Give up or defend ?
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maintguy47
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Give up or defend ?
You've waited years to draw this hunt and fineially got it. You spent 100 of hours and untold amounts of money prepareing yourself and your eqiupment. Now you are standing over your dream critter you hear a noise look up and there is a critter or critters that are determend to take from you no matter what. Do you defend your kill or back off and give it up?
Re: Give up or defend ?
shoot it......... 
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Springville Shooter
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Re: Give up or defend ?
I say stand over your kill, don't back down, challenge anything that threatens your position and defend yourself if you have to. Most predators are smart enough to take the easy way out and retreat.--------SS
"Only accurate rifles are interesting"-----Col. Townsend Whelen
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huntfishnv
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Re: Give up or defend ?
Deffend yourself and your animal!!! But if it going to eat you...
But if it going to eat you...
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The Buck Stops Here
Re: Give up or defend ?
Easy to say defend but if I'm over a dream buck and a mountain lion rolls up and wants the buck and all I'm packing a bow? I had better be good with the one shot I'll have.....
“If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.” Fred Bear
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stillhunterman
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Re: Give up or defend ?
Yeah you can stand your ground with most predators but you NEVER know exactly what they are gonna do or how DETERMINED they are 
Took a nice Blactail in the Trinities of Cali one year. Hunted that buck for 3 hard days until I put him down. The shot was just over a hundred yards across a small canyon. A good sized blackie was on that buck before I got to it. I shot several times, yelled, threw sticks and rocks but that bear would NOT retreat. He grabbed my buck and hauled it up over the top with little effort. This was before you could carry a bear tag during the rifle deer hunt Needless to say, I didn't kill the bear and lost my buck and ate my tag. Was not a happy hunter that year ](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
Took a nice Blactail in the Trinities of Cali one year. Hunted that buck for 3 hard days until I put him down. The shot was just over a hundred yards across a small canyon. A good sized blackie was on that buck before I got to it. I shot several times, yelled, threw sticks and rocks but that bear would NOT retreat. He grabbed my buck and hauled it up over the top with little effort. This was before you could carry a bear tag during the rifle deer hunt
Needless to say, I didn't kill the bear and lost my buck and ate my tag. Was not a happy hunter that year -
halibutaddict
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Re: Give up or defend ?
Gut shoot em and let them die in the next county,problem solved
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This is why I always carry my handgun while archery hunting. At least here in Utah you can if you have a concealed carry permit.Mularcher wrote:Easy to say defend but if I'm over a dream buck and a mountain lion rolls up and wants the buck and all I'm packing a bow? I had better be good with the one shot I'll have.....
Nothing like the great outdoors! 
Re: Give up or defend ?
+1Springville Shooter wrote:I say stand over your kill, don't back down, challenge anything that threatens your position and defend yourself if you have to. Most predators are smart enough to take the easy way out and retreat.--------SS
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needs_recoil
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Re: Give up or defend ?
+2 There is no way I am giving up something I worked that hard for.