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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 19, 2005 12:28:29 GMT -5
I would rather see a good muzzleloader with reduced loads and roundball than the 410 however the 8 pointer my daughter killed last year went only 40 yards and piled up. She shot it through both lungs at about 30 yards. The entrance and exit was about 410 size and hardly any blood trail. She shoots Brenneke slugs and only takes good shots. A 410 will kill under ideal conditions.
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 31, 2005 21:25:35 GMT -5
I will partner with Tye. Schoolmaster
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 7, 2005 9:02:58 GMT -5
As you go further north the average body size is larger. This helps the animal compensate for the colder temperatures. (Bergman's principal) In order to settle a bet I started weighing all the deer that have hung on my meat pole and find that hunters overestimate the deer's weight about 90% of the time. an average doe will go 110 to 115 lbs and an average buck will go 130 to 135 here in NE Indiana. The biggest doe I ever weighed was 154 lbs and the biggest buck was 240' These weights are all field dressed weights. Texas deer have really big racks and smaller bodies. a 150 lb Texas deer is muy grande
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 7, 2005 9:23:07 GMT -5
I raised 3 sons and a daughter and they all went hunting with me at an early age. I took plenty of stuff they liked to eat and drink and when they were tired I went home. I didn't get a lot of game at first but as they grew older and learned to shoot and handle a gun safely we did better. When they had the gun I didnt carry one so they were going to do any shooting that was to be done and I had only one gun to watch. They are all hunters now and the grandkids are hunting too. So the hunting tradition is passed on.
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 7, 2005 9:15:05 GMT -5
My Browning gold deer gun wont shoot anything but 3" BRI slugs with good accuracy. Everything else just a pattern. It is sighted 2 inches high at 50 yards and I use it in heavy cover where the shots are close.
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Post by schoolmaster on Sept 5, 2005 10:07:15 GMT -5
Deer feeders in my part of the state In my opinion would not be very effective. If you are feeding corn and/or soybeans the deer have plenty of those crops to choose from. I don't know about salt licks or mineral licks. we use plenty of stuff to attract deer, the shelves are full of calls of all kinds and all kinds of scents. These seem to me to be a more powerful attractant than corn or beans from a feeder. I have a small food plot of Ladino clover that the deer use at first green up in the spring and late in the winter. It has not attracted large numbers of deer. There is just too much for them to eat everywhere else. I really believe to attract and hold deer they need grown up weed fields with some heavy cover close by. Habitate destruction is the main problem where I live. Farming practices have changed. Woodlots have been bulldozed to make more farmland. Ditches have been cleaned off. Fences have been removed. It seems every year more and more small patches of woods etc that used to have wildlife in them are sold for building sites for houses etc.
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 4, 2005 20:52:06 GMT -5
Deer hunting, sitting on ground using natural cover with my savage muzzleloader.
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