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Post by medic22 on Dec 3, 2021 18:44:36 GMT -5
Something is up here. It is not physically possible for the firing pin to reach the primer with enough force in an out of battery rifle, assuming it is to spec.
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Post by medic22 on Dec 3, 2021 17:41:47 GMT -5
Such a trouble maker
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Post by medic22 on Dec 1, 2021 20:01:23 GMT -5
I'd argue that bowhunters already have the best of the rut and 2023 when Veterans day cycles to a Saturday they will have the absolute best. My personal success however does not reflect that.
3 of my last 4 bucks killed came between November 13-15, 2 gun and one bow. Curiously enough, the one that was killed with a bow was a year gun came in late.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 30, 2021 18:25:19 GMT -5
A trash panda tried to climb me. Guess i made a realistic tree.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 30, 2021 17:20:01 GMT -5
Took me an hour to get 20 yards off the road. Hunting where I bumped those does by my car Friday. I only moved when a car drove by
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Post by medic22 on Nov 29, 2021 23:58:07 GMT -5
I'm just curious how some of y'all are still finding deer on public land? Are you still on the same land you've been hunting the whole season and just went to a different grid/area of said land? If anyone wants to give input, I'm all ears and would be delighted to hear your Intel. I'm going to preface this with "there is not a one size fits all for any given area". For instance a lot of guys will swear that deer gobble up persimmons. I've never seen a deer eat persimmons, I don't waste my time hunting persimmon trees. Also keep in mind that a majority of my recent experience is dwarf woods and CRP. Some of this can be applied to mature hardwoods. If you google how to find pressured deer, you'll see the same answer over and over, bedding/cover-food. The trick here is finding the bedding and the food. I'll start with bedding. Deer move around all day, so you can immediately eliminate spots based on this. There not going to get up and go for a jog, but theyll mill around and reposition often. The foliage is mostly dying back so look at the thickest places. Somewhere where you have a near zero percent chance of getting close without them hearing you, seeing you or smelling you (this is particularly important when chasing pressured mature bucks). Sometimes low places work out too, drainages, spoil banks, etc. Don't overlook spots next to the road. Most guys don't walk a mile, but most of them don't sit 50 yards off the road either. Food. This is tricky, everything is food. If you see a deer out in a DNR food plot or ag field during legal shooting sometime before January, you've hit a gold mine. Literally everything is food for a hungry deer. Fallen maple leaves, woody browse, the millions of plants holding leaves in December thanks to global warming. Essentially I throw food out the window once gun season starts (couple of exceptions). They can mill around bedding till dark (more on dark in a minute). So here I'm going to refer you back to bedding. You can hunt staging areas, which isn't quite bedding, but it's not quite out in the open either. This is likely the closest you'll get to bedding in an afternoon sit. If you know where they bed and have good access, best bet is to just go right in the bedroom super early, I only recommend this in times of desperation, or certainty, you'll only get one or two shots at this. One of the reasons big bucks get to be big bucks on public is they're in bed at dark, the other reason is luck. Exception is when I'm hunting big woods and it's been super cold, hillsides and ridges that get full sun usually still hold some green browse. Those can be good spots. As for dark, deer can't tell time, they just know it's getting dark. Those evening sits when you just know it's going to be a really dark night, those can be productive if your eyes are good enough to make that shot. That's my 2 cents anyway. It's not going to be applicable everywhere, but I learned a while back that if you commit a lot of stuff to memory, eventually some things will start to make sense based on your observations of your particular area.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 28, 2021 21:55:08 GMT -5
I think we’d both love to know the facts on that subject, but we don’t collect that info unfortunately. Arm chair investigation. Look at post, help me find my deer. How many are vertical and how many crossbow. Vast majority I see are vertical. Your investigation may differ. Again, don't like seeing animals suffer. Rather have the most accurate, deadly weapon being used Vast majority of deer that I find with a pointy stick still in them are shot by crossbows.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 28, 2021 15:34:58 GMT -5
And sitka started their 20% off sale so I also ordered a stratus vest and incinerator gloves. I'll be waiting for a review on the items you purchased, I have dome bass pro gift cards I've been saving for either Sitka gear or a new shotgun. Well so far I haven't worn my startus pants hunting but I do want to wear them to bed. They're comfy.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 28, 2021 15:33:03 GMT -5
From my studying to get rifles legal on public lands, I learned that more hunters are shot in deer drives than with HPRs
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 22:51:01 GMT -5
Was this a frontal shot? It's virtually impossible to hit the heart and not the lungs? Ok medic, Kudos to you and you got me on this one! I should edit and say “little damage to the lungs.” Totally agree with you. I should have made the note that it was primarily heart shot with some lung damage though the lungs were not obliterated as with a typical double lung shot! It was absolutely a broadside shot as posted in my video elsewhere in the deer hunting section. No worries. I was just confused on the shot angle with that description.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:53:05 GMT -5
I did see the sign that No Bonus Antlerless tags are allowed, but I didn't see any other stipulations as far as deer hunting goes It needs to be clarified and I'm not sure the best way for them to do it, but in short, a muzzleloader during firearms season is still a firearm and and doe shot with a firearm is a bonus antlerless. Clear as mud?
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:47:30 GMT -5
FWA's (at least bluegrass and sugar ridge) only allow antlerless deer to be harvested with archery equipment or a muzzleloader during muzzleloader season.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:45:48 GMT -5
That depends on what you're hunting with. You cannot use a bonus antlersess tag there, so at the moment you could only use archery equipment and tag as an archery kill (assuming you haven't tagged 2 archery kills already). Well I'm using a smoke pole and I have only harvested 1 doe back on the 16th of October and my buck on the 14th of November I hate to be the bearer if bad news, but you can't legally shoot anything at sugar ridge unless you have a bow in the car.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:42:16 GMT -5
Oh yeah, i shouldve led with this before you took that walk, but I didnt think about it, and you may know this, but coming from HNF, you may not. You can only shoot does there with archery equipment or a muzzleloader during ML season. So my bundle license is no good here? That depends on what you're hunting with. You cannot use a bonus antlerless tag there, so at the moment you could only use archery equipment and tag as an archery kill (assuming you haven't tagged 2 archery kills already).
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:33:10 GMT -5
Oh yeah, i shouldve led with this before you took that walk, but I didnt think about it, and you may know this, but coming from HNF, you may not. You can only shoot does there with archery equipment or a muzzleloader during ML season. michaelc
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 15:04:37 GMT -5
Was this a frontal shot? It's virtually impossible to hit the heart and not the lungs?
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 14:54:02 GMT -5
Well considering we're at Sugar Ridge and how many years folks have been hunting here, we found a hidden gem of turnips with a lot of good signs. I think we gonna sit here until we have to pull out the lights to get back to the car. Good luck this evening guys and gals and shoot straight. You're free to do as you please but I'd back out 50-100 yards or so from that field. That place is heavily pressured and unlikely anything will enter that field till after dark.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 12:03:59 GMT -5
I harvested Goofy..the one I passed back in archery. He snuck in behind me...saw he had a decent rack and that’s all she wrote!! 60 yd shot went about 50 and piled up! It’s been a long season for me..hunting everyday of November mostly all day sits..I’m beat!! Good luck to all those still pursuing!! Awesome. That's a cool buck! jajwrigh you sure you don't have an elk in your area?
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Post by medic22 on Nov 27, 2021 10:30:24 GMT -5
I found this yesterday. It's not an overwhelmingly awesome rub, what got my is the tine marks on the tree on the left. This is a bedding area. All in all it doesn't matter cause I don't have a buck tag but you can bet I'll get a camera in there soon.
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Post by medic22 on Nov 26, 2021 19:26:03 GMT -5
I don’t have a clue as to this buck’s age or score. I posted this as a funny as all over Facebook I’ve seen posts with the questions “What do you think he will score”? OR - “How old do you think he is”? My question to them is - Who cares? My guess on this buck is he is the fork horn I’ve been seeing on camera almost every day. Then again he could be a whopper booner just passing through. 😉 You're probably right. He has the mass of a 1.5 year old.
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