By the time I finished readin' this thread, I had tears runnin' down my cheeks, I was laughing so hard. Damn, Gas, you made my day. Now, what I like to see with all these sheds being found, are the critters with antlers, having none because they shed 'em. Or give 'em stubby antlers. Make them a "rare" animal. I always wondered why that never took place after EW introduced the sheds. If the critters are shedding them, why ain't we findin' these critters with lil' stubbies or no antlers at all? Peace.gas56 wrote:What??? haven't you heard a deer sneeze..............................Fletchette wrote:I assumed Gas was joking, since everything he said about IRL deer behavior was ridiculous....Sherab86 wrote:Take it easy, Gas. I know Elrique64 was maybe a little bit rude to call your knowledge and experience by the name of "garbage". But from what I know, mostly as a theorethician (but not entirely - I "hunt" sometimes with my digital camera), he was generaly right.
Personally, I do not neglect your experiences. At least, as we consider them as observations only. Problem started, when you've begin to "explain" those observations. I can certainly believe your grand-pa, uncle or whoever else, could passed on you those knowledge. And this can be quite useful when you hunt in a field, indeed. But it doesn't seems to have much in common with what is current scientiffic knowledge, simply.
For me, same goes with many hunter's revelations about "drop in tracks" shots. I can certainly believe them, when they say they did it more then several times. But I have to admitt, that when they start to speak of "knock down power", "energy transfer", etc. as a cause of their success, I'm starting to be nervous.
It seems, that pure field-observations, while certainly useful for hunting purposes (I would never expect myself to approach animal with same success as you, or any other IRL hunter), dosn't necessery mean, that what is going on under the hood was realy understood as well.
But I believe you in one point for sure - I'm preety sure they can have sneeze from time to time.
Sorry Elrique64 & Sherab86,.. yesterday I just couldn't help myself that I was just in such a joking mood.
but I figured you would know that I was joking, ridiculously joking...........
BCKidd.