Thursday, January 27, 2011

Things you dont know about hunting.

There are many things that i didn’t know about hunting and I’m sure there a lot for other people. Hunting has been an American tradition since the ice age. Also hunting is considered a sport.  Has anyone heard of a drop tine? Well if you don't, it’s a deer with a point on his rack grows in upside down. This is very rare. How about a half rack? When a deer losses its rack in February and March both there antlers fall off. But if a Buck or a male deer gets into a fight with another buck it could lose one antler. This then means it only has half of its rack! For example say a deer gets into a fight with another deer, the antlers could get tangled up and either the deer ends up dying or its antler falls off.  Some other things we will be talking about are hunting calls and other fun stuff. Hunting calls are calls. Such as a Grunt call. That is a call that makes the noise of a deer to attract them closer to the hunter himself. Also a turkey call, you have a thing you move back and forth and it scratches that sounds like the noise the turkey makes. I bet you didn’t know that the main coyote call in the wild is a distressed cat! I guess that when a cat is in trouble it makes a weird noise. And then the coyotes will surround the thing that’s in trouble. Coyote hunting is one of the greatest  things you can do says a Pennsylvania game commissioner.  “Calling a coyote into shotgun range is one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had in the outdoors,” said Perry County Wildlife Conservation Officer Steve Hower. http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/outdoors/x1328937303/Pa-Game-Commission-urges-coyote-hunting.
Image from Wellsville Daily

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Why you should hunt

Image from Grunt Calls
There are many reasons why you should hunt. One such reason why you should hunt is because it provides food. Such as one food that it could supply is steaks, chops, ground meat and jerky. Also you can have turkey, which tastes exactly turkey from the store. Another reason why you should hunt is because it provides entertainment. One way it provides entertainment is because you never know what going to happen. Say that you are deer hunting, you might see the biggest buck of your life or you might see nothing. Also it is a challenge. Some reasons why it is a challenging is because of the obstacles you have to go though. Such as the woods, the woods can be a tough thing to go through if there are trees everyone high grass or even thorn bushes. Also if there is snow on the ground it is harder to walk in or you could even fall, because it is icy. Another reason why you should hunt because it provides great exercise. If you become a bear hunter and its bear season you better be in great shape or you’re going to get lost because you can’t keep up. You travel at least 15 miles a day from past experiences. But it is defiantly worth it if you can get a bear because anywhere around here, bear are rare so it would be nice. Also Deer are overpopulating this part of the state its getting insane every time you drive u see a dead deer on the road. the game commission is saying that there is to many deer so they are sending hunters out to kill some other them off its and outrage. But hunting Is a great sport to get into and I know you will have a lot of fun if you do it so go out there and hunt!