BirddogGSP
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Planning on heading out East River this weekend which conincides with east river deer. Planning on hunting small public’s. Will wear plenty of blaze on myself and dogs. Should I cancel ? Using Mitchell as home base.
You almost got shot? Yikes.About got plugged during Iowa slug chucker season once
Yeah, that was maybe 18-20 yrs ago, around Ogden, IA. My dog & I were hunting a public area, out in the open snow, walking between little sloughs. I was wearing orange. Dog boinging around. We were very visible. I'd seen a truck drive by my own parked truck & park at the opposite corner of the area a short while earlier. 2 guys started walking a shelterbelt. Didn't think too much of it, as I hadn't planned to get too far over that direction. Then a buck runs out of the shelterbelt right at us & keeps coming. They start shooting, at the time maybe 250 yds from me. I'm waving my arms like mad. (Maybe should've just hit the deck.) I had a couple slugs hit the snow within probably 15 yds of me. I screamed myself hoarse in a matter of a few seconds. Anyway, my dog Walt & I turned around & headed for the truck. We drove around to where they'd parked & they were just putting their guns in the truck. I parked right behind their truck, rolled my window down, & just sat there in disbelief. One guy apologized somewhat profusely. The other said I had no business hunting pheasants on public ground during deer season. I might have called him something fairly unflattering, & drove away to hunt somewhere else.You almost got shot? Yikes.
In Eastern montana, these rednecks never walk while deer hunting. They flush deer with pick up trucks or 4 wheelers,which is illegal.What is the difference between deer hunting and predator hunting in SD?
You have to get out of the truck to shoot at deer (legally anyway)