Dispatching deer with a knife?
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Brave Echo Niner
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I’m curious by that comment - you think wounding a much higher number of deer such that you needed to dispatch four with a knife in one hour is ‘real hunting’?
Surely the lack of requirement to dispatch as many deer given the better kit we have now would be seen as a good thing?
Ben
Perhaps they were hunted, rather than stalked and shot?
Sheamus
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Benji me ole flower you've kind of lost me with your post?
But ill make an attempt to explain. Now do take into account that my communication skills are not the best at times.
But anyway on that day there were no guns, no thermals.
Just two dogs (pre 2004).
How that explains
As I thought.Benji me ole flower you've kind of lost me with your post?
But ill make an attempt to explain. Now do take into account that my communication skills are not the best at times.
But anyway on that day there were no guns, no thermals.
Just two dogs (pre 2004).
How that explains
Brave Echo Niner
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Roger - that does explain it, I had misunderstood and thought you meant hunting in the generic term.Benji me ole flower you've kind of lost me with your post?
But ill make an attempt to explain. Now do take into account that my communication skills are not the best at times.
But anyway on that day there were no guns, no thermals.
Just two dogs (pre 2004).
How that explains
I’m surprised it was outlawed as late as 2004 though, I can’t say hunting with dogs is something I think many would agree with, particularly where you’re choosing to finish them with a knife.
kenbro
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Is that just a distant memory now Tim, or do you still feel the effects?
Ken.
The repair job was fantastic. Scars barely visible. However, I haven't quite regained full movement in my thumb, and part of my hand and one side of my thumb are permanently numb.
buckfever
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Loved a good daytime roe single handed
buckfever
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I've done a couple of roe, a fallow, a muntie and a red knobber with a knife over the years. Only one of those was one I'd shot myself and don't recall the reason I chose knife over a second shot (the rest I didn't have a rifle with me or were RTAs etc). I'm trying to think back to each situation and I'm not sure that there was one where I'd have be happy using a pistol where I wouldn't have been just as happy using a rifle. Surely if it's a poor / hard backstop / rocky ground etc you don't want to be putting a .357 or similar into it? I know in an ideal world you'd go in through the forehead and down the spine, but we don't live in an ideal world and that's not always possible... It's dark, it's wet, it's slippery and the the animal is thrashing around a bit.
Now a 410 shot pistol would be different - that I could see the benefits.
Now a 410 shot pistol would be different - that I could see the benefits.
Sea trout
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I was up on a mil base once and saw a dead deer on the side of the road. I pulled over to see what sex it was and as I approached,it started kicking. As I wasn't stalking I didn't have a knife so asked the guys if they did, they did not. One of the safety wardens arrived and I asked him for a knife. He told me had one in his office so I followed him back. On arrival he presented me a Stanley knife. I turned that down along with the alternative screw driver option. It was then he said there were some guys next door who might have something.
I went next door and was met by a load of SF blokes. I asked very politely whether they might have a Sharpe knife suitable to dispatch a deer.....The number of daggers and fighting knives produced was quite impressive.
Always worse knifing a deer where you cocked the shot, doesn't feel quite as bad when it was someone else's mistake but if there is ever the option to shoot again, I would always do that.
I went next door and was met by a load of SF blokes. I asked very politely whether they might have a Sharpe knife suitable to dispatch a deer.....The number of daggers and fighting knives produced was quite impressive.
Always worse knifing a deer where you cocked the shot, doesn't feel quite as bad when it was someone else's mistake but if there is ever the option to shoot again, I would always do that.
Sea trout
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I was up on a mil base once and saw a dead deer on the side of the road. I pulled over to see what sex it was and as I approached,it started kicking. As I wasn't stalking I didn't have a knife so asked the guys if they did, they did not. One of the safety wardens arrived and I asked him for a knife. He told me had one in his office so I followed him back. On arrival he presented me a Stanley knife. I turned that down along with the alternative screw driver option. It was then he said there were some guys next door who might have something.
I went next door and was met by a load of SF blokes. I asked very politely whether they might have a Sharpe knife suitable to dispatch a deer.....
The number of daggers and fighting knives produced was quite impressive.
Always worse knifing a deer where you cocked the shot, doesn't feel quite as bad when it was someone else's mistake but if there is ever the option to shoot again, I would always do that.
I went next door and was met by a load of SF blokes. I asked very politely whether they might have a Sharpe knife suitable to dispatch a deer.....
The number of daggers and fighting knives produced was quite impressive.
Always worse knifing a deer where you cocked the shot, doesn't feel quite as bad when it was someone else's mistake but if there is ever the option to shoot again, I would always do that.
RoyalRedStag
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Cut neck as if you bleeding it
Rake Aboot
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I’d agree with it .
Brave Echo Niner
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Good for you, I’m sure you’d also like to be able to use bows, catapults and spears still too?
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