An elderly gentlemen on my lease killed a buck .....

Gun on safe finger on trigger guard looking at you through my scope, you're as safe as in your mother's arms plus I would never put cross hairs on you and as soon as I identified you I would pull up and open bolt. Then I would scope you out to see why you are on my lease. My scope is way better than my binos.

I have a question about tags, and the head versus the body. I have always quartered my deer, cut the backstraps myself, and take the quarters to a processor. Most of my hunting was in MS which had no tags.

I killed a very legal buck a few days ago, I left the head/horns with my dad in one town to take to get a Euro mount to a place we know/trust, and took my quartered meat home (200+ miles away) to a family friends processor place. The intake person of my meat was a bit taken back that I did not have my tag, I explained it was tied to my horns which were at a taxidermy place. She took my meat but it opens up that question...

Where should the tag go/stay and was I actually illegal separating? I mean, they almost have to be separated at some point? Also got me to thinking had a I been stopped driving home with a cooler of meat and no tags, would I have trouble?

And your defense would be?

studying a rack for more than a second can be a problem in east texas, not all of us hunt feeders, a lot of the time you have 5-10 seconds to shoot or not. Not always possible to get the buck to look at you and raise his ear. Hours on the stand and your one oppurnity for the year gone

AR's are awesome.....but not really.

What happened to just hunting?

I hope you are joking, we are talking about animals not humans. I would be willing to say if you did a poll of all the hunters with more than 20 years of experience over 99% of them will say they put their scope on a deer to check it out, or put a scope on a animal they didn't shoot for a myriad of reasons.

There is a difference between putting a scope on an animal with your finger on the trigger and off the trigger.

How many times have your heard I looked at him through my scope?

I have a question about tags, and the head versus the body. I have always quartered my deer, cut the backstraps myself, and take the quarters to a processor. Most of my hunting was in MS which had no tags.

I killed a very legal buck a few days ago, I left the head/horns with my dad in one town to take to get a Euro mount to a place we know/trust, and took my quartered meat home (200+ miles away) to a family friends processor place. The intake person of my meat was a bit taken back that I did not have my tag, I explained it was tied to my horns which were at a taxidermy place. She took my meat but it opens up that question...



Where should the tag go/stay and was I actually illegal separating? I mean, they almost have to be separated at some point? Also got me to thinking had a I been stopped driving home with a cooler of meat and no tags, would I have trouble?

Don't shoot an illegal deer and you don't have to worry about it.

studying a rack for more than a second can be a problem in east texas, not all of us hunt feeders, a lot of the time you have 5-10 seconds to shoot or not. Not always possible to get the buck to look at you and raise his ear. Hours on the stand and your one oppurnity for the year gone

Don't shoot an illegal deer and you don't have to worry about it.

great question. we got into a healthy AR debate on our lease a couple years ago and a buddy put it pretty well. "He said all this over an animal, we shoot and eat."