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kroazn

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How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby kroazn » Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:41 pm
Hi
I am new to the forum and have this question that I couldn’t find the answer to. I am going down to Buckingham, Virginia for their late season deer hunting in few days. I am staying at a hotel for the trip (Employee Discount, can’t beat the price) and I am not sure how to keep the deer while staying at the hotel for one or more days. My only option as of now is just keep the deer wrapped with a tarp to allow air flow on the back of the car on a hitch carrier. The weather is looking like Hi 47 Low 23 for the first night and Hi 42 Low 26 for the second night. Do you guys have any tips I can use for this trip? Thank you so much for the help.

Retranger

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby Retranger » Thu Dec 26, 2013 12:59 pm
I don’t think I would wrap it. Them temps you mention should be fine. Park you vehicle in the shade. If you have harvested your deer why not head home? Maybe the hotel has a tree or something where you could hang it up. Good Luck
Doug

shaman

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:24 pm
I’d get a choke chain around the deer’s neck and one of them heavy duty dog chains and tie it off to a post or picnic table or something. Tying it off to a bumper carrier– you’re begging to have that deer picked off in the parking lot. Just make sure you put up signs to keep folks away. Them antlers can hurt!
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Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

ripper7

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby ripper7 » Thu Dec 26, 2013 6:41 pm
Could you not make a deal with a local processor to hold the deer until you are ready to pull out?

shaman

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:01 pm
. . . and whatever you do, don’t bring it in the room with you. You come back from hunting the next day and you’ll have the maid cowering in the corner with a pillow, trying to keep the buck from goring her. The room will be all torn up, and the deer will have gotten into the courtesy bar and eaten all the macadamia nuts. Those nuts are expensive!
Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries of SW Bracken County, KY
Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

shaman

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:49 am
If you do find you have to take one into your room, make sure you get a room on the first floor, preferably with an entrance to the outside. You don’t want to be walking the halls of a busy motel with a live buck. Especially don’t try to take one on the stairs, or worse yet, the elevator.

Don’t ask me how I know this, but there is a motel on Rt 27 near Stearns Kentucky that won’t let me stay there no more.
Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries of SW Bracken County, KY
Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

shaman

Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:27 am
. . . And I had nothing to do with what happened at the Whitley City Motel. That was a kitchen fire. I’ve been saying that for over 10 years now. I don’t know what you’ve read on the Web.

And yes, while we’re at it I HAVE stayed at the Inn at Cumberland falls, but never during Deer Season. That was some other guy in the papers.
Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries of SW Bracken County, KY
Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

shaman

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Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:28 am
. . . And I had nothing to do with what happened at the Whitley City Motel. That was a kitchen fire. I’ve been saying that for over 10 years now. I don’t know what you’ve read on the Web.

And yes, while we’re at it I HAVE stayed at the Inn at Cumberland falls, but never during Deer Season. That was some other guy in the papers.
Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries of SW Bracken County, KY
Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

ripper7

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Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby ripper7 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:47 pm
shaman did you ever use the alias “Jones” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/motel_6_midget/‎

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Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby MZS » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:20 pm

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Re: How to hold deer while staying at the hotel?

Postby shaman » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:14 pm
I guess it was about . . . What year did Hulu start up? I dunno. I was coming back from over around south of Columbus. There was that freak storm that hit fairly early in the season. I decided to go up to Columbus and then over 70 to Dayton and then drop down to Cincinnati. I 71 was buried is all I remember. I got to the south side of Dayton, and had to hole up at this dive of a motel there in . . . the place were the big Delco plant closed, Moraine? Yeah. That was about as far south as I could get before the snow got ahead of the plows.

I’ve got this deer. He wasn’t exactly huge, but in that much snow he was a lot to handle. I asked the guy at the desk if he had a first floor room. All he had left was one with a Jacuzzi for $20 dollars more a night. I tell him I have a deer, and I ask the guy if its okay. . . okay if I. . . well you know. He says I can have the upper floor room, but I would have to leave the deer in the back of the truck, so I offer to split the difference with him on the Jacuzzi room and he relents. I figure everthing’s jake, right?

The neat thing is this guy’s got WI-Fi in every room. That was a rarity in those days, and I’ve got the work laptop with me with the good screen. It’s one of those old Sony Vaio things. It was so big, I couldn’t open it up on the plane. It did have a nice picture though– it was a toss-off from the President of the company. My boss got it for her, but she said it was too heavy to carry. So I get in, get set up with the Vaio on the table. I’d stopped off at a Church’s chicken I saw near the exit and had gotten a bucket, and there was liquor store close by. I’d stopped in and gotten some Scotch.

Oh, so I’m coming out of Church’s, and I can’t find the freakin’ keys. I’m standing there with snow up to my knees, and three big guys from the neighborhood start coming at me. I think I’ve had it, but it turned out I had my car keys in the wrong pocket, and I’m frantically fumbling around in my coat and find them at what I think is the last second I can get clean away. I put the keys up to the sky and yell “Thank you, Lord! I knew you would not let the righteous fall!” and the three guys stop dead in their tracks and all of them start praising the Saviour. It turns out they were on their way to Bible Study across the street at the church, and instead of meaning to do me harm, they were coming buy to look at the deer. We exchanged a few God-Bless-You’s and other pleasantrys and after a few admirable comments about the deer, they go on, and I got the heck out of there.

So I’m where was I? Oh, yeah. I get into the room, get the Vaio hooked up so it faces the Jacuzzi and hop in with a stiff scotch and some lemonade I got out of the machine next door to the room. I fire up Hulu, and guess what was one of the first movies they had on Hulu? Escanaba in the Moonlight. I’d never seen it, and outside of the commercials hitting every now and again, I get a pretty good stream and very few break-ups, and I have a pretty good time watching the movie.

I remember the funniest thing that night, that buck found the courtesy bar and well, you know how they are with the macadamia nuts, right? Well, I’d made the mistake of letting that buck have a little bit of the scotch and then he noses open the little fridge and catches sight of the macadamia nuts. It was great up until then– that and when he finally figured out what the movie was about. Deer are slow to catch on to those things. They don’t know about what we do at deer camp, and he was totally taken in by the talk of aliens and that. . . Gawd, that was funny when I started singing with the movie “Swing lo, Sweet chariot. . .” Deer get all weird when you start singing with the screen.

So anyhow there was quite a bit of a row that night, and that little Indian fellow got really honked off and wanted to charge me double occupancy on the room– because of the deer, right? I told him to take a hike. Luckily he didn’t know about the macadamia nuts, otherwise that would have been another ten- spot. I got the lid back on the jar, and didn’t hang around for the continental breakfast. I got out of there early and laid up at the rest stop there north of Tylersville for morning rush to clear out before heading home.

Take it from me, the shaman, when you’re deer hunting, make sure you hide the macadamia nuts.

The comic, Larry Miller, once said, “I can go on like this until I annoy even myself.”
Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries of SW Bracken County, KY
Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

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