BARKING A SQUIREL

Zonie said:

I'm surprised it didn't work. Maybe your not giving your barks loud enough or you weren't keeping it up long enough?

Usually a series of good strong barks will knock those squirrels out of the tree. Of course, they aren't really dead. They just passed out from laughing so hard.

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No matter how strong the barks are, won’t work if you’re barking up the wrong tree.

rafterob said:

Boy, do I feel stoopid. All this time I've been standing at the bottom of the tree barking like a hound dog at the squirrels and not a one has fallen out of the tree.

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Didn't Davy Crockett tell about "grinning" a coon or squirrel to death................watch yer top knot................

sawyer04 said:

No Dutch. I believe they are more accurate for the not so experienced archer. I have no objection to arrow hunting, but feel for the seldom or not so experienced archer the cross bow is easier to control under the adrenalin of excitement, hopefully curtailing the wounding and ruining of game.

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I BOUGHT A CROSSBOW FOR A KID AND IN MY SHOPPING CAME ACCROSS AN AD THE AT WAS COMPARING ROUTINE BOLT WITH THE ADVERTISERS BOLT..
I WAS AMAZED AT HOW ACCURATE THE SO CALLED INFEIR BOLTS WERE AND THOUGHT THE SO CALLED SUPERIOR BOLTS WHILE A SLIGHT BIT MORE ACCURATE THERE WAS ONLY LITTLE DIFFERENCE.
YES WITH THAT KIND OF ACCURACY THERE SHOULD BE LESS WOUNDED AND INFECTED DEER WANDERING ABOUT IN PAIN.
THIS MAKES ME THINK THAT OF ALL THE TWADDLE ON DEER HUNTING ON THE FORUM AND GENERAL INTENET, INCLUDING MY SUBMISSIONS THERE SHOULD BE MORE ON EXACTLY WGERE YOU SHOULD AIM AT THE DEER PROVIDING THE DEER IS IN MOST OF THE POSITIONS A HUNTER MIGHT SEE FROMHEAD ON TO BROARDSIDE OR WHATEVER..
I ATTACH A PHOTO OF DEER TAKEN BROADSIDE. WHERE IDEALLY DHOULD THE HUNTER AIM ASSUMING ALL THINGS ARE OTHERWISE OK?.
INTERRUPTION HERE. I TRIED FIVE TIMES TO POST A GREAT PICTURE OF A GIANT STATUE OF A DEER LOCATED IN A LOCAL PARK THATSPECIALIZES IN SCULPTURE. MOST OF IT LOOKING LIKE CRASHED SPACE VEHICLES AND IT ATTACHED THE PICTURE IN A NUMBER PLACES UNRELATED TO DEER AND DEER HUNTING.. NO WAY APPEARING ON THE POST I WAS SENDING.
I WILL START A THREAD ENTITLED WHERE TO AIM AS THAT IS AGREATLY IGNORED SUBJECT.
DUTCH SCHOULTZ

30coupe said:

A friend of mine, who is a terrible shot with a bow, convinced the DNR that he had a bad shoulder, so he needed a permit for a crossbow. He got the permit, then proceeded to shoot two deer that he never recovered. I found one of them a few days later, but the coyotes didn't leave enough for me to tell where he hit it. We never did find the other one, so maybe it lived, maybe not...coyotes seldom leave much. He should have stuck with a bow, at least he made clean misses with that.

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I know he told a story about leaning his gun against a tree so he could sit and have a smoke. A coon in the trekking yelled out,’ don’t shoot Davy, I’m a comin’ down’

Generally, I would think this to be a very bad practice and not quite ethical. If you want the meat, shoot the animal. Barking is in no way an ethical means to take game.

Dr5x said:

WHERE IDEALLY DHOULD THE HUNTER AIM ASSUMING ALL THINGS ARE OTHERWISE OK?

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Dutch, in my opinion, ideal aim point is center of red X in photo below. Others may have different thoughts. My shot takes out important stuff at top of heart, messes up both lungs and far shoulder. May run a few yards, but not far. That’s a big deer.