Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

    Great story!
    
    Jeff

    
    	Ha,ha..... I've read this twice now and i'm still laughling!!
    Good story,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    
    DjP
    

    THANKS BOB FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT FIRST TIME HUNTING WITH YOUAND
    my brother-in-law.Thinking back that was a good time,hunting and
    camping.
     
    
    thank's
    Pappy
    
    

    
    
    ha-ha
    
    
         Great story...   Keep em coming guys....
    
    
       Pappy.  Don't feel bad, The first one i ever shot... I left my
    gun in the woods..... I remembered about 3 hours later..
    
    
        Happy Hunting.... Maine in 8 Days
    
    
                 Jeff

    Great story !!!! I`ll be in search of my first deer in next week
    as I head for Wyoming. I`ll remember this if I get "the big one".
    
   				jeff barton 
    
    

    Jeff, when you get back from your trip,  please write what kind of
    experience you had, where you hunted, and "The rest of the Story".
    I would like to hunt up there...And could kind of get a general idea
    what to expect...Thanks
    
    Jeff

    
    Hey Guy's  I'am not mad,just that it was the first trip with Bob
    and my first deer (been hunting many years with no luck) and I'am
    sure everyone knowes how you feel when you get the first one.
    
    again it was a fun trip and hunt.
    
    Canada in 11 days--264 hours.....(WHO'S COUNTING)
    
    
    
              PAPPY
    

    re .6
    
     I`ll be hunting for my first deer in The northeast corner of Wyoming.
    Near Huelett (sp?) and Devils Tower. I`ll know more when i get there!!
    
     Hopefully I`ll have a first deer story to tell everyone. I`ll let
    everyone know the details when I return !!!!   
    
     Can hardly wait to get there !!!!
    
    
    
    				Jeff Barton 

    I know I'll never forget my first deer..........I've got a 
    scar on my finger where I cut myself gutting it out!  A
    small price to pay.....................................
    
    Clay
    

    Just out of curiosity how many people still believe in "bloody-ing" a
    person for his first kill?  How about cutting their shirt tail?
    
    Are these "traditions" everywhere?  The place I hunt we tend not to do
    this, but I know places that still do.  It makes some people very
    reluctant to admit it was their first deer!
    
    Two weeks and counting.....
    
    Keith R>

    Boy Old Pappy must have been pumped up big time to erect a tripod
    all by himself and haul all that dead weight up. Or did he use a
    pully system??
    
    
    Tom

 Hi, Tom 
        Pappy here, I used a pully system that I took with us,just in
    case we got a deer.(good thing I did) The problem was getting the
    poles up after I tired them together. 
    
    Pappy

re .10

I know of some people who say that they'll cut your shirt-tail if you 
miss one, but I've never hunted with any of them.  As for"bloody-ing," 
are you talking about someone drinking the blood of their first kill?
In any case, I think most of this stuff is left over from the past and 
kept alive by a few throwbacks.

Besides, we manage to rib anyone that misses one enough so that he 
wishes we'd cut his shirt-tail and shut up! ;^)

Scott

    RE: -1 � As for"bloody-ing," are you talking about someone drinking 
    � the blood of their first kill?
    
    That's not my understanding.  I think it's normally just smearing your 
    face with the deer's blood.  Drink it - YUK!
    
    Safe hunting,
    
    Keith R>
    

    The tradition is to cut out the heart and drink that blood.
    
    Note:  I didn't do it, but saw a guy do it.
    My interpretation of this was to fry the heart for dinner.
    
    Ken
    

    re .15:
    
    Many :-)'s
    
    /brett

    Being a "throwback" and coming from the South orig , I have
    participated in the above mentioned "bloodying ". No you don't drink
    blood from the heart , it is an old trad that when a person shoots his
    first deer some of the blood be smeared over that lucky individual in
    the face area . The trick was not to let the people you were with know
    you were an uninitiated . 
    The shirt tail cutting also is a throwback to the south where deer
    hunting is often done with hounds and is much more a social get
    together than it is up north . With very liberal limits many hunters in
    the south spend many days in the woods and therefore have many more
    chances at shots at very fast running deer (hounds in hot pursuit).
    
    I can say all of this because I was raised on this type of hunting .
    

    re:.5 &.6
    
     Well I`m back from the great state of Wyoming. It`s pretty rugged
    out there. In our party 6 out of 9 people got bucks. I was one of
    the six ..... this was my first deer !! Mine was the smallest (a
    small spike) the biggest was a 14 pt whitetail. 
    
     Like i said it`s a different style of hunting than the type they
    do here in Michigan. Very rockey mountainous territory. Most shots
    are over 150 yds. IN fact most are over 200 yds. I missed big bucks
    on the first & second day out, then didn`t see another buck until
    the end of the hunt. Saw about 25-35 does per day, but I was trying
    to get a rack.
    
     We hunted in the NE corner of Wyoming (Crook County) about 60 mile
    north of Sundance or 15 miles south of Huelet (pop 291) which is
    near Devils Tower. Had a great time, as we had over 6000 acres to
    ourselves...... couldn`t have found another person if I had to.
    
     I didn`t get the big one, but as we packed up to come home the
    other guys said wait till next year. Soooooooo Guess I`ll be goin
    back ..... now that I`ve got the first one out of the way it should
    be a snap .....right????/  8^)
    
    
    				Jeff B.
    
    

    	Congratulations Jeff,,by the way, in Wyoming (and the West)
    that was a seven point buck.  :^)
    
    	George

    The guys in the hunting party told me when we get home they`re all
    12 pointers till someone tells them different 8^)  8^)  8^)
    
    Whadda ya think ????? 
    
    
    

 I almost managed to bag my first deer on Saturday. This is what we live for. 
:-)

 I was working along the edge of a swamp. My cousin and I had just split up, and
I was taking the lowland route. I came to an area that was flooded, about 20
feet across, and was frozen over. I looked for a way to cross- none was 
apparent. So I decided to test the ice. One foot- ok. Two feet (splash!). Crap.
So I swore at myself for a couple of seconds- then I heard something that made 
me look up.

 A group of five deer were crashing through the bushes right in front of me.
My jaw dropped, and I thought "This is it!" The lead deer, a six pointer, was 
stopped directly in front of me, on the other side of the frozen puddle. I 
fumbled for the safety, and he took off. Finally, safety off, I shouldered
the shotgun. At this point he was past me, about 50-60 feet away. Shaking
with excitement, I let one fly. Pop! Now he lit the afterburners. I could have
taken another shot, but being unsure of exactly where my cousin was, I declined.
I began to run after them, hoping for another shot. Pop! My cousin shot at the
6 pointer. And they were gone.

 Practically dizzy with excitement, I was shaking all over. "D'you hit em?"
"Nope." "Me neither."

 So I went to find where the slug had hit, to ensure I hadn't hit him. No hair,
no blood, hole in the ground. I didn't hit him. The we found where my
cousin's bullet hit. Again, nothing.

 We did see a little hair on one side of the road, but it appeared to be some
that had rubbed off on an overhanging branch. No blood. We tracked the deer
for quite a ways without finding any indication that we had hit him. We are
sure we missed.

 What an experience. "Worth the price of admission."

 So I blew it. But I don't really mind. (Though it would have been nice to get
a six pointer for my first deer. :-)

 Boy, I'm glad that we have notes. :-) I couldn't wait to tell some people
that would understand.

 The Doctah