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Thread (Discussion): Ok who hunts here?
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Message 169387 (In Reply to Message 169339)
Posted by Renunciation
on Dec 13, 2005 05:51 PM | Also by Renunciation
| Gender: N/A,
Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
State: N/A,
Country: Bahrain |
I used to.
I used to hunt deer, bear, wild turkey, duck/goose, rabbit and squirrel every season. I also trapped, and would get my cat nearly every year, lots of beaver, mink, a few fisher and ten million muskrats, lol. One year, sadly, we got a river otter, a very rare thing in WI, and that was sad.
I sucked at waterfowl hunting because I liked fishing better and would be scouting places where I thought that record Musky was hiding as the ducks flew over me laughing.
Rabbit hunting without dogs was my favorite, especially in mid to late january. Snow so deep yo need snowshoes to get the snowshoes, lol. But the woods was quiet, just the occasional cardinal chewing you out, lots of things to observe.
Things I have never forgotten, like watching the chickadees romantic dance. The male would get a seed and offer it to the female. She would either take it or toss it away, and he would go get another. I could watch them for hours, maybe see a few rabbits, but enjoy seeing the quiet beauty of nature too. We hunted rabbit and squirrel with 22's, my father and uncle saying it was not sporting to use shotguns to hunt with them.
Sometimes I would stop and take a break, just look around and see how many memories I could file away, knowing one day that forest might be gone, the Europeans taking more and more away. I would try to "feel" my heritage, to see if my ancestors would talk to me in their ways of old. Maybe they didnt like the taint of the German, Polish and Italian blood in veins, but I never heard them speak to me. Maybe I did and was deaf to their voices. Maybe it was their voices that made me pause and enjoy the quiet of my desolation. The bobcat in the blue spruce who thinks I cannot see him. The buck who has lost his antlers rubbing on an old elm stump, the itch of his velvet driving him bananas. Even the pesky ravens, who would tell everyone in the woods which direction I came from and where I was headed.
Once, oh I must have been 14 or 15, I was sitting there with my 22 and a 110 camera, taking pics of snow on evergreens, and I noticed a black spot under an uprooted tree. I snowshoed over to the spot and it was the back of a hibernating bear. I pulled off my gloves and gently petted the sleeping beast, and maybe it was then I sensed the vulnerability of nature and the power of man.
Of course I cannot hunt with weapons now, but one day I hope I can hunt with a camera and a canvas in that same woods.
Renster.
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Message 169339
Posted by Valerie
on Dec 13, 2005 01:53 AM | Also by Valerie
| Gender: Female,
Age Bracket: 50 - 59,
State: Florida,
Country: United States |
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169339, Valerie, Dec 13, 2005 01:53 AM
169366, 1dadof5, Dec 13, 2005 08:21 AM
169413, Valerie, Dec 14, 2005 12:08 AM
169605, 1dadof5, Dec 16, 2005 04:54 AM [val]
169374, orolan, Dec 13, 2005 03:03 PM
169469, rabbitreborn, Dec 14, 2005 04:08 PM
169590, orolan, Dec 16, 2005 12:06 AM
169625, rabbitreborn, Dec 16, 2005 02:52 PM
169653, orolan, Dec 16, 2005 09:00 PM
169658, rabbitreborn, Dec 16, 2005 09:58 PM
169387, Renunciation, Dec 13, 2005 05:51 PM
169412, Valerie, Dec 14, 2005 12:07 AM
169480, Renunciation, Dec 14, 2005 05:01 PM
169483, orolan, Dec 14, 2005 05:14 PM
171327, amberleaf, Jan 15, 2006 10:59 PM
171357, Renunciation, Jan 16, 2006 01:23 AM
171851, Valerie, Jan 22, 2006 04:32 PM
171936, Renunciation, Jan 23, 2006 05:33 PM
171984, Valerie, Jan 24, 2006 04:25 AM
169571, rabbitreborn, Dec 15, 2005 07:40 PM
169619, Valerie, Dec 16, 2005 01:03 PM
169654, rabbitreborn, Dec 16, 2005 09:20 PM
169604, rebel51, Dec 16, 2005 04:33 AM
169618, Navigatr1, Dec 16, 2005 12:40 PM
169687, anti, Dec 17, 2005 08:20 PM [val..]
171157, poetsdreamscape, Jan 14, 2006 07:30 AM [hunts]
171281, Valerie, Jan 15, 2006 04:18 PM
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