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Post by ncmountainman on Oct 20, 2019 17:48:11 GMT -5
Everyone I hunt with get the deer back to the barn, skin, and de-bone the meat No gutting necessary. Throw the skeleton with a stomach away. Stiff sharp filet knife works wonders
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Post by ncmountainman on Sept 21, 2019 16:28:20 GMT -5
Sold out! Crazy
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 7, 2018 20:27:24 GMT -5
Browning BLR .308 with Leupold 3x9 or Winchester 70 in 30-06 with Leupold.
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Post by ncmountainman on Oct 7, 2018 19:49:56 GMT -5
CONGRATULATIONS on a great buck
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Post by ncmountainman on Mar 30, 2018 12:00:48 GMT -5
Have used shotgun, .308 pistol, muzzleloader, and bolt rifles in .308 and 30.06 in Indiana. I have a Browning BLR. 308 bought in the 80s. My wife bought me a Leupold 3x9 scope for it. I will use it next year.
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Post by ncmountainman on Dec 4, 2016 20:14:30 GMT -5
Very nice!
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Post by ncmountainman on Dec 4, 2016 20:13:04 GMT -5
I have killed somewhere around 30 with a TCS Encode in .308 with a Burris variable scope. Left it at home this year and used my Winchester 70 in 30-06 I know off topic, but how'd you do here this season? I got a decent 10 pointer and two does. Good year as my landowner friend did well also. Thanks for asking.
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Post by ncmountainman on Dec 4, 2016 20:02:21 GMT -5
I have killed somewhere around 30 with a TCS Encode in .308 with a Burris variable scope. Left it at home this year and used my Winchester 70 in 30-06
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Post by ncmountainman on Jul 13, 2016 7:41:17 GMT -5
Hit's home on what I have been thinking about for the last few days. No one is good enough to enter the gates of heaven and no one is bad enough not to. It all comes down to faith. We in this human flesh are prone to expect rewards for good behavior/choices and bad consequences for wrong behavior/choices. We also like to judge what we have or get based on our behavior/choices compared to others and fault others for theirs. Ego is a killer. Ego leads to strife and coveting. Walking in the light and being a light as guided by the Holy Spirit does lead to blessings from the Lord. With faith comes works. Works can never become faith. Hard concept for many but so easy. Admit we are sinners, accept the Lord as savior, and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
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Post by ncmountainman on Jun 29, 2016 7:09:36 GMT -5
Very nice. Good luck on getting him.
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Post by ncmountainman on Jun 6, 2016 16:16:13 GMT -5
I agree that a perfect heart or double lung shot is the only way to go. Things do happen though. I myself am very proficient with a weapon. I was high shooter at Parris Island USMC in 1976 shooting a .223 at 200, 300, and 500 meters with open sights at a man target. Expert in rifle and handgun. Still pretty fair shot. I am always open to a good wager LOL Shot many many deer in many states with bow, crossbow, pistol, ML, and rifle. I have NEVER used a semiauto. Single shot, bolt, or pump. Have I ever had one get away? Sure have. Anyone that hasn't has not shot many. Point I was making is that a .308 does not have a hard kick and the ballistics are much better than a .243 so why go underpowered. That is all I was saying......
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Post by ncmountainman on Jun 6, 2016 12:25:30 GMT -5
I used a .243 for a few years and then switched to .308 on my Encore pistol. A .308 is not a heavy kicking round unless someone is very small or frail. The .243 would kill a deer but a lot ran farther than the .308 after the hit. My farmer friend in Indiana told me "your problem is you are hunting full grown deer here with a groundhog gun". LOL I will have my 30.06 Winchester Model 70 next year the Good Lord willing.
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Post by ncmountainman on Mar 23, 2016 16:09:59 GMT -5
I own many many rifles, pistol, and shotguns and have used them all for hunting. With that said, I do not own, therefore do not use, any semi-auto's. I believe in the one shot kill. That is my reasoning. Also, most would agree that a single shot, pump, or a bolt gun is more accurate than a semi auto. I do believe that each can use whatever they want if it is legal and don't begrudge anyone for their choice. Would I love to have an AR-10? Darn tooting. Maybe one day. Change is hard.......Indiana sportsman will get used to the HPR's and eventually most will leave their shotgun or muzzleloader at the house in favor of a .308 or a 30-06. Much more accurate and the energy just flattens deer. As for safety, I hunt in the woods at or in a thicket. I do not watch TV hunting therefore I do not hunt watching a field. I am very successful every year. Woods hunting doesn't really relate to making 200+ yard long shots. For those that hunt fields, anything over 200 yards requires a very finely tuned rifle and scope and most importantly the experience/ability to make such a shot. A HPR aimed at a deer any distance away much less 300 yards away even aimed a little high is going to drop quickly past the deer. Most people do not have the gun or the ability to make such shots. They will be disappointed and discouraged.
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Post by ncmountainman on Mar 21, 2016 10:45:01 GMT -5
Thank you. I will share next time. Had friends from Indiana down for a long weekend to go bass fishing. Had a great time. Did not check the computer and didn't want to share without your approval. I had a dream that I will share with you some time in which I was with the Lord and the disciples. Changed me.
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Post by ncmountainman on Mar 17, 2016 10:41:57 GMT -5
Waynes, thank you for sharing. A true blessing that you can share a powerful testimony with others. I know I felt the Holy Spirit all over me while reading. If you don't mind, I am going to share this when I teach adult sunday school this weekend. The power of God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is beyond comprehension but by faith we believe and by grace we are saved. The Holy Spirit so longs to dwell in us all so that we might better glorify God and be glorified in him. Testimony of us Christians as disciples to share the light that all might follow the conviction that will surely touch all to seek repentance, acceptance, and to follow the Word which was made flesh because God loves us is powerful. Thank you.
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Post by ncmountainman on Mar 17, 2016 9:16:29 GMT -5
Went fishing last Saturday evening for the 1st time this year. Spots were tearing it up. These are all 20 inch 4 pounders. Rattle trap on shallow clay point with the wind blowing on it. Went Tuesday evening with same results but 18 inch 3 pounders.
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Post by ncmountainman on Feb 23, 2016 11:17:06 GMT -5
Here in NC I buy a Sportsmans License each year. It costs $50 now but....I can fish or hunt any game in NC during the season for that game with two exceptions. I have to buy a trout stamp if I want to fish designated trout streams and a federal duck stamp if I want to duck/goose hunt. I can fish all the lakes or rivers, small game hunt, tag up to the state limit on deer, 2 turkey, and 1 bear all on one license. Bear now requires a $10 extra stamp. Really simplifies things.
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Post by ncmountainman on Feb 18, 2016 13:39:36 GMT -5
I'll play. This is a mountain deer of NC. Biggest I've ever seen. Saw him one time and that is the time I got him. I had worked a lot of at my work on my off time painting offices in exchange for comp time during deer season as I had not worked there enough to have paid time off and my Director offered to trade me out on the time. Last week of the season on Thursday morning before closing on Saturday. 29 degrees and I had a climber on a peninsula of land that came way out into our 7000 acre lake. Started not to go but cruised out across the lake in my bass boat, parked around a secondary point and walked down the lake bank to my stand in the back of a holler. Stand was set in a poplar about 30 yards off the lake bank. Lake is pulled down every year by the TVA for winter pool so there is about 30 yards of mud between the tree line and the water. I had enough time left on my painting to go into work at 11:00 that morning. I wore my dress clothes and put on a pair of insulated coveralls. Stand located in a small bowl full of white oak trees and poplars between two big pine blow down thickets. Deer usually came from left to right along the tree line with me facing the lake. Never saw a deer until 9:00 am when a doe came from my right and went across the mud flat to the water and drank. She lingered for 20 minutes and finally went off to the thicket on the left. Nothing else. I wondered about that for 15 minutes and looked to my right where she came out of the thicket and there was this buck looking out of the thicket where she had come out and just staring. He never moved for 5 minutes or so and then wandered along the wood line on wood side. When he got right in front of me I fired with my .270 and he hit the ground and never kicked. I was so excited. I gutted him and then dragged him about 100 yards down the lake bank to where the water was deeper, went and got the boat, dragged him up on the bow, and headed for the boat ramp. I barely made it to work at 11:00. I had driven to the house which is about 3 miles from the ramp, unhooked the boat, and pulled the buck from the boat into the back of my truck. Shucked the coveralls off and went to work. My Director asked how I did and I told her I had my biggest buck ever and it was in the back of the truck as I didn't want to be late. She told me to take it home and take care of business. lol. Thank God her husband is an avid hunter. This buck field dressed 137# which is big for the mountains I live in. Mass is good which is very uncommon as we have pencil horned deer. Only picture I had on photobucket which was taken after I got him home from being mounted. I have others but they show other deer also within the same picture. This is the only NC buck I have had mounted and have 7 others on my wall from Indiana.
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Post by ncmountainman on Feb 3, 2016 9:40:12 GMT -5
Praise God for that great promise of hope of an eternal life of peace and joy full of worship, praise, and rest with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I will pray that the Comforter wraps his arms around you with the knowledge of where your loved one's spirit is at this time and the knowledge of a grand Homecoming one day.
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Post by ncmountainman on Jan 26, 2016 16:56:36 GMT -5
I should be allowed to hunt anywhere I want... No matter what color you paint your trees it should all be public, you never own your property anyway True that we are just pilgrims travelling through this old world but.........that huge mortgage/taxes/insurance I pay each month entitles me to landowner rights while I am here.
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