| Author | Message | ||
     Wolfridgerider |
 No luck for me. I took today and tomorrow off...peak rut here.... but its pretty warm | ||
| Etennuly |
No luck here either. I had to let my employees go and having to use my body in their places, not good for hunting. This sucks. I got to be here twelve hours a day. There are deer across the highway in the woods around the mines. I see them frequently, so I went to their offices to ask for permission to hunt on their property that pretty much surrounds my property. They said NO, absolutely no hunting on their properties.....new owners suck.....shit. I do not have enough free time to get the boat in the water anywhere near daylight times right now. Maybe this weekend, I don't know..... | ||
| Daves |
I hear you! I work about 70 hours/6 days a week! I get to hunt for a few hours in the morning before I open and then all day on Sundays. Next weekend I am taking Sat and Sun off to go hunt southern Iowa. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
WELL... I had 8 pointer go trucking by the stand this morning. Gave him a grunt and he stopped. As soon as he turned his head I pulled my bow back and he started to move again. Gave him another grunt.... and he stopped... with his vitals behind a tree... He started to move again... I gave him another grunt... he stopped... WITH HIS VITALS BEHIND A TREE!!! By this time I have had my bow pulled for a good spell and the trimmers started... he was done playing my game and headed out with a quickness.... He was about 40 yards so I needed/wanted the perfect shot and he never gave it to me.... I'll be back in the tree around 3:30 my pretty  then my cup of coffee kicked in and I had to head back to the house.... | ||
| Etennuly |
Per the uniform code of "when business sucks" I promptly stressed my back and was unable to hunt this weekend. crap.  Sure enough though, it feels good enough to go back to work this morning! | ||
| Badbuell08 |
here is the buck I shot with the Rifle. Ya and it was on opening day  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
we need a bigger pic! That thing is HUGE | ||
| Badbuell08 |
I dont know how send me a pm and ill email pics so you can resize Thanks Jeff | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Check out the rack on Jeff's buck  | ||
| Etennuly |
Congrats Jeff! | ||
| Badbuell08 |
Thanks guys. He is just a LITTLE guy hehe. I like him a lot and I think he will look VERY good on my wall. But the wife is not real happy about that. But i guess she will get over it. Thanks again Jeff | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
That's a wall hanger if there ever was! I bet the backstraps look like hams! | ||
| Badbuell08 |
Well they are the biggest backstraps i have ever saw. And I have seen a few lol | ||
| Daves |
Nice buck! Congrats! Still 0 deer for me. I'm heading to southern Iowa tonight to hunt tomorrow and Sunday. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
well... got sick of all the squacks and no deer. Took the 22 plinkster out today and shot 5 times and got 4. | ||
| Thumper74 |
Squacks? Heading out Sunday morning with an antlerless tag... | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
squirrels.... | ||
| Nutsosane |
Wolf, I've got world class squack Hunting over here in Virginny. My parents farm has fox squirrels big as housecats. And a season in June! Happy hunting, NUTS | ||
| Daves |
Finally drew blood Saturday! Filled one of my 14 anterless tags I am hoping my bad streak is broken and I can stack some up the next 2 weeks before gun season opens | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
My Dad has gotten a couple and is taking them to the butcher to have them de-boned for me... WOO HOOO!! all the hard work will have been done and I can make a ton of sausage and what not MMMMM Tasty! | ||
| Etennuly |
The only thing worse than not seeing any, is not having time to go out to hunt. Saw a nice doe along the highway the other day.....doubt there was any good meat left though. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Well my friend that got me back into hunting finally got his buck Needless to say he is VERY happy!  Guess I gotta get back in the tree! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
It lost a little weight...  | ||
| Daves |
Nice! Still at 1 for the year. Been hunting hard, just not in the right place at the right time I guess. Got 2 more mornings to hunt, thurs and fri before gun season opens on Sat. Then I'll have 2 weeks of NO HUNTING! I am really pumped how Christmas and New Years day are both on Sat this year. I will have 2, two day weekends in a row. Last time that happened would have been back in 1988 for me. Going to go see tha family on Xmas eve and then hunt all day Xmas day and the 26th. New Years weekend I'll be headed back to southern Iowa for one last crack at shooting one of the 3 Amigos. | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
Well I am not a hunter but I am a big fan of venison. Not to mention i love to cook. A friend of mine just gave me a bunch of venison recently. which included some tenderloins. so i whipped this up. it was damn tasty.  Plated  Apple wood smoked bacon wrapped tenderloin stuffed with green onions, parsley, garlic and Thyme. set atop sour creme and chives mashed potato's with basil and garlic asparagus . | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
man that looks good! | ||
| Daves |
Be even better without all that green stuff on the plate! Hahahahahaha Making me hungry. Today, shotgun season begins. The orange army will be out in force! I won't be hunting again until Dec 20th. To top it all off we got our first snow last night. I LOVE hunting in the first snow of the year. The gunners get it this year. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
just got this email to me from Corey  | ||
| No_rice |
bahahaha he's on the hunt!!! might as well take advantage of the things left in HIS woods huh?! can you imagine watching that bear launch down ontop of its prey from that pearch, lol the thing would probably soil its self right before it got squashed! i have a couple land owner tags to fill this year at my moms place. have the daughter sunday so doubt i will be out in the timber, but am trying to plan for monday morning. need to stock my freezer up and save some $$$ through the winter. youd think id get out and practice my shooting a little through out the year. nope... just like 2 years ago when i went(last time i went), im waiting until the last minute to get in gear. heck honestly, technically i dont even own a gun and havent since i got divorced how many years ago... sold them all to my dad. so... they are there when i need them. 2 years ago my stepdad off hand asked me if i wanted to fill an extra tag he hadnt gotten around to. so a couple days later i went to my dads at dark 30 and grabbed a shotgun(the slug barreled remington my dad has had since i was a kid), some gear and drove to my moms to see what happened. it had been probably 15+ years since id hunted deer, and probably 6 or 7 since id even fired a gun, and i had NEVER used this one. anywho, we got a big snowstorm when i was out there. it was the most peaceful i remembered being in years. it rivaled some of my best motorcycle rides... dead silent except for the sound of the snowflakes dropping, and i could maybe see in a 15-20 ft radius. for some reason it made me remember why i used to do this when i was a kid, and why i always loved the timber... main problem i was having was literally every couple seconds there was so much snow on the gun i couldnt even see the sights lol. i laid it on its side where i had it perched and waited to see if the storm would let up. i had a small herd almost walk right over me. they came down the hill behind me, probably within 15 ft or so, but completely on my wrong side. took me 100% off guard. they just appeared out of the snow!!! my body wouldnt pivot around far enough and i would have been shooting left handed even if it would. couldnt move my feet... everytime i tried they heard and looked right through me. so.. i just let it be and watched them from so close i could almost touch them. then watched as they disappeared into the snow. no loss, ive got time... after awhile the snow let up enough to see and it was back to eyeballing the area for deer. after much waiting, and watching the sun start to drop down a little lower then i wanted it to start being already... an older buck finally wandered along. wasnt some spectacular beast. actually didnt even have much for a rack. he was an 8 point but the rack was pretty small at that. one thing he did have though was more what i was looking for, a much larger body then you would have expected to go along with the frail looking antlers. mmm venison. one problem, he was a long ways out, and it seemed pretty apparent he didnt have any plans of coming closer. i pulled up a couple times and looked at him through the sites... thinking to myself... "damn thats a long shot... but this is my only day out... but damn thats a ways... but i'll bet ya i can drop him..." ive always been pretty good at gauging things like that, always had a knack for figuring the arced path something will need to take to reach its intended target... always been more of a long distance plinker. its more of a challenge that way. just one more reason i always have hopes of going the bow route instead of shotgun, anyone can pull a trigger on something 20 ft away and kill it... (if you cant guess by now, ive been eyeballing big cal sniper rifles for years just wondering how far i could reach with one... damn the cost though...) so... i finally make the call. its time to see if ive still got it or not. im a little up hill from him, its still snowing, and he's probably 10-15 ft from the edge of the river. i could miss, i could wound him, and he could stumble down the bank and fall through the ice... or i could drop him. now im good at gauging the arc and eying distance, but in all honesty i suck at actually knowing what that distance is. as in how many yards... i just know he's out there. my gun perch this whole time has been the trunk of a tree thats still standing about 5 ft tall with no branches and no top just the trunk. perfect place to be able to rest on and line up a nice shot. i lined him up perfectly in the sites,and stared down them for what seemed like minutes, tipped the barrel up a little bit to compensate for the amount of arc my mind said the slug would need... and squeezed the trigger... BOOM!!!! damn that was loud in the complete silence of the timber. i had all but forgotten the sound and the kick... but i didnt move, i just watched down the barrel at my prey. um ok... WTF???!!!! he wasnt even moving. he'd barely flinched and had only picked his head up just a bit more. did i just completely miss that?! i know it was a ways out but really? a complete wiff? REALLY??? i pull up, pump another shell in the chamber... and watch him drop to the ground without so much as having taken a step. well shit, guess i did hit him. got close enough to see his condition, and make sure he wouldnt be jumping up. nope, not so much as even a breath escaping. the slugs entrance location looked pretty good to me. took a second to call my stepdad and get him on his way to help me drag the beast back up that steep damn hill and out of here. started to gut it, and realized exactly what had happened. it was what our old friend dave would call a perfect shot, not only had i gotten a double lung shot, i had also caught the heart... no wonder he didnt move! my stepdad showed up and as we got to talking he asked me where i was at when i shot him. i pointed to the tree trunk up the hill. "where?!" that half tree trunk up there.... "well where was the deer?" right where it dropped... turns out he figures it was a good 110-115 yard shot. now i'll admit thats not gods gift to long distance, but with a gun not many years younger then me, and having been out of practice for going on half my life, i didnt think it was to shabby! some patience, a little bit of trusting my gut, and a fair shake of luck is really all ya need  lets see how this year goes... | ||
| Badbuell08 |
Well I have more back straps for the table. I shot a Doe tonight with my bow. Its amazing what a Rage broadhead will do to a deer. I love those things. |
