Success on a whitetail doe.

For all you deer hunters, Here is a scene from Iowa. Fourteen deer, one day.
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For all you deer hunters, Here is a scene from Iowa. Fourteen deer, one day.
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How can you gut and clean all those deer b4 the meat goes bad?? Seems excessive for one hunt. Nothing against hunting, but something about not being able to clean them all.

Last night a huge buck took out 2 vehicles by me. The thing was enormous.
 
If those deer weren't already gutted, I wuldn't want to eat the meat. The photo weas sent to me by someone else but I would guess that it is the combined effort of a fairly large group of hunters. If Iowa is like Wisconsin, junters are only allowed one buck per season. On many farms, the kids leave the farm for the city but come back for the traditional deer hunt. Over the years, grandchildren and possibly even great grandchildren hoin the hunt. It becomes a family affair of including the traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Gramma's.

Many times the processing takes place on site with everyone pitching in. A single person can skin, butcher, cut, and wrap a deer n a few hours. Or you can haul the lot to a local meat processing plant where they are refrigerated and processed.
 
Well, there’s a few bucks left in NorCal. Less these two. Last weekend of season.

In California, we are gradually converting to non-lead ammo, which most folks say is not nearly as effective or accurate. I just bought some to try out for next year, so don’t know yet. The ban is due to various endangered species that ingest lead left behind in guts and what not, and then die from lead poisoning. I’m okay with the idea, not interested in extincting any more of gods creations just so I can shoot whatever load I feel like. Just wish someone would come up with unleaded that shoots good.

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In California, we are gradually converting to non-lead ammo, which most folks say is not nearly as effective or accurate. I just bought some to try out for next year, so don’t know yet. The ban is due to various endangered species that ingest lead left behind in guts and what not, and then die from lead poisoning.

Interesting. The primary consumers of gut piles or lost downed animals are coyotes. Coyotes are considered a pest here with no closed season or bag limit. Timber wolves have been reintroduced to northern Wisconsin and would also be possible consumers but their numbers have increased to the point where there is now a hunting season. Black bears would be another consumer but again, an annual hunting season.

A gut shot animal is unlikely to have any remnants of lead in the carcass when high power ammunition is used. Almost all wounded animals are recovered by hunters. Bottom line, the probability of finding lead in a carcass is very small and the probability of a preidtor dying from ingested lead even smaller.

I have shot over 100 deer in my lifetme and could count on two hands the number of times that I have found lead in the carcass. In lmost all cases, ii's a pass-through.
 
Here in NJ hunting is done with a shotgun. There's no pass through. They want to prevent that. Aren't politicians great :mad:

Not uncommon for politicians to write laws about something they know nothing of. We experience likewise here north of the 49th.
 
Deer aren't really the issue, agree on the pass-thru and probably minimal influence of deer hunting lead on the environment.

But, we shoot lots of coyotes, ground squirrels, and other little pest critters that are then eaten by others. The food chain is pretty unforgiving. For instance, we are finding that hawks and fishers and the like are dying off from the rat poison that the pot growers use to kill the wood rats that like to chew on the plant stems. The rats get sick and are easy pickings for those critters that eat them, then they get sick and die too.

The lead ban here started because of the California Condor. Why God made the critter so incredibly stupid, we can't know, but one of the few remaining birds died after drinking radiator fluid that had leaked out onto the ground. Why would any creature do that? The ban started in condor territory, after high lead levels were found in the hatchlings, who were dying after hatching or had thin shelled eggs or that kind of thing.
 
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