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Post by GS1 on Sept 27, 2014 19:37:02 GMT -5
That's great!
Years ago my nephew used to carry a red Ryder with us while rabbit hunting. One day we turned over an old refrigerator. He had a field day.
You can skin them, but they tear in half pretty easy.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 27, 2014 19:33:54 GMT -5
Had a doe at 25 yards and as soon as he put his finger on the trigger something bit her on the back and she ran out of range.
Then an 8pt came out and we had a misfire. After putting another primer on and letting the nerves calm for a few minutes, he missed. The buck still hung around just out of range until dark.
Not a bad first day of deer hunting. He's ready to go back.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 27, 2014 15:08:29 GMT -5
I'll target them with my son the days we have off during season, but don't chase them alone in the fall.
Indiana could do away with turkey season for 10 years and they wouldn't reach the top 10.
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thermacell
Sept 27, 2014 14:24:16 GMT -5
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Post by GS1 on Sept 27, 2014 14:24:16 GMT -5
My boy got a kick out of watching the mosquitos fly along the open window of the blind and then leave.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 27, 2014 11:22:05 GMT -5
Saw one little buck shortly after daylight and that was it. Another boy took a nice doe and a coyote.
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thermacell
Sept 24, 2014 11:16:48 GMT -5
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Post by GS1 on Sept 24, 2014 11:16:48 GMT -5
This spring was the first time I have ever tried one and I wish I had sooner.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 22, 2014 18:39:20 GMT -5
This is invalid for the simple fact that many hunters go without even getting a buck some seasons. That is two extra weeks for them to have a chance to tag their bucks. Afterall...they are just that much easier to pattern in September. With the current days afield available, if a guy doesn't get "a" buck, two extra weeks aren't going to help that much. What it may help is the guy that doesn't get "the" buck he wants during the current setup.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 22, 2014 11:42:15 GMT -5
The hunter said it green scored 234"
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Post by GS1 on Sept 21, 2014 20:44:19 GMT -5
Shouldernuke, did your kids not participate in the youth hunt then?
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Post by GS1 on Sept 20, 2014 5:32:13 GMT -5
Saw them on facebook.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 15, 2014 17:23:45 GMT -5
I have a question. My brothers been out to our land and he noticed a tree stand about 20 yards from our property line on public land. If he is 20 yards from the property line and 40 yards from your stand, wouldn't that make your stand 20 yards from the property line too? If there was a law that said he couldn't hunt there, it would probably apply to your side of the line too. Would that be ok?
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Post by GS1 on Sept 15, 2014 17:02:10 GMT -5
The future for hunting doesn't look so bright when hunters are trying to find ways to keep other hunters from legally hunting.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 13, 2014 20:05:30 GMT -5
Crawdads. Go out at night with a flashlight and you can usually find them poking their heads out. If you have enough of them, you can catch them and boil them too.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 13, 2014 12:17:56 GMT -5
You seem to talk down to and tell everyone how your on a much of a higher hunting intellectual level than them or how they don't know how to hunt as well you or others alot just saying thats my observation . Isn't that just the pot calling the kettle black. That's an unusual assessment of my personality and one that I will take the time to review my post to make sure that I am not coming off that way intentionally. I'm just a regular Joe hunter who sees deer and shoots them. I couldn't tell you if there are 50 or 500 in the area I hunt. Much like anyone else from an entirely different part of the state couldn't either.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 12, 2014 23:47:07 GMT -5
I would take the estimates of long time hunters who hunt more than just one or two areas over that of some writer .LOL FYI I hunted 4 counties last year . I hope you don't think me a young or inexperienced hunter old buddy . 4 counties, 6 counties or 8 counties doesn't give you an accurate number for a statewide deer herd. Do you believe any state has an accurate estimate of the herd numbers? How do they come up with that number? How accurate do you think the estimate is? I don't care if you've hunted 35 years or 5 years. I know guys that have done the same thing for that long and they're still not smart enough to pour pee out of a boot if the instructions were on the bottom.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 12, 2014 17:33:47 GMT -5
I was told the fact that I lived here did not give me any advantage to estimating our deer herd that residents tend to under estimate their herds because they don't have good luck hunting them many times. When less experienced hunters do not see deer, the first thing they claim is that numbers are down....Fact. Being a resident of a very small portion of Indiana gives you no more of an idea what the statewide herd numbers are than the people that use proven statistics to estimate the herd....Fact. I said Fact....no reason to argue.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 12, 2014 13:34:39 GMT -5
Was in Bucks and Jakes in Boonville earlier looking for a H&R SB2 in .44 and told the guy that I was wanting it hoping that if/when this passes, my son can upgrade to a .243 barrel next year.
"I hope it doesn't." Says the employee that is trying to actually sell guns. I simply answered I hope it does and continued with what my plan was when he says, "why do you want to get shot 200 yards away with a HPR?"
I asked him why he hadn't been shot from 200 yards with my muzzleloader. His response, "well, you only have one shot"
Makes a lot of sense to me. A gun that shoots 200 yards is safer if it only holds one shot. Because I guess when people are accidentally mistaken for game, it is the second, third or fourth shot that hits them.
When legal, I hope to buy myself and my son new setups and I will not be doing it at Bucks and Jakes and I would encourage anyone else in the area not too either. Why give money to a place that doesn't support what you are doing?
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Post by GS1 on Sept 12, 2014 8:37:17 GMT -5
I'm not sure about any other state as far as deer hunting, but I would rank Kentucky way ahead of Indiana when it comes to the potential to take a mature deer on public land.
I haven't deer hunted Nebraska yet, but from the sheds I have seen and picked up while on the ranches I turkey hunt, I'd put it before Indiana in odds of taking a trophy. It's all private ground, but getting access to several thousand acres is just a matter of asking enough people or knowing someone out there.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 11, 2014 21:24:41 GMT -5
A quick search on Google found several newspaper articles of horses being mistaken for deer or moose. I couldn't find the article about the elk calf that was shot in Kentucky several years ago and the shooters thought it was a deer.
It happens. The same guy that does it at 200 yards with a rifle is going to do it with a slug gun or muzzleloader too.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 11, 2014 10:36:02 GMT -5
There was one line in the article that said that the hunter didn't know the moose was going to run towards the people. So, I'm not sure if he arrowed the moose away from the people, and it ran that way after being stuck, or if the initial shot was in sight of the people. In any case, moose meat is really, really good, and I think he'll be enjoying that moose for a long while! There was an article in another paper that said the moose was shot away from the campground and ran into the campground after being shot.
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