Hunting

[Mark Gudschinsky]

I was just wondering if anyone else has hunting season

[Frank Hagan]

No hunting season right around where I live, unless fishing qualifies (and we have seasons now for the rockfish off the Channel Islands). I'm not even sure you're allowed to discharge a firearm in this county!

I'm not a hunter, but when California deer season opens up, my brother always heads up to Shaver Lake, CA, just east of Fresno in the Sierras, to "take his gun for a walk in the woods." He has brought home venison to me only once in the last 20 years. No luck. Or perphaps he's keeping it for himself!

My cousins in Missouri invite hunters on their land and will even give them deer tags if they use up theirs. They are overrun with deer! My brother keeps wondering if he should go back there when their season opens.

[Andrew]

There's a duck season that I know of here in Australia, but whenever I've been hunting (twice) it's been on my in-laws farm, and we shoot the usual pests - foxes, rabbits, wild pigs and roos.

The only thing I've ever shot is a tree!! :oops:

[Dave Ruedel]

Here in Kentucky we have 3 different segments of deer season - bow & arrow, muzzle loaders, and regular firearms. Also seasons for turkey, ducks, and doves. Elk is a short season, and you have to apply to hunt, and they draw names from a lottery - not too many elk, but increasing. Everyting else from squirrels, rabbits, etc to PWC's can be hunted year round. I'll put in a plug for my nephew who owns Crazy Horse Archery and Tackle down in Taylor County, Ky.

[Bruce S Kershaw]

Alexander,

Florida has all sorts of critters we can harvest, and different seasons for modern firearms, black powder, and bow and arrow.

Wild hog and white tail deer are the most popular.(Yum!) There are also duck, quail and doves, the usual rabbits, and such, and even alligators. Some people think alligator tastes good, but I don't care for it.

I hunted some when I first moved here about 30 years ago, but have since lost interest. Field dressing a deer when it's 80 degrees out is not fun. It also seems unhealthy to me, to be handling raw meat in those conditions. The bugs love it.

I think I read somewhere that the closer you get to the equator, the smaller the big game gets. I believe it. The deer in Florida get no bigger than a large goat. The moose are so small, you can't even see them. :wink:

Around Thanksgiving time, I get to missing pheasant hunting on bright, crisp fall mornings in Illinois, where I grew up. No pheasants in Florida.

The only hunting I do now is for spiney lobster. You just dive down and grab then, because the don't have any claws. It's not always as easy as it sounds. Lobster season is open now, and I'm going on vacation in a week to try and catch some. (Double yum!!!)

We have seasons for fishing here too. Some types of fish you have to throw back unless they are in season. It gets kind of complicated because we have so many different kinds of fish.

[Fintan Murphy]

We have a tourist season over here, if that counts

By the way, not to hyjack the thread, but Frank, Jan was amazed that we have palm trees here. I found out that they are in fact Cordylines and look very like palm trees.

http://www.cordyline.org/cordy2.htm

Honest, that's our story and we're sticking to it.

[capt jake]

I used to be a hunting fool. I gave it up a number of years ago, as society encroached on all of my favorite places. Don't even own a gun anymore.

[tdrown]

The school district even used to have the first day of deer season as a school holiday. The district used to be mostly rural but now it is mostly housing developments. I'm not sure if they still have off.

[Frank Hagan]

We have a tourist season over here' date=' if that counts

By the way, not to hyjack the thread, but Frank, Jan was amazed that we have palm trees here. I found out that they are in fact Cordylines and look very like palm trees.

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Honest, that's our story and we're sticking to it.

Leah showed us a real-honest-to-goodness palm tree at the estate that is also a tourist attraction above Bray somewhere. Supposedly, during the famine, he continued to pay and feed all of his employees. The explanation Leah had was a "micro-climate" that favored the palm tree, but they did have incidents with it getting the equivalent of "frost bite" from the mild weather.

It looked NOTHING like those bromiliad-looking cordylines! We know palm trees (there's three of them in my yard.)

[RussMartin]

The school district even used to have the first day of deer season as a school holiday. The district used to be mostly rural but now it is mostly housing developments. I'm not sure if they still have off.

A friend and college buddy of mine had his first high-school teaching job (1971) in DuBois, Wyoming. So many of the families had guide and outfitting businesses that they literally closed the schools for deer season.

[Fintan Murphy]

Sorry Frank, it was actually Steve Downs's wife Jan that commented on the presence of palm trees on the south coast. When I commented about this to my brother (who knows about such things), he said that they were actually Cordylines.

What you actually saw was probably a palm tree. It's not unusual to have some tropical plants around in various large gardens, due to the gulf stream.

[Steve Downs]

I believe we saw some in Waterford when we erer there and she was so excited. She talks more and more like she'd like to move over there. Ireland is calling her.

[Frank Hagan]

Sorry Frank' date=' it was actually Steve Downs's wife Jan that commented on the presence of palm trees on the south coast. When I commented about this to my brother (who knows about such things), he said that they were actually Cordylines.

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I remembered the name of the estate, Powerscourt Gardens. It was a palm tree, but I have to admit it didn't look too healthy.