Doe harvest

[ch312]

Just a question? Why do we as hunters call this a harvest? 35 years ago when I started hunting I never heard this term used this way.. We harvested crops like potatoes corn or beans, not deer.

I am not bashing anyone, just wondering what changed......

BTW congrats on the nice deer...

I'm not sure if it's the way people use the word or if it's the actual definition that has changed in those 35 years, but "harvest" is the proper word to use if you look at numbers "5" and especially "9"


Harvest:

harvest
[hahr-vist]

noun

1.Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
2.the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3.a crop or yield of one growing season.
4.a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored:
a harvest of wheat.
5.the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.


verb (used with object)

6.to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
7.to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.
8.to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
9.to catch, take, or remove for use:
Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.






Nice doe by the way! Looks like a good one.

[bubba]

There you go..........

[jparchery]

congrats on your harvest

[gerald strine]

Thanks every one for the congrats ! and as far as my use of the word harvest I feel it sends a message that hunting is about the gathering of food for my family and a particapation of nature not a blood sport.

[one shot scott]

Thanks every one for the congrats ! and as far as my use of the word harvest I feel it sends a message that hunting is about the gathering of food for my family and a particapation of nature not a blood sport.

And that is a great definition of the word harvest!

Some folks get just as bent over the use of horn as opposed to antler, but that's a squabble best left for a different thread.

Now to keep on topic:

Congrats on the hornless deer Jerry!

[VixChix]

.... hornless deer...

AAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[Normous]

I'm sure your family will enjoy the bounty of your harvest. Congrats!

[nyexhunter]

Well done.. You and your family will enjoy many good meals as a result of your successful hunt.

[Talltines]

Wow 145 lb. Deer in my parts especially does don't get much bigger than about 75 lbs. I would need 2 to equal your one. Congrats

[ch312]

Some folks get just as bent over the use of horn as opposed to antler, but that's a squabble best left for a different thread.

Well, they are two totally different thing's...

Antlers are a one part structure made up of bone and are shed. Horns on the other hand are a two part structure made up of bone with an outer structure similar to fingernails and are on the animal it's entire life.

Saying a deer has horns is like referring to a vertical bow as a crossbow. Similar, yet worlds apart.

[j.krug]

That's a nice meaty doe there! Congrats.