June 19, 2020
In all my sunrise runs on this path, I'd never seen a deer before, and today, suddenly, up ahead, there were 2...
They kept disappearing then reappearing at a later point, and I kept getting my camera out, then putting it away, concluding that they were gone for good, and then, finally, I caught one...
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Can't believe you never saw a deer. I've had as many as 5 in my back yard in suburban Philadelphia.
Now you just have to combine the shooting with the running.
"...suddenly, up ahead, there were 2..."
A good rule to remember is that there's no such thing as one deer. Remembering the rule saves deer - and windshields.
I live inside the DC Beltway, and I see deer nearly every day on my morning dog walks. They are pests to gardeners, but their graceful running and leaping never fails to lift my spirits.
We are up at the Vilas County lake house this summer and the deer are ridiculously tame. I had one I could have fed by hand if I'd have had food with me. Fawns are everywhere.
Strange coincidence. Shortly after taking some pictures of the sun rising this morning, I saw two deer on the street ahead of me. I passed one in the brush, but the two in the street were at least 200 yards farther up and not in decent photo range. This pair was really out in the neighborhood, not near any woods.
No urge to unholster the new Glock?
There are deer near my house. One dropped a fawn 3 days ago.
Deer is lucky you didn’t have your gun
I took a photo of one across the street a year ago. Then a mountain lion walked past my wife a month ago. She was weeding in the front yard and turned around. He was 10 feet away and ignored her as he walked past.
Maybe the shoot yesterday energized your hunting instinct and you merely noticed this time.
Narr
It's a theory
Come to Western Washington. The deer walk right across your front yard, with a contemptuous glance that says: "we were here when you got here; we'll be here when you're gone."
Ah yes, the 'deer'. AKA Odocoileus virginianus. AKA 'the rats of the forest'. It's a good thing they're cute (for the ladies) and tasty (for the guys), otherwise they'd likely be extinct.
Most of the deer hang around the Eagle Heights gardens and eat the veggies there.
Idle question.
Now that you're such a good shot and finally qualified as a huntress, did you bring back some (Bambi) venison?
"In all my sunrise runs on this path, I'd never seen a deer before, and today, suddenly, up ahead, there were 2..."
Obviously they heard you shot a gun yesterday. They're currently doing some light recon on you, assessing how likely you are to become a hunter.
The things you see when you don't have your gun....
They smell the gunpowder, and want to talk to you about lunch.
They’re very common in our neighborhood. We probably see them once a week on our daily half mile walk to the beach. At night the come out in droves to massacre our day lilies and hostas.
You start to shoot and the Lord tempts you to hunt. Or they were right about suicides being up.
otherwise they'd likely be extinct.<
I've read there are more deer now than at the time of the Revolution.
Hey look!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/387825.php
I was correct about the intentions of the Leftist Collectivists.
I wonder who was wrong.
It's almost like the Left was going to take the concessions of reasonable people as weakness.
And they will push the blade until it meets something solid.
Where is Freeman Hunt?
How about the rest of the appeasing sons of bitches?
Althouse, the shootist, blasts Bambi!
Did the deer have any doe?
"I've read there are more deer now than at the time of the Revolution."
There are WAY more deer now in Wisconsin then before whitey showed up. They have really messed with the forest ecology. There are tree species that are not regenerating due to the damn things.
"Can't believe you never saw a deer...."
On that path.
Have seen many deers!
So, are you going deer hunting this year, Althouse?
We saw a baby deer and her mother on our run this morning too. It was lovely.
"Come to Western Washington. The deer walk right across your front yard, with a contemptuous glance that says: "we were here when you got here; we'll be here when you're gone.""
I was set up with the telescope at a Vilas County golf course last year, waiting for darkness, when a deer walked up to investigate. I started throwing golf balls at her as sport. She just stood there looking at me. After a few throws I hit her in the side. She took a couple of steps back, then stood her ground, continuing to stare at me.
They know to disappear the last week in November, however.
"The things you see when you don't have your gun...."
How do you know she didn't have a gun?
"On that path". Deer Path
like "Deer Path Estates".
Ever notice how subdivisions get named after the nature that was
bulldozed over to make it?
"Fox Run" "Rolling Brook Estates"
life cycle of a deer:
gets born
eats grass 24/7
flings itself in front of a vehicle
...and you know what else ticks me off about deer?
nope.
not going to make any handgun/Deer Hunter references
@Birches
were you fawning over that baby deer?
My sister has generations of deer come to her home to give birth in her front yard under the trees. She also has a generational family of rabbits that live there year round. The deer and rabbits give birth at nearly the same time of year, so sis and her kids, and now grandkids, watch "Bambi and Thumper" play together for a few months till it's time for the deer to return to the mountain forests.
One more time, then I'll stop. You do not shoot a gun. You shoot something (a target or the sky or the ground) with a gun. You fire a gun.
Doing an "in other news"....
What do you get when you combine the most overvalued market in American financial history
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/06/02/regression-to-trend-another-look-at-long-term-market-performance
With extreme bullish sentiment
https://sentimentrader.com/blog/sky-high-tech-sentiment/
And a wounded-duck economy?
http://www.ntcinc.com/ntc_vendors/audio_TOA_files/content/downloads/SAMPLES/Westminster_Chime.mp3
At least three of the sequence have already rung. The bartender is mopping up.
Bambi, baby.
My sister has generations of deer come to her home to give birth in her front yard under the trees.
We have quail families. Two of them this year. The chicks are about 2 inches long last week. Last year the chicks were still yellow like chickens but the quail chicks are about an inch long.
I bought the flip belt you mentioned a while back and I like it for running, but my pistol won’t fit in it. I can pull down my shirt and pretend I don’t have a wallet though. I need to get a 5 shot .32 SW with a short barrel.
@Toothless
Dad joke! Haha
We have quail families.
Where I live, just north of Boise, there are so many quail it seems they travel in herds.
Josephbleau said...
I bought the flip belt you mentioned a while back and I like it for running, but my pistol won’t fit in it. I can pull down my shirt and pretend I don’t have a wallet though. I need to get a 5 shot .32 SW with a short barrel.
6/19/20, 2:59 PM
.327 Federal Magnum. Thank me later.
Wild life is fun. Deer I got, in spades. Moving across my lawn at sunrise and dusk. Our daughter and family live in the city. Last week they spotted a fawn curled up at the base of their big maple tree. She called the DNR, thinking it was orphaned. No, she was told,the mother put the fawn there. In a safe spot. In the middle of a population of humans, because humans scare away predators. 4 hours later the doe came back, and they wandered off together.
Our son and family have a family of Fox playing in the back yard. They do border along a strip of woods, but still, fox are very skitterish. The family is having a great time watching them play.
With technology we have seen pictures and videos of all the fun. What a great time to be alive.
so many quail it seems they travel in herds.
The would be coveys of quail
Ann’s in luck, Wisconsin is a “shall issue” state. Hurry, before they ban it for cis-het whites.
I see deer every morning when I walk our boxer. A doe and her fawn sleep somewhere nearby and they are in the yard next door or across the street every morning. This is inside the city limits of Austin, TX.
I was just sitting on the pier and had four in procession (I think they assign a point) splash out in the lake behind me, calmly take their drinks, stare me in the eye, nibble on the willow overhanging the lake, and then amble along the shoreline.
Yeah, they're tame.
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