Some of the southeast is fucking riddled with deer, and isn't THAT far from you

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if you don't have your hunter's education card, you can do an adult class for that thing. it's a few hours in most states. you use that to get your hunting licenses. add some more hours for specific licenses like trapping, archery, or (in some places) black powder/muzzleloaders.

once you've got that, you just need to pick a species and a methodology (firearms, bow, atlatl, whatever) and look into it a bit. eg, if hunting solo waterfowl without a dog, you'll want some birdwatching binoculars to see where your bird falls, and then a kayak to go get it without spending half the day wading through a marsh.

most of the "gear" they sell at sporting goods stores to "help" hunters is pure indulgence and is not necessary, but you will want to get some good water-resistant outdoors clothes and materials appropriate to your task.

field-dressing is actually a more subtle and time-consuming skill to acquire than the kill itself. there are videos online. you should watch them with diligence.

then you're into the haulage/butchering/cooking stage, which is a lot of fun if you have the right attitude.

here's a general tip - tie that shit down. let's say you bag a buck, get it field-dressed, haul it onto your ATV's sled, then head off back to the truck.

if its antlers are facing toward you and it isn't secured well, that can pop right off and impale you as you travel downhill.

a lot of old fat drunk dudes get killed by falling out of tree-stands, too. tree stands are often botch-jobs by retards. i don't trust them if i had no hand in setting them up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3434477&forum_id=2#31946189)

hunting moralists will come in here and start screaming at me about how dangerous it is to drink and shoot, but everyone from truly rural areas does it, and it's something we might as well discuss.

for that matter, there are a lot of hunting autists out there who seem to think that even the slightest hint of human noises or scents will cause all the animals in the area to flee immediately.

total crock of shit. i've seen deer saunter up toward the stand even with the fucking portable radio going and after having pissed out the window. animals are cagey but impulsive. young males will press their luck and get got.

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Industry seems to back that up heavily as well. Its now as though if you aren't wearing some activated charcoal garb, then you aren't even trying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3434477&forum_id=2#31946335)

Seems like a missed opportunity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3434477&forum_id=2#31946351)

I rarely wear camo anyway. I usually wear slate grey kuiu stuff that I can wear when not hunting

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The incident where I might have peppered some other dude was very low odds, TBH. It was national forest land, and there didn't seem to be anyone else around. I didn't see any other cars parked anywhere near where I parked.

Yet there was this grouse that flushed. And I fired at it. And from virtually the exact direction that I fired, a guy started yelling. He probably was under 40 yards from me, and I never saw him.

The guy I almost shot (or maybe actually shot? it was birdshot, so who the fuck knows) was almost certainly the only guy within miles. I'm pretty sure he was a bowhunter in a tree. Yet I discharged my gun at him at an uncomfortably close distance.

Shit happens. It really does. I'm a hunter, and I'm not in any disagreement with any regulations that plausibly arise out of hunter safety issues

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3434477&forum_id=2#31946444)