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Post by M4Madness on Dec 7, 2022 16:42:45 GMT -5
Doe crossing field at 410 yards. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 7, 2022 16:10:19 GMT -5
I'm back in my hayfield stand now that the work day is over. Anything walking behind me tonight will most likely wind me, which is a shame since most of my close deer have crossed there. The good news is I didn't jump the four deer that have been bedding under my stand. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 6, 2022 16:08:48 GMT -5
Is it bad that all these years later I still tell people I know that guy... Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do to eventually get invited to his honey hole -- all that buttering up and all. Lol! I only met him in person once, so I'm still stuck hunting dinks. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 6, 2022 11:52:43 GMT -5
2006… I think of that deer probably once a year. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 5, 2022 17:50:25 GMT -5
Another productive evening in the books. Just had another antlerless cross behind me somewhere around 100 yards. The small body, head shape, and traveling alone leads me to say it most likely was a button buck.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 5, 2022 17:20:44 GMT -5
Nice doe crossing behind me at 44 yards. She's watching her backtrail.
EDIT: Second doe.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 5, 2022 17:08:16 GMT -5
6-pointer is back, this time standing 95 yards in front of me. Obviously he circled around me in the woods to my right and re-entered the field. He's standing motionless as a statue looking away from me scanning for deer activity in the tall grass in front of him.
EDIT: Okay, a doe just entered the field from the left side woods at 364 yards out, and he's meandering that way now. Now a second doe beyond that one. 6-pointer acts very cautious and stares at them a lot.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 5, 2022 16:45:47 GMT -5
1.5 year old 6-pointer just passed in the field behind me about 75 yards.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 5, 2022 16:16:04 GMT -5
Just got to my field stand after work. Busted four deer out of their beds below my stand again. Lol! No idea why they've started bedding there. Hope they tolerate me slipping in downwind of them every night.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 4, 2022 20:24:24 GMT -5
But not a single truck or orange piece anywhere! Shocked there isnt a hundred reports of deer killed from you guys! I didn't hear a single shot this afternoon. None! That really surprised me.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 4, 2022 18:35:23 GMT -5
Well, it was a nice evening. The moon rose while the sun was still up, and gave me a picturesque setting. I ended the evening seeing 8 deer. The first four were bedded below my ladder stand when I arrived at 3:00 PM. I only saw the head of one of them, and it was a 1.5 year old rack (pretty sure it was the one-sided 6-pointer that I'd seen in the field before.) They didn't really spook and I gently pushed them into the woods. The 8-pointer rose out of his bed at 239 yards around 4:20. Then a large doe crossed the mowed portion less than 100 yards behind me at 5:20. Then two smaller does rose from their beds in the tall grass at 5:30. They were between 150 and 200 yards (didn't range them) in front of me, directly between me and where the 8-pointer had risen.
I sit that hay field a couple of times a year in firearms season, and seldom see anything there. I believe that the reason they are there is that this is the first year that it was left unmowed, and the grass is tall enough that I can only see the heads and backs of standing deer until they reach the mowed sides. 99% of my hunting has always been on wooded ridges. I don't recall ever shooting a deer in the open in 28 seasons. But, I'm giving serious thought to planting a white clover plot in a small portion of that field next year.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 4, 2022 16:29:25 GMT -5
Nice 8-pointer just stood up in the tall grass out in front of me. Ranged him at 239 yards facing directly away from me. Looked to be 15-16" inside spread. He ought to be very nice next year if he makes it.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 4, 2022 15:14:40 GMT -5
First hunt of muzzleloader and I just hiked into the hayfield stand. I normally have 100% hidden access to it due to the lay of the land -- except today there were four deer bedded under it. Lol! I saw four tails exiting the small clump of trees where my stand is located as I was almost entering it.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 3, 2022 9:52:16 GMT -5
I was going to make a slight adjustment but chose not to. I was shooting straight from the east to the west. I had a solid wind out of the south at 11mph. I assume the wind pushed it a tad so I opted to leave it be. If just checking sights from year to year, one shot like that is good enough for me and I'm done. If I were actually sighting it in for the first time, I wouldn't even make a single scope adjustment until I'd fired three shots, then use the group center as a reference for point of aim.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 1, 2022 19:36:23 GMT -5
I won't be hunting Saturday, as I have an automotive service appointment out of town that morning and my wife wants to attend the local annual Christmas parade that evening.
I haven't hunted muzzleloader season for years and am kind of looking forward to it -- unless it gets really cold. Lol! More than likely it'll be a good buck or nothing.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 1, 2022 16:28:13 GMT -5
It also didn’t have the scope mount with it. Was it advertised as coming with one? Glad to see that it arrived before the season opener!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 30, 2022 10:06:49 GMT -5
Can primers not be shipped? Or are they just really hard to find? Yes, primers can be shipped from a retailer, but the buyer has to pay a hazmat fee and they must ship via ground. A friend of mine bought a muzzleloader last night with a #209 ignition system, and the shop would only allow him to purchase 100 primers -- and that was only because he bought the rifle. I guess #209 primers are scarce right now. It's certainly not economical to ship small quantities of primers.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 30, 2022 9:20:21 GMT -5
That sounds like when the state was in a reduction mode....in some ways you were helping a cause! Oh, I'm sure I was helping the state's agenda, but I was killing for the wrong reason. Don't get me wrong, none of the meat went to waste since I filled others' freezers (in addition to my own), but i was simply thrill killing.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 30, 2022 6:43:15 GMT -5
A lot of people on this forum I've interacted with and respect enjoy the "contest" thread every year. It bothers me to think I'm taking an animal's life with something like a contest motivating my action. For years I used to sign up for the deer contest on one of the Indiana hunting boards at the request of another member who asked me to join his team, and I was knocking a lot of deer down just to rack those points up. Even to the point of using a bow if I could, just to get bonus points awarded to archery kills. Without a doubt, I killed more than I needed because of the contest. Needless to say, I no longer participate, and now seldom even kill a deer. I have zero problems with others doing the contests, it's just not for me.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 30, 2022 6:28:13 GMT -5
He's the one who did my Apex conversion. I tried to steer a friend in that direction recently, but this close to muzzleloader season, he opted to buy a Wolf for now and go the smokeless route before next season.
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