Official Team 2 Rut Busters Thread
 

Team # 2
1. Whitetaildreamer-Manitoba
2. Western MA Hunter – Massachusetts
3. Spudrow from Mo. Mo, Ne, Ark, Alabama, Pa.
4. JesterUSCG - MD
5. coryj-virginia and Pennsylvania
6. jim1966-Indiana
7. Omarrh – Florida
8. Doctor Death ..Ky
9. Surf62 NY/PA
10. wis_rifle_hunter- Wisconsin and maybe Wyoming


I will hightlight in red when people get checked in.

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Western MA Hunter checking in...can't wait for season to start.

I'm 30 years old, married with 2 little girls (4 & 2).

I am an avid bow hunter and gun hunter. I just shot a bear earlier this week during the MA bear opening evening. I will be going to New Brunswick in 2.5 weeks on moose hunt. Bringing my 7mm mag for that.
Bow season starts mid October here and gun the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Here is the bear from the other night... You may have seen it posted on a couple of other Threads.
I am on Team 1 for the Bowhunting Contest

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Checking in also. Been doing archery but can't wait till ML and rifle.

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wis_rifle_hunter checking. i cant go out to wyoming this year do to my grandpa being busy with work and cant get off. so im stuck to hunting in the great old state of wisconsin.

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Hi all. My name is Jim. I was born in 1966. 42 years old. I'm married with 3 girls. 12, 17 and 19.

Western MA Hunter "I am an avid bow hunter and gun hunter. I just shot a bear earlier this week during the MA bear opening evening. I will be going to New Brunswick in 2.5 weeks on moose hunt. Bringing my 7mm mag for that."

Congrats on the bear and good luck on getting a moose.

I am on team 42 in the bow contest. My gun season begins November 15. I'm on Vacation from the 15th till 18th so hopefully I'll get one down then.

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Any ideas on team name or who we want as a captain? Any of you get in last years gun contest? If so what did you shoot?

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Ok I just pm'ed the six left on the team to check in. Hopefully we will be good to go soon.

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I hope the rest check in soon. Will be hunting interlake of Manitoba. Water levels are up so the deer have been sticking to the ridges. Should be a good season. Was pattenning a monster last year but could never get a shot. He's still in there and I hope some new stand placements will give me a shot this year. Saw him twice last year and I figure he is easy a 150 class. I hope I will be able to contribute this year. All my best.

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Hello all. Spudrow from Missouri checkin in. I didn't get to hunt last year because I fell out of my tree stand. Did quite a bit of damage. All's well now and I am raring to get out in the woods. My name is Mac. Retired,married with 4 kids, 4 grandkids. I have been hunting over 45 years. In fact we are heading out to Colorado on the 16 th for an archery elk hunt.

Good luck to all and be safe.

Spudrow from Mo

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Hi. Glad your ok from the fall. Be careful. Sure the grandkids want to keep you around and safe.

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Ole dd checking in ...will be hunting Livingston Co in west Kentucky....our bow season opens tomorrow and rifle season opens Novemeber 8-23rd ...I will be off most the month and hunting hard...Jim sounds like to me you would make a good captian ...you got my vote.

dd

ROLL TIDE

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Hey Jim DD needs to redded up. Good job my man.

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Hi team 2. My name is Paul I am 46 been hunting for wow 31 years now,and justgetting back to deer hunting after a few seasons of fishing in the fall(surfcasting) and duck hunting.These to sports left little time for chasing deer but I have been missing it, so last season I got back in the woods a little. This season will be much more. Most of my gun hunting will be in PA unless I find a spot in NY, most of the old farms I hunted in upstate NY are gone nowor sold and posted. I will be splitting bow hunting between NY/PA. Long Island has some great deer hunting if you put in the time. Lots of big deer buthard to get at them, urban hunting[:@].

Paul

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Great job keeping on top of things Jim. If we are going to vote for a captain you have my vote already. This will be my 36th year hunting and I hope it will be the best. I'm heading out Sat. and hoping to arrow my second whitetail of the season. The buck sign has been coming around where I ML and Rifle hunt. If I can bag another with the bow then the freezer pressure is off and I will be able to concentrate on the big boy I was chasing last year. He's held up on the same ridge as last year and with high water in the surrounding swamps most of the deer have been traveling up on the high ground. Hope I'll be able to stay on top of him and add some inches to the team score.

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Checking in. My names Cory, 26 years old, hunt archery in Virginia, rifle and muzzleloader in PA and VA.

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[quote]ORIGINAL: whitetaildreamer

Great job keeping on top of things Jim. If we are going to vote for a captain you have my vote already.

Ditto, Spudrow from Mo

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thanks for checking in Cory.

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Ok only 2 more left to check in. I'll give them another day or 2 and then pm then again.

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Went and checked the trail camera this morning.1 doe in 3 weeks. Moved the camera over by my ladder stand now though. Got a squirrel this morning.

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I e-mailed the 2 that haven't checked in yet. Hopefully they will show up. omarrh hasn't been on since 7/26/08 though. bigfathunter was last on 9/1/08.

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Jim, you get my vote... you are on top of things.
We have Doctor Death... he will be putting some points on the board for sure! Good to see you again DD!
I am very bad at team names...
The best thing about these contests is getting to meet people from all over (North America).
It is a great thing.
I just wanted to share another pic with you of my 4 year old w/ last week's bear... She is really into it.

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What a cutie. Reminds me of one of my grand kids. The bear ain't bad either. Congrats. Where did you get him?

Spudrow from Mo

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Massachusetts. We have a very healthy growing bear population here.

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Nice looking bear.

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sweet looking bear. congrats. did you get it mounted or turned into a rug??

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Erik, congrats on the bear looks like it has a nice coat. Love the pic with your daughter she is a cutie.

Paul

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Well boys, i dont know if ill be able to gun hunt this year. i broke my finger and tore a tendon so i might have to have surgery sometime soon. i had a game on sunday and i went to the hospital and they said that i wont be able to do anything for awhile. lets hope i dont have to have surgery

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Sorry to hear that. Hang in there, things will get better.

spudrow from Mo

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Great picture of the little one and the bear. It's one that you will treasure even more as she gets older. Yes, it is very nice to meet you alland thiscontest will provide usan opportunity to get to know each other a little better. Only 3 of us ever checked in on my last year's team so I think I've done far better than that already.I'm also very interested in the techniques that you guys may be using and how they may be similar and/or different than mine. (I supposegeographic location will dictate our individual styles of hunting). I will behunting in the interlake area of the province of Manitoba. If you look on a map (I'll post a link once I have my stuff together), it's and area between lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg (which is the 7th largest fresh water lake in the world). It's an area of mostly graze land (not very good farm land once you get 50 miles or so north of Winnipeg)withthick boreal forest. At times tough hunting but one thing we do have is very big animals (antler and esp. body). A 200 lb. field dressed buck doesn't ever get a second look when you stop asat a gas station. With that said the pressure is on to produce for you boys. Here's a pic from 2 years ago.

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Sorry messed up putting the pic in. And by the way, although I'm not a little guy, I'm not as hefty as I look in the pic. Minus 30 and 4 or 5 layers of clothes will do that to you. lol

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try again

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I noticed that they put up the team captain thread. I nominate Jim if he will take the job. What say you all???

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Lets see what deer you got last year.

heres the one I got for the contest last year.

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Its up to you all. I don't have a problem doing it. I'm usually on here everyday anyways.

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Here's the one from 06.Wasn't for contest though.Had the wrong date on the camera. Darn Batteries had to be replace and didn't check the date .

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I did not take anything worth noting last year w/ the gun. Just a little 4 pointer. We hunt big woods here in MA. We do alot of sitting, still hunting, & drives. If you shoot any buck in MA, you are doing something right! or just lucky...
Last year I took 2 doe & a 6 point with the bow, the 4 pt w/ the shotgun.

Just doing a shoulder mount w/ the bear. I have 2 mounted already... 1 rug & 1 3/4 mount

Jim & Wis... nice bucks... all 3 are beauties. .... If you shoot a 200lb buck out here, you make the paper...

This is last years....





2005


2006


2003

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Nice buck W Ma H.A few inches here and there by all of us and maybe we can get over the top. Last year I harvested a nice little 4x4 that scored just over 100 inches but with only 3 of us on our team that actually checked in we didn't have much of a chance.

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who are we missing now?

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Whitetaildreamer... i saw the pic of the velvet buck in the archery game bag forum... give us the story...

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Nice animals fellows. Congrats to all and good luck this year.

I second the motion for Jim as our captian.

Spudrow from MO