This is why they’re called “retrievers”
Retrievers retrieve:
But how on earth does a deer get into the ocean?
I’ve also seen retrievers nearly drown a person in their exuberant drive to retrieve that person.
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Some animals are just stupid. Which explains my success as a hunter.
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“But how on earth does a deer get into the ocean?”
Seemed like a good idea at the time?
http://www.redroverretrievers.com/
Miss Neocon, I am at always at your service.
https://www.lakeexpo.com/news/lake_news/deer-stranded-on-ice-is-roped-and-rescued-by-firefighters/article_e6cc6088-ff93-11e7-8225-2779e10f0c51.html
I’d be even embarrassed to kill ths deer.
Hey, welcome to a fresh start at life.
“Deer on ice.” Ask me about it.
Awesome. Also, two beautiful animals. Definitely an upper. Thanks, neo!
Julie, ask your husband. How many times have you tried to prod us awake, and we just really rather slept.
I threw a shoe at a Sailor for f***ing with my sleep.
Neat story, unusual retrieve, I have had Brittanys for years and my old dog Happy would occasional catch and retrieve a live squirrel, bring it to hand while being scratched, the dog, without any harm to the rodent. He could being in a large cock pheasant that had been shot down but still kicking with long spurs that the dog had learned how to avoid. Bird dogs, retrievers and pointers are hight energy friends, eager to help and they love to please.
I was at a dinner about eight miles out of town here in the Texas Hill Country this evening and we were dodging deer coming back. This time of year, this week the does are dropping fawns all around and the local paper was warning people to leave them alone and let them be when they see one huddle up in the brush. The fawns have not been abandoned but the does leave them to go browse and they always come back, except when they go swimming in the ocean, then they need help.
Don’t know why but I am sure dogs go to heaven and as for other animals, don’t care.
I had Springers for years. Now I have a Gordon Setter. I don’t hunt with him. That would be murder. I like a lot of things about Texas but not the strychnine traps. I’ll f***ing pistol whip a wild pig to death but I won’t expose my dog to a strychnine trap.
I’m thinking of opening the field to sled pullers. My contribution t sustainability. Plus I need to put my welding skilllzzzz to use.
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Neo, still laughing about the mouse.
“But how on earth does a deer get into the ocean?”
It is not unknown for animals to be lost at sea because they are trying to cross a river mouth or inlet of the sea and are either swept out by adverse currents or simply become disoriented and swim in the wrong direction (this happens to people too).
A young elephant in similar circumstances was rescued from the sea by the Sri Lankan Navy last year. I was surprised when I Googled this (to confirm my memory before making this comment) to discover that this happened not once but twice last year! Google “Sri Lankan Navy rescues elephant at sea” if you would like details including video.
I’m still laughing about the mouse. But here’s the deal, girl. I’m not laughing at the mouse. I’ve been a hunter all my life an I respect every creature I’ve ever crossed wits with. Some would say I’ve been bested by every single one,. You will find no argument from me.
I believe a wise woman had something to say about sheepdogs.
http://neo-neocon.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-about-those-sheepdogs-what-do.html
Sorry. Sheepdogs have long memories.
What mouse?
http://www.neoneocon.com/2017/12/24/and-all-through-the-house-2/
We’re all scared of something.
Here’s what I’m scared of. Fire.
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Stark_incident
Incident. Hah.
My dad was a Coastie. I got to grow up getting care in a Naval hospital where the passage ways were lined with the horribly burned and maimed.
Sign me the **** up!
“USS Stark, a Perry class guided missile frigate, was under the command of Captain Glenn R. Brindel and was part of the Middle East Task Force. She was sailing off the Saudi Arabian coast near the Iran—Iraq War exclusion boundary, the area of sea off Iran and Iraq. The Iraqi pilot attacked with a Dassault Mirage F1 armed with 1,500 pound Exocet missiles. .. ”
Combat didn’t exactly cover themselves with glory that day. 37 killed. But Damage Control did. It could have been worse. Those Exocets hit the ship with a full bag of gas. Most of those 37 died screaming in their racks, incinerated.
We in the Navy inhabit our weapons systems.
My personal hero.
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/bt1-andrew-gallagher-risked-his-life-to-save-others-aboard-uss-belknap/
Take a close look at those pictures.
Not a “deer”, which implies adulthood, but a fawn, the deer equivalent of a toddler. A very young toddler at that. Which was probably frightened into the water, since it was only ~30 ft from shore when ‘retrieved’. Deer are flight creatures, bolt at almost any stimulus. That stimulus for the fawn might even have been the hero dog, Storm. Who is not well-trained, BTW, with its owner yelling ignored commands.
Urbanites don’t understand stuff like this. That is what makes them so ecologically dangerous; they vote.
All that concrete and asphalt is too damn hot! Cities make their own microclimates, but Global Warming!
This almost makes me want to join the twitterverse.
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I respect animals by eating them and make them into the constituent particles of this avatar.
I’ve heard people going into all vegan cat food and juicing for humans. That doesn’t seem bad either.
comments here are becoming like flies swarming on rotten meat.
OK, Frog. Here’s a random thought from one of the flies straying the carcass. Prince Harry has been in the news of late.
He flew Apaches.
Ponder on that. The potential future king of England flew Apaches.
Now tell me, who really won that fight.
I’ve got an answer for you. We were victorious over the bad @$$ed of the world’s bad @$$es.
The flies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=YXjqTyQuq4w
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Steve57:
I saw another mouse about two days ago, scurrying across the kitchen floor, disappearing under the fridge. Have to have somebody come in and plug up any entrance holes!!
I managed not to scream, though. This one was nowhere near as bold as the Christmas mouse.
I knew an AZ Air Nat Guard Apache pilot whose bird fell out of the sky during a live fire exercise. Both crew were incinerated, the wreck unapproachable for 12 hrs due to discharging munitions. The awful, insincere Gov. Janet Napolitano attended the funeral, mouthing platitudes that she clearly did not feel.
I thought I heard a mouse the other night. I whipped out the swords. The Kentucky long rifle. You are a brave woman. I salute you, and if I’m within range I’d be proud to handle that mouse.
You should see me about spiders. It would make you doubt for your national defense.
I’m good with snakes, though.
I feel sorry for the snakes. I eat them. I also eat spiders, if they’re big enough. Taste like crab.
Steve57:
For some reason I’m okay with dealing with spiders on my own (as long as they’re not as big as my hand).
Also I make belts. Out of the snakes, I mean. Good luck making a belt out of a spider.
Frog, I try to laugh it off. The idea of frying scares the sh** out of me. It’s a universal fear. It was the idea behind the development of the flamethower.
Maybe the retrievers know something I had to learn. A panicking drowning person will try to climb on top of you to escape the water. How to deal with that? Dive. The drowning person will not follow you down. Eventually they’ll wear themselves down to the point where you can rescue them. Maybe that’s why it looked like the retrievers were trying to drown them.
Frog, about those guardsmen, I shudder to think what they went through. To this day I maintain three first aid kits. A zippered soft pouch, my backpacking kit, a small hardcase that fits under the seat of my car, and what I affectionately call my chainsawing kit. It’s in a full size Sears Craftsman toolbox.
That’s how deeply traumatized I was, looking at the wounded in the Naval hospital. If I remember correctly about half of them were wounded when the cable snapped. It didn’t scare me nearly as much as the fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIbvX_B7sY
That was back during Vietnam. Fortunately we now have a better idea how long the wire lasts.
Ahhahahahaha …
Tell anyone you are trying to convince, to look at a deer skull, and gauge the actual space available for the volume of the deer brain which can’t be much more than the equivalent of a couple/three golf balls.
Of course, then there are news articles saying that one rat neuron is capable of storing 4 bits or something …. and it gets kind of metaphysical.
I may be seen to be setting my parents up to look bad. This is not the case. I am grateful to my parents for teaching me the facts of life early on.
DNW, if you’ve hunted them you know most deer know what they need to know. Which includes escaping me.
I actually like the ones big as my hand. It’s the smaller ones that escapade my attention.
I slap them with my hand.
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You are probably a big deer slayer and just joking. But I’ll say this anyway.
Remember to walk into the wind, if you can. Moving is ok if you do it painfully slowly. You cover more area that way and become an active hunter, not a passive sitter. More time in woods or field, more chance to see something. Assuming the ground is productive. Hunting in a pure stand of hundreds of acres of mature Norways, or even Sugar Maples, is pretty pointless, unless you are looking for exercise.
But if the ground cover and mast crop in the area is promising it’s a good bet. And then, just when you think you cannot stand another moment of that self-controlled, hyper alert, no scratching or shrugging creeping, is when one will probably be just out of sight; or else just in sight but unseen.
They will of course see you before you see them most often; unless you catch them off in some farm field 300 yards away. But, if they are only partially alarmed, they will freeze and not move. In the woods, you will see them freeze without realizing what you have seen at first, and then tend to freeze yourself.
If you are caught wrong-footed too bad. Tough it out even if it feels like your leg is trembling. You must not move at all until they flick their tails a couple of times and bob their heads up and down, maybe even stamping the front foot. Remain motionless.
When they really begin to browse again (and they will fake it once or twice and suddenly jerk their head up to look at you) raise your gun SLOWLY as far as you can as their eyes go behind a tree.
Then shoulder the gun and aim and squeeze one off in the lung area. You have 3 seconds to shoulder, and aim, and shoot.
Bucks, you will notice moving along steadily; usually half out of sight. They don’t typically wander aimlessly or in groups if mature. If you see one big form moving steadily along a ridge top, outlined against the sky, chances are it’s a buck. Scope it instantly and be prepared to shoot as soon as you have confirmed it. You only have a moment or two since the smart ones don’t usually pause. Sometimes they do. They become the ones that only live 18 months to 3 years.
This is still-hunting advice. If you don’t hunt from the ground, stalking on your own two feet, I can’t offer any advice.
Oh don’t lead them. A bullet travels so fast [as you very well know] that under 100 yards, the motion forward at a walking gait [3mph/4.4 ft/sec] only means an inch or two of point blank aim difference at 2400/2700 fps if you are going with the target freehand. But there is a big psychological temptation to lead extra anyway. If you aim at the mid-to lower back of the front shoulder and actually manage to squeeze off at your intended aim point, you will do no worse than the lung.
But I have a feeling you know all this. LOL
When I walk towards feral and semi feral cats, they will start running off until I move slower. Animals can detect intention and body language quite well, and they and dogs will often have reactions for the perceptive.
It is why the Shaolin teachers used animals to study on how to engineer martial art technique systems.
Bird brained parrots and crows are more intelligent than monkeys and apes, which evolutionary scientists say humans came from a common ancestor.
This idea that the size of the brain is related to one’s intelligence, is a result of materialistic scientific theories. Humans had to work with the alchemy that they had available. Now a days, we have more powerful tools like quantum physics.
No wonder it is called the cat stance! It doesn’t look like a cat, but that is not the point.