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Whats up with everybody? Haven't been on for a while. Been flinging arrows since the middle of september here in Indiana. Muzzleloader doesn't start for 2 weeks and will be taking the optima out tomorrow to see if it needs tweeked.
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It is shotgun season here, but I take the muzzleloader instead. Here we can hunt with bow, muzzleloader, shotgun or handgun (with permit) during shotgun season. I trust my CVA more than my shotgun if I have to go out further than 50 yards.
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Still trying to kill my second deer. While filling the feeders yesterday, i drew down of a big doe but she had a very small fawn with her. That fawn would not have survived without Mom, so i passed.
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What's Up?
I saw a few does but nothing with horns so far. With the deerpopulation as low as it is in my area, I have decided no more doe hunting. While our Department of Natural Resources claims deer herds are at record highs, they must have not ever looked around my place. All my neighbors agree that the numbers are seriously low. Of course they like to blame the wolves in the area, but they forget all the doe the took out of the herds for the last several years. So if I get skunked, that's all right too. Its just being out in the woods I enjoy. Also been doing some grouse hunting with some good results. Hunting them with a black powder single shotgun sure does lower the odds. AND :D, I got within 20 yards of a MONSTER gobbler the other day. I actually saw something coming through the under brush and thought it might be a bear. I was kind of releived when it stepped out in the open. Deer hunting to me is no longer about killing deer or filling freezers. I used to be just crazy trying to get any kind of deer. Now that just does not seem important to me anymore. That has to be a sure sign of getting old I guess. Although if something with horns walked by, I'd be more then glad to make smoke.. Be safe hunting out there. It was 2ºs, windy and lightly snowing this morning. Not real pleasant out there. So that is what I have been up to... |
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Well, Dave - part of that "Deer hunting to me is no longer about killing deer or filling freezers" is because you don't like to exert the effort to drag 'em out unless it's really going to be worth it! ;)
For me, I got a buck and a doe during rifle season - was going to go out with the wife today so she'd have another chance to fill one of her tags, but the wind is howling with the wind chill just above zero, and she would have been frozen in 15 minutes. Since we drive 2+ hrs. to where we hunt, we didn't think it would be worth it. Archery season re-opensDec. 1 - Jan. 1 and MZ season is Dec. 14-23. I'm really hoping to be able to score again with the White Ultra Mag. Good Luck to All |
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ORIGINAL: cayugad What's Up? I saw a few does but nothing with horns so far. With the deerpopulation as low as it is in my area, I have decided no more doe hunting. While our Department of Natural Resources claims deer herds are at record highs, they must have not ever looked around my place. All my neighbors agree that the numbers are seriously low. Of course they like to blame the wolves in the area, but they forget all the doe the took out of the herds for the last several years. So if I get skunked, that's all right too. Its just being out in the woods I enjoy. Also been doing some grouse hunting with some good results. Hunting them with a black powder single shotgun sure does lower the odds. AND :D, I got within 20 yards of a MONSTER gobbler the other day. I actually saw something coming through the under brush and thought it might be a bear. I was kind of releived when it stepped out in the open. Deer hunting to me is no longer about killing deer or filling freezers. I used to be just crazy trying to get any kind of deer. Now that just does not seem important to me anymore. That has to be a sure sign of getting old I guess. Although if something with horns walked by, I'd be more then glad to make smoke.. Be safe hunting out there. It was 2ºs, windy and lightly snowing this morning. Not real pleasant out there. So that is what I have been up to... After you guys got me so pumped and educated about muzzleloaders, I am itching to get the Optima out and taken some of those does. Good luck to all! |
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jaybe -
Well, Dave - part of that "Deer hunting to me is no longer about killing deer or filling freezers" is because you don't like to exert the effort to drag 'em out unless it's really going to be worth it! ;) Meet my dragger.. that devil can pull three deerat the same time and never break a sweat. Tie them to the back, or throw them on a rack.. it could care less.  |
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Meet my dragger Ain't them rubber footed horses grand. |
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Ain't them rubber footed horses grand. Actually a couple grand, but well worth the money.. those things are workhorses. I do not know what I would do without it. I plow snow with it, drive it all over the forest, not to mention,I was bringing firewood out of my woods this spring and got to thinking how in the old days, they would have had to drag all that out either by hand or with horse. Hard to picture someone going through that much work. Then add to that a chainsaw VS a hand axe and bucksaw..(both of which I have practical experience with)WOW!! Technology is sure great sometimes. |
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Well Dave, since you're waitin' for a bigg one, I hope you get one that makes that red puppy groan!!
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Pretty quite here Muzzle loader season is over filled two tags a buck [6point] and a doe,recovered the GoldDot 250 from the doe with a metal detector she was standing right by my 50 yd marker when I busted her from a high stand. Lee
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I hunted for a week and a bit during the regular rifle season with my GPR flinter. I had the hammer back once, on a deer that I jumped but it used a pine tree for a screen. Then itpranced by my brother-in-law, whowatched it go by him as he tried to clear the jam on his CF.:([:@]He did however tap a nice little 10 point later in the week to redeem himself.
I'm off to Southern Ontario for a controlled hunt Sat (about an eight hour drive from here). The hunt starts Mon so I'm hoping to pop the GPR's cherry then.:DI'm sure to draw a few looks. LOL;):D |
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Good luck with the GPR HuntAway.. I will be excited to see how your hunt turns out... Shoot a big'en :D
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ORIGINAL: oldrookie Whats up with everybody? Haven't been on for a while. Been flinging arrows since the middle of september here in Indiana. Muzzleloader doesn't start for 2 weeks and will be taking the optima out tomorrow to see if it needs tweeked. Hope all is having a good season with their weapon of choice! http://www.the-gleasons.com/this_is_my_savage_10_ml_page.htm Chap Gleason |
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2nd weekend of ML season coming up for us in MN. I took a doe during rifle season with my omega and a small paddleheaded 5 pointer (I call it genetic cleansing) with the 30-06. Would have used the omega for both but it snowed so much the last weekend that I cleaned up the blackpowder gun and didn't feel like having to clean it on a sunday night after a long drive home. This weekend I'll go back out again with the omega,, 100gr 777, and a 250gr gold dot looking for something to try some new sausage recipes with.
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