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Where do these idiots think deer live?

Post by Lorgar » 26 Aug 2014, 10:43 am

So I work in a building with a number of other businesses. During the usual "what did you do on the weekend" conversations hunting or shooting sometimes comes up and someone from outside my circle of normal colleagues who's wandering by at the time might chime in and ask a question or two out of curiosity.

This happened yesterday and I told the guy I hunt deer.

He said "Deer? In Victoria..." with obvious disbelief. I say yep.

"I've never seen a deer in Victoria..." he says, still will a dubious tone.

I ask which forests he's been in or where the properties are he visits and I'm met with a blank stare.

Yep... He's never been in any Victorian forest and never been to a rural property.

Where do people think deer live? Golf courses? In the shrubs by the side of the road? :? :| :shock:

Idiots...
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Post by petemacsydney » 26 Aug 2014, 11:19 am

lol, that's funny.

reminds me of when i was young travelling around the world. when ever i came across the next beautiful euro girl i planned to try and lure into my den... i used to tell them i had 2 pet kangaroo's and a couple of koala's at home. they all fell for it..

maybe i should have added some deer into the mix!
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Post by Westy » 26 Aug 2014, 4:56 pm

:?: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are there Deer in Country Victoria????? :?: :idea: :?:
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Post by 1290 » 26 Aug 2014, 5:26 pm

Well fmd! I'll have to go find me some then.

In all seriousness though, the social group with less association with our natural environment and the outdoors generally are the GREENS and their supporters.... proven by the fact that the only federal lower house greens seat is..... The CITY of Melbourne. They wouldn't even know we're the bush was...
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Post by FuzzyM » 27 Aug 2014, 8:40 am

Lorgar wrote:
Where do people think deer live? Golf courses? In the shrubs by the side of the road? :? :| :shock:

Idiots...


Drive around Macclesfield at dusk.... :lol:
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Post by Shotfox » 27 Aug 2014, 9:15 am

Dont they live in Penthouses overlooking the bay. Im sure I seen some at Mc Donalds with Elvis.?
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Post by Westy » 27 Aug 2014, 9:38 am

I think Elvis might have eaten them ones already!!!!!
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Post by Shotfox » 27 Aug 2014, 9:54 am

Westy wrote:I think Elvis might have eaten them ones already!!!!!

I think you are right Westy. It looked like he was eating deep fried deer and peanut butter sandwiches at the end
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Post by Oldbloke » 27 Aug 2014, 3:06 pm

1290 wrote:Well fmd! I'll have to go find me some then.

In all seriousness though, the social group with less association with our natural environment and the outdoors generally are the GREENS and their supporters.... proven by the fact that the only federal lower house greens seat is..... The CITY of Melbourne. They wouldn't even know we're the bush was...



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Post by Oldbloke » 27 Aug 2014, 3:09 pm

1290 wrote:Well fmd! I'll have to go find me some then.

In all seriousness though, the social group with less association with our natural environment and the outdoors generally are the GREENS and their supporters.... proven by the fact that the only federal lower house greens seat is..... The CITY of Melbourne. They wouldn't even know we're the bush was...



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Post by AusC » 27 Aug 2014, 3:16 pm

They've been known to live in my freezer from time to time.
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Post by Ariat » 27 Aug 2014, 3:16 pm

Lorgar wrote:He said "Deer? In Victoria..." with obvious disbelief.


Probably one of these rocket scientists that thinks they "make" meat at the supermarket.
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Post by 1sikxt » 27 Aug 2014, 4:15 pm

Well I'm yet to see one :( maybe looking in the wrong bush
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Post by Baronvonrort » 27 Aug 2014, 6:20 pm

Ariat wrote:
Lorgar wrote:He said "Deer? In Victoria..." with obvious disbelief.


Probably one of these rocket scientists that thinks they "make" meat at the supermarket.


Venison is $22 kg in my local Coles,nearly bought some yet thought stuff it hopefully i will find my own.
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Post by Westy » 27 Aug 2014, 7:17 pm

We got them 15km from the GPO in Brisbane!!!!!!Russa Reds and fallow
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Post by 5Tom » 27 Aug 2014, 7:21 pm

maybe they should check the pub, they be drinking Extra Dry as seen on TV.
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Post by FuzzyM » 28 Aug 2014, 9:00 am

1sikxt wrote:Well I'm yet to see one :( maybe looking in the wrong bush


I see a few around, problem is I tend to see them where I can't hunt them.... Like bushes on the side of the road, yep, three in the last month :?

We had a fallow deer hanging around the family farm until about 1 week before I got my firearms license, then he bailed! :roll:
Was funny though, he was butting heads with Mum's stallion through the fence :lol:
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Post by jennageit » 28 Aug 2014, 9:57 am

1290 wrote:Well fmd! I'll have to go find me some then.

In all seriousness though, the social group with less association with our natural environment and the outdoors generally are the GREENS and their supporters.... proven by the fact that the only federal lower house greens seat is..... The CITY of Melbourne. They wouldn't even know we're the bush was...


Bush to the GREENS is a "shrubbery". Never thought a Monty Python quote would come in handy!
No deer in Victoria huh? Wonder where my mate, who has never been out of Victoria mind you, shot those funny looking animals then, and proceeded to stuff em and hang em on his walls!

I'm country Vic born and bred, and I've never seen a deer in real life, in the bush. But I know they are out there. Some people really are stupid!
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Post by 1sikxt » 28 Aug 2014, 11:46 am

FuzzyM wrote:
1sikxt wrote:Well I'm yet to see one :( maybe looking in the wrong bush


I see a few around, problem is I tend to see them where I can't hunt them.... Like bushes on the side of the road, yep, three in the last month :?

We had a fallow deer hanging around the family farm until about 1 week before I got my firearms license, then he bailed! :roll:
Was funny though, he was butting heads with Mum's stallion through the fence :lol:


To be honest I have seen them on the side of the road but that doesn't count
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Post by handofcod » 28 Aug 2014, 6:08 pm

Had a similar conversation with a friend whose boyfriend didn't believe she'd seen a deer as they were driving through the Otways. I told them there are probably 100K deer in VIC alone and they were completely blown away.
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Post by jennageit » 28 Aug 2014, 7:58 pm

Off topic slightly.

I remember my dad having a bumper sticker on his old HQ once.

"Bang Bambi for the Venison" it was either that or "Bang Bambi for the Meat", can't quite remember. I know it pissed a lot of people off, but he left it on the car anyway lol

No idea where he got it from, but it was over 20 years ago.

Although I don't recall ever seeing deer when I've been horseriding, we were probably making too much of a racket to see them anyway. I do know of a guy who wrote his car off when he hit one, somewhere up near Dargo.
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Post by Pilch » 29 Aug 2014, 5:57 pm

jennageit wrote:Bush to the GREENS is a "shrubbery". Never thought a Monty Python quote would come in handy!


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Post by gherx » 29 Aug 2014, 5:58 pm

jennageit wrote:I do know of a guy who wrote his car off when he hit one, somewhere up near Dargo.


That's one way to do it :lol:
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Post by keg » 04 Sep 2014, 11:42 am

Believe it or not in the States we have deer living in many urban areas. I live near Fort Wayne Indiana and in that city of 300,000 there are tons of deer. The city is established as an urban deer zone and you cannot kill a buck until you check a doe. Because most of the hunting is so close to the populated areas it is archery only. I lived behind the local university in an apartment complex and regularly seen deer cutting through to the river bottom. Getting a spot to hunt is hard but the guys that have them can clean up if they are into killing does.
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Post by Norty_Country_Bloke » 04 Sep 2014, 1:12 pm

Deer live at the north pole with that jolly bloke in red, don't they? He'll wanna be careful that animal rights groups don't find out about him making them pull a sleigh! :o
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Post by 1290 » 04 Sep 2014, 1:39 pm

We have plently of deer coming in to towns around the outer metro, in fact, the roos are, over the last 3 or 4 years coming onto my property and about 50 to 100m from our home, and this had never happened until the recent drought.... no food so they move in.... and we are within the out metro suburbs of Melbourne, not bush....
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Post by lole » 04 Sep 2014, 4:00 pm

Norty_Country_Bloke wrote:He'll wanna be careful that animal rights groups don't find out about him making them pull a sleigh! :o


Animal labour laws? :D
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