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Cougar Mag 10-20-2006 06:10 PM

Team 12
 
1 Mizzouhunter
2 Buckfever1613
3 FF/EMT
4 Jumpum and Dumpum
5 Oneshot7
6 manuman
7 Matt in IL
8 Serioushunter1
9 Roger lederer

10 monster10rackstack

Mizzouhunter 10-20-2006 09:25 PM

RE: Team 12 checkin
 
Greetings y'all. Mizzouhunter present and accounted for.

Buckfever1613 10-21-2006 07:32 AM

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bckfever here and ready to go in GA

FF/EMT 10-21-2006 08:58 AM

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Checking in for team 12, now i only have to wait 2 more weeks....

Jumpum and Dumpum 10-23-2006 06:51 PM

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Checkin in for team 12 .... looks likewe gotta lottamidwest boys;)we already got an advantage

Oneshot7 10-24-2006 06:04 PM

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i am here guys season is already here

manuman 10-30-2006 05:47 AM

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Another Georgia boy here and ready to go. Been mostly bowhunting,but went to my club in Greene couny and saw nothing. Rain the first day,high winds the next and then it go too warm. Early yet.

Mizzouhunter 10-31-2006 11:34 AM

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Went bowhunting this weekend and had no luck. There was a 130 inch buck hit by a car though. Heartbreaking...

Mizzouhunter 10-31-2006 11:36 AM

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Oh, and our season opens November 11th. How about everyone else?

Matt in IL 11-01-2006 05:43 PM

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Checkin in guys;)

Oneshot7 11-04-2006 08:39 PM

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already going strong here gettin ready for the rut

Serioushunter1 11-05-2006 03:28 PM

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Here I am reporting. I will be hunting for two weeks in KY starting next weekend. Good Luck to all.
serioushunter

Mizzouhunter 11-05-2006 08:55 PM

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Just got this off the camera today. It's located about 40 yards from my stand.


Roger_lederer 11-06-2006 10:48 AM

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Hey guys, your alternate checking in, sorry it wasnt sooner, I have been hunting all weekend!

Roger_lederer 11-06-2006 10:56 AM

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My season started Satureday, Its been looking good so far and I get to go out all day tommorow. Im really looking forward to tommorow it should be a very good day. Up here around Duluth there are some pretty beig chuncks of public land, and im hunting about 2 or so miles back into one of those so I have some good hopes. Plus I am hunting the deer season back home in WI!!!

Serioushunter1 11-06-2006 07:03 PM

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Hey manuman, I guess we are destined to be on the same "team". How are youdoing? Seeing in deer down ther in GA.?

Roger_lederer 11-07-2006 08:26 AM

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Uhhh... We need a team captain who wants to be it?

monster10rackstack 11-07-2006 02:14 PM

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Im here guys

manuman 11-07-2006 05:52 PM

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I just saw that and thought the same thing! Doing good. Hunting has bee slow. 2 factors--poachers on my bow tract, and too busy to go often. I am headed to my club this weekend with my 14 year old son, and the rut is starting to kick in, so maybe I can make up for lost time and oppurtunity. You need to find one of those big daddy's like the Mennonite fellow did! It would win by itself! Good to know we're on the same side;)

Oneshot7 11-07-2006 07:02 PM

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ok guys we need a capitan i will go ahead and nminate some aned we can go from there how about that
manuman gets my vote right now but we will se later on

manuman 11-08-2006 04:08 PM

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I've heard he's a pretty shifty fellow, so I'm not sure---good looking guy though!:D:D

Mizzouhunter 11-08-2006 04:30 PM

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manuman works for me

Serioushunter1 11-08-2006 05:41 PM

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Yeah I can third that vote. Well I got two days until I am out in the woods. I got some added incentive to get some meat this year. Some Amish friends of mine had a ccident and the father's two oldest wer aslmost killed in a car accident. So All my meat I get this year will be donated to them.

So wish me luck I am going to be outh there two weeks solid stating on Saturday. So if you don't hear from me that is why. Take care and hunt safe!

Roger_lederer 11-08-2006 07:49 PM

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manuman works for me

Oneshot7 11-08-2006 08:03 PM

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ok so manuman is our capitan i would be but i am captain of team nockdown in the bowhuntin contest and i think that shifty guy will be alright he cant get us from the computer lol

manuman 11-08-2006 08:39 PM

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Well alrighty then...I would like to thank all of you who fought so hard for me during this difficult campaign---now get your butts in the woods and lets win this thing!!!!;)
I seriously don't mind, if all are in agreement.. I am heading out for 3 days, the Lord willing , this friday through sunday, and our rut is kicking in gear, so I hope I have a good contribution soon! Good luckeveryone,and Serious---god job.Let me know ifourAmish bros need anything--maybe a small check--seriously.

Oneshot7 11-09-2006 08:11 PM

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well i busted one tongiht but i forgot to get a picture of the whole deer and gun thing and all i have is the horns so i dout coug will take it but if he will i scored 67 inches for our team with a 7 pointer

Serioushunter1 11-12-2006 09:04 PM

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BIG BUCK DOWN............ Well as I guess I am canceling my vacation and save my time off for when I may need it. I did the unimagineable. After the past two months I finally had something go my way. OK here you go a 12pt, 212 lb BRUTE!!! I took it at 1150 AM today. Story attached.


Here is how the day unfolded. Alarm went off at 0500. Oh please just another 30 minutes I thought. Well I rolled off my best friends couch. Got dressed then immediately noticed Something out of the ordinary. A head ache yikes. I can't let this deter me. So hope in the old truck and head to the closest gas station/convient store. One sausage / egg biscuit , rolaids (just in case) diet Mt. Dew and two packs of advil. Now it is a sprint to "the hill". I arrive at about 0600. I got and hour and half until sun up. I drive through the pasture up the hill to about 50 yards to the wood line. I park and start assembling the needs for the day. Safety harness first. ( Told you MBM) Then coat on gloves , hat, grap fanny pack and make the 500 yard hike up to the top. My stand is attached to a tree sitting about 20 yards off the fenceline. I slide up about 16 ft. turn off the light and wait to see what the day would hold for me.

0650 leagal shooting light nothing. At 0915 pull out the cell phone and start playing poker. Check the weather and temp on the web. It is 41degrees. I text the wife and best friend to let them know my exact location in case something should happen.

1000 nothing 1059 Got movement a doe running about 150 yards on the other side of the fence. I could not see as to what was chasing or why she was running. Immediate instinct grunt tube and let out two short grunts. Deer diappears and nothing. 1130getting hungry and tired of watching enough squirrels to feed China, North Korea, and South Korea. I am almost getting ready to bail. Pull out binoculars and give a scan. "Man my eyes are playing tricks on me". Could that be. Nah. No movement then an ear flickers. Slowyly the binocuolars go down and the .300 win mag comes up. Where did it go? There it is. A deers face and neck. All I can see. It was in some thorn bushes and brush standing next to the fence staring at me. Is it a Buck or Doe? Can see antlers or body. Decision time. It is getting ready to hop the fence and I won't be able to shoot. ( I am a lot of things but poacher is not one of them.) Do I? Don't I ? It seemed like an eternity. Got a frontal neck shot or the head. I have NEVER EVER taken a neck or head shot. Too risky. It is going to leave I gotta do something. I picked my posion. The head through the left eye. I figured if it didn't drop I would miss totally. Take deep breath exhale half way BANG! Hit its mark. It falls. I immediately jack another shell. All I could see was its back and hind legs. I see its leg move.Bang through the spine. No movement.

I start to shake and hyperventilate. Calm down Steve or you are going to get to break in your new safety harness. I tell myself. I unload the gun and lower it down the tree. I make my way down. I reload just in case. I walk the the 100 yards down the fencline and look into the bushes and briars........I fell to my knees in astonishment. Oh my gosh. What have I done? It is a MONSTER! There before me was the largest buck I have taken in the 11 years I have been hunting. I start to count. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, one broken off 11, and behind the left main beam a kicker about 2.5 inches long makes 12! 16 inch inside spread 17.5 outside, 10 inch G2's. Good mass!

He is big I mean big. I am a 280lb man but this animal is a monster. I am afraid to put in on the ATV because it may raise it up. Go get the Massey Furgeson 135 and boom. I get him down ot the barn and get out the scales.........216lbs! WOW.

I then field dress it and donate the meat to a very needy family. The father was in a motorcycle accident and had to have his leg removed. No disability, no income he had obtained permission to hunt from his vehicle. They needed food in a bad kind of way. Besides that thing was soo old it was probably like shoe leather.

So I tkae my cape to the taxidermist where that cost me 478 dollars. Fed a needy family for quite some time. My heart feels good this evening. I will get some photos up tomorrow.

I must say I am very proud considering the year I have had. In hindsight I am not proud of the shot I took. I feel very capable with my gun. With the BOSS on my Browning I shoot under 1inch groups. I do not know if I would in the future take the shot. I defintely would not if I had another ethical shot. Lungs, Heart, Shoulder, maybe neck or spine.






manuman 11-13-2006 05:27 AM

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Great job Steve! Looks like we are getting off toa good start! I saw only 1 deer, a broken rack 8 , that was a yearling. idid see plenty new sign, but also encountered tresspassers---again! Rut is here, soI hope to take advantage.

manuman 11-13-2006 07:01 AM

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Get a photo in and see if you can't get one with , now wit you and the deer rack, with your gun--along with a signed affidavit from the attorney general's office---well, skip the last part!;):D

Serioushunter1 11-13-2006 09:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: manuman

Great job Steve! Looks like we are getting off toa good start! I saw only 1 deer, a broken rack 8 , that was a yearling. idid see plenty new sign, but also encountered tresspassers---again! Rut is here, soI hope to take advantage.
Thanks Greg. I was going to donate the meat to Eli's family but I figure with the Amish being such a close knit community that they will take care of each other. This poor guy and his wife man did they ever need the meat. He was drunk driving on a motorcycle with no helmet and hit a car head on in a curve. His actual knee cap was on the road. He is very lucky to be alive. Because of the causes of the accident I do no tbelieve he is able to draw disability. SAD!

Serioushunter1 11-13-2006 01:12 PM

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Is this what you need???














manuman 11-13-2006 03:10 PM

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Yep! Good buck, and i will keep this guy inmy prayers as well. maybe this 'accident' will prove to open his eyes a bit?

monster10rackstack 11-14-2006 12:20 PM

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alright great buck my bow season has been good and gun starts saturday hope to let the ml bark

Oneshot7 11-14-2006 08:32 PM

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i am gonna kill one tomorrow guys i fell it comin on to the code blue and the ezgrunter plus with the can mixed in

manuman 11-15-2006 08:22 AM

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You can enter the second deer,so get a picture,wit all the essentials this time--and make sure he scores at least 150--okay,50.;)

Buckfever1613 11-15-2006 11:39 AM

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sorry i have not posted in a while i have been busy with college. i hunted the other day and jumped a doe on the way in then i saw a spik but i did not want to shoot that. after friday i have a week off and will be able to hunt hard then finals then i will have almost a month to hunt all i want

Mizzouhunter 11-15-2006 03:23 PM

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Here's a 8 pt. buck I took opening weekend but I haven't scored him yet. He's not exactly a monster, but I didn't get skunked either!

Ok, well when I try and upload the picture it says the file is too large... Suggestions?

monster10rackstack 11-15-2006 05:32 PM

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upload to www.photobucket.com then use the button in the upper righthand corner that is yellow and looks like it has a mountain on it

Oneshot7 11-15-2006 07:26 PM

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oh you HAD to go there manuman i did not see him this afternoon and tomorrow it will be rainy and i doubt i will go but after that the rut will kick in


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