Okla. Rifle Season
 

Finally Okla. rifle season opens this weekend. I have actually gotten to take the full week off and go to Broken Bow area to hunt. Man the excitment is building. I sure hope to have a good report when I return. Any one else in Okla. ready????

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[:@] I thought the season was year round down round broken bow? Just kiddin. The rut is full on right now around the NE part of the state. I will be in my stand all day tomorrow. This weekend should be like a war zone.

Good luck to you. It sure is pretty down there.

KB

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I'm very excited. I've killed a wallhanger already during the bow season, so there is no pressure to bag a buck, so I'm in it for the long haul.

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Im going to hunt on a buddy's land in atoka county he said there are a lot of deer, don't really know what to expect since I have never been there and he doesn't hunt. I know they have a nice oat patch that deer have been coming into. any advice!

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What part of Atoka County? I just picked up a lease there. Southeast of Atoka about 19 miles.

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I'm looking forward to my annual hunt in Osage county NW of Tulsa. This is not a trophy hunt, and I am not a trophy hunter. I love to be in the woods, to take deer, process the meat myself, and cook great gourmet meals with the venison. I will leave work mid-afternoon Friday and begin driving up from my home just north of Dallas, Texas. I'll have my truck packed tonight, excepting my several guns that I pack at the last minute. I am carrying .22 LR and 12 gauge in the event I also have opportunity to do some squirrel and duck hunting after taking my deer.

A special treat this year, I am bringing my 10 year old daughter along to observer. Last year she came out into my sister-ini-law's backyard and wanted to watch me skin and cut-up my doe. I figured that would last about two minutes until she got grossed out. Au contraire! She was fascinated, watched the whole thing closely, and wanted to participate in the butchering inside the house. I let her write the identifying information on the packaged meat. Anyway, the plan is for her to sit with me while I hunt. I'm taking a sleeping bag for her to pull up over her torso to keep warm in the mornings. I'm taking ear plugs and the "ear muff" hearing protection devices: I don't imagine she will be happy to get blasted by the report of a deer rifle, so she needs hearing protection (I use hearing protection at the range but not while hunting). I also hope to have her take a book or two which she can read if she gets bored with just sitting and watching. I hunt from improvised ground blinds and generally stay on stand about 3 to 4 hours. For example, opening morning I'll plan to be walking to my appointed position at 5:30 AM, with legal shooting light being about 6:30 AM. I'll stay in this position until 9:30, maybe 10 AM. In the afternoon I'll try to get into position about 2:30 PM, and last shooting light is about 5:45 PM. Between the morning and afternoon I drive back to my sister-in-laws house. This works for me. I take a deer every year; last year I took both a doe and a buck following this routine.

Anyway, yes, the excitement is building.

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I'll be hunting in Grant and Kay County for the entire first week. Good luck to all, and is anybody else going to be up that way?

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Be hunting around Wewoka this weekend, then back home to norman for the week. My uncle shot a nice 9 point down there the last weekend of blackpowder so hopefully they'll be some others around.

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well here it is less than 24hrs away buck are chasing does everywhere and i at work shur wish i was in a tree, but i guess im lucky done bag a nice buck last week end so im going to be off next week to see if mister big come out. let the shootin begin.

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Yep, I am ready! I've been seeing some monsters on our place lately. Can't wait to see the sun rise tomorrow.

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My doe season ended 1 hour into the morning. Took a dressed 85 lb doe around the Oologah area. Now I can take my time for a nice buck.

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Got mine! 10 points, 170 lbs

...will post some more pics later!

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Got me one too. 7 pt at 142#. 7 am.

Ill be back after a doe next weekend. My 5 yr old wants to go so we'll go in the afternoon.

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Here is mine. Public land 4x4. Shot slightly before 10:00. I kicked him up out of his bed last weekend. Yesterday when I shot him he was six steps in trail of a doe.

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Got this guy yesterday. He field dressed at 145# and is a 8 pt with 2 kickers. Neck was swollen but the tarsals werent that bad yet. We spotted him and a smaller buck with 2 does earlier. Shot was 280 yds with 270 (130 grain relaods).

Good Luck to all..

KB

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Nice bucks, everybody. I haven't seen anything but a couple of small bucks and several does. Every doe I have seen still have their fawns with them and I haven't seen more than one doe together. It's weird. Everybody else is talking like the deer are chasing like crazy, but not where I'm hunting. It's like it was October. I did see some chasing a few nights ago when I was bowhunting, but that was on another property. I know there are good bucks here, cause I killed one during bowseason, and I have pictures of others, I just don't get it.

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The buck pictured above was all by his lonesome last weekend. Yesterday when I seen him he was nose deep in a hot doe. I seen two other deer last weekend; one doe and the other I can't say for sure, but both were loners.

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asttbe, sorry took so long to reply, I hunted in caney, saw some good young bucks but didn't pull the trigger on any the day after I left the owner saw a big 10 point come out he doesn't hunt so he just watched the buck while he was feeding his cows. might try to go back the last weekend.

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This was the first week to ever take vacation for 9 days during rifle season. We went to Smithville Ok. and saw alot of doe's during buck only and not one buck. Sunday we got ready to leave and my brother in law sat in the feild and it was like they new I was headed home because the field lit up with bucks chasing does and he had his pick at a nice 4 X 5. D#@ just my luck!!!.
Was going home from work yesterday and was two blocks from my house where they will not give me permission to hunt and saw the biggest 10 point I ever saw anywhere in this area.:(talking about frustrated.
Going back this weekend and give it another try.

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Any of you Okies huntin in McCurtain Co. or near there?

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Not me. Im in N.central ok.

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I got a doe opening weekend that dressed out 84 lbs. I've only seen 1 buck... a young 6 pt. Got the doe in Craig County.

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Im outta tags for gun season too.

Took my 5yr son friday and we brought a 92# doe home w/ us.

He had a good time seeing the deer come in and was even fascinated about the field dressing part. He kept wanting to see what was in the stomach but I failed to show him.

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I filled my rifle tag in Comanche County on Thanksgiving day he dressed out at 156 pounds!

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Got this guy on Ft. Sill in Comanche county on 12 November.
21 inch inside spread.

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Which Guy?

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Hey fellas, congrats to everyone on their bucks!

Dalliwhacker, great to see you bud back in here a little bit, I've missed ya. Nice buck bud, you da man. I hope all is going well for you and yours in Okla. Give your girls our best wishes, from the Pottengers.. Take care Jim

Troy