 
There is a difference between display and making a spectacle of you and your deer. There is a difference between hauling it home and making your deer a hood ornament. There is a differnce between taste and tasteless.

You guys can figure it out. Go home proud or go home looking like an idiot.

I got my ass ate out by a jogger last year with a deer on top of a horse. I was asking myself later how to avoid that. Sometimes your options are limited. Those that don't shoot their own stuff get upset easy.
 
Most guys haul there animal home with a certain level of pride regardless of the size or mode of transportation(ie horse truck or back-pack). We have all been somewhere before and seen a pickup go bye with a hint of antler sticking out the back or had one in the truck and seen people do a double take. It isn't hard to imagine what a fellow hunter is probably thinking when they see that. Now last year I ran into a couple guys with a really nice 4-point muley and to say that I wasn't a little envious would be a lie, but these yahoos had cut the head off and tied it to the winch bumber on thier truck and were heading into town, now I am sorry but that is not right at all. To me it shows a level of dissrespect and just plain and simply makes hunters look bad. I know you can't hide it all the time and anyone who has got a moose before can attest to that one...lol, but tieing it to the bumber on your truck is just not right.

Shane
 
First of all KIRKL I'm pissed you didn't drive by my house so I could touch those horns. : )

Anybody watch CMT with Montgomery Gentry's new video with the deer tied on the hood. Pretty cool to look at, but damn I bet that warm engine messes up the meat. I think the song is pretty much saying what polar bear is saying. You do your thing, and I'll do mine.
 
Firsty beat me to the punch...it's not only the law in WI but also widely accepted as part our hunting heritage...
 
When I go out and read posts like this I really worry about the future of hunting, and I can't help but wonder if my son is going to get to enjoy the outdoors the way I have. It's great to be a hunter and be proud of it. It's great to be proud of a first time forked horn or a 200" buck, but politics is what it all comes down to. I don't like the tree-hugger, in fact I despise him, but he despises me and he gets a vote just like I do. If we want to be able to continue to hunt, show your animal on websites like this and to the people who really love seeing it. Don't give anyone a reason to dislike hunting or even worse to vote against it.
If you love to hunt, and I know all of you do, then you better start to "give a #####" about what other people think, because we are the minority. Hunting is now a privilege, not usually a necessity, and we better do everything we can to protect this privilege! Good hunting to you, and hopefully my son!

Dallen
 
Kolob

sorry I'm not familiar with your battle in Utah. But last time I checked elections were normally won with 50+% votes. So if we are in the 10-12% range its hard to get to 50% or more if we offend the middle 80% or so. I hope that explained that better.

I don't have a problem with concealed deer. But just because you pick up trash that slobs leave behind(I do also) doesn't give us more rights to display the game.

BTW I don't carry the game home in the cab. Its in the bed under a camper shell. I don't see where I posted cab but I certainly could have mistyped. I'm not perfect, just don't tell my wife that :)

BUT I have picked of lots of ticks even with the game in the bed of the truck. Try hunting hogs and javelina down here in the heat and not go home with fleas and ticks....

Waiting for some of your Utah temps to make it into TX!

BTW I should add to all-- I do love to see those kills. I just don't want it to be the end to our privileges. But I'm just like the rest of ya'll and I keep looking just in case. Even if I disagree with it.

Jeff
 
I have to agree with those whose opinion falls on the side of not displaying their harvested animals on their way home. At least for me it pisses me off when I see someone blatantly showing off their spoils and in my opinion at the same time, maybe inadvertently, disrespecting the animal they are showing off. Case in point, two years ago in the AZ strip, a lucky Utah hunter, nice young fellow - I met him, took the buck of a lifetime in typical mild AZ weather, strapped it all tied up in a knot to his quad un-skinned and drove his quad into his pickup bed. That beautiful buck must have been 10 feet off the ground all the way bact to Salt Lake in 70 degree weather. I doubt if the meat was edible and I have my doubts if the cape was any good by the time he drove the ten or twelve hours back to SLC.
We are not living in the 30's - 60's when people strapped their bucks to their model T's or model A's. Not everyone wants to see what you have to show them. In this political climate of tree huggers, animal rights activists, defenders of wildlife and friends for animals, sierra clubbers, PETA A-Holes etc., etc., etc. they want nothing more than to take away all our rights as sportsmen and women. They want our guns, our hunting rights and anything else they can get their grubby little hands on. My opinion here but displaying our trophies is giving them more ammunition for their cause of destroying all of our rights as sportsmen. All I am saying is show the animals you harvest as much respect as possible, I know you are proud or your hard earned bounty, but act like you've been there before and don't flaunt your success to the detriment of all of us.
My two cents.
Wetmule
 

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