Not a hunter but I go spotting with my friend sometimes in goose season, I get a little meat or more likely gather some down from someone else who bagged one. I’m working on getting enough up to make a camping quilt with it eventually.
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I was always a fan of tiger stripes camo and that’s all I wear, I have a green tiger stripes for early season hunting and brown tiger stripes for fall seasons. I have a book about tiger stripe camouflage believe it or not…Tiger Stripe camouflage was highly effective and is still used by U.S. Special Operations Forces that operate in areas like Afghanistan.
Navy seals in Vietnam
Vietnam era tiger stripes…
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Tiger stripe is my favorite military patern, that and German flecktarn. Stripes break up the outline and cut a figure into pieces so well. I remember there was this one issue of national geographic or something like that where there were all these comflauged frogs amongst the foliage on the cover. The caption read something like “how many frogs are there?” I counted 14, the answer key said 15. I looked it up and down and couldn’t figure where the missing frog was. Finally after wandering around the store I picked it back up and found it. All the others looked like leaves or had complex patterns. The hardest one to find was solid green with a thin black stripe going down the middle. That stripe was all it took to trick my brain into seeing two separate images and instead of a single frog. Pretty cool.
I think solid colors are underated too, especially when you need to move to take a shot. Think about it, take two 50 gallon drums, paint one solid green and the other camo. Put them on turntables and step back a hundred or so feet. Which one is harder to see moving?
Solid patterns with camo are good too for breaking an image apart. I often wear half and half and my khaki dockers are harder to see than my camo in the brown dead stuff…
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I got into hunting about 10 years ago, when my ex started me into archery and deer hunting. I have a bad shoulder that made using a compound bow difficult, so I bought a crossbow- and it was worse lol. I could not hold it up because it is so front heavy. I still have it, but I can’t use it.
Anyway, I switched back to using a rifle. (Yes, I know my username is hippie chick, but I’m more redneck than hippie 
) Rabbits, squirrels, deer, turkeys- rabbits and squirrels are probably my favorites, especially squirrels.
I have mobility problems and haven’t hunted in several years now. I was really hoping to go visit a buddy in Arkansas and kill some hogs and bring home some deer this year, but I’m just not up to it yet. (I might never be, who knows).
I used to be a diehard fisherman, too.
The burger was a deer burger. I processed my own meat, always have. Grind 8# lean whole muscle, cubed and 2# of the best bacon you can find. Grind them together and bag/freeze. I add a packet of hidden valley ranch seasoning to each 2# package and a teaspoon of pecan liquid smoke before forming patties and cooking. Don’t overcook! They’re great when pink in the middle. Puts an Angus to shame lol
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Beautiful @Hippiechik love it all!!!
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That’s very awesome, all the pics. I’m happy to see more people in this thread.
Paws
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That squirrel pic is probably one of the better shots I have made! It is hard to tell, but I got it through a tiny gap in those trees. He flipped over and that was that. I limited out that day, too- greedy buggers were sucking the deer feeder dry and they were some of the fattest squirrels I’ve ever seen.
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That’s awesome, we don’t kill them here. There are grays and another type. Almost identical. One is a charge. So we don’t do it lol, but I reap on the local rabbit population every year with my bow. If I’m lazy I’ll pop em with a 20 gauge. We like to hunt archery, modern, and muzzy each year. This year was rough. I did get my first bear. No deer or elk though.
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I have a rancher friend who is kind enough to let me hunt, as the deer are enormous pests that compete with the cattle for food. He said each one can eat the equivalent of a square bale of alfalfa a week, and he has a lot of them.
This year, though, things are so bad with the drought that he had to get rid of his herd before they died of starvation. I assume that the deer have had a rough time, too. Worse, as there’s no water either.
Those are fox squirrels, btw- and they can get nearly as big as a cottontail (3 lbs or so). They’re probably the most underrated game animals in North America: wary, smart, difficult to hit, and delicious.
This garden raider is my only successful archery hunt. The arrow placement looks terrible in the picture, but it dropped instantly and the arrow actually hit the heart- it’s just angled weird in the photo.
Bonus lol 
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That’s very interesting about those squirrels… I have pics in the thread just not on my new phone… I actually just stink bombed the area saving my small dog from scrapping a skunk. Arrow placement was horrible but it’s dead.
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Very cool! Got to love the cuisine of the forrest. Still haven’t tried squirrel. That shovelhead is nice! Duck is opening back up here soon so I’m stoked for that.
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Animals tend to taste like whatever they are eating. Squirrels feeding on mast, birdseed or grain (especially corn) are excellent table fare. (Those feeding on conifers- uh, no thanks.)
It’s comparable to dark meat turkey, but with a nutty aftertaste. Cream of squirrel soup with wild rice and mushrooms will make your cold winter day 1000% better.
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Okay, okay, not really hunting, but it’s me so fucking long ago. Never had a camera with me when I was hunting (or fishing for that matter). My friend Maury had never seen an animal slaughtered and/or butchered and he did happen to have his camera with him. I’m guessing this is maybe 1974 or 75.
Two different animals, both goats.
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Sitting in the field for shotgun season, waiting on anything to show up…
shots all around, figure something has to stumble to me eventually haha
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This is about the time of day I would head out. I have a camo bucket with a padded swivel seat, it’s got a styrofoam insert and is ideal for dove hunting- but I use it for deer hunting (and just about everything else).
I look for a big tree or a big evergreen on the edge of a field, one with some scattered tall weeds ideally, and snuggle myself right up against the tree on my bucket. Once I get into position, I don’t move anything except my eyes. If I do move, I do it very slowly, and try to move with the wind- if the weeds are moving, it is okay. I want that wind right in my face, too.
I call it the Zen of Tree. I am just a tree to the wildlife, if I do it right. I’ve had a family of raccoons squabble (and 
) right by my feet. Birds have landed on me. The last time I went out, an armadillo spent a good five minutes noisily scrabbling around my boots looking for grubs and worms. He doesn’t really count, though- they’re so dumb and blind that you can walk right up to them and catch them if you’re quiet.
I miss it. Hunting is fun. The fun stops and the work starts when you get something, though.
PS go get yourself a bright orange plastic sled and plenty of rope. You can drag all your gear into the field easily, and it makes dragging your deer out much easier too. If you tie it down, you can drag it out with a quad this way, too.
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Nice shot !!! you can send me the “prime-cut” I’m sure you kow what that is __I will pay shipping can’t beat thise “loins” Just finished deer roast, wow a lot of lean meat. Remember when there was a deal with infected deers ,can’t remember the disease but it was caused by mosquitos
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CWD chronic wasting disease is still a very real thing and it’s spreading like wildfire…
Every now and then, very rarely though, I’ll find a blue tongue dead by a pond.
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My private hunting lake is usually all iced up by this time of the year but this weather have been relatively been warm…no problems for me I’ll just extend my goose season…
I’m usually done hunting geese after December because I’d rather stay in my nice warm bed in the early morning hours instead being outside in the cold…
It’s gonna be fucking 50 degrees today perfect weather to go hunting, I could’ve shot more but I have no more room in my freezer…btw, pix of the lake was taken last week…geese was shot this morning…the last day of goose season in my area is Jan. 31st.
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