I can't take it anymore. I yearn for the fresh air,the piney woods,the cool open night skies,to feel my heart race at the site of a big 10 point buck or a 10" bearded turkey. There is only one other thing that compares to hunting season and that is SEX with a good woman.

Anybody out there want to join me?

Everybody lets sing!!!!! "It's the 2nd week of deer camp and all the guys are here"

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), August 25, 2001

Answers

I don't know if I would want to join you with a good woman. I'm not much for threesomes. However, I've certainly got that buck fever! I've been practicing with my recurve and watching deer movies and it just seems that time is not going by fast enough. I'm starting to see deer out in the fields late in the evenings. To me that is a true sign that deer season is getting close. I hope you have as good of luck as I'm going to have.

-- Russell Hays (rhays@sstelco.com), August 25, 2001.

DA YUPPERS rule,,, I also Tom,, am getting da fever,, theres an 8 pointer hanging around,, keeps eating my tater plants. Last time I saw him,, he was in full velvet,,, but IM finding shreds all around a favorite scartching post out back...... cant wait

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), August 25, 2001.

Okay, guys, you sound really chauvinistic there. Just what makes you think you have a monopoly on buck fever? Our county has the second largest deer population in the state and you better believe this little late middle age FEMALE is gonna be on her stand opening day and every day after that I can!

I've been seeing quite a few and in broad daylight, not just in the evening. We have so many deer around that I'd rather harvest does than bucks even if I had a chance at a real trophy just to reduce the herd.

Our deer camp is our home as we just walk down the hill to some very well used trails. All the comforts of home, you might say. And don't ask where I live. Good luck and a safe hunt to you all.

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), August 25, 2001.

Marilyn, what's with the deer stand? We just sit on the back porch. They come by the west side of the house in the morning and east side in the afternoon. Two different herds. We live right on their trails. More fun to watch than to shoot.

-- Belle (gardenbelle@terraworld.net), August 25, 2001.

Ya know..... there is a fine line between bucks (deer and goats) in rut and the human male behavior. LOL:):) Yeah, hubby has buck fever too, keeps seeign deer at night in the field. Now he is plotting his hunting for the year.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001.

i just open the freezer and holler jump in,...hehehehehe the welding shop is making a two seater ladder for me this week, my son will sit with me and shoot his first deer this year:) last season he missed a doe at 90 yards,so he has the fever. but to all my country side friends please take care and be safe this season! and take a kid fishing this spring if you cant take one hunting.

-- paul a coleman (wormfarmerone@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001.

Well, sex with a woman, good or otherwise is not my idea of a good time, so I guess I'll pass. LOL!

-- Jennifer L. (Northern NYS) (jlance@nospammail.com), August 25, 2001.

Russell: OOPS! That did come out a little funny there.

Marilyn: No Chauvinistic here. Can't be with 3 daughters and 1 hunts with me at times & younger one is just waiting till she's of age.

Paul: Good Job!

Bernice: I know the feeling, getting maps outs,tuning the bow,oiling the guns,setting the tent up,reading hunting mags.

Stan: You have some nice size ones over there plus some good turkey.

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), August 25, 2001.

I don't hunt them because I won't eat them, but I hope a lot of you do. We have so many around here they are a real pest and not safe to drive at nite.

-- Mel Kelly (melkelly@webtv.net), August 25, 2001.

I've got one, my husband has been putting in for a special moose permit for 15 yrs now. This year our son( 13yrs.) put in the same permit area and "voila" he got a cow moose permit, first year. LOL!! My husband and Dad are ready to now but the season doesn't open until 9-15-01. So for now they're just planning for the trip. None of them have said much about deer, well, if he gets his moose we won't need deer. Good luck to all you hunters and remember the antlers make for a tough dinner, ( I know my guys hunt horns too ! LOL!!!)

-- Kelle in MT. (kvent1729@aol.com), August 25, 2001.

You guys! Stop it! Deer season is a long time away -- quit wishing away what's left of the summer! ;-)

-- Joy F [in So. Wisconsin] (CatFlunky@excite.com), August 25, 2001.

DEER!!!!!

Marilyn, you must live in the same state as me! So here is the deal for hunting at my place. Seasons starts Sept.1 goes thru Jan 1, bow season is 2 weeks before/during/ and 2 weeks after gun. There is no limit,,,,read that NO LIMIT on bucks and I can kill 24 does on select doe days. If that is not enough I can purchase extra doe tags, or get free tags from the state IF I have too many deer! I let my friends kill the big bucks, I'll go for the does to reduce the size of the herd. ddt

-- ddt (troubled@ftci.net), August 25, 2001.

Buck fever!! You betcha!! I have 3 sales lists from 3 major herds and I am trying to decide my first and second choices for the new buckling I am purchasing and flying in this winter!! :) We also don't hunt, no need when folks who hunt around here give you the deer for free, since their freezers are full, and they don't want to pay to have it butchered. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), August 25, 2001.

Sexest thread !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of us woman hunt too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only kiddin , yes its getting that feeling in the air .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), August 25, 2001.

I don't have to hunt either, but it is in my blood to go out every fall and enjoy the great outdoors. About three years ago on opening day I shot a 8 pointer out the back door of my sisters house. It ended up being one of the worse gun seasons I ever had. Since I'm only allowed one buck during gun season, my hunt was over. I never even got to go out in the woods and I felt like I deprived myself of deer season that year. Since then I've decided that I wouldn't shoot another deer like that again.

-- Russell Hays (rhays@sstelco.com), August 25, 2001.

Well, I have a Nubian buck who seems to have "buck fever", but my does definitely do not appreciate it!!! Maybe they will in about 3 weeks or so :-)!! Really...when DH gets "the fever", he just sits on the back porch and waits for the biggest to pass by. Don't need a license since we hunt on our own property!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), August 25, 2001.

Yes,I do! Breeding season is coming on and somehow three bucks in the barn and 14 in the tank doesn't seem like near enough! Let's see, Sodium Oaks Yreka, $25 a straw, Iroquois KC Ressurection (what an apt name for a buck used AI!)$10, Sodium Oaks Royal Risk, $125 a shot, my heart races at the thought of the breedings that could be made. Darn, so many bucks, so little cash!

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), August 26, 2001.

Yes, buck fever is high, but this woman,middle-age model,is out scouting with her man. Our state needs to allow does for a short time. My husband works on a Christmas tree farm and they are over- run with the Christmas tree bandits. Can we use old antlers on them and say they are bucks, just had a sex change,or they haven't come out of the closet yet?

-- Annie Woods (annie1ej@cs.com), August 26, 2001.

Hey Rebekah...if I knew how to do A.I. I'd be calling ya! My does lineage is mostly Sodium Oaks with a little Sweet Dreams and Shahena'ko thrown in. This fall I'm using a Nubian just to get them bred and milking for next year. I really need another GOOD American Alpine buckling!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), August 26, 2001.

I have 2 senior herdsires who are Sweet Dreams. one is sired by Gryfalcon and the other Logic. I have one buck left (Sweet Dreams Gyrfalcon's Nighthawk) that is available to someone who would appreciate the fine bloodlines only. if you are interested jsut give me a holler.

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), August 26, 2001.

Just have to ask Marcia....why an American? vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), August 26, 2001.

Went to visit my folks in southern Va. Deer population is getting so high there that my brother's three sons had to lie out by the cornfield to knock them off to save their corn crop. In two nights they shot over a hundred. Legally, you can do that down there to save your crops from damage. They just dug a big hole and buried them in it. I bet that was downright fun. But sad too, with all that good meat going to waste. Stupid laws forbidding sale of venison.

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), August 27, 2001.

Oh of course, the bag limit for hunters is still quite low. The environMentalists have reintroduced panthers into the area to lower the deer population "naturally". Wonder why they think man isnt a "natural" enemy of deer?

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), August 27, 2001.

Deer Season? Already? Man, the luck of some of you folks. Our deer season doesn't start 'till the second weekend fo Novemeber and runs through the second weekend of January, then a two week season for does only. My family is still eating off our deer and wild hog meat from last year. I'm already ready for it though; can't wait to get up at 5:00 a.m. and get out into the cold, wet rainy weather to look for some venison, that when you tally all the money involved, comes out about $6.00 - $8.00 dollars a pound. Nobody said that deer hunters weren't sadists. But bring it on folks; I'm gettin' hongry!

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), August 27, 2001.

Vicki...just happened to "fall" into the breed, I guess! Went looking to buy a horse, bought two of their dairy goats instead (didn't like the horse's attitude :-)!!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), August 27, 2001.

DH and I have to go and apply for our doe and land owner permits this week. I'm usually to the one of the "drivers" but I'm a good shot and usually get at least one deer a year.

Stacy in NY

-- Stacy Rohan (KincoraFarm@aol.com), August 27, 2001.

Belle, I fenced the yard and put a Pyr in ito keep the danged deer from coming within 20' of the house to eat our fruit trees, landscaping, garden. So, now I keep them out and go to them in the season.

Saturday afternoon about 3 we watched 4 does and a spike buck in our neighbor's hayfield just past our fence line. Boy, those things are sure brazen. BUT as the season gets closer, they will be a little more cautious.

I'm of the opinion that Missouri needs a couple of years of does only seasons but then the trophy hunters won't come out and I'd bet it would backfire.

Anybody ever hear of Town and Country MO, a suburb of St. Louis? Those good people have the dumbest idea of deer reduction! They have spent thousands and thousands of dollars to have deer trapped and relocated only to have the deer die of shock or not knowing their new habitat. For so much less money, they could have hired a few really good bow hunters (eliminate the danger of stray bullets)for several years and donated the venison to local food banks. In the meantime, the population grows, traffic accidents with deer increase and the incidence of Lyme can go through the roof. We don't need any more deer out here in my county, thanks.

-- (rainbow@ktis.net), August 27, 2001.