Heading out for a few days

[lipripper]

Of Camping and hunting. A buddie and I are going to Ossabaw island on a lottery type management hunt. Ive fished all around the island and beached on it with boats but inland is restricted. lots of History on the island. I get 2 free deer tags and I may take a hog if the oppertunity presents itself. the island is supposed to be beautiful and untouched. Ill take pics and post up when I return.

Ossabaw island..off the coast of georgia...

Ossabaw Island | New Georgia Encyclopedia

Welcome to Ossabaw Island

[Bouncer]

look forward to some pics bro. enjoy. the older i get the more i love nature and the outdoors. All the national parks and beautiful land formations out here has me excited to get out in it. have fun

[MattG]

So is the "inland" still restricted to you? Or now that you won this trip, are you allowed to tour everything too?

[StanG]

Im looking forward to the pics as well. Good luck on your hunt. Since it is a management hunt are they doe tags or any sex tags or what?

[lipripper]

So is the "inland" still restricted to you? Or now that you won this trip, are you allowed to tour everything too?

Ill know more tommorow when we get briefed by the wardens at the camp ground. We are going over a day early to set camp and scout. From everything Ive heard most folks show up on Fri..set up and hunt sat and sunday. We will start hunting thursday and go thru sunday am..if needed. this is a primitive weapons hunt..so Archery and Black powder only:thumb:

[lipripper]

Im looking forward to the pics as well. Good luck on your hunt. Since it is a management hunt are they doe tags or any sex tags or what?

Either sex..two free deer tags. I have been told the deer on the islands are VERY SMALL..a large mature 4.5 year old buck will be in the 100 lb range live weight..:panic:

[Chadd77]

Sounds like a blast man! Wonder why the deer are smaller. you would think there would be some big deer and racks there since it is not open to hunt for the public.

[Bouncer]

They keep the steroids out of the park. All natural deer.

[lipripper]

Sounds like a blast man! Wonder why the deer are smaller. you would think there would be some big deer and racks there since it is not open to hunt for the public.

Stuck on an island in the deep south..inter breeding I would assume. Plus here on the mainland on the coast we have the smallest deer in the state.

[lipripper]

They keep the steroids out of the park. All natural deer.

you should bring your kentucky rifle....:laugh:

[Bouncer]

Ripper broke up with his girl but she said it's ok because we can still be cousins. :D

[Scrumhalf]

Wonder why the deer are smaller. you would think there would be some big deer and racks there since it is not open to hunt for the public.

Island dwarfism. Pretty common evolutionary response to limited resources, and especially in herbivores, a relative lack of predators means that smaller size is not a disadvantage any more. Happens all the time all over the world.

[chuckz28]

Island dwarfism. Pretty common evolutionary response to limited resources. Happens all the time all over the world.

That's right, didn't they find that group of bipedal pre homo sapien bones on some island a few years ago that were all very small and short, even as adults? Wish I could remember where it was and what they called them.

[Chadd77]

That's right, didn't they find that group of bipedal pre homo sapien bones on some island a few years ago that were all very small and short, even as adults? Wish I could remember where it was and what they called them.

They called them "Rado".

[Scrumhalf]

That's right, didn't they find that group of bipedal pre homo sapien bones on some island a few years ago that were all very small and short, even as adults? Wish I could remember where it was and what they called them.

It was on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Homo Floresiensis... the Hobbit people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

They called them "Rado".

:rofl: