<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0HZ5YE_1H4v2hvF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0HZ5YE_1H4v2hvF00" width="800" height="533" ></figure>This year, the general firearms deer hunting season opens Friday, Nov. 13. I am sure there will be some hunters who will skip opening day because it comes on Friday the 13th, but I am also sure the vast majority of hunters who look forward to opening day of deer season will be out in the field trying to put venison on the table.I can still recall the very first deer season when I was 16 years old. I had met a gentleman from Worthland in Claymont who was a customer at Aaron’s Flying A Service Station on the Philadelphia Pike where I worked. We got to talking and found out we both enjoyed hunting, and he invited me to join him at a farm near Smyrna on the opening day of the first Delaware deer season.We met at the service station and left my car there, and we went down to the farm in his truck. Of course, we set up in the dark, and I was behind a blowdown tree while my new best friend was about 50 yards past my position in a bunch of honeysuckle.All was quiet for about an hour, then I heard shots down toward the open field we had walked past to get to the woods. Next, I saw a deer running past my position. I jumped up, and that gave my position away, and the deer turned to run away from me. I fired my Remington Model 12-pump 12-gauge shotgun, and the deer disappeared. I was very excited, and I quickly ran over to the last place I saw the deer, and sure enough, there it was deader than a doornail.Now, as I was standing there shaking with excitement, two men came up and tried to claim my deer. They said one of them had shot it from the open field and followed up to where it lay. I said it was running pretty well for a dead deer when I shot it.About this time, my friend came to my rescue. He examined the deer and pointed out that my slug had entered the back of the animal’s head pretty well, destroying its brain, so it was unlikely the deer ran several hundred yards before falling down.Since the two men were now dealing with another grown man, they began to change their tune. They admitted that perhaps they had missed the deer and that with my slug in its head, it had probably died right there. I am sure that had I been alone, they would have taken my deer.This year, we have a new problem: Chronic Wasting Disease.All deer hunters who harvest a deer from Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zones 11, 14 and 16 must check in with DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife staff at one of three Sussex County locations:• Delaware Solid Waste Authority’s Jones Crossroads Landfill at 28560 Landfill Lane, Georgetown• Gumboro Community Center at 36849 Millsboro Highway, Millsboro• Redden State Forest’s Jester Tract large parking lot at Redden Road, Kings Crossroad, Bridgeville. The deer that hangs in my living room is another good story.I was lucky enough to be invited to hunt a tract of land in Somerset County, Md., by a good friend, Mark Leggit. Now, Mark was the kind of hunter who could not remain stationary in his stand. If he stayed there for half an hour after shooting time, that would be a record. Those of us who knew him always faced his position because he would drive the deer to us.On this particular day, however, I heard noise coming from behind me. As I turned, I saw this big buck coming up from the opposite direction. As he passed to my right, I got off a couple of quick shots from my Marlin lever-action. 35-caliber rifle that missed. The deer turned and stopped facing me. My next shot was right between his eyes, and he dropped where he stood.I could not believe my good luck. I don’t hunt horns, but I had just killed an eight-point buck! As soon as I got home, I called a good friend who happened to be a taxidermist, and he took it from there. I always butcher my own deer, so that was no problem once the head was carefully removed by the taxidermist. The result has been hanging the living room of three houses.The forecast calls for rain on Friday the 13th. Of course it does. I wish good luck to all the deer hunters, and please be careful and don’t shoot until you have a clear target. We already have one hunting fatality this year.</div></body>

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This year, the general firearms deer hunting season opens Friday, Nov. 13. I am sure there will be some hunters who will skip opening day because it comes on Friday the 13th, but I am also sure the vast majority of hunters who look forward to opening day of deer season will be out in the field trying to put venison on the table.

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