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All of you deer hunters out there

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JO

Same for me. My buddy got a nice buck Monday PM. We almost had to step on the them to get them up Monday, it was cool and VERY windy. I saw 100's of deer, many up close and personal, but no big bucks. I did see a half white buck, piebald not albino. We had access to probably 1000 acres of woods and fields. There was not enough pressure to get them moving but I found an excellent place to bowhunt next year.

Congrats on the yote. I imagine the bear was sight you won't soon forget.

I bowhunted Sunday and it started to downpour. I had simple fleece on and it kept me dry until the end. I need new boots, they leaked.

Back in NOLA where the temps will be in the 70's this week.
 
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NSB,

Out of what space-age material is your treestand made? Its structural integrity must be phenomenal to hold you up there. :biggrin:

I'm still looking for a boar hunting invitation some time this decade.

Cheers,
RB
 
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Rugby

They make treestands that handle 300+ pounders. I am pushing 240, but my treestand days are over. I hunt from the ground mainly using one of those folding chairs you use for tailgating. A lot of the time I just lean against trees. With age comes wisdom, it is a long way down out of the tree.

The big hawgs have been killed in GA on game farms. When you gonna invite me? I am between clubs, I'll let you know how next year looks.

Choose your weapon.
 
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NorthShoreBuck;1349846; said:
JO

Same for me. My buddy got a nice buck Monday PM. We almost had to step on the them to get them up Monday, it was cool and VERY windy. I saw 100's of deer, many up close and personal, but no big bucks. I did see a half white buck, piebald not albino. We had access to probably 1000 acres of woods and fields. There was not enough pressure to get them moving but I found an excellent place to bowhunt next year.

Congrats on the yote. I imagine the bear was sight you won't soon forget.

I bowhunted Sunday and it started to downpour. I had simple fleece on and it kept me dry until the end. I need new boots, they leaked.

Back in NOLA where the temps will be in the 70's this week.
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my weahter was not fun monday ice all morning, then before lunch the sun came out (melt) i was in hemlocks, it "poured" on me.

we couldnt get anything to kick thats why we went to pa and went for the bear

i never saw it, i heard it barreling in our general direction, bang, bang....bang then i heard some noise. tracked it about 100 yards and it laid down. we sat on it and then 5 mins later someone went in with a pistol. took 3 shots from a 300 win mag to knock down the bear. i never actually saw it but i almost bailed and gave up my spot on the drive!

we hunted all of my buddys dads 2k acres in ny then 200 plus neighbors in pa.

the yote was we were standing there and it ran across through the woods, i was up on a knob/ledge they said it was 250 yards, one shot, one kill with a 30-06. pure luck, i got it sighted guessed high a tad and let it go, pure luck. id say it was 200ish who knows. we saw as many coyotes in pa as bucks. they are actually good looking animals. one of the guys was thinking about getting it mounted, supposedly $375 for a full body howl at the moon look. theyve got a nice log cabin up in ny so itd look good there.

i was suprised in the variety of rifles these days. people had everything...

the fabrics today amaze me.

what do you call a big buck? do you have a min size/spread you look for?

a kid we hunted with got a nice 8, good mass. his first buck. 4.5 year old id guess. kid will be spoiled it was a buck that some guys hunt their entire life and dont get one like that.
 
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My primitive weapon is a T/C Stainless Steel .50 cal muzzle loader with a scope. It will put three bullets together at 100 yards. I would like to hunt with my .44 mag pistol but am more accurate with my bow! Weapons and clothes have come a long way. Yes, you stay warm and dry with almost nothing on.

Big deer is like porn, you know when you see it. I look for mass, points and spread. I have let many pass that most would shoot. The longer and farther outside the ears the better. That is why I have not shot anything in years.

My one buddy killed a huge buck in 1985(?) and he has not hunted since. He comes along and takes pictures and videos and makes some mean chili. His dad taught us to bow hunt when we are kids. I am trying to get him back into it with a bow.

Definitely get the yote mounted, we have said the same thing. They look different, much larger with longer darker fur, than the ones we have down here.

I saw two fork horns mock spar for awhile. Weather doesn't matter, a bad day in the woods is better than a great day at the office.

rugby

Sounds like you may need to learn how to make chili, or gumbo.
 
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Gatorubet;1343964; said:
When I lived in Washington state I moved into a new suburb in the desert part of south central Washington. I would hear the Coyotes at night. Not a cat or dog in the whole damn neighborhood because of predation, and the only ones alive were kept indoors.
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When I lived in the barracks on Pendleton* there was a coyote that would come up to the barracks because Marines would feed it. I'd stand up on the catwalk and look at a dozen or so eyes glowing out in the tall grass just out of sight of the Marine feeding the one that would come up...

I was waiting for the day when I'd come back and find out that some drunken idiot had been dragged off into the brush but it never happened.

*Camp Margarita/33 Area for the Devil Dogs of the board. We were in the far right barracks of the three that were in the very back...by the path to the gas chamber.
 
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Fond du Lac resident bags 30-point buck



FOND DU LAC ? A large crowd gathered Monday in front of Dutch's Trading Post as sportsmen and passers-by admired "Lucky Buck" ? a 30-point buck taken by bow Sunday night west of Fond du Lac.
Fond du Lac resident Wayne Schumacher was accepting congratulations as he related how he downed the elusive buck around 6:45 p.m.
"It's so hard to believe," Schumacher said, noting he's hunted with bow and gun for more than 30 years. "I had known people had seen it in the area but I had no idea (it was nearby)."
The 30-point deer has an inside antler spread of 20? inches. Its field-dressed weight was about 225 pounds. Estimates are that the deer is at least 4? to 5 years old.

Entire article:Fond du Lac's Wayne Schumacher shoots 30-point 'Lucky Buck' | Postcrescent.com | Appleton Post-Crescent
 
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My buddy scored another nice buck. I still let the does and small bucks go.
Story of a first year lady hunter that shot a 190 class 8 pointer sitting in a lawn chair with a cross bow the first week she ever hunted.

At least I have some back straps for the grill.
 
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