[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Deer Hunting Report (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/8/2008 3:51:13 PM EDT
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How did everyone do?
I finally shot my first deer after years of trying! I was almost ready to give up! It was a smaller doe, but it's a start. I had to take a head shot at 15 yards. It was in heavy brush and that was the only part showing. The slug went in below the right ear and out left side of the neck and she dropped in her tracks. We're going to butcher it tomorrow. 
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Way ta Go!
nothing better than filling the Tag opening day! I don't go up til Thursday this year, just getting things ready tonight Got my Antelope sausage back from George's last week so will have loins and sausage for the Deer camp Congrats on the harvest and Have a good "cool" weekend -2sigs |
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For the first time in the last 19 years, my group of 6 failed to tag a single deer on opener weekend. I hunt SE of Chatfield and we just weren't seeing the deer. I saw a little 6 that I could have taken either Saturday night or tonight but passed on him both times. Nobody else in our group has even had the chance to pass on a decent shot.
Temps have been much lower than average with a very bitter cold wind. Even worse, about 70% of the corn is still in around the farms that we hunt. I'm going head back Wednesday morning. Hopefully our luck will change. Congrats to those who have actually filled their tags and good luck to those heading back out there. 
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I shot my first deer ever at 9am on opening morning. It was only a 4pt buck, but hey it's not bad for a first. Despite the cold, I did enjoy watching a Doe and a older fawn graze for acorns and grass under my stand for 20 minutes at about 7am on Sat and had another doe grazing under me for about 5 minutes when the buck walked up behind her.
With the cold, wind, rain, and snow, I didn't see a whole lot after that yesterday or today. They seemed to be hunkered down and skittish Sunday. ETA Pic 
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I was hunting down in SE Minnesota, by Zumbro Falls.
Bitterly COLD wind, plus rain, plus snow, plus everything and anything from the sky. My set up was on a ridge, so I was not spared any of the gusty wind. The wind was not in my favor and was blowing to where I expected to see deer. I did see about 8 does, had the chance to get at least 5 of them but our zone was buck only. My uncle missed at BIG buck, but our group got 3 bucks: a nice 9 pt, and two small 6 pts. So thats 3 out of 5 tags filled, not bad. I'll have to see how the weather is tomorrow or Tuesday and see if I go back out. This is one of the coldest and nastiest seasons I could remember at this place. |
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Well, since y'all are posting pictures, I'll have to post two pictures that explain EXACTLY how my hunt went this weekend!!!
Courtesy of my new contributions to the Frustrated Picture Thread First, I'll tell you (in a humorous cartoonish way) how LAST WEEK went! Even though the characters aren't drawn to scale, and it's not word for word what was said, this pretty much sums it up in a short description: 
And then, this is how my Opener Morning went!!! Naturally, once I got into my deer stand, I proceeded to be as ABSOLUTELY QUIET as I possibly could - no movement, no noise, quiet breathing... 
I'm still kicking myself for not getting that 8 pointer!!! Next year I'm doing things my own way! At least when it all was over, I hadn't gotten a good shot on any decent bucks, so I didn't take 'em. Knowing I could only hunt this first weekend, and knowing I really wanted to take home some meat, my wife's Grandfather shot a small basket buck for me to tag & take home for meat this year... My wife is happy there's gonna be meat in the fridge this year!!! The DOG is happy because he loves running in circles around the deer I tied up high in our maple tree, then running to the corners of the fence, barking in random directions to warn off other animals,, and being SO HAPPY & PROUD with how good of a job he's doing at GUARDING HIS DEER!!!  He's funny!
When I went to Fleet Farm in Maple Grove to buy some freezer paper (for processing my deer this week), I was driving out of the parking lot with BuckyTheDeer strapped across the trunk of my car, and I suddenly hear... ***AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!*** Blood curdling CHICK SCREAM! I turn to look back and a woman is covering her face while I drive away... Apparently I offended her civilized sensibilities! 
Does she honestly think that meat is GROWN in styrofoam trays, and it then just gets Saran-Wrapped with a Price Tag stuck on it!?!?! [>:/] Or was a deer head hanging over the side with its tongue sticking out and frozen snot-sickles hanging from it just a little too much for her? 
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It was SLOW by us. I bet I heard a total of about 15 shots all weekend. When I left Sunday evening our party was 3 for 7 guys, all bucks, mine was a big bodied fork who hung out within 75 yards of me for 4 hours Sat. morning. Nothing worth hanging on the wall but eaters. My 17 year old was a little discouraged because he didn't see a deer all weekend, so he decided not to hunt Sunday evening. I bet him if I sat in his stand I'd see deer. He said if I killed one he'd drive out there , gut it and drag it out for me. Sure enough, I wasn't in the stand 5 minutes when 3 does approached at 30 yds. Being the experienced hunter that I am I flicked the safety off CLICK and they ran away before I made the shot. I wish he would have decided to hunt, he would have got em
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I forgot to chamber a round! Mat, did you have a bad primer or forget to chamber a round?
Whenever I get up into the deer stand, my immediate thought is, get up there as QUIETLY as possible, and when I'm up there, don't make a sound at all... No footsteps, no movement with fabric/clothing brushing against branches/stuff, no crunching snow under your feet... Etc. I'm picky and try to be as silent as possible. I guess this time I was so focused on being as quiet as possible that I totally forgot that I needed to chamber a round! 
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I think it's said that the loudest sound is that 'click', when you're expecting a 'bang'.
I got the same fuddery when I used my FAL a couple years back, Them: Whatcha using? Me: 7.62 FAL Them: Those commie rounds arent' any good, wanna borrow a .308? Me: riiight 
Have seen quite a few up here by Hibbing, but I haven't even bothered to get a license this year. Venison= 
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Eli, what did you use? Shotgun slug? Nice work everyone! Mike, I used a Mossberg 835 12 gauge with rifled slug barrel. Ammo was Winchester Supreme Elite Sabots 2 3/4". It was close enough that I wanted to use my Glock 29, but I would have made too much noise drawing it. |
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Mat, I've done nearly the same damn thing but it was on a 5x6 albino in wyoming a number of years ago  could also hear him laughing-dumb hunter!!!!
Congrats all and was anyone near Bigfork? whats the report?? -2sigs I declined hunting in Bigfork this year so I could take my newborn son in to get circumcised ...my buddy said they didn't see anything but a few tracks all weekend.
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We got 2/4. (One guy never hunts, so really 2/3).
Saturday: Bitter cold with about 15 MPH wind gusting to 30 (I need to build a stand with a windbreak around it). I could only stand it for about an hour and a half. Got down off the platform I was on and was standing behind the shed it's on top of, and spooked a doe that'd been bedded down there since before I got there. All I saw from 30 yards away is a white tail bounding through the trees. Saw a basket buck from behind shed, but never had a shot at it. Saw 3 does hauling ass at 250 yards, no way I was getting a shot at any of them (first two were gone before I even got my rifle shouldered). Saw 7 opening morning altogether. Buddy got a decent sized doe a few minutes before sunup. Sunday: Didn't see shit myself, but drove a couple of does into another guys' stand on the way back to the house for coffee. He took the bigger of the two, which was still not that big, but hey, he hadn't shot one in over 4 years, so... Today: Missed a big doe at 250 yards. Standing broadside to me not moving head to ground. I thought I hit it, only to see it take off running. Buddy confirmed all three does in group went by him a few hundred yards away moving fine, and I found no blood. Not sure what the hell I did, although it was kind of a weird shooting position. First one I've missed that I should have had in a bunch of years. Weird. Building a new stand with wind protection this year. I've been spoiled by moderate temperatures and very little wind in the last 5 years, but the temp was unacceptable opening morning. |
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Took a doe at about 4 yards in my buddies backyard about 4:00pm Monday.
Boom Head shot.  The Federal Barnes Xpander 1 oz Solid Copper Hollow Point Sabot worked very well as always.
Sure is nice being able to hunt 15 minutes from home. Chased the ducks this weekend and got serious about Bambi killing this afternoon. We have pics of a good 8 to 10 point buck on his trail cam. Hoping to get him with the shotgun or the bow this year. |
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We got 4 deer opening weekend, outside of palisade.
I shot a nubbin buck and a yearling doe. someone else got a 5-point and another guy got a nubbin buck as well, shoulda been at least a fork, it was a 1.5 year old nubbin. musta been genetics or poor diet. the nubbin was the first deer i shot on sat. about 4:50pm. it was walking up my trail fast, i tried snickering at it to stop and i even hit my walls of my stand. it couldn't hear me with the wind. it got to about 12 yards when i pulled the trigger, it was almost too close. straight shot into the chest. ran about 75 yards. we couldn't find it until morning. about ten minutes later, i looked at the food plot by me and a doe was eating, so i shot it in the neck. my stand is what you call a "meat stand". of the 7 deer seen from that stand in 2 years, only 2 were bucks, my nubbin and a big 12 pt. from last year. meats meat though. I use an AR10 with a nikon scope. the guys think its heavy, but i don't do drives with it. i walk to the stand and walk back. i like it. when i was sighting in the scope at the range, people were looking at it asking, "is that an AR10/.308??" yep. it was cold and windy all weekend. i didn't hear much shooting by me. C |
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The REAL question is: did you flinch on that empty barrel?   Actually, I couldn't tell if I flinched or not!!! 
I was up in an EXTREMELY HIGH stand that was made of rickety old scrap wood lumber (ETA: I was tied in with a rope, but that gave me little confidence)!!! Every time those 25 MPH winds blew, the whole damn stand would sway with the tree a good 3-4 feet!!! 
Crrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! (Whooooa Shiiiiii!!!) The cross hairs were going all over the place, but I did manage to keep them on the kill zone most of the time... But with the tree moving, I couldn't tell about the flinch! 
Pretty sure I didn't flinch, but you never know! 
Also, after getting to see how to process your own deer, I've decided to do my own this year. I also learned of a COOL new skinning knife that does a GREAT job of skinning (far easier than the traditional 'hook' style skinners), but it just came out this year, and it's pretty expensive! (~$55) The blade is the Outdoor Edge SwingBlade. 
The time it saved when skinning the deer was WELL worth the cost! 
I took my time since this was my very first time doing it myself, and it worked out great!!! The temperatures quickly dropped down below freezing, so the fatty tissue, and the connecting tissues, sinew, etc., all started to freeze up very quickly making it go a bit slower than expected... Next time, I'll have to take a day off work to process my deer during the daytime when temps are (hopefully) above freezing! The ideal temperatures for processing your deer are between 33 and 41 degrees. 32 degrees & below, you have freezing problems. 41 degrees or warmer and the skinning/quartering will go FAST, but you had better do all the work FAST or the meat can get bacteria growing on it! It's best to do it right in that 33-41 degree window. ETA: You can see I used a small space heater to try to keep some of the deer 'warmer' for a little while longer...
So... I skinned, cleaned (pick off hairs, etc.), torched, washed, and quartered the whole buck last night... Then I wrapped it all in freezer paper, and threw it into the refrigerator in the basement. Tonight I'll finish butchering the Neck & Brisket, and then tomorrow I'll work on the hind two quarters, and then on Thursday I'll finish up the front quarters and the last of the burger grinding. Throw it all in the freezer, and take some to the butcher to get some of it made into sausage & jerky. I can't make the sausage & jerky myself yet, so I'll source that to a butcher until I'm more skilled in the areas of sausage making & I'll need to buy a small smoker to do some hickory smoking. Life 1978 is trying to get me into shooting bow & arrow for a lower-cost hobby (than firearms), so I'm thinking perhaps this spring I'll pick up a bow setup, and maybe try my luck bow hunting with him next year (if I'm any good at it with my scrawny little arms )!!
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I just skinned the legs while it was on the ground. When it's hanging, it can spin on you, and increases the chance of accidentally cutting yourself.
After I was done skinning the legs down to the torso/rib cage area, then I hung it up in the tree to finish skinning the rest of it. Then the gravity pulling on the pelt helps pull it tight so I can keep cutting the connecting tissue. Basically, I cut around the legs, then skinned the legs down a ways, sawed off the lower part of the legs, then I chopped off the head, and hung it up in the tree (ETA: Hung up the deer in the tree, not its head ). This obviously wasn't a trophy buck, so I didn't need to keep the head & pelt attached together. I just sawed the rack off and then sawed the head off. It lightens up the deer so when I do hang it up to finish skinning it, it's easier for me to hoist it up into the tree too.
That new knife was absolutely FANTASTIC for taking care of that goofy 'underarm' gap area between the front legs and the rib cage! Most 'hook' skinner/gutter knives require that you pull straight down the leg to cut... But when your handle reaches the underarm gap, how do you get the hook down in the armpit area with the ribs getting in the way of the handle? You can't really... This odd-ball 'gutting' blade actually cuts blade-first (instead of pulling a hook), so to do the underarm gap area on a trophy buck, all you have to do is push the tip down into the gap, keep the handle at a 90 degree angle, and pull up! It's slicker than S#!T!!! If you needed to get that mounted with a Taxidermist they wouldn't need to sew up so much stuff, and your mount would look really clean. This obviously isn't a trophy buck, but I wanted to learn to skin, debone, and quarter it like it was one... When the temps dropped, the fat tissue hardened up solid like bacon fat does. That's what all the white solid is underneath the skin. 
Even though the fat pretty much solidified quickly, that knife still did a great job of cutting everything I needed. One thing I thought was funny was when I went outside to get started on this, I setup the tarp under my hanging deer, brought out a radio, some lamps, a space heater, a table for the meat, etc., and when I hit the lights on, the neighbors were eating dinner (but not for long). Their dining room has HUGE windows that look out into my back yard (I feel sorry for them for that reason alone, it's not much to look at). It's just that today while they were eating they got to watch me skinning the deer and hoisting it back up into the tree!!! When one of them finally looked out the window & noticed me, there was an interesting  look on their face!
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I understand now Matt.
I shot another deer this afternoon on a local WMA, really did not even get into the woods. The deer was standing in the middle the grassy field that makes up the bulk of the WMA about 25 yards from the tree line. I could see the deer as I was walking towards the trees. So I altered my course and belly crawled and stalked the deer from about 400 yards away until I was within 50 yards and felt confident about my shot. Came to a kneeling position and fired once and the deer dropped dead after running 50 feet. Young doe that will be good eating. 
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I understand now Matt. I shot another deer this afternoon on a local WMA, really did not even get into the woods. The deer was standing in the middle the grassy field that makes up the bulk of the WMA about 25 yards from the tree line. I could see the deer as I was walking towards the trees. So I altered my course and belly crawled and stalked the deer from about 400 yards away until I was within 50 yards and felt confident about my shot. Came to a kneeling position and fired once and the deer dropped dead after running 50 feet. Young doe that will be good eating.
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We had a nice meal of grilled venison chops tonight. My first deer and first time cutting up an animal. It was really satisfying knowing that I shot and butchered the meat sitting on our plates. Only Yuppie hunters pay someone to butcher their deer. Real me like you and I do it ourselves. 
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We had a nice meal of grilled venison chops tonight. My first deer and first time cutting up an animal. It was really satisfying knowing that I shot and butchered the meat sitting on our plates. Only Yuppie hunters pay someone to butcher their deer. Real me like you and I do it ourselves. hell yeah! We have one more tag to fill. I've been hunting with a friend on his farm by waverly. He has about 60 acres of wooded hilly land. I'm going to start going out after work each night starting wednesday and then both days this weekend. He said his renter took the last of the corn down last night, so the deer should be in the woods now. He has a good sized swampy area too that I heard a lot of pheasants in. I can't wait to get out there after we get another deer. I think I'm turning into a fud
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We had a nice meal of grilled venison chops tonight. My first deer and first time cutting up an animal. It was really satisfying knowing that I shot and butchered the meat sitting on our plates. Only Yuppie hunters pay someone to butcher their deer. Real me like you and I do it ourselves. hell yeah! We have one more tag to fill. I've been hunting with a friend on his farm by waverly. He has about 60 acres of wooded hilly land. I'm going to start going out after work each night starting wednesday and then both days this weekend. He said his renter took the last of the corn down last night, so the deer should be in the woods now. He has a good sized swampy area too that I heard a lot of pheasants in. I can't wait to get out there after we get another deer. I think I'm turning into a fud
Have dog and friend with dog will travel for pheasants.
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Only Yuppie hunters pay someone to butcher their deer. Real men like you and I do it ourselves. So... which kind of hunter falls for the "Sportsman Vote Yes" bullshit? The kind that is sick and tired of the shitbags in government not doing their jobs and passing a dedicated funding bill. To get what we wanted we had to do what we had to do. If you want to debate the merits of that start another thread. |
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I just skinned the legs while it was on the ground. When it's hanging, it can spin on you, and increases the chance of accidentally cutting yourself. After I was done skinning the legs down to the torso/rib cage area, then I hung it up in the tree to finish skinning the rest of it. Then the gravity pulling on the pelt helps pull it tight so I can keep cutting the connecting tissue. Basically, I cut around the legs, then skinned the legs down a ways, sawed off the lower part of the legs, then I chopped off the head, and hung it up in the tree (ETA: Hung up the deer in the tree, not its head ). This obviously wasn't a trophy buck, so I didn't need to keep the head & pelt attached together. I just sawed the rack off and then sawed the head off. It lightens up the deer so when I do hang it up to finish skinning it, it's easier for me to hoist it up into the tree too.
That new knife was absolutely FANTASTIC for taking care of that goofy 'underarm' gap area between the front legs and the rib cage! Most 'hook' skinner/gutter knives require that you pull straight down the leg to cut... But when your handle reaches the underarm gap, how do you get the hook down in the armpit area with the ribs getting in the way of the handle? You can't really... This odd-ball 'gutting' blade actually cuts blade-first (instead of pulling a hook), so to do the underarm gap area on a trophy buck, all you have to do is push the tip down into the gap, keep the handle at a 90 degree angle, and pull up! It's slicker than S#!T!!! If you needed to get that mounted with a Taxidermist they wouldn't need to sew up so much stuff, and your mount would look really clean. This obviously isn't a trophy buck, but I wanted to learn to skin, debone, and quarter it like it was one... When the temps dropped, the fat tissue hardened up solid like bacon fat does. That's what all the white solid is underneath the skin. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/bannie/Skinning/PB100034.jpg Even though the fat pretty much solidified quickly, that knife still did a great job of cutting everything I needed. One thing I thought was funny was when I went outside to get started on this, I setup the tarp under my hanging deer, brought out a radio, some lamps, a space heater, a table for the meat, etc., and when I hit the lights on, the neighbors were eating dinner (but not for long). Their dining room has HUGE windows that look out into my back yard (I feel sorry for them for that reason alone, it's not much to look at). It's just that today while they were eating they got to watch me skinning the deer and hoisting it back up into the tree!!! When one of them finally looked out the window & noticed me, there was an interesting  look on their face! We used to do it pretty much like that, but with the CWD scare, we altered our process so that we don't saw any bones until after all of the meat has been removed from the carcass. It gets to be a bit more work, and is probably paranoia, but it gives us a little more piece of mind. |
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My father and i are headed up to zone 154 just Northeast of Mille Lacs lake. My sister and brother in-law own 80 acres joined to a 600 acre state refuge. My brother in-law and his buddy shot their bucks opener morning, almost simultaniously. I'm pretty stoked, it's been a few years. I even put together a new tool for the job. I'll be back with a field report by Sunday. Were leaving in two hours. Wish me luck.
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My father and i are headed up to zone 154 just Northeast of Mille Lacs lake. My sister and brother in-law own 80 acres joined to a 600 acre state refuge. My brother in-law and his buddy shot their bucks opener morning, almost simultaniously. I'm pretty stoked, it's been a few years. I even put together a new tool for the job. I'll be back with a field report by Sunday. Were leaving in two hours. Wish me luck. http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc209/Daluded74/308PANTHER001jpg.jpg Shepherd1 (formerly OPFORMark) thats pretty baddass. 
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Hunted in Cannon Falls, 30 min south of Saint Paul. The corn was still up on our farm. All deer were taken within 30 minutes of each other around 7am Saturday. Saturday morning was warm and kinda windy. After these were taken I only saw one buck, Sunday morning. This is the first time we have hung them right-side up... it made gutting easier at least.
We are yuppies  and get our deer processed at Hagberg's in Lake Elmo.
4-point buck, decent body size. He was in a herd of 6 that walked up to my stand. Nailed him at 60 yards between two trees. The doe behind it is med-small that was in the herd and ran to my dad's stand. 
Big doe. It might have been shot by my cousin, or it might have been the doe I shot in the herd of 6. Both ran and left very little blood trail. We eventually found this one. 
SoB with the 4-pointer, not sure why the deers head looks so small, I think it was spun away from the camera. 
Entrance wound on the 4-pointer. The hole was about the size of a quater and well pronounced all the way into the chest cavity. Exit wound was a bloody mess about 2.5 inches wide, the picture didn't turn out. The shot went in the front shoulder and out between the 2nd and 3rd last ribs. 
12ga 3in Federal Premium Sabots with Barnes eXpander and plastic tip. $10 a box at Fleet Farm. 
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Quoted: Did you test the Tipped eXpanders?Hunted in Cannon Falls, 30 min south of Saint Paul. The corn was still up on our farm. All deer were taken within 30 minutes of each other around 7am Saturday. Saturday morning was warm and kinda windy. After these were taken I only saw one buck, Sunday morning. This is the first time we have hung them right-side up... it made gutting easier at least. We are yuppies  and get our deer processed at Hagberg's in Lake Elmo.4-point buck, decent body size. He was in a herd of 6 that walked up to my stand. Nailed him at 60 yards between two trees. The doe behind it is med-small that was in the herd and ran to my dad's stand. http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9338/82521500mu0.jpg Big doe. It might have been shot by my cousin, or it might have been the doe I shot in the herd of 6. Both ran and left very little blood trail. We eventually found this one. http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5757/73969865lu9.jpg SoB with the 4-pointer, not sure why the deers head looks so small, I think it was spun away from the camera. http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9243/82680922nq2.jpg Entrance wound on the 4-pointer. The hole was about the size of a quater and well pronounced all the way into the chest cavity. Exit wound was a bloody mess about 2.5 inches wide, the picture didn't turn out. The shot went in the front shoulder and out between the 2nd and 3rd last ribs. http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/448/43040331ck6.jpg 12ga 3in Federal Premium Sabots with Barnes eXpander and plastic tip. $10 a box at Fleet Farm. http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/6917/fedprembarnesexpandertizv3.jpg Wondering how the groups compare to the non tipped version. I still have 15 boxes of the 2¾" ¾oz and 10 boxes of the 2¾ 1oz non tipped version. Was looking at them at Fleet Farm and was tempted to buy 10 or 15 boxes. |
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Did you test the Tipped eXpanders?...12ga 3in Federal Premium Sabots with Barnes eXpander and plastic tip. $10 a box at Fleet Farm. Nah, actually I grabbed two boxes just to check them out myself. I had plenty of sabots in my stash already. I grabbed the wrong boxes when I went to the stand, so I was firing blind. The buck was at 60 yards, moving at a brisk walk/trot through some trees. I hit him a couple inches ahead of where I was aimed, but I might have been leading him too much. With the non-tipped rounds I can get them in 2 inches of each other at 50 yards with irons. So, I would say these held the same accuracy. I think I buck fevered on the doe (it was right after I shot the buck and I was excited to get two.) If it wouldn't have got so damned cold I would have done some trials with what I had left. At $10 I'd buy more. ETA: I am shooting a Mossy 500 with rifled slug bbl. |
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I got another doe tonight. We're done for the season.
I'm not too proud of this one. I got in my stand at 3:30pm today and sat until 5:10. I was just starting to get ready to climb down when I heard some sound from the field behind me. It was starting to get dark, but I could make out 3 does walking in my direction. I slowly turned towards them and brought my gun up. My actions startled them and they took off running so I shot the largest of the three at about 50 yards. I found it 100 yards from where I shot it. It was a good shot to the vitals, but the deer was less than 100 pounds. The low light and excitement of seeing 3 deer made me misjudge their sizes. Oh well, the meat should be nice and tender. |
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Congrats to all you killers new and old. I'd rather see them hanging with thier tongues out than scattered on the road. I've been bow hunting around home, but will be heading up near Perham this weekend.
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Someone say backstraps!?!?!? 
Mmmmm... Meat! 
ETA: I cut mine up into butterfly'd Chops, and thick steaks for grillin'! I should've saved some for slow grillin' with a good rub! 
With that wind whipping through the trees so darn much I was freezin' my ballz off! The Shemagh really helped! If you have your parka hood up, you lose peripheral vision, and you can't turn your head very far to CY6! If you DO manage to get your head turned to see okay, the fabric crinkles/rubs in the cold air, and makes too much noise! If I was just wearing the shemagh, I could turn my head independently of my jacket, and it made little to no noise at all to check around me... I'm thinking next spring I might pick up a decent bow, and go try bow hunting with Life1978! Could be a lot of fun!  How much does a Bow hunting tag cost???
And if you DO get one with a bow, can you get another license for RIFLE hunting and take a 2nd deer (even a doe would be fine)???
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