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Imperial Community => Sports => Topic started by: Tamer on June 09, 2008, 05:50:23 PM
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Anyone who knows a bit about me knows I am just about as gung ho for hunting season as I am the new release of the Clone Wars in August. I sure don't have much to show for my season last year other than a decent one I was able to harvest bow season.
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I am seeing a few nice ones in the making right now and am hoping a few of em stick around to let my try my bow out again.
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This was from a post last year from Chad;
This first pic is of the big doe.
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This is the smaller doe.
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This is of me and the deer.
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As you can see the Earney household didn't want for venison last year.
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Ofcourse the deer were not done with Chad quite yet;
The deer has met his maker. Here are the pics of the truck.
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I hope everyone who hunts get a chance to spend a few days afield this year. Having a two year old surely cuts into the hunting time, but I do get our for whitetail season. I just bought my little gal's lifetime hunting and fishing license so she will never have to worry about that. I tell you one thing, I haven't seen a critter yet that she is afraid of.
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here are some pics of some deer I've gottnen in the last couple of years and also of what a buck did last year coming home from deer hunting did to my truck.
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You had a good season as I recall except for that deer "incident". I did brush in my bow hunting blind at my house today. I need to go shoot my bow.
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Well archery season is almost upon me. I am really liking to cool mornings and evenings now. I am so not ready for this season. I am seeing a few decent bucks. Nothing montstrous, but one good eight pointer I hope to launch an arrow at. Speaking of which, I shot my bow yesterday evening and managed to hit the bullseye most of the time so maybe I am not as rusty as I think. I have so much work to do to get ready. Needless to say I am not looking foward to the license fees either, but at least the bag limits are high. I am ready to make some jerky!
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Hope it flies true mate...... :D
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MMMMMM, deer jerky and Tamer's tomatoes. Yum!
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I wonder how hard it would be to send you guys some of my venison jerky in the mail? Jerky will last for a long time once I get it out of the dehydrator. I wonder if usps would ship it? Too bad you guys are not closer we could grill a half a deer or so.
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My step-brother is famous for the jerky he makes every year. I jones for it and want some now. You do have my addy right, Tamer?
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My step-brother is famous for the jerky he makes every year. I jones for it and want some now. You do have my addy right, Tamer?
LOL. I sure do Clint. You are gonna have to wait till the third week of September at the earliest. Bow season starts Sept. 15th in MD.
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Was just shooting my bow, started shooting wierd and I am a decent shot. Looked down and saw my cable guard was almost touching the bow string. I hope it can be fixed or I have to wait till gun season to hunt and bow season is only a little over a week away!
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Not a bowhunter, but you would think it could be readusted.
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Not a bowhunter, but you would think it could be readusted.
I hope it can. I am gonna try and drop it off tomorrow. I remember having trouble with it when I first got the bow to the point the guy said he didnt want to see my bow again. It is a small bow and has lots of torque which means the cable slide really pushes it. I just hope it can be adjusted back into place. It is too close to my rest and string to be safe now. I would love the excuse to get a new one, but just can't afford a new one right now.
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Shawn, what brand is it and how old is it?
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Shawn, what brand is it and how old is it?
It is an Alpine turbo extreme. Its probably about nine years old. I love it as I am so used to it. I will hate loosing it if it can't be fixed. Hopefully I have good news to report next week some time.
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Looks like there is good news on the bow front. I just called the bow shop and it looks like the younger fellow was able to put a new cable guard on it. I am anxious to shoot it now to make sure everything is sympatico. The great thing is this is only a $15 dollar fix if it works. There are bucks at the feeder this evening. Maybe I will get to try a few arrow launches at em after all.
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See Shawn, everything works out in the end. Simple problem fixed and now your back in the driver's seat!
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I will try to get some shots of how I shoot the next couple of days. Doubt I will have time to do more than pick it up tomorrow.
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and only 15 bucks too!..great !
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well I got my bow back and it works with a slight new noise due to a new cable guard, but it might shoot out I hope. Bad thing was I spent about two hours yesterday evening readjusting my sights only to have a screw strip out on me as I was doing the final tweaking. Now I have to get new sights the week before the season opener!
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My compound bow saga continues;
got my bow back from the pro shop and shot it a few times only to strip the elevation screw so I had to get a new set of sights. Well I got my new sights on last night and shot it three times and the cable guard broke again. So much for the new guy fixing my bow. I also took a look at the one arrow I bought and noticed he inserted an insert that was too big and now the carbon arrow is splitting at the insert so I am gonna have to take my bow and my arrow back to get one, the bow fixed and two, a replacement arrow. I knew better than to trust a kid, but he seemed to think he could fix my bow. The owner is the best, but he is hard to get. I should have waited. Now I have to try and get a hold of him so I can hopefully get my bow fixed. The bummer is the season starts Monday and I won't have a working bow. Oh well, they say patience is a virtue. I am slowly getting my wife used to the idea that I am probably gonna need a new bow next year. I hate to get a new one, but this cable guard thing is starting to drive me crazy. Hopefully I will have better news to report in a few days. Oh, I saw two really nice bucks down at my feeder this morning munching on apples. I sure hope they stick around so I can try and stick one!
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if you were to look at a new bow, what would you go for?
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if you were to look at a new bow, what would you go for?
I am thinking low end five hundred bucks Greg. A high end bow like Matthews would be near seven hundred to a thousand dollars properly equipped. Thats the bad thing with a bow, you just can't buy it. You need a rest, sights, peep for the string, arrows, overdraw if the bow will accept one. It adds up quick.
On that note I called the owner of the bow shop last night and actually got to talk to him. He was very nice and is willing to take a look at my bow pronto so I can go hunt MD. He was very critical of his helper's performance and made sure he knew which one it was. I think he is the one who is supposed to do the real bow work. At least I don't have to fight that battle now. I just hope he can fix my bow. I am gonna promise to buy a new one from him next year if he can make my old one work for this year.
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well my bow is supposed to be fixed. Round number two tonight!
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hope it goes ok mate...
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hope it goes ok mate...
Well the good news is I can shoot it now. The bad news is the new cable guard is so close to the string that sometimes when I shoot it the string goes on the right side of said cable guard cause it is so close. I think I am gonna try to shoot one with it as I am seeing so many good bucks now and the season is in and then go back to the store I got it from even though it is farther away and see if I can get the owner there to fix it. At this point I am trying to get my wife used to the idea of me buying a new set up for next year. I don't know how succesful I am being! :'(
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Well the first harvest of the season was a groundhog who had been tearing up my yard. Lets just say I have more confidence in my bow after putting an arrow in him at over 30 yards!
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Well guys I have been out twice now and haven't seen any of those nice bucks I had been reporting on earlier. It seems everyone sees em everyday when I am not in the woods. I can't complain too much, my hunting time seems to get less and less each year. I have passed up at least three small scrubby bucks each time I hunted. Still, as we had our first chill of Fall, I might put the hammer down on something the next couple weeks. I need some fresh venison in the house. Early muzzleloader season begins in about two weeks and I will be taking the smoke pole out for a bit too.
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Went hunting at my MD spot last evening and came home without an arrow launch again. I did have multiple oppurtunities on small bucks and does, but still waiting on a decent racked buck. I don't know how much longer I will wait till I see if I can fletch one. It is starting to get a bit cooler now, the leaves are turning, and the only other I need to officially make it fall is the sound of the dehydrator filling the house with the smell of jerky marinade. Here in about another two weeks it will be time for MD early muzzleloader season so I hope to get out then too. Last year I had a close call with a huge running buck that I hope to get back on. I haven't heard of anyone getting him so I am gonna take a peek and see if he might still be there.
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MMMMMMMM, Tamer's Jerkey. ;D
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Well Clint I get to make the trip to the grocery store for soy sauce and brown sugar after all. I was able to get out of work and head up to my MD spot and even though it was late look what I came home with;
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As you can see I had a helper when I got home. She is sure gonna be my little hunting buddy. That got me about as excited as the harvest. She pitched a fit when momma took her in to get ready for bed. I am hoping to fuel that love of hunting and the outdoors. So far so good. Speaking of excitement, I got so excited I couldn't pull my bow back till I calmed down a bit. He wasn't a monster by any stretch, but it was the first racked buck I have seen while hunting so he got my blood pressure up. I made a perfect shot on him and he was down and out in seconds. I love a trailing job like that!
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Nice to see mate, looks a good size too....and yes cultivate the helper there, she'll want to help her dad more and more if nudged gently......
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Nice to see mate, looks a good size too....and yes cultivate the helper there, she'll want to help her dad more and more if nudged gently......
I hear you Greg. I hope to see some shots of you and your little helper sometime when you get out into the wilds for some of your hunts. I love this time of year!
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Nice buck there buddy! I'll bet you were excited. Yes the little one is a fisherman and soon to become the hunter by the looks of it.
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Nice buck there buddy! I'll bet you were excited. Yes the little one is a fisherman and soon to become the hunter by the looks of it.
That she is Clint. Last night I went outside to rake her a pile of leaves to play in and she actually asked to go down and sit in daddy's blind so she could go hunting. Needless to say I dropped the rake and we sat in my blind for about twenty minutes. I actually had to coax her to come out of it so I could get her ready for bed. Like I said, I am not trying to push her at all and she is just asking to do this stuff on her own. I am about ready to pinch myself.
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Well I didn't get any hunting in as I was doing some yard work, but I did finally manage to get my new feeder up and running. I finally just decided to make it myself. I bought a fifty five gallon barrell, cut a hole in the bottom of it, attached a feeder and some large legs and I wish I had done this years ago. I was able to get everything set up for under fifty bucks too while in the stores the same type of feeder would have cost me over two hundred bucks. It really seems to work twice as nice as my old one which I thankfully retired yesterday. I was also able to get the venison done up and boy that jerky is good.
I was also able to get some time in this morning shooting my muzzleloader. My first shot was horrible for some reason, but was able to hit the bull three times after that so I felt pretty good. My hunting partner, who is always the better shot, had a horrible time with his smokepole and he started messing with the scope. He finally after repeated shots had me shoot and I was able to hit the bull with it too. Oh, all these shots were a hundred or more yards with muzzleloaders. It is amazing what range those guns have now. I remember starting off with the traditional one and if you could group within a few inches at fifty yards you thought you were doing good. I am also glad to be taking a few days off from work at the end of the week for the early MD muzzleloader season. It is one of the few times my friend and I get a chance to go out and chase the whitetails. I am must hoping he has enough confidence in his gun now to be able to shoot ok. It was sure funny, I have seen this guy make 1000 yard shots, no lie, and hit what he aims at. I feel shooting is like driving meaning never drive or shoot angry. I think he got made with this first shot and then it went downhill from there. Anyhow, I will be in the woods the later part of this week trying to fill up the freezer a bit more. I did see some great sign coming out of the area I generally hunt.
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You sure can get some range out of those smoke-poles. You must have yanked the trigger on that first shot instead of squeezed. Dad used to shoot muzzleloaders in state competitions all the time. I wonder if he could make a long shot like that?
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I have a father in law who shoots his muzzleloader open sights and I wouldn't take him on with the one with the scope I have on it. You do any shooting Clint?
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I used to when I was younger buddy, I would even place at some of dad's competition. That is one of those hobbies that seems to have vanished since I became an Ironworker. Kind of like the guitar playing.
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Nice buck there Shawn, man I wish I would some day get one that size in the crosshairs, hasn't happened yet. Will be trying my hand for the first time at turkey hunting next weekend. We will see what happens on the that adventure.
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Thanks Chad. That was a nice one for me with a bow. Wait till you see the pics of the one I got with my smokepole on Friday. I just got back this morning and my buddies were the ones with the digital camera, but he was pretty nice. I was torn trying to figure out whether to get a skull mount or a shoulder one. Money issues helped me decide though. I will be sure to put the pics up when I get em sent to me, my hunting partner who let me in on his "honey hole" will be sure to send em to me early this week. I am telling you this was a stud buck. His rack wasn't the monster type, but I would say the deer went 180 lbs. which for us here is great. It would be about the size of one of your big does Chad, but man did I get excited.
As for your turkey hunting, I am excited to hear how it went. Ours comes in next weekend and with the luck I seem to be having, I may just go try that too.
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Here is the proof to back up my story. This was just a stud of a deer. We aged him at only 2 and 1/2 years old by his teeth. I would have loved to have seen what he would have looked like in about three or four more years, but I still am tickled I got him.
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Nice one Tamer! Is that a white tail or a muley?
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Nice one Tamer! Is that a white tail or a muley?
Whitetail Clint. One of the bigger ones I have harvested over the years.
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Nice, buck there Shawn! I think I'd wet myself if I saw one like that come by me hunting.
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Nice, buck there Shawn! I think I'd wet myself if I saw one like that come by me hunting.
LOL! He did get my blood pumping a bit there as I saw him at the end of the day and he looked bigger. His horns shrank a bit when I got up to him, I would have sworn he was Monster Buck before I actually ground checked him. Still, a nice buck, and I am tickled. I am gonna be serving some tenderloin for dinner this evening, Parmesean style.
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NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well my turkey hunting was a bust. Went out sat morning didn't see anything. The brother in law heard them about 100 yds behind him on someone elses property. Went back out in the evening and the only thing I saw was a cat. So it seemed as though the birds had moved off the property, so we didn't even bother to go out on sunday. Will try and hunt the spring season os at least I can call and decoy them.
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I only chase em doing Spring. There is nothing like getting the ole gobbler to committ and come in. If you hunt em in the Spring I bet you will get hooked like I am! Keep us updated on your pursuits! I love reading about someone else's hunts.
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Well I went out bowhunting last night in the midst of a two day rifle season for does in my home county. I did see a few deer for all the gunshots. I keep seeing little bucks and mostly does and yearlings, but feel sooner or later one of those big boys will be stirring. I haven't seen much rubbing or any scrapes here yet, but might take a walk into the woods a bit deeper today if I can get all my outside chores done I have planned. I may as well go sit in the blind for a bit this morning since I am up so early. I am having a heck of a time sleeping lately. Oh well, guess it gives me a good excuse to be on morning hunts!
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Well I didn't see much that morning. I think it is still a bit too warm yet for the rut to be kicking in. I am hearing mixed reports of bucks sparring, but I haven't yet seen any real nice ones running does. I am gonna let my boss come try his luck again this evening. We will see if he can hit one tonight. I told him this was his last week as I let the property sit a few weeks before the rifle season opener comes in. I guess Chad is getting ready for his rifle season.
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Well, got back from opening weekend hunting and it wasn't anything to have a party over. We did get a dusting of snow, so that helped seeing into the woods. Sat morning picked our spots to sit and didn't see squat. Decided to take a drive through the woods and found out they had logged out a huge track of our woods. So that would explain the lack of deer. With the rain we had the prior 2 days, it made that area of the woods real dicey trying to drive the logging road. Old Willie made it through, but down the road it was closed off, so I had to turn around and go through it again. Really was surprised we made it though it. We picked a different spot to sit for the night watching a logging road in hopes of deer crossing it. At around ten to five a doe walked onto the road about 150-200 yards down the road, pulled up and shot. Then another jumped out, but didn't have a spot at that one. Went down to the area where I shot and can't find any blood, the way the deer reacted I was sure I hit it. So I'm looking around for sign and Dad comes to help, seen where she was standing and followed the tracks into the woods and found her. I ended up shooting her through both front legs and the heart, why there was no blood is beyond me. She was a very nice size doe. Field dressed her and got back to camp. Sun morning went back to the same spot and nothing. Went back in the evening and about the same time and place a deer walks out. I had moved closer this night to the area where I figured they would come out, so I wouldn't have to take a long shot. Well that part worked, but I pulled up and shot and missed, I really don't know how that happened but it did. I figured it was the does fawn from last night and I also figured that I shot through some branches and it deflected the round. I was worried about that prior to shooting and I don't know why I just didn't stand up to shoot. This morning we didn't see anything. We dropped the doe off at our processor and he said he hasn't seen a doe that big in years and he figured she was around 200 lbs dressed. Well I knew it was a mature doe, but that weight might be pushing it, I was thinking around 170. And sorry I didn't take a pic of it, just didn't think she was that big. This coming weekend will be hunting around home, now that the state lets us hunt the whole stae now.
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Well I am glad to hear your hunt was succesfull. Man I have never seen a doe that big, would have loved to have seen a pic of her. Glad to hear your season isn't over too! I am heading up to check out a new rifle spot this weekend after working on a hunting buggy. It is almost time for my rifle season to start too. I did see about 7 small bucks in my yard last night, but nothing to write home about. I am betting a big boy is around though, a bunch of the small bucks had their horns broken totally off.
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Man if you got that many small ones with broken atlers off, I sure would be nice to see the dominate buck. Seems like he is keeping the smaller ones in line. Forgot to say when I dropped off the doe I saw a huge 12 point someone had shot. The rack was huge wide and tall, but the body maybe went 150# dressed, it was kind of odd looking.
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sounds like all the growing went into its' antlers. I would like to have seen that dude. That nine I got this year is the most points I have on the wall so far. We are hearing rumors of some nice ones up at our camp though. The last couple of years they have instituted a "racked" buck rule so no spikes or small bucks get shot. I am anxious to see if it is gonna work. This is around 8,000 plus acres so if even a few of em survive to reach adulthood we should start seeing some major progress here in a few years.
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Well I did some local deer hunting fri evening and saturday. Friday saw a buck bedded down in some brush about 50 yards away. Well I passed up about 5 does that evening waiting for him to get up. If he did, I did see him. Saturday moring shot at a doe and missed saw a total of 3. Sat evening saw one doe that snuck by me and got no shot. This was my first time shooting a shotgun with slugs, will have to say I like my rifle better. For next year will invest in a slug barrel and scope for my shotgun. Not going out today, got family stuff to do.
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I think they are making some really good rifled slug barrels now that really have some good range. Glad to see you are out and about, wish you would have been able to connect on that buck! I brushed in a blind on a new hunting spot up at camp this weekend. I shot my deer rifles today and it is always the same. The one I never have to shot more than once, the other I have to shoot quite a few times to get it right where I want it. The bad thing is the second gun is the more expensive set up. Still, I feel pretty good about my shooting. I was doing this without very good of a rest to get out of the wind a bit and between waiting for the wind to die off and me shaking I shot ok. I guess we will see if I get to pull the trigger week after next. Keep after em Chad!
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the forecast is for about twelve inches of snow the next few days. Looks like snow for opening day! I just hope we don't get more, I might not make it in or back from camp!
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MAN, 12"!!! I'm not looking forward to that kind of snow by any means, though from what the Almanacs and "weather experts" keep saying, it's supposed to be a VERY cold winter with LOTS of snow....
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It looks like this winter might get us.
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Wait a minute, I thought global warming was here?
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Wait a minute, I thought global warming was here?
LOL! You sure wouldn't know it by the temperature I have outside my house this morning! We even have enough snow to have a two hour delay to work this morning. I just hope my poor little portable hunting blind is ok. I have these visions of two foot of snow on top of it and am not feeling too good it will be in one piece when I get back to it!
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Well it is the day before I leave for hunting camp and I am kinda wishing I wasn't going. It has become an annual ritual, but my little girl is in her later twos now and I think staying home for a week with her might be a bit funer than spending long hours in a cold blind, but I have made promises to friends I haven't seen in years so I will go. The weather outlook is looking miserable so I am at least glad I put my blind up this past weekend. My attitude will probably mean I will shoot the biggest deer of my life as I really don't care if I even see a deer at this point. I am going up to be social. I am coming back one day earlier though to get ready for Thanksgiving and help my little girl get the tree. She has already informed us that the opening of presents will happen after I get the tree out of the box!
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Good luck on your hunting trip my friend. Man, it's going to be hard for that little one to wait for the opening.
I believe that we are schedualed to set up our tree this weekend.
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Thanks Clint. And yes, it is gonna be hard to let her wait. We might have to get her a small thing or two just to make sure she remembers how to unwrap presents before the big day.
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Well no luck yet guys. I haven't seen anything bigger than a six point. Still, I haven't had much time to hunt as a major blizzard hit our deer camp. I haven't driven in such horrible conditions in years. I can't count the number of vehicles that I had to pull out of drifts or ditches. I am thoroughly impressed with my new tacoma. It is an absolute beast in the snow.
Back on the hunting front I am now gearing up for the first day of the season in MD. This was the state I got the bigger one in muzzleloader season and even bigger buck sighting are being reported. I am having my brother down to hunt a day and then we make our foray into MD. We even get to hunt on Sunday this year. I may not hunt the whole day as it looks like more snow and I can't stand another episode like I have the fast few days. I am telling you, and this is not lie, the snow and ice and conditions were so bad I could not get out to hunt from Monday afternoon till early this morning. Here at my house the sun was out and it was around 38 degrees. I just couldn't believe to change in conditions from only about two hours away from home. I should have taken some pictures!
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Well I still haven't found one I want to shoot. I came out of the woods even though I could have hunted today as we have a forecast of snow and ice. I don't want to have to do that again since my stint earlier in the week. I am seeing some good buck sign at the house so if they haven't gone completely nocturnal I may yet fill my tag.
Speaking of filling tags, my brother was down to my house and left with a buck Friday afternoon. It was a three point. He just likes to shoot. He did put a good shot on this one though. Then, I took him up with me to MD the next day and let him sit in my spot and he shot a six point. I took pictures of both and will post em later this week. The six point was a young buck and would have been nice in a few years if he had been passed. Still, I don't begrudge my brother the buck as he hasn't really harvested that many. I think that will be the last time this year I let him shoot anyting smaller though. It was nice to see him get excited though. It was also nice to not have to go on a major tracking expedition like I did for him last year though.
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Well still no signs of the big boy that is tearing up all my saplings and shruberry. I noticed my lilac bush is about broke off thanks to the buck that is decimating it. It is only firearm doe season now, but muzzleloader season comes in next Monday so we will see if he sticks around. I am seeing does and fawns and small bucks but nothing I would say is the "vandal" as I have dubbed this buck. I guess I may just wait until xmas break to shoot the cannon as they bring doe season back in and I have lots of time to process the game then. Its about time for more jerky. I had some deer bologne made it turned out pretty good, put some hot pepperjack cheese in it and boy did that give it some bite.
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The "vandal" LOL! You are gonna get him buddy. I'm sure of it.
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The "vandal" LOL! You are gonna get him buddy. I'm sure of it.
I am thinking he may be coming in after dark so I may not, but with the post rut happening anything is possible. I need to get my pics up of the two bucks my brother shot out of my spots.
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Well, I am officially done deer hunting for the year. The past three days have been muzzleloader season and man did I have a blast. Deer drives are sure fun when they work right!
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You didn't say if you got a deer or not.
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You didn't say if you got a deer or not.
Two as a matter of fact. I made some of my best shots ever. The first was while doing the very first deer drive. My buddy had just shot at it through some brush and it ran out about 150 yards and looked back. The only opening I had was a small break between two trees through which I could see its' front shoulder. I shot and it dropped.
The second was a luck shot after another buddy gutshot it on a deer drive. We tracked it for over two hours in the snow and he kept jumping it up and it was so thick we never get a good shot. Finally he decided to go out ahead and try and circle around while I stayed on the track. As soon as he did that it went the exact opposite direction on him. I saw it laying down after about another ten minutes of tracking, but it was about eighty yards through the brush. I radioed him and he was circling around on it when it got up to run again. All I could see was its' head. That was enough after the smoke cleared. So, really only one as I gave my buddy the one we tracked for two hours. Needless to say I was bushed after those few days. I put a lot of miles on my boots, but it was fun and good exercise.
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Well this thread is long overdue for an update and there is not much I can do to update it. I took Monday off of work to hunt the first day of Spring turkey season and didn't see nor hear a gobbler. It was actually too windy and too hot. I ended up going home eearly and me and the little gal hooked up a sprinkler and ran through it. Good thing I live in the middle of 70 acres or they would have thought a ghost was haunting.
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Well tomorrow I go up to hunting camp to try out the turkeys so I am getting kind of anxious. To top it all off this evening I wanted to get the mowing done quickly after work so I headed to the outbuilding and low and behold I heard a gobbler behind my house. I went running back to my house and grabbed my turkey vest and a mouth call. I worked him for just a couple calls to which he gobbled and then I went to mowing the grass. I usually just leave the birds here at home undisturbed for the most part. After I put my mowers away I looked down in my driveway and that ole gobbler's beard was a dragging and he was a strutting. When a gobbler puts his mind to it, he will stand just about anything to get that hen. I could have easily harvested him, but let him walk. I heard him faintly just a bit ago. I am taking Thursday and Friday off from work to go up to camp to hunt, but if this one sounds off again early tomorrow morning I may just get a bird in the hand so to speak. I am also anxious to get after one with that slate call Sarge sent me. I just hope it doesn't rain and the winds stays down. I hope to add some pics to this thread by the weekend.
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Go get that bird, Shawn. Get em!!
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Go get that bird, Shawn. Get em!!
I sure hope so. The weather is so nice now, I hope I get two good weather days! I didn't hear that bird this morning at my house. Oh well, tomorrow I will be on 8,000 acres of prime hunting ground. Turkeys beware!
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Well as they say, this was my weekend. I found the new ESB wave and the turkeys sure did cooperate too. My buddy, who is just an awesome caller, put us on birds both days. We had three good sets. The first set the bird veered toward the right and my buddy connected. He then worked hard to call one in for me. My stinking facemask has mesh over they eyeholes and as one walked to thirty yards I couldn't see it as the sun was in my eyes. Poor guy worked that bird for an hour and called in the hens with the gobbler to bring him on. Still the following day I reprieved myself by making a standing shot on this one. I had to shoot through a pine tree to get him and that was almost a mistake. We were high fiving and he got up and ran down through some pines. As I was shooting a single barrel encorce my buddy who had the pump pitched it to me as I was in mid stride and off I went crashing through the pine trees trying to cut him. As I was crashing through the limbs brushed my right eye and knocked my contact out. As I broke into a clearing I saw him running and even with my bad eye got ahead of him and put him down! The beard was a little over ten inches and just look at those hooks!
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Another nice score, buddy! They should call you ole one eyed dead eye.
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Very nice indeed!....well done Shawn....
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thanks guys. It was a fun hunt. I was really frustrated with myself for not getting a shot at the bird my buddy called in on Thursday, but this one worked out. As I am replying to this, there is one with a longer beard down in my driveway. The season is out this coming Saturday so I might have to give him a try this week.
On another note, it had been awhile since I downloaded pics off my hunting camera so here is a shot of the six point my brother got in MD last year.
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That's a nice one, also.
Unlike youself, your brother has the look of an opener. :D See that twinkle in his eye? That's the same look I get just before I write a review and open up a MIB star wars toy. "chuckle"
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Really nice animals! My connection was fouled up when you posted the tom pics, so I didn't see him. Good story to go with it, too. :)
I gotta wonder what yer bro used to take that deer. I mean, its MD fer cryin out loud... I heard they outlawed pointy sticks up there!! ;D
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Western MD still allows all rifle calibers. My brother uses a 270, myself I usually pack a 300 ultramag or 7mm Rem Mag, whichever mood suits me. I have a few smaller calibers as well. I talked my wife into letting me buy a judge this weekend.
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Western MD still allows all rifle calibers.
;D Mebbe I was gettin MD confused...with Massachusetts... ;D
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Western MD still allows all rifle calibers. My brother uses a 270, myself I usually pack a 300 ultramag or 7mm Rem Mag, whichever mood suits me. I have a few smaller calibers as well. I talked my wife into letting me buy a judge this weekend.
Judge? do tell...... :D
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Taurus makes it, it is a revolver, but has elongated cylinders to let you shoot 410 shells and other calibers. It is kind of a point and shoot weapon. My wife could even hit something with it.
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Hunting, eh?
Well, I guess you do need more "masculine" hobbies to counter balance the toys, :)
My dad is the president of our state's wild turkey killing, err, hunting club.
So, what is the consensus on guys that leave out twinkies to shoot deer? We hate them, right? CHeapens the hunt, right?
Just need to be sure what kind of people I'm settling in with, ;)
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Depends on how hungry the kids are and how badly the freezer needs fillin'...
Actually, I'm a shooter and farmer/gardener - I raise stuff like chickens and goats and trade off eggs and milk to hunters for meat. I was born shortly after my dad came back from Viet Nam - and, having become a tad gun-shy, he gave away what few guns he had and gave up hunting. So, I didn't grow up hunting.
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You sure seem to be a hunter of star wars toys, though.
Twinkie baiting? I never heard of that one.
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Twinkie baiting?! Hmmm......if it works I might have to give it a try next deer season. Ofcourse, to set the record straight so to speak, for me it is all about the outdoor experience, not pulling the trigger on some poor defenseless woodland creature. For my family it is all about tradition, not the glory of the kill. Readers of this thread can attest, I don't usually harvest much, just enough to fill the freezer or the help out a family or friend who needs the meat. Doc, you ought to give it a try, venison especially is really nice fair when harvested and worked by one's own competent hands.
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Kind of like resin but more tastey.
Doc, I crave my brother's deer jerkey every year. I am craving it now.
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Tamer, I shall. Esp. given that there is a herd of deer in my backyard. Literally. But its that "competent" part that worries me! LOL
And I refuse to sample resin just to prove venison I harvet myself is more tasty!! :o
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Good Doc. Give a yell if you have any questions!
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More of me and my hunting buddy with his bird and mine. Turns out it was a good thing I came home from camp, he stayed up three more days and didn't get on another bird!
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My hunting bud never smiles!
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That's because he doesnt feel the love of Star Wars like you do, buddy. You can just tell.
Good looking birds and that last one is a great shot of you Shawn. I would put that one up an a wall, somewhere.
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WOW that buck is nice i to hunt during archery and gun season its brutal over here though during winter
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Well archery season started yesterday in both MD and WV so I went out for the afternoon after work. I saw lots of fawns, does, and small bucks, but nothing that made me want to release an arrow. I do most of my hunting out of a blind at ground level as I don't trust myself with my climber stand with my back and it is hard to outwit thier noses, but scent lock helps. I am eager to see the effectiveness of the new rage broadheads, but at twenty something an arrow I will only take a good shot. There seems to be a good acorn crop this year so I expect a pretty fun season. MD has an early muzzleloader season in October that I really enjoy and I take two days off of work and if you can believe it my home state WV is having an early muzzleloader season for does next week. There are lots of opportunities for sportsment in this state. I also got hunter safety certified in WV this year so I will be teaching that during my planning period to keep the tradition alive.
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man that's awesome tamer. Glad I'm not the only one around these forums that has a love for the outdoors. My family was raised hunters from the very start. Funny thing is that it came from my mom's side of the family! My dad had never even hunted until he met my mom's family in their college days! up until just three years ago my mom's whole family hunted, inculuding us, her twin brothers, her dad and mom as well! it was great. We always had meat in the fridge. Once my grandma and grandpa started deciding they were getting too old to do it like they used to though it's been hard to find good hunting ground and fill the freezer. My parents own 40 acres of bottoms land out here near Kentucky lake and there are plenty of deer out there! I killed a nice sized buck two years ago I believe and my dad and mom both got does...
they are hunting the bow season that is in already but I don't bow hunt and can't wait for gun season to start!!!
they also have alot of turkey on their property and my dad's gotten into turkey hunting too... but I don't see it being as rewarding as deer because all he saves of the turkey is the breasts and I personally feel like that is a waste....
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Glad to hear there is another hunter in our midst. I hope you let us know how your season goes. I probably won't get the chance to go again till tomorrow evening or Saturday morning.
Turkey hunting, if you are calling them in the Spring, is the hardest hunting I have done. Those daggone birds outwit me 90 percent of the time.
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Went up grouse hunting this past weekend and got 2 birds, only saw 3. Still way to much foliage left on the trees. Finally starting to get cold.
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Glad to hear someone is getting something. The acorn crop is so good this year that it is making it hard to pattern them as they aren't doing thier regular fall patterns. This has been the best crop we have had in years. I am gonna have to do some heavy duty scouting this year if I hope to get on a decent one. I did see a small buck at my feeder tonight, but it wasn't anything to write home about.
I am seeing a few turkeys too. I am looking forward to taking a long weekend with my hunting buddy the third week of October and just sitting in the woods for a bit. They bring in an early muzzleloader season and boy did I get a nice one last year. I have a lot to do to get ready for it though. Like putting my muzzleloader together!
It is good to hear about your hunts Chad, I hope to hear more!
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Well early muzzleloader season was a bust and all I caught a glimpse of was one bruiser who was in hot pursuit and was too far to shoot at with a smoke pole anyhow. I will be back up there the Saturday after Thanksgiving to see if I can get another look with the 300 ultra mag.
Archery season has been a bust for me so far and it is really bumming me out. I usually at least have one decent one down by now, but the rut is kicking in I think. I saw a love glazed look on one decent buck on the way home from work yesterday as he was only 20 yards off the road following a doe. I haven't seen anything here at the house yet, but I will be in the woods tomorrow. I will start out in my blind and then probably climb a tree in the afternoon. I am glad I have the ole Hunter Safety system. I really helps me not get so spooked in the tree. I have new rage broadheads and I want to see if they do as good as advetised. It had better hurry though as rifleseason starts the Monday following next weekend and I will be off all week chasing the big bucks. WV allows two ducks per rifle season so I will try to get a least one.
I have three rifles I like to mess around with. My favorite has got to be my 300 UM. It just sends em downrange with very little drop. I have a target turret on the elevation side and have it set out to 1000 yards, but doubt I would ever get that far during a hunting situation. It sure is neat to pop a balloon with it at 1000 yards though. I have it topped with a Luepold VariX3 6.5 by 20 power scope. My next favorite is my 7 mag which has poppped the majority of the wall hangers I have. It is so dependable and has never let me down. My last, and the first gun I ever bought with my own money, is a Rem. Model 7 6mm. It is pretty daggone flat shooting for a little feller and is very easy to manuever. It is not being made by Remington anymore and I have had numerous offers to buy it, but no way. I would love to hear what some of the rest of your favorite calibers are. Oh, my other two rifles are both Model 700 BDLs. About the only other brand of rifle I have is a Thompson Center Encore and it is daggone good too. Almost thinking of trying out the Icon.
On that note, did anyone hear anything about Remington making a new barrel that is triangle shaped? Suppposed to cut down on the wieght and be more accurate?
Anyone else planning on going into the Whitetail woods?
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It's the Remmington VTR, supposed to be the new tactical version, Not sure what I think on it yet, the design makes sense, but I would like to see more filed reports first
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So is it just tactical or is it in regular actions as well? I need to go do some reasearch on this bad boy.
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It's avaliable in for everyone to purchase in a variety of calibers, If memory serves me it stands for Varmit Tactial Rifle or something similar. You know how they are add tactical to anything and some people think it's cool factor goes up.
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It's avaliable in for everyone to purchase in a variety of calibers, If memory serves me it stands for Varmit Tactial Rifle or something similar. You know how they are add tactical to anything and some people think it's cool factor goes up.
No doubt that gives them the excuse to add a few hundred dollars to the price. I need to go research this one a bit to see if its any good.
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Well, tomorrow has me leaving for deer camp for another rifle season. I am pretty well prepared this year and saw some great buck sign at my spot when I went in yesterday to rake a path to get there. It is a steep valley off a steep hillside and all along my left side it has been timbered and the growth is thick and I come out on a bench of open woods on the right side of it. Plus there is another steep hillside with plenty of viewing areas through the trees. I saw some huge rubs about 40 yards away from where I sit. I should stay home and hunt though. I have been getting calls by neighbors who want to hunt on me and today I decided I had better take a circuit to put up some no hunting posters. I saw good large buck sign on two different areas of the property so if camp doesn't pan out home just might. I found a good spot for a climbing or ladder stand for next year too New home construction is forcing the deer to follow just a few set paths so I aim to take advantage bow season next year. Wait till you guys see teh shooting house I have planned! Heaven knows I deserve one with the hours I have put into the woods this year. I just haven't seen anything worthwhile to shoot. I am letting the small bucks grow up. Guess my borderers won't but maybe a few of em will survive. I also have my hunting buddy who is trying to get me to go up to our main camp which has 8000 plus acres, but I haven't done any scouting there and there are about 300 other members on that one. I am gonna ask the hunt club director if I can bring a few friends one year. I may try to trade off redoing the hunt club website which is pretty awful. If I can I am gonna send out a few invites next year. Anyhow, I will be out of the net starting tomorrow afternoon after I see the Steelers take on KC. I won't be back till Sunday, except for a few hours on Thursday to eat turkey.
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Well Good Luck Shawn, have a productive and safe hunt, Our season started today and I am sitting another one out, I just don't have the pland to hunt anymore and don't want to ask, so I will wait til I retire to something upnorth :) I did see a few nice bucks this year on my way to work,, one actually made me stop my car and just watch it, that one was a trophy.
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That one sounded nice Wayne. I like the sound of your retirement plans. On the largest buck story I have heard. Mom who lives in town said she was one "bigger than what I have on my wall" eating grass with some does this past Thursday. She said it was the biggest buck she has ever seen and she has seen a few. LOL. Right in the middle of town, that dude is smart.
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Well I missed a decent one. I think. Well I know I missed, but I thought he was a small one and then I did the ole twenty power zoom on him and he looked bigger so I had two tags and was gonna ground check him, but he got into the brush and I tried to force a bad shot. Thank god I didn't wound him. I looked on the side of a daggone vertical drop hillside for two days just to make sure though. I am going back tomorrow, just came in to see how you guys were doing and get some of the funk from the hillside off of me. It is beginning to look like I am jinxed this year. Oh yeah, my one hunting buddy is ticked off at me cause I am not up at our bigger camp hunting with him, my father in law is ticked I am not hunting with him, and my brother is upset I am not hunting at my house so he can come down and hunt. How did this stuff that is fun get so serious? LOL. It will all work out. I guess it is nice to be wanted so many places, but I just want to sit in the woods a bit. I had a fun evening with three deer practically running me over. The doe with the small buck I touched with the gun barrel. Guys, I am not making this up, she used her leg to push it away she was so intent on looking at her backtrail and then just walked away with the little buck looking right at me and not spooking. You guys ever hear of anything like that? I laughed all the way back to the truck. That is why I hunt! I let the little ones grow up.
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They turn kind of mindless during the rut, don't they buddy. Good to hear you are enjoying yourself even if you havent dropped the big one.
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I kinda look at it like if it was meant to be it would have happened. I am going out here in a just a few minutes her closer to home. I have had a ton of people call to try and hunt on me this year so I know a few bigs ones are around if I can be in the right spot at the right time. Around here hunting is like a tradition and people are looked at as odd if you don't go to the woods for a few days. I just like getting away from everything for a bit. There is always something new to see.
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It's the Remmington VTR, supposed to be the new tactical version, Not sure what I think on it yet, the design makes sense, but I would like to see more filed reports first
http://www.remington.com/products/firearms/centerfire_rifles/model_700/model_700_vtr.asp
We have several in store, and selling fast. The barrel is tuned and much more accurate. Calibers start from 223 rem up to 30-06 over here . i'm sure there may be more available choices over there....you need a catalog Shawn?
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It's the Remmington VTR, supposed to be the new tactical version, Not sure what I think on it yet, the design makes sense, but I would like to see more filed reports first
http://www.remington.com/products/firearms/centerfire_rifles/model_700/model_700_vtr.asp
We have several in store, and selling fast. The barrel is tuned and much more accurate. Calibers start from 223 rem up to 30-06 over here . i'm sure there may be more available choices over there....you need a catalog Shawn?
sounds good to me, do they make this in 300 ultra mag? I might have to upgrade. I forgot to tell you I sent the xmas box, Clint is helping me out with sending your gift as my stores stink.
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Well, this past weekend, I was on my very first hunting excursion! I went to hunt wild turkeys with a buddy I know in Kentucky. It's crossbow season for turkeys there, so it was not only my first experience hunting, it was my first experience with a 4-wheeler and crossbow as well! I didn't get me one, as he failed to inform me that turkeys had great eyesight. I knew they were deaf, so I tried to sneak closer to one to be sure I got it when I shot, but he saw me and got the hell out of dodge! Oh well, it was fun none the less! Now I'm wanting to do more of it!
Guess I should have gone deer hunting instead, as on the way home I passed a bunch of vehicles with 2-5 deer carcasses strapped into their trailers! Hell, I even almost hit one because it decided to try and cross 4 lanes of expressway! Oh well, maybe next year!
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Congratulation Pat on yoru first hunt, I have to say I never heard of Turkey hunting with crossbows, in WIsconsin crossbows are illegal with the exception of disabled hunters.
I miss the hunting season alot, since my parents divorse and the sale of our property up-north, it hasn't been the same.
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It's the Remmington VTR, supposed to be the new tactical version, Not sure what I think on it yet, the design makes sense, but I would like to see more filed reports first
http://www.remington.com/products/firearms/centerfire_rifles/model_700/model_700_vtr.asp
We have several in store, and selling fast. The barrel is tuned and much more accurate. Calibers start from 223 rem up to 30-06 over here . i'm sure there may be more available choices over there....you need a catalog Shawn?
sounds good to me, do they make this in 300 ultra mag? I might have to upgrade. I forgot to tell you I sent the xmas box, Clint is helping me out with sending your gift as my stores stink.
Didn't see it in 300 UM mate here but thats not to say over there may have it too....would be a lovely caliber....
your box is on its way. i was going to find figs for you as a gift but it sux here so i went for something different..... ;)
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There's not an offering in 300UM in the states, atleast not yet 17 Rem to .308 according to Remmington but seeing the base 700 is available in 300 Win Mag, I am sure it will pop into this offering
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Sounds good Greg.
Pat, glad to see you are expanding your horizons a bit. I know one thing, turkeys ain't deaf either! They are the hardest animal, imo, to hunt. They have superior eyesight and hearing, the best of any animal I have hunted. There is no way you will be able to hunt one with any type of bow unless you are in a blind. My state does not allow crossbow use unless you have a medical condtion. MD does allow them for a later archery season. I haven't bought one yet, but it seems like it would be fun.
Yepper Pat, deer hunting is my main quarry. They are color blind, but thier main defense is thier nose. They can smell really good so the first thing, imo, if you decide to deer hunt is some type of scent eliminating clothing. I know my next hunting clothes will be fleece, scent lock, and waterproof. I expect to pay around 300 plus dollars for the complete outfit, but it will be worth it.
Wayne, you know they will make one I bet. I might try a short mag though.
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Well, I finally get to add a message to this after a whole hunting season. The past two days have seen me tackling some of the most brutal hunting weather imaginable. Some of you may be familiar with a deer "drive" or push as they sometimes are called and that has become an annual end of the year hunting tradition with me and my hunting friends on my buddy's farm. It always seems that mother nature decides to send us some below zero weather, a foot of snow, and blowing wind each year too. This year was pretty bad though. I can barely walk my legs are so sore today as some of the pushes were uphill to get to the starting point and some of the drives took hours. Wow, was it cold. I only got one, but it was a long track through lots of snow as a youngster who had shown up had wounded it so I took off on the track. After an hour I was able to catch up with it and harvest it.
Oh yeah, the venison jerky is marianating as I am writing this. I had about four messes of steak and cut the rest up into jerky. My buddy took the rest of the meat as he has neighbors who need it. I hate dealing with the shoulders anyway. I think next year though I am gonna not wait till the last day of hunting season to get some meat though.
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Tamer I know this is a late time to post this but here is a pic of the buck I shot 10 yards from me last November.
Sorry if the picture is sideways I didn't know until it was uploaded.
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Heres a pic that isn't sideways. O0
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He was an 11 point buck shot on the 14th of November at 7:30 a.m.
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Hey another hunter in our midst! Awesome, that is a great buck. I would have loved to have seen something like that come into my scope last year. I had one of my worst hunting seasons ever. That mast crop was so heavy in some areas and not in others than you just couldn't pattern anything. Looks like you didn't have a problem though. I would love to see some more close up head shots of that dude. What state are you in if I may ask? I don't think its my state of WV! That buck is too big!
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Hey another hunter in our midst! Awesome, that is a great buck. I would have loved to have seen something like that come into my scope last year. I had one of my worst hunting seasons ever. That mast crop was so heavy in some areas and not in others than you just couldn't pattern anything. Looks like you didn't have a problem though. I would love to see some more close up head shots of that dude. What state are you in if I may ask? I don't think its my state of WV! That buck is too big!
Tamer I live in Missouri. I shot this guy the first morning out in the woods behind my new house.
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We don't got those skinny deer like you WV dudes do, Shawn. I think that it's all the mountain climbing that makes em skinny like that.
Nice looking buck, Squirepec
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We don't got those skinny deer like you WV dudes do, Shawn. I think that it's all the mountain climbing that makes em skinny like that.
Nice looking buck, Squirepec
Thanx
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Okay ;D
While i don't like killing animals i wouldn't deny that i'm jaleous that we can't shoot at stuff in holland .... We have a swine problem in the woods but here they just chase them up and then machine gun them to reduce trouble.. or we shoot each other
Last thing i shot was a french guy in call of duty
Great 'kills' dudes i love america if everything works out i will do my final high school year in the US!
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Cliff here in the US hunting is something most of us are brought up in and it is mainly a family tradition in the more rural areas. A week of hunting sometimes means more to kids than Christmas if you can believe that. I hate to hear about your swine problem. From what I understand they can really tear up some territory.
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hey darth c were in minnesota do you go hunting? i go archery in Duluth ;D
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Cliff here in the US hunting is something most of us are brought up in and it is mainly a family tradition in the more rural areas. A week of hunting sometimes means more to kids than Christmas if you can believe that. I hate to hear about your swine problem. From what I understand they can really tear up some territory.
Yeah youre right about that ... and there are lots of deer anyway :) but what made me dislike hunting is i saw this docu about rich people that went to africa to 'hunt'
1st of all the animal they want to shoot is a choice if you want to kill a ... lion for instance the rangers have one in storage and let it loose in an enclosure , then a ranger shoots the animal so it's slowed down and than the truck drives to the animal ( Around 5 meters) and they let the rich bloke 'kill' the animal and then they get a picture taken and say ' I shot this animal by myself'
But about the swines... the part where i reside in holland is the metropolitan area so there aren't any here:)
@ Darthabshir
Awesome i've been to deluth in 2007 !
I landed in detroit drove all the way through Michigan ( passed a town called 'Gaylord' ROFL) and drove over the mcsomething bridge through the upper peninsula and our cabin was in Wisconsin in a town called Hurley near a town called Mellen .... We've been to Minoqua , Deluth On our way back from deluth to Hurley we stopped at a Target/K-MART/WAL*MART...whatever And my stepmom went into to buy some groceries when suddenly ..... MILLIONS of creepy flies came across . The 'Bay Flies ' did this once a year to mate and die so me and my dad though of something evil so we parked the rental car something else and when she came out she watched around her dropped the trolley and strayed to the car ...... But it wasn't there lol when she eventually found us she was pissed of and i got to get the trolley... Normally i'm not afraid of bugs and creepy crawlies but those things where hugeeee ...
I love my trips to the us just returned from LA and SF a month ago :)... If only they had taco bell in holland.... Danm chicken quesdillas love 'em
But if everything works out i'll do my senior year in the Us
Cheers
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Cliff, don't dislike hunting because of a few bad souls who happen to say they are hunting. Real hunters don't operate this way. There is an unwritten rule about "fair chase." It would be me not liking Star Wars because I met a few bad souls who are SW fans. Please also don't believe every documentary you see as some are "biased" to a certain point of view. To each his own though.
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True i respect you guys because you actually 'Hunt'
But try to shoot something else then Deer because i want my christmas packages delivererd ;D
Cheers
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True i respect you guys because you actually 'Hunt'
But try to shoot something else then Deer because i want my christmas packages delivererd ;D
Cheers
LOL. I had thirty deer in my yard and driveway today plus about the same number of turkeys. Your Xmas packages are secure. I think Reindeer from Scandanavia and Northern Europe and Asia are what the red guy gets though. Our deer spiecies is called whitetail and if we let it go unchecked they would starve during our fierce winters. You don't even want to know how many are estimated to live in the US alone.
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Ok folks I am deleting all non hunting traffic here. I am glad you guys are communicating. Feel free to use the pm function attached to your profile!
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Well today was day one of the MD Archery Season and I sat on stand for a few hours this evening. A few small ones both bucks and does and I let em all pass. It was still kinda hot to process deer meat and I am holding our for a nicer one. I hope other folks will add to this thread this year. I sure didn't add to it much last year.
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Well I am happy to report that my long drought is over. The changeover in temperature has sure done my hunting some good.
I am marinating deer jerky as I am writing this. All I want to say is that if you like to archery hunt, RAGE broadheads are sure an evolutionary milestone when it comes to mechanical broadheads. Wow am I impressed with them.
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Well I can see I am not really doing this thread justice. I didn't even report that I had harvested a buck on the last report (that was what was marinating). It has been a pretty tough season and I am having some treestand issues namely it seems as I get older it seems using my climber is getting harder and harder. LOL. Oh well, next year I am trying out some ladder stands. My issue is sweating (deer won't stand stinky) and when I get off from work I just need to get some elevation quickly and safely so I think ladder stands may allow me to do this. I think I am gonna get about five of em after I find one I like.
This evening, speaking of stands, I went to shoot my deer rifles (leery of my 700s after the report), but everything worked out ok. My 7 Mag just knocks out bullseyes. That gun makes me look like I can shoot. I did ok with my ultramag and the first gun I had my 6mm. Anyhow, my father in law wanted me to hunt a permanent stand that just about had the Tamer pusing up daises. Thankfully, I got out of there before it fell out of the tree and I just positioned myself behind some brush with 10 yards of a field edge. I didn't think I would see much but a 5 point (actually a pretty nice one) walked out and came to ten steps. It was so awesome I decided he perhaps ought to grow up one or two more years and then he would be trophy material. For me its not always about shooting, but about the whole experience and just practicing my families tradition and general hunting heritage we have here in the US. Speaking of experience, I saw a Great Horned Owl fly down in the field and get a field mouse and then look right at me and scream. Talk about shivers. Those birds are big if you haven't seen on in person.
Anyhow, it was a good evening in the woods. The temperature is not starting to get in the high 40s so the rut is on. I had two bucks behind my blind just grunting their heads off today and for the life of me I couldn't get one of em to walk out. Thats hunting! As I was leaving to go to camp to shoot my guns a flock of about twenty something turkeys showed up. I love where I live this time of year.
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Ok, I had to report on perhaps my wierdest day in the woods. I went up to my father in laws camp with him and his buddy and I went our early and it was one of those awesome hunting days, just a touch chill, but sunny and calm weather. I sat all morning till noon and then went back out into the woods at 1pm and sat till dark. I didn't see my first deer till 5:15pm which turned out to be a buck I probably should have harvested with a group of does at last light.
I barely heard any shots, which is really rare where I hunt. I guess I can chalk it up to a full moon and perhaps nocturnal movement, but I have never had a first day of rifle season like this and it wierded me out a bit. I think I am staying home to hunt the home front tomorrow as rain is forecast so hopefully I will get to fill one of my two WV tags!
MD starts on Saturday so I need to get my license worth on that one too, if my MD buddy stops pouting that I didn't come up and hunt with him today. No doubt he harvested a wall hanger, he always does.
I will try to keep this populated a bit better in the upcoming weeks. Oh, I just heard that Chad got himself a muzzleloader so MN may see some smokepole action too.
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Well I have been hunting hard this week as it is the annual week off for rifle season for whitetails. I turned a pretty bad season into a downright miserable one by missing one of the biggest bucks I have ever seen within 300 hundred yards of my house this morning. Talk about your windy, rainy, cold awful days. Still, that big ole joker walked off one hill onto another ridge and let me get a good look at him before I missed. What a monster!
I have made tougher shots than that one, but after looking for the entire morning I am reasonably assured he will be walking around someone's woods. I probably scared him into the next country, but I am gonna focus my efforts for the remainder of the rifle seasons I have left in WV here at home in the general area I saw him at this morning. I am even forgoeing the first day of MD tomorrow in the hopes of seeing him again. It is a long shot, but between my brother and I maybe one of us can get the crosshairs back on him. For those who hunt can probably guess my mood.
For those who don't it is one of those time honoured traditions in the US if you live in a rural area. I know there may be some who don't understand or think hunting is downright mean, and there will not be a debate about that here, but if you have ever experienced the highs and lows of hunting season you can probably associate with my above story. I sure wish I had a couple of you here I know hunt around cause we would coral all possible exits and someone would bring that trophy home.
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Well its time to knock the dust off of this thread and get ready for a new hunting season. MD Bow Season has started and I have gone once with just baldies and small bucks showing up. One small buck was really huge as far as body size, but he needs to grow up a bit.
I am trying out a new ladder stand this year and have been very impressed with the ease of its use and its stability so far. It did take me and my brother to put it up, but using two ratchet staps to secure it to the tree really makes it rock solid. There is no way it could detach from the tree and it is the safest feeling stand I have been in for years. I am anxious to arrow a nice one out of it.
WV is actually having a muzzleloader season for anterless deer now, but I am still thinking it is a bit early for the yearlings to be away from mom so I am not going out till bow season comes in the first of October.
Looking back on this thread from last year it sure wasn't that great of a season. Ofcourse having a young one cuts into my hunting time and I so hope I can convince her to pick up the tradition like I did from my relatives. There seems to just be a great deer crop this year and I can already smell the venison jerky in the dehydrator. I aim to go bow hunting again in MD on Saturday so maybe I will even get to put a pic or two up here.
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Good luck to you, Shawn, if you do go. Venison jerkey? Wonder why I've never heard of that before...
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Well I have been off forum and site all week long taking a much needed break from everyday life. This time of year the local community pretty much shuts down and everyone heads to the woods to take part in the local tradition we call rifle season. Ofcourse this comes from our Frontier Tradition of communities banding together to hunt said animals so they would have enough food for the winter and I am quite proud this tradition still continues. It is estimated that if communities and hunters didn't do this that the populations would grow so large they would starve themselves out in as little as four years. Ofcourse I didn't add to this thread to discuss the politics of hunting, but to share a hunting story from this year.
I has been a rough season for me as I arrowed a really nice buck only to have some tresspasser actually get to my buck before I did. Me and my neighbor are pretty irritated as it was actually my neighbor's land when we found where he had expired. I was pretty bummed. I have seen quite a few awesome bucks this year, but for whatever reason just couldn't get em to committ. Anyone who has hunted knows the feeling.
Well rifle week started out with torrential rains and fog and eventually we got ice and snow so the weather conditions were absolutely awful for hunting. My hunting buddy and I had permission to hunt new ground and we used the rain to try and scout it out a bit. We basically were just spot hunting and didn’t know the lay of the land real good. The great thing about my buddy is he is a walker and can’t really sit still longer than a hour so he went one way on a bench with the idea of making a big circle back to me later as I can sit forever. Well I sat for well over two hours in the rain and the fog and hadn’t seen a deer till the one you see pictured below comes running up over the hill. After a quick hundred yard shot I am now in possession of some of the best meat you will ever find. Yesterday me and some friends grilled it (go get some McCormicks Peppercorn and Garlic Marinade) and it was awesome. I am marinading the rest in my secret jerky recipe and it should start evaporating tonight. If there are any other hunters out there I would love to hear your stories too.
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Secret Jerky recipe? You set my mouth a watering with that comment, my friend. Nice looking buck, by the way.
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Secret Jerky recipe? You set my mouth a watering with that comment, my friend. Nice looking buck, by the way.
Thanks Clint. If I can ever get you down here I will show you that jerky recipe. I wonder if I could send you a few sticks in the mail? I might try it and you can let me know what you think.
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Well it was the last weekend of WV Rifle Season and about a week before ML Season so I decided to go shoot my smoke pole up at my father in law's property and just hunt there that morning. It was about 19 degrees so I got cold and decided to shoot early. As I pulled into the driveway of camp, I noticed a deer in the far end of the field. I had to get my rifle out, get it loaded, and sneak real quick like and as it ran out of the field (about 300 plus yards) I saw antler and aimed and led it a bit and it dropped. It was easily one of my best shots ever. Looks like more grilled venison for the Tamer household this week. My brother is coming down to claim the rest (not sure if I am giving him all of it, but the season is far from over). Here are a few pics. It was not the biggest buck I have harvested, but easily one of my best memories. My smokepole was a little off, but three shots and I center punched so I am good to go for ML Season too.
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I already have the garlic and peppercorn marinade ready to go. My little gal is anxious to try it out. She wanted me to grill out tonight, but we had a Christmas Concert to go to.
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Nice eight points! I haven't seen a buck all season! Though I'm sure by the time the snow comes in, I'll get something!
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Nice eight points! I haven't seen a buck all season! Though I'm sure by the time the snow comes in, I'll get something!
I am glad to hear that you hunt! You will have to share a few of your hunting stories here. I too wish we would get some snow. We had one the weekend before Thanksgiving and that is when I arrowed a pretty nice one, only to have someone else take it when I tracked it the following day (would love to talk to that dude). Anyhow, I would love to hear what state you hunt in and some of the particulars of what and how you hunt.
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Not much of a story, but I was going to shoot a doe opening day, but it ran off before I could shoot it. I was cosidering going hunting today with my dad, but my grandfather was in the hospital and since he's pretty cheap, he parked his truck at our place and now my dad will have to pick him up.
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I actually took yesterday off and took advantage of the snow in Western MD and wow was it a cold day at 15 degrees. I did see a few bucks though, nothing I wanted to harvest at this point. Think I am done hunting for the the weekend.
I had a doe and two fawns almost close enough to touch this morning. They were playing in the snow like kids. I wished them a good morning and continued my still hunt. Walking in the snow is a fun way to hunt and very quiet.
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Well, it looks like the season's over. There's always next year. Merry Christmas!
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Well, it looks like the season's over. There's always next year. Merry Christmas!
Wow, between MD and WV have seasons that are in till the end of January. I usually end my hunting over the Christmas break, but might do some snow bow hunting in MD this new year.
WV Muzzleloader season starts tomorrow so I might go sit for about an hour tomorrow evening. I would love to get some snow down here like MD has now, but looks like its bright and sunny this week. Cold, but no snow.
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Wow, has it been over two years since I posted in here? Well I finally have something to share. This big ole dude has been giving me the slip for almost a month now and today I finally got him to mess up all because of his girlfriend. She brought him right by me. Looks like turkey nuggets tonight!
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Well I get to add something else to the hunting thread. My family had a heck of a weekend with the passing of my wife's grandmother and between all the viewings and funeral services we all needed a day off today. I couldn't sleep so I went and sat in the blind.
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And it was great fun getting the family involved. My little gal just loves venison.
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I don't know how my hair got so grey, but I sure do enjoy archery. I usually just watch em more than shooting them, but every once in awhile it is nice to put very healthy meat in the freezer.
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NICE!
Been a while since I went out. Here in Louisiana we've had some warm winters for the past 5 years so there's never much moving around. I had no idea you were a hunter Shawn. Time to make some sausage!!!
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NICE!
Been a while since I went out. Here in Louisiana we've had some warm winters for the past 5 years so there's never much moving around. I had no idea you were a hunter Shawn. Time to make some sausage!!!
I would love to hear some Louisiana hunting stories. I think we all have visions of Swamp People in our heads, but I know its not like that down there. I would love to hear about your hunting adventures.
And I have been a hunter since I was about twelve. Mostly self taught except for one friend who is an absolute nut with it, but I do enjoy the peace and quiet the woods gives me. I usually just go and watch, but my daughter was wanting some jerky so besides grilling up the tenderloin (in some McCormick Marinades) that where this one is destined to go.
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Actually Shawn it is a lot like Swamp People down here. I live in southern Louisiana about 30 miles north of New Orleans. I've grown up with hunters and fishermen all my life. My family is mostly of Cajun descent so the older folks all speak French and have the same accents that you hear from Troy and his crew (Swamp People). As kids, we were taught to hunt rabbit, boar, duck, squirrel, turkey, deer and frogs. Some of my friends also hunted gator when they were older. We fish for an abundance of sea food (fresh and salt water) catfish, bass, specks and whites (trout), red fish and flounder, crabs, oysters, turtles and crawfish. We'll eat anything that moves, and it's good too. I absolutely love this state! I've been all over the southern half of the US from California to Virginia but my heart is here and here I'll stay. It's the most unique place in the US, but for hunting and fishing it's unbelievable! They don't call us the 'Sportsman's Paradise' for nothing!
P.S.: Jerky and tenderloin are great, but if you take some of that venison and mix it with some pork and seasoning the sausage will blow the top of your head off! If you can't grind your own a local butcher will do it for you.... I'm starving.
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I would love to hear more stories about this. Sounds like a place I would like to visit.
I love the sound of that sausage. I have a mean jerky marinade too by the way.
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Nice deer shots, buddy. Looks good.
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WOW Tamer that is a big bird! Great looking deer to!
Great stories about Louisiana and living off the land. I am getting hungary with all this food talk!
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Nice deer shots, buddy. Looks good.
Thanks bud. Wish you were here to taste some of it!
WOW Tamer that is a big bird! Great looking deer to!
Great stories about Louisiana and living off the land. I am getting hungary with all this food talk!
Thanks Spry. I agree I am liking seeing DS add a bit to this. I like hearing about how folks do things in other places, let alone add some great wild game recipes or how to fix it to the mix.
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You bagged a couple nice ones there Shawn,. Thanksgiving dinner is covered ;)
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You bagged a couple nice ones there Shawn,. Thanksgiving dinner is covered ;)
Hey Sarge, good to hear from you! And thanks, more pics incoming as I got another eight point last night. Its the first time in years I have tagged out and the rut is just starting.
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Well this has been a pretty good week for me. I thought last night would be a bust as it was so windy and the weather had intermittent rain squalls so it was nasty. I was sitting in a blind so the worse was off of me, but this spot is right besides a travel road with a gate and after hearing that gate crank about a hundred times it seemed the group that was in the field I was watching spooked and ran away (a groud of five bucks and 3 or 4 does) so I thought the hunt was over. I was just about to pack up at evening light when this one walked in. His horns shined a lot! The inside spread was over 17 inches.
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If it were not for lighted sight pins I could not have harvested this bad boy. I knew I hit him good (last pic heart shot) and he crashed just out of the field. I was literally able to drive my truck right too him. I also tried out a Havalon Piranta Knife last night and was extremely impressed. I will put the link here:
Amazon Piranta Bolt Link
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This thing is really crazy sharp like they advertised. It is not really to heavy to cut through bone (I did go through the tail to skin though) and makes field dressing a snap. I would highly recommend going slow as a slip with this will probably mean an emergency room visit, but when the surgical blade gets dull (mine didn't after field dressing and skinning) you just take some pliers and replace it (comes with 12 blades). I can see it rapidly replacing all my hunting knives.
It was great that my little gal was up when I got home to share in the experience. We finished the night by loading the dehyrdrator which was finally ready to go after having the jerky marinade for two days. It has been a great hunting week in the Tamer household. I am trying to talk my wife into picking up her bow now. Fingers crossed. The rut hasn't hit full tilt yet and I am tagged out!
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Wow, it has been over 7 years since I have posted here! Guess time has gotten away from me, but I have still been hunting over those seven years. Got a pretty nice buck this past Fall during Archery Season during the whitetail rut. I saw the brute running full tilt on the trail of a doe at the far end of the field hundreds of yards away. I tried grunting at him and he didn't even look. Figuring I had nothing to loose at that point I hit my rattle bag a couple of times which is really only good for that magic rut time of the year and even then its risky. Still, he was running away from me so I said what the hey.
Well, as it was very cold (November 9th), I had a heck of a time putting the rattle bag away in my pocket with the gloves I had on. I looked back to the field expecting it to be empty, but boy was I wrong. This dude was hard charging and it was all I could do to just grunt at him to get him to stop. He was like a frightened cat, every hair on his body was standing on end. If I had been on the ground he would have mauled me. I have never had a decent one do this me before and man was it pretty cool. It was nice to fill the freezer as the rest of the season was pretty bad. I even bought a new rifle for that season and didn't get to use it. Part of it was as I get older I am getting more selective as man do they feel heavier now than when I was younger! Here is a pic:
Fast forward to today and I went out for the first day of Spring Turkey Hunting today. I had three gobbling birds on the roost, but they didn't gobble once they hit the ground. Thats a bad sign. It either means they are with hens (I didn't hear any though) or they are done for the season. I am gonna try to get a bit closer in the morning between where they fly down and do their morning foraging with some sparse calling. Its risky though, but about the only thing to try.
And on my morning walk I came across about a dozen of these:
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They were just breaking through the ground and in a fairly safe area so I am gonna see if they will grow a bit more before I grab em. Morels are one nice find.
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Dang that's wild. Those deer don't play, they can mess your day up real fast. Great find on the morels, I don't know enough about wild mushrooms to take a chance on picking them, personally. But it's a great thing to know how to identify them.
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Great find on the morels, I don't know enough about wild mushrooms to take a chance on picking them, personally. But it's a great thing to know how to identify them.
Yeah, those are the only ones I will mess with as I know they are safe, but more importantly man are they tasty! I mean so much better than any other mushroom you can buy.
Now on to Turkey Season Day 2. It started off with some gorgeous weather but then the rain and the wind rolled in. I didn't hear any of those birds off the roost, but I did get closer like I wanted to and found a dandy of a set up spot. They sure didn't gobble though, but man I was right beside a roaring creek and it could have muffled the sound a bit, but still figured I would hear something. Oh well, thats hunting.
So it started raining and blowing it upside down into my face (not kidding) so I decided I was too old to deal with weather like that and walked back to the truck. When I got back it cleared off a bit so I decided to just walk an old logging road to look for some turkey sign. After a small walk I started seeing some scratching, but I wasn't sure if it was deer or turkey. I called sporadically a bit and nothing so I decided to go around one more small corner and try one last call before I went home and bingo a gobble!
It got crazy there for a few minutes as it was close. I figured they (by this time I heard another close gobble) were coming in and were on the same logging road I was. So I wait and nothing. A little bit later another gobble a bit further away so I decide to sneak up a little (I was up above the logging road just a bit now trying to hide) and found a deadfall to sorta hide behind (it wasn't much, but better than nothing). So when I call again one answers right below me and I mean right below me (below the logging road) on a steep hill and I know I am close close. Then another one gobbles a little further out but pretty much on the same level (below the logging road). Fast forward another half hour of me calling and them answering and finally this one popped back up on the logging road about twenty yards. I was able to swing the red dot right ahead of him and boom!
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I never did see the one right below me, but know it was there. I figured I would see it soaring as man it was a really, really steep hill. I know that because this one rolled all the way to the bottom of it and I had to carry it back up. I didn't mind too much as this was a great burden to bear! Turkey nuggets on Friday! Gonna crock pot the rest. I will try to put some pics in here when I do both.
As if the day couldn't get any better, my buddy who taught me to turkey hunt (who I haven't seen in many, many years) called my wife right as I texted her the images. She asked me what Jason (my friend) thought of my bird and I said I haven't seen him for years. She said well he just called the house. She texted me the number and he was literally only a half mile from where I shot my bird. I mean crazy, crazy coincidence. We met up and admired this ole boy (at a safe social distance) and it felt great as I do consider him my hunting mentor (he taught me everything I know about hunting). We both agree we are getting older to do a lot of the stuff we used to do when younger, but we can still hang.
To make it even crazier he said he gave up turkey hunting that morning as he was really hunting some Morels and we were not even a hundred yards from where I spotted those from the day before. The look on his face when I said follow me and I will show you some was priceless. I think he thought I was joking. He got over that pretty quick though. He said the one was bigger than any he has found in years (he is an avid shroom hunter as he calls it). So, it was one pretty rewarding day. Oh yeah, I love my red dot sight. Love it!
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I went hunting again this morning and had a great experience. It was two and a half hours of gobbling birds. I made so many good choices on what to do and then one bad one; I shot at one too far out of range, but saw him clearly and he was not hurt.
I got to see two gobblers fight over me (the hen). It was cool. If I had had a rifle I could have easily harvested either one, but using a shotgun means you have to bring em close. Having played tag with one of the two for over two and a half hours I managed to corner him on a logging road. He was jus sitting there strutting for the longest time. I was in an awkward postion basically laying wide open on the logging road as there were no other options and I kept getting worried he would see me and spook. I rushed the shot. Its hunting not grocery shopping, but man was it fun. It was probably the most fun turkey hunt I have ever had without harvesting the bird.
And on that note the turkey nugget supplies are being picked up curbside tomorrow. Nuggets on Saturday, Barbacue on Sunday.
I think I might go back out for a bit Saturday morning. I am just glad to be able to go somewhere and get out of the house a bit.