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Post by M4Madness on Oct 21, 2017 7:06:46 GMT -5
Switched farms today, as I'm tired of hearing logging equipment, and my lucky stand there became unlucky.
I pulled into the hay field this morning where I park on this farm, and there were deer everywhere in it. Lol! I had no choice but to circle wide and head into the woods beyond them. I'm way back in a wooded hollow below a ridge saddle. It's pretty brushy with the leaves still on, so 20 yards will definitely be my max, and I have less than 180 degrees of shot opportunity.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 19, 2017 16:35:03 GMT -5
Spur of the moment hunt for me -- just climbed a tree. I was sitting at home and my wife convinced me to go. I'm in the same double oak that I killed my best bow buck out of the first week of October 4 years ago.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 19, 2017 15:45:19 GMT -5
Headed out to the blind this morning, wish me luck! Success! Took the day off today to hunt, and lo an behold, this guy came within range of my Wicked Ridge Invader G3. This is my first harvest; I'm 32 and started hunting in 2014. My first shot was a little off, but sounded good. While I was waiting, 8 does came through the same area! Just when I was starting to get antsy about tracking him, he showed back up about 45 yards away obviously not doing too well. He bedded down and I was hoping he'd expire right there. As I was waiting (again) he got up and gave me another broadside shot. This time I made my mark and he dropped about 50 yards away, right on the edge of my property! He may not have the most impressive rack, but I'm happy to get one under my belt! I bet you were really nervous when you saw him wander back. Lol! Congratulations!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 19, 2017 7:48:49 GMT -5
My acorn crop was huge last year and I'm not really seeing any to speak of this year. I'm in the south central part of the state.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 19, 2017 7:46:43 GMT -5
If I was very limited and had to choose my days carefully, it would most certainly be early November, preferably the 4th through the 8th.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 18, 2017 19:02:05 GMT -5
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 18, 2017 18:56:49 GMT -5
Once a wounded deer crosses the 100-yard mark, the chances of recovery drop like a rock. A double-lung or heart shot usually puts them down in less than 75 yards. Is that a bow shot? I know nothing about it. Been looking at animals bow hunted in Africa and there seems to be no more or even less drama than those shot with a rifle? Regards Billy Yes, bowhunting. www.bowhunter-ed.com/michigan/studyGuide/How-Arrows-and-Bullets-Differ/301023_3761
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 18, 2017 15:43:21 GMT -5
Once a wounded deer crosses the 100-yard mark, the chances of recovery drop like a rock. A double-lung or heart shot usually puts them down in less than 75 yards. Ha, but there are always exceptions to the rule.. Liver and gut shot deer are going to die and may travel a considerable distance before bedding down. How we trail the deer will determine what the outcome will be. Exactly. That's why I didn't use the term "impossible". But traveling beyond 100 yards is usually a pretty good indicator of a less than optimal hit, even if it is eventually fatal. Obviously nothing is absolute. My personal experiences with liver hit deer are that they bedded down around the 100-yard mark, and were stiff by the time tracking commenced four or so hours later. I consider a 4-hour minimum for liver sufficient, and 8 hours minimum for gut shot deer. This is where deciphering the blood sign is critical, in order to avoid pushing a wounded deer into the next county.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 18, 2017 10:45:27 GMT -5
Once a wounded deer crosses the 100-yard mark, the chances of recovery drop like a rock. A double-lung or heart shot usually puts them down in less than 75 yards.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 18, 2017 5:10:53 GMT -5
My quiver is always mounted on the bow.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 17, 2017 15:25:51 GMT -5
I guess the IR on six hundred plus 30-second videos does the trick. Lol! I've just noticed that after I hit about 50%, I get day videos only, until I swap in new alkaline batteries.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 17, 2017 11:21:57 GMT -5
I have the same camera as chasingtails above,and it's a battery burner for me. Lol! I use it on video ONLY and have to swap in new batteries every two weeks. After it drops below 50% battery life or so, it quits taking night video. I love the video quality though! Stop buying your batteries threw dollar tree. haha. Think mine for 8 was like 14 bucks. My wife buys Dollar Tree batteries. I buy Rayovac from Wal-Mart. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 17, 2017 10:49:46 GMT -5
I have the same camera as chasingtails above,and it's a battery burner for me. Lol! I use it on video ONLY and have to swap in new batteries every two weeks. After it drops below 50% battery life or so, it quits taking night video. I love the video quality though!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 17, 2017 10:44:41 GMT -5
Not trying to make you feel worse than I'm sure you already do, but where did you hit it that you'd get an artery and not the heart or lungs? Are you using a bow or crossbow? If a bow, and if another high shot, are you bending at the waist as you should (assuming treestand) to keep the bow perpedicular to your body? Are you aiming low to anticipate a deer dropping down at the shot? Again, I'm sorry that you are having this difficulty, and I sincerely hope that you recover it. Good luck!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 16, 2017 17:14:01 GMT -5
We backed out and decided that I primarily hit the buck in no man's land, but as Woody stated, I clipped the top of a lung/an artery. He should make it fine after tracking him about a mile then the blood plugged up. It sounds like it may be a backstrap hit to me. They'll bleed bright red blood pretty profusely, but survive. I shot a doe like that at 12 yards once, and she ran a little ways then stopped. I could actually hear the blood hitting the leaves. I put a second arrow into her, which did the job. Imagine my surprise upon discovering during field dressing that the first arrow had not penetrated the thoracic cavity as I had assumed. One other time I shot a buck at about the same distance, only to trail a ton of blood for over 400 yards -- until it crossed a highway. The arrow was sticking out of both sides. I saw that buck again in firearms season, but could not get a shot. I later found its sheds the following spring. Hang in there, and who knows, maybe you did kill it and will find it.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 15, 2017 17:11:41 GMT -5
Great cooler temps, but the high winds kept me at home.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 15, 2017 8:43:59 GMT -5
Rainy and windy here, so I stayed home. Both are bad situations when arrows are involved.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 14, 2017 8:47:14 GMT -5
Had a little year and a half old buck come past at 9:20 AM. Looked like a spike with something funky going around around his bases. The timber jack is dragging logs and this machine is sawing the ends off them 200 yards downhill from me. That buck paid no heed to the noise. I think he bedded behind a tree 40 yards uphill of me.
Oh yeah, I forgot my seat cushion, so I'm sure my butt looks like meat on a grill. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 14, 2017 8:01:36 GMT -5
I'm hunting a stand I usually reserve for around November 1, as it is normally dead until then. But, chances are great that the loggers will be on this side of the farm by then, so I may as well burn it now. They just showed up at this very moment and fired up some equipment about 200 yards from me. I guess they don't start until 9:00 AM on Saturdays.
What I find strange is that I'm a mile from the cell tower, and had no signal at all this morning. Now do -- but my phone's clock shows an hour early. I'm at least a hundred miles from the central time zone. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 13, 2017 5:15:11 GMT -5
Throw in the fact that unless this mess is corrected...come June 2020 the legal use of ALL centerfire rifles on both public and private property sunsets. Will that happen? I don't know, but I won't be surprised if it ends up that way. Once the HPR law sunsets in 2020, the IAC for PCR's would still remain, and would thus re-legalize them if no action were to be taken to correct this current issue.
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