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Post by ncmountainman on Jan 26, 2016 13:53:12 GMT -5
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Post by ncmountainman on Jan 21, 2016 10:08:43 GMT -5
Works great for me! Friday Nov 11th is Veterans Day which is a paid holiday and I can travel that day and get my stand set up. Take that whole next week off to hunt as I do every year. Fill my bundle license and then head home.
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Post by ncmountainman on Jan 14, 2016 17:19:07 GMT -5
Way I read it is that 33% are yearling, 33% are 2 1/2 year old, and 34% are 3 1/2 or older. The graph leaves off 2 1/2 year old but 33% would give a total of 100%. Still 66% of bucks taken are 2 1/2 year old and younger. Sounds about right.
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Post by ncmountainman on Jan 13, 2016 12:04:29 GMT -5
Coon hunters around here all use honey buns in the back of the live trap. I do the same right before my sweet corn is ready to pick as those coons will demolish my patch. Throw a honey bun in and you have a coon the next morning. They love them and can smell them really good.
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Post by ncmountainman on Dec 10, 2015 8:38:35 GMT -5
Wow
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 25, 2015 14:53:56 GMT -5
Nice job! What are your weapons of choice? I use a Remington 870 rifled barrel 12 gauge with a Leupold and cantilever scope mount. I also take my Encore .308 pistol. Got the buck with the shotgun and both does with the pistol. Land I was hunting on when I got the buck the landowner did not want me to use the pistol.
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 25, 2015 14:13:55 GMT -5
Had a wonderful time visiting for a week. Filled my bundle license tags. Here is the buck I got. Not the biggest but I was proud to get him. Dogging a doe hard. Stopped 8 times for a split second before she would squirt out at a 90 degree and he would run her down. He stopped broadside once and that was the end of the story. Thank you to Indiana for such quality hunting year after year. Here is a doe I got with the pistol.
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 10, 2015 20:35:26 GMT -5
Full beard
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 9, 2015 21:03:44 GMT -5
I'll be headed out Friday morning early for the 7 hour trip. Get landowner/friend input, look around, and get two climbers on the trees. Love my vacation each year. Seen a lot of changes in Indiana over the last 18 years or so. Used to hunt anywhere.....now NOT. My friend has 90 acres with a 1/2 pasture 1/2 alfalfa field right in the middle of it. Woods surround this with a creek on both sides and also on the far end. Used to see gobs of deer. Neighbors did not hunt and let us hunt their land also. Now the neighbors all have multiple food plots right in the middle of their thickets. Deer do not need the alfalfa so much and also the neighbors relative and even lease out pour the lead to those rascals. Oh well. Things change. I got a real nice 134" 8 pointer last year. My house will be paid off in about 3 years....may have to go in debt again and buy some wooded hunting land up in beautiful Indiana! Still loving the friends and the joy of hunting.
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 9, 2015 19:55:56 GMT -5
Fantastic buck and a great story for a wonderful man. Keep it up
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 6, 2015 10:39:07 GMT -5
Best of luck to all of you. Seems really slow in southern Indiana. Maybe holding off until I get there on the 13th to hang my stands. Annual vacation all of the 1st week of gun season. I must be the only guy that prays for cold weather and heads north for a vacation. LOL
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Post by ncmountainman on Nov 5, 2015 13:35:40 GMT -5
I live out of state and have been hunting Indiana since the '90s. You really need to read the regs for sure. Basically, you can use a muzzleloader, a shotgun, a rifle that shoots certain pistol or wildcat cartridges, or a pistol that shoots cartridges that meet the requirements specified in the regulations.
I have a Remington 870 with cantilever scope mount, Leupold scope, and a rifled barrel. Shoots Remington Accutips in 2 3/4" extremely well. I primarily use a Thompson Center PISTOL in .308 caliber with a Burris scope.
I have been blessed to have private land to hunt on the entire time I have been hunting in Indiana. NOTE: You may NOT get on (trespass) someone else's land whether it is posted or not NOT EVEN to retrieve game that was shot on property you have permission to be on unless you have permission from that landowner.
Hope this helps you out. But, as has been said, Look up the regulations
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Post by ncmountainman on Oct 22, 2015 12:05:46 GMT -5
I use my Case Trapper I carry in my pocket to skin and debone the meat immediately after skinning. Have not gutted a deer in years. My friends up there in Indiana showed me how to debone while hanging. Always get 'er done immediately after killing. Throw carcass and guts away all at one time. I use a Rapala filet knife when I get ready to process. Sharpen both knives often. Just out of curiosity...how do you get the inside tenderloins out without gutting it? Trophy Paradise Habitat Consulting "Trophies are built from the ground up" m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=852914431431752After deboning and putting the meat in a cooler, I just split the abdomen skin just a little where it comes to a point between the hams and then cut the skin loose down each side of the lower ribs for about 5". Guts all stay down in the chest cavity and the abdomen. Reach in behind the gut sack and pull away a little from the inner tenders and get the inners started loose with my knife and pull them out. Easy done.
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Post by ncmountainman on Oct 21, 2015 13:00:00 GMT -5
I use my Case Trapper I carry in my pocket to skin and debone the meat immediately after skinning. Have not gutted a deer in years. My friends up there in Indiana showed me how to debone while hanging. Always get 'er done immediately after killing. Throw carcass and guts away all at one time. I use a Rapala filet knife when I get ready to process. Sharpen both knives often.
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Post by ncmountainman on Oct 6, 2015 8:32:20 GMT -5
I want to say first off that I hope the season gets off the the right start. Now I have been thinking about talking with hunters looking at buying land for hunting, my idea was to help anyone find land around me with the hope of signing a 5 year farm lease to farm the property. I'm trying to think outside the box in finding land to farm, I was thinking about planting alfalfa for ease of access. My question is would any of you consider this as an option to secure hunting ground. I have friends looking at buying land just for the oppo9rtunity of having great land available to hunt only on. What part of Indiana are you speaking of? Most would want mostly wooded and thicket land for the hunting as far as buying. No use buying 100 acres to hunt when 90 acres is crop land. A friend of mine has asked me to find him about 100K cash price for some land in Indiana. Won't live t there and probably only be on the land during deer season. Big investment for spending a month a year on the property. I think your question is a good one and there are people interested but it depends on the quality and quantity of actual hunting ground along with the price.
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Post by ncmountainman on Sept 28, 2015 7:38:19 GMT -5
Great buck. Look at the neck on that rascal. Congrats to your son.
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Post by ncmountainman on Sept 9, 2015 13:29:21 GMT -5
I primarily use my Thompson Encore pistol in .308 caliber when hunting in Indiana. The pistol is topped with a Burris 2 x 7 x 32 scope. One shot is all you need. I did get 3 deer in one sit a few years ago. Got two does and then a good buck about 20 minutes later. The does were part of a group in a thicket and the buck I saw about 120 yards away along the edge. It had been tough and my time was about out. Season over for me. I also have my Remington 870 rifled barrel with a cantilever mount Leupold shotgun scope. Love those Remington Accutips. Super accurate and body slamming power.
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Post by ncmountainman on Aug 19, 2015 13:08:35 GMT -5
Indiana for those dandy bucks :-)
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Post by ncmountainman on Aug 12, 2015 8:13:25 GMT -5
hmmm, 90" gross
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Post by ncmountainman on Jul 8, 2015 13:27:32 GMT -5
Elk were stocked in the Smoky Mtn's a few years ago. A bull and three cows are being seen in our county recently. Pretty cool. Our county is 3 counties away from Cherokee so they have traveled a bit.
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