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Living full time out in an area where most folks drive in to hunt. I learn a lot watching the animals every day. I see the Friday through Sunday crowd come and how the game disappears like they have a calendar and know it is the weekend. The truth is the animals learn to read the human sign. Human sign? Yep, living out here full time taught me the same thing. Traffic increase is the big tip off. When whatever your hunting hears and see more cars, trucks, SUV, 4 wheelers, snowmobiles they learn to become hidden. During the week when the traffic is down and less people around the animals return more to normal until the coming Friday.

 

I heard of one group of hunters that shoots their limit of ducks in the morning cleans them and goes back out on a evening hunt to limited out a second time for the day. You would think that maybe they have a large family and need to feed them right? Nope, most will tell you their family does Not eat the meat? Some will admitted they give most of the game away? One guy said what is the big deal "NO ONE LIVES OFF THE LAND ANYMORE", we don't waste game someone will eat it? True enough, someone is hopefully eating all the extra ducks and geese they were shooting but WHY be so greedy? Am I a saint? Nope, but I will admit I have over shot my limit years ago when I was feeding a large family on limited money. But I never took more then we ate!

 

I guess it was my up bringing. "You shoot it you eat it." Game was prized extra food needed to help get you through the high heating bills of the winter. I can't tell you the number of times we were able to eat steaks, roast, and venison burger, etc instead of eating hot dogs and Mac and cheese. BTW Mac and Cheese mixed with venison burger is awesome. I think back of spending $75.00 a week in the grocery store to feed 3 growing boys, a wife and myself. Talk about a motivation to ensure filling your deer tag or limiting out on any type of game. We may not have lived off the land but we certainly depended on the extra meat and fish brought in. Nothing was wasted. Now that I'm older and the kids grown up and moved on I take what I need.

 

4 rooster pheasants walk in front of me dodging in the cattail rushes one cool December morning. The birds highlight and more brilliant against the snow. Dodging in and out of the cattail swale. The dog worked the trail and a rooster busted up through the snow covered brown cattails, the cackling rung out. The adrenaline dump, the 20 gauge swung up feeling like an old friend. The first shot dumped him out of the air. The dog raced forward looking for the bird. I rush up looking for the bird and another rooster burst from covered snow flying hard, pounding of the wings as the rooster gains speed the shotgun swung up, but I didn't shoot. Why? because I like my pheasants fresh and only wanted one for the day. No need to be greedy, no large family to feed, no reason to take the bird so I let him go.

 

I found the dog standing on the bird licking the fresh blood. Picking the bird up we walk out thanking God for a beautiful day and rewarding us with a prized meal. A cottontail rabbit burst from a cover of cattails and I made a snap decision to add him to the pot. The rabbit rolled in the snow, the dog was on him before he finish rolling. Time to go home. Common sense, take what you need don't be greedy. The pheasant was ate for lunch and the rabbit was made into spaghetti sauce over rice for dinner. I smile. Rabbit the other white meat. :-)

 

 

A Great Day In My Book

 

I look at hunting as extra meat, I don't hunt for sport, it is no game to me, I hunt for food, not to be wasted but feel lucky to enjoy my wild game. Hunting has never been a sport played like a game. It clean, fresh, no additives or preservatives meat.  Not free. There is of course licenses fees, ammunition, sometimes gas driving to your hunting spot. Some years wild game counts for 40% of meat to good years wild game is 90% of all the meat I eat. Maybe not living off the land but darn close.

 

Bruce "Buckshot"