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re: Has anyone ever hunted deer on horseback?
Posted on 10/10/22 at 5:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 10/10/22 at 5:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Horses definitely don’t need to be gunshy.
We used to have a guy that used a Winchester 30-30 from the back of a horse. He shoot it one handed like a pistol. He was good with it too.
We used to have a guy that used a Winchester 30-30 from the back of a horse. He shoot it one handed like a pistol. He was good with it too.
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Posted on 10/10/22 at 7:05 pm to TutHillTiger
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He always said deer would come right up to him on a horse so much he always he always carried a 30-30 on his horse in deer season and has killed a bunch of deer over the years just trail riding.
I'd love to meander through my lease on a horse with a 30-30.
Posted on 10/10/22 at 7:20 pm to Pandy Fackler
Back when I was at LSU in the 70's, I had a friend who's family had a big soybean farm up around Natchez.
He told me the same thing...the deer won't move and that's how they hunted deer. He killed some monsters.
He told me the same thing...the deer won't move and that's how they hunted deer. He killed some monsters.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:49 am to Tiger 79
My stepdad and his brother were herding cattle in Springhill back in the late 70s and a big 12 point came out. They managed to track him down on their horses and his brother roped the deer then went and cut its throat. They had it mounted and hung up on the wall in their work shop. Real cowboy shite.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 9:42 am to Honest Tune
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My stepdad and his brother were herding cattle in Springhill back in the late 70s and a big 12 point came out. They managed to track him down on their horses and his brother roped the deer then went and cut its throat. They had it mounted and hung up on the wall in their work shop. Real cowboy shite.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 10:34 am to Pandy Fackler
Horses have big heads and metal feet. No way I am doing this.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 10:49 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I want to do it soooooooo bad but I just don't have the nuts necessary to shoot a gun off of a horse. I can barely keep them from flinging me off without shooting guns.
Guys that hunted across the road from us did it on horses and mules in the 80s and 90s. Similar stories to everyone else in this thread about horse stepping on deer or shooting deer in their bed. Story that's burned into my mind like none of the others is a guy that came from out of town with his horse that was "100% adjusted to gunfire." That was in fact not the case, and he killed a nice buck about 0.2 seconds before that horse dragged him 1/4 mile through a cutover. Lucky he didn't die.
I get along just fine with horses until I ask them to stop.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 11:03 am to WeagleEagle
quote:It looks cool when they do it on TV, but doing anything while riding a horse looks cool to me.
Is it real man hunting if you shoot a deer off a horse?
I've seen it on Outdoor Channel hunting shows, and on one of the Alaska based reality shows my dad watches. Wondered if a camera man was also riding a hose on that one.
My family lived in Vidalia thru 1968. We lived in one of Uncle Nick's rent house that was next to a horse trainer's facility on the hwy. to Ferriday. My brothers and I used to stand outside the fence and watch him working horses and riders. The trainer, and what was probably their owners would go back into the woods & palmettos shooting off the horses.
Never thought about it then, but now I wonder if they worked with the horses to look for snakes, because rattlers were all over the place around there. Hopefully they were shooting them.
Even after we moved into town we'd regularly see rattlers in our yard. My grandfather always said the deer were around the palmettos, and so were the rattlers. Never have seen anything to disprove that. Wild hogs were back in there too, before they were a problem. Bet it would be fun to hunt those devils on horseback.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 5:54 pm to chinese58
When I was a little kid, my dad used to go deer hunting with a buddy he was in the army with and they remained friends/ kept in touch after they were discharged. This guy lived in Talahini, OK and they would go deer hunting on horseback somewhere around there. But I think the real reason was because they went on horseback into the hills/small mountains on a trail that led to a cabin in the woods that was only accessible by horse trail. But I don't think they actually hunted on horseback. It seems like I remember they even had a couple of pack horses they used to bring supplies and transport out any deer they shot. I think it was about a 3 or 4 hour ride on horseback to the cabin.
As a kid I was waiting for the time I would be old enough to go with them, but my dad's friend was killed in a car accident before that happened. I went with my dad to Talahini to go to the funeral. I was about 10 or 11 years old.
My dad had some pictures of one of there trips, but I haven't seen those pics in years. I guess they are somewhere put away at my mom's house.
As a kid I was waiting for the time I would be old enough to go with them, but my dad's friend was killed in a car accident before that happened. I went with my dad to Talahini to go to the funeral. I was about 10 or 11 years old.
My dad had some pictures of one of there trips, but I haven't seen those pics in years. I guess they are somewhere put away at my mom's house.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 11:00 pm to Pandy Fackler
Grew up doing it in Tensas. Rode behind the dogs with my Grandaddy before getting old enough to ride on my own.
Let me say that deer do seem to allow a horse to get closer to them than a human. I killed several deer over the years jumping them up while riding, but many more slipping back away from the dogs.
Let me say that deer do seem to allow a horse to get closer to them than a human. I killed several deer over the years jumping them up while riding, but many more slipping back away from the dogs.
Posted on 10/12/22 at 6:55 pm to geauxbrown
Watching an Arabian laying his ears back to charge after a buck you just jumped in a beanfield is one of hunting's biggest thrills.
Posted on 10/12/22 at 7:25 pm to Pandy Fackler
Pretty sure it is illegal in most Southern states
Posted on 10/15/22 at 4:46 pm to Pandy Fackler
Deer no but rabbits when younger. A lot of times the horse would pick up his ears and look the way the rabbit was coming from before I saw it. This was dogs
Posted on 10/15/22 at 4:50 pm to Pandy Fackler
Never have but have always wanted to. My grandpa hunted more from horseback than from a tree as a teen.
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