ClaymoreAKM
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Season, is over now here in NC. Had an OK season, ended up with just a 100lbs doe, but at least I have meat in the freezer. Turkey is right around the corner. and Rabbit season is going on.
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How has hunting season been for you hunters??
- Thread starter Colorado Redneck
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I pulled the trigger, and this happpened. If he looks small of body for a Canadian line buck, it's because he was field dressed in this pic. Bugger ran out into a river and died there. 3/4 mile of dragging his soggy carcass cleaned him right up...lol. Wore me right out, too!
Oh screw it. The file is too big.
Oh screw it. The file is too big.
Iwanttoshootbettter
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On a meat hunt wt
My 2 boys and I were offered to hunt spikes only last w/e.100$ each for the w/e and 200$ more for a kill fair enough.Sat am hunt 5 does come in ate and walked away cool I'm seeing deer 2 mature bucks come in I'm glassing and see 1-5pt the other was forked and not sure it's a spike until it was within 150yrds by then it walked away into deep cover.My oldest boy fixen to pop same spike I saw darn feeder went off and deer hauled butt scared off by feeder.Spikes can be hard to hunt #emptyfreezer.
My 2 boys and I were offered to hunt spikes only last w/e.100$ each for the w/e and 200$ more for a kill fair enough.Sat am hunt 5 does come in ate and walked away cool I'm seeing deer 2 mature bucks come in I'm glassing and see 1-5pt the other was forked and not sure it's a spike until it was within 150yrds by then it walked away into deep cover.My oldest boy fixen to pop same spike I saw darn feeder went off and deer hauled butt scared off by feeder.Spikes can be hard to hunt #emptyfreezer.
bamaranger
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like throwing a switch
I posted on 21Dec that things were poor, but was hoping for change. The next morning I saw two different bucks, but no reasonable shot (rifle) on the bigger one, and I could never get a point count on the second so as to abide by club rules. Two days later, I missed a spike on other pvt. land with my bow, but stuck a tree. I risked death and injury, but managed to climb the tree and get my shaft back, but there is a vintage Bear Razorhead stuck in a red oak limb about 12 feet up!
A week after that, I shot a 5 pt on a public land hunt, with the tube feed Ruger .44 auto carbine, distance appx 60 yds, and got a thru and thru wound with the 200 gr XTP hollowpoint. That is the first pass thru wound I've gotten with that load, but also the longest shot with that combo. I suspect velocity was down enough at that distance to reduce expansion and allow more penetration.
Most recently, on 4Jan, on a PM hunt in the same hollow where I saw the two bucks before Christmas, I killed a 7 pt at about 75 yds with the .308 Hog rifle. The buck was working a scrape on the opposite hillside, having moved from a pine plantation out onto the hardwood hillside, and I was more than pleased with the shot, having to thread the bullet from hillside to hillside, up a tree 20', and the wind working me side to side. The early "solid base" .30/180 Ballistic Tip is actually a good expander on deer, I wish I could come up with a supply of those older slugs, the Hog Rifle really stacks 'em in there, and they are deadly on deer. I hear the "newer" .30/180 b-tip is tougher for bigger game.
Both of those bucks were where I thought they should be, doing what I thought they should be doing, and I find that as rewarding as the kill itself, maybe even more so. I plan to butcher the 7pt tomorrow, and have a stand up in a favorite spot for what I hope to be my last buck for this year.
From famine to feast, my year took a real change in about 3 weeks, like you'd thrown a switch.
I posted on 21Dec that things were poor, but was hoping for change. The next morning I saw two different bucks, but no reasonable shot (rifle) on the bigger one, and I could never get a point count on the second so as to abide by club rules. Two days later, I missed a spike on other pvt. land with my bow, but stuck a tree. I risked death and injury, but managed to climb the tree and get my shaft back, but there is a vintage Bear Razorhead stuck in a red oak limb about 12 feet up!
A week after that, I shot a 5 pt on a public land hunt, with the tube feed Ruger .44 auto carbine, distance appx 60 yds, and got a thru and thru wound with the 200 gr XTP hollowpoint. That is the first pass thru wound I've gotten with that load, but also the longest shot with that combo. I suspect velocity was down enough at that distance to reduce expansion and allow more penetration.
Most recently, on 4Jan, on a PM hunt in the same hollow where I saw the two bucks before Christmas, I killed a 7 pt at about 75 yds with the .308 Hog rifle. The buck was working a scrape on the opposite hillside, having moved from a pine plantation out onto the hardwood hillside, and I was more than pleased with the shot, having to thread the bullet from hillside to hillside, up a tree 20', and the wind working me side to side. The early "solid base" .30/180 Ballistic Tip is actually a good expander on deer, I wish I could come up with a supply of those older slugs, the Hog Rifle really stacks 'em in there, and they are deadly on deer. I hear the "newer" .30/180 b-tip is tougher for bigger game.
Both of those bucks were where I thought they should be, doing what I thought they should be doing, and I find that as rewarding as the kill itself, maybe even more so. I plan to butcher the 7pt tomorrow, and have a stand up in a favorite spot for what I hope to be my last buck for this year.
From famine to feast, my year took a real change in about 3 weeks, like you'd thrown a switch.