Have any of you taken fair chase literally?

[Squamch]

I caught a blue grouse by hand when I was out mountain biking as a kid. Dad was pleased when I got back to the truck!

I also saw a tweaker jump on an urban doe and cut it's throat years ago. Sure he was on performance enhancing substances, and it was a relaxed urban deer, but it was one on one!

 

[bguitierez]

I caught a blue grouse by hand when I was out mountain biking as a kid. Dad was pleased when I got back to the truck!

I also saw a tweaker jump on an urban doe and cut it's throat years ago. Sure he was on performance enhancing substances, and it was a relaxed urban deer, but it was one on one!

Holy shit! Hahahahaha. That’s crazy


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[Squamch]

Holy shit! Hahahahaha. That’s crazy


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It was really something to see. I was sitting eating my lunch in my van, in a park parking lot between service calls and I see this tweaker in a bush with a knife in his hand. I was thinking I was gonna see another tweaker get stabbed or something. Nope. He is in full ninja mode slow crawling until he's like 5' behind this bedded doe. Our city is so over run with deer that some councils are paying to have them net trapped and given birth control...roundabout way of saying I'm not concerned about populations, and they're pretty used to people around them.

So he gets up into a monkey crouch, knife in his hand and I'm thinking "No f***ing way this will pan out." Two quick steps, he jumps on top of the deer, stabs and cuts out of her throat, drops the knife and wrenches her head sideways, I guess breaking her neck, then drags the deer back into a thicker bush.

It was truly impressive. I'd guess it wasn't his first rodeo, and I've not heard of gut piles being found, but at least at some point, some of the homeless around here were eating pretty well!

 

[jspradley]

I chased a sounder of pigs through the woods into a slough that I knew they wouldn't be able to get out of, only to find out that that pigs can, in fact, swim very well...

 

[bguitierez]

It was really something to see. I was sitting eating my lunch in my van, in a park parking lot between service calls and I see this tweaker in a bush with a knife in his hand. I was thinking I was gonna see another tweaker get stabbed or something. Nope. He is in full ninja mode slow crawling until he's like 5' behind this bedded doe. Our city is so over run with deer that some councils are paying to have them net trapped and given birth control...roundabout way of saying I'm not concerned about populations, and they're pretty used to people around them.

So he gets up into a monkey crouch, knife in his hand and I'm thinking "No f***ing way this will pan out." Two quick steps, he jumps on top of the deer, stabs and cuts out of her throat, drops the knife and wrenches her head sideways, I guess breaking her neck, then drags the deer back into a thicker bush.

It was truly impressive. I'd guess it wasn't his first rodeo, and I've not heard of gut piles being found, but at least at some point, some of the homeless around here were eating pretty well!

that’s so awesome!


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[jspradley]

Holy crap... we need to find that guy and get him to teach us how to stalk!!! He could make bank!

 

[bowieknife50]

I read something long ago about a Russian family that heard a false report that the country was overrun so they fled to the hills and never came out. Somebody finally found their cabin on a SAT photo and made contact. Anyhow they were Farmers and took seeds with them and really amazing story about how at one point they were down to a single wheat plant and had a 24 hr guard on it. Anyway Junior finally got tired of bark and herbs and supposedly just started chasing down deer on foot. Literally running them down to the point of exhaustion and jumping them. All supposedly true. I wish I had a link.

Also we've run up on lots of turkeys. After one bad shot of mine my idiot buddy jumps right in front of me and starts chasing it. I'm screaming at him to clear out but eventually realize he's ignoring me and join in the fun. We chased that sumbitch through the woods for about 20 minutes alternating between him trying to jump on it and me trying to kick its legs out and it running straight into trees. It was all pretty comical except when he tried to jump and I tried to kick at the same time it didn't work out too well for my buddy. Anyhow he finally caught it and I ran up and killed it with a rock (I had long past sensed the danger and just sat my gun down in a safe place). When we finally took a picture that bird had exactly 3 tail feathers left.


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[RCB]

First elk hunt last Nov 2018. Trailed a herd for a few hours through dark timber. As sunset was getting close, and it was clear the el knew we were there, I decided to just run the last few hundred yards and see if I could get a shot. It worked: right when I was about to turn around and start heading back, I spot a small group about 50 yards from me, clearly alerted to me, and looking at me, but not yet running off. Shot my cow.

I also ran after a pronghorn doe for maybe a few hundred yards a few months prior. First hunt ever. Stupidly was taking a break on a hill, eating a snack and glassing, left my rifle 50 ft away. Out of nowhere appears a pronghorn doe within 200 yards. I run back for my rifle and then after her. Over a few hills. It didn’t work out.

 

[bguitierez]

I read something long ago about a Russian family that heard a false report that the country was overrun so they fled to the hills and never came out. Somebody finally found their cabin on a SAT photo and made contact. Anyhow they were Farmers and took seeds with them and really amazing story about how at one point they were down to a single wheat plant and had a 24 hr guard on it. Anyway Junior finally got tired of bark and herbs and supposedly just started chasing down deer on foot. Literally running them down to the point of exhaustion and jumping them. All supposedly true. I wish I had a link.

Also we've run up on lots of turkeys. After one bad shot of mine my idiot buddy jumps right in front of me and starts chasing it. I'm screaming at him to clear out but eventually realize he's ignoring me and join in the fun. We chased that sumbitch through the woods for about 20 minutes alternating between him trying to jump on it and me trying to kick its legs out and it running straight into trees. It was all pretty comical except when he tried to jump and I tried to kick at the same time it didn't work out too well for my buddy. Anyhow he finally caught it and I ran up and killed it with a rock (I had long past sensed the danger and just sat my gun down in a safe place). When we finally took a picture that bird had exactly 3 tail feathers left.


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that’s good shit right there! Haha


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[bguitierez]

First elk hunt last Nov 2018. Trailed a herd for a few hours through dark timber. As sunset was getting close, and it was clear the el knew we were there, I decided to just run the last few hundred yards and see if I could get a shot. It worked: right when I was about to turn around and start heading back, I spot a small group about 50 yards from me, clearly alerted to me, and looking at me, but not yet running off. Shot my cow.

I also ran after a pronghorn doe for maybe a few hundred yards a few months prior. First hunt ever. Stupidly was taking a break on a hill, eating a snack and glassing, left my rifle 50 ft away. Out of nowhere appears a pronghorn doe within 200 yards. I run back for my rifle and then after her. Over a few hills. It didn’t work out.

Yeah dude I’ve ran after a few myself. Never does work out well. I’d been chasing a herd on the Rez for a few weeks. They gave me the slip at least a dozen times. But eventually all that running taught me where they like to go. In the end it worked out and as I ran to cut the herd off and shot the biggest pronghorn I’ll probably ever shoot. Congrats on the elk though! That’s pretty dam awesome.


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