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Show OUTDOORS 0 G ftCo o)?qdg g 23 Hilltop Times Jan. 19, 1990 0 D Almost immediately, I felt that I'd somehow cheated. The kill had been too easy, too pat. Had Hilltop Times staff writer this really been a fair chase hunt? Had I violated all the ethical constraints I'd taught and written a doe this year, and I'm not altogether n shot breakI a for showed up bright and early ranch about for years? proud of it. I still don't know. U It's not that I'm against the shooting of fast, then my friend Arthur and I searched the back On the one hand, this wasn't intended as a sport does. That is often a necessity to maintain an even acres of his ranch, looking for a buck. We came up balance in the deer herd. And I bought a doe tag this empty after a hard morning, and broke for lunch. hunt by strict definitions. It was more of a depreFinally, Arthur said it was time to get an alfalfa dation hunt, the elimination of a problem deer that year for the express reason of filling the freezer with better-tastindoe, and I agreed. So we drove my truck out his back had been eating my friend's livelihood. That's how venison. what I feel is started seeing deer everywhere. After it had been proposed to me, and I had agreed to help. My uneasiness is with the method of the kill. It corral and driving no more than a few hundred yards, we spot- - I had hunted legally, killed cleanly and have wasthappened like this: of ears ted a up out of the alfalfa. Used ed none of the animal. Opening weekend I hunted hard out on the to pair ranchsticking But did this particular doe have a chance? Was trucks, the doe stayed put until Promontories, where I am a member of a hunting we ignoring so a to and or hundred drove within she taken fairly and with honor? I'd like to think so. yards up club. Where last year I saw upwards of 50 bucks and .'" I know that my choice of firearm demanded the fVv:': killed a 6x6. This year I failed to see a single living stopped. I got out, loaded my single-sho- t pistol and rested most of my skills while still allowing her a quick, hudeer. Not even a doe. Not one. it on the truck roof. The doe stayed put. Arthur got mane death. I believe that the result would have A call to Wildlife Resources revealed that the out and yelled. Nothing. I blew the horn. Still noth- been the same had I walked the short distance from winter kill had been especially heavy there, so I ing. Arthur threw a stone, then another. Finally the the ranch yard instead of driving. I hope that her decided to leave that range to what few deer re- doe sprang up and bounced away, then stood look- death helps ease the winter pressure on Arthur's catmained. , tle, and on the rest of the deer. ing back at us. But there was something in the way my daughFrom 150 yards, I carefully fired and heard the For the last weekend of the season, I called a looked at me when I described this hunt; someters remained twitched but rancher friend of mine who said that he not only had bullet hit. The doe standing, She deer on his land, but that a large herd had been eat- so I reloaded and fired again just as carefully. thing that tells me I was perhaps less than honest Something that ing his alfalfa fields right down to dirt. Would I dropped and it was over. I drove the truck over while with myself, and with this deer. Arthur walked off the distance and we loaded her, says, come next year, I'll be back up in the please come out and kill one or two. . took her back to the ranch and dressed her out. sagebrush instead of the alfalfa fields. Yes, I would. by Maj. 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