Posted: 11/11/2015 5:43:41 PM EDT
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Opening morning is 3 mornings away. Gettin my gear together and loaded now.
Who's with me? OFFICIAL MOHTF Deer Season 2016 thread. |
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I have some Nosler 150 gr BTs loaded for my .30-06 and sighted in. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be out on opening day. I'll have to wait until the following weekend. I already agreed to help out at the Wanenmacher's Tulsa Show.
This will be my third time deer hunting, and hopefully it will be my first harvest. There's an albino out where I'm going, but I'm supposed to leave her alone. |
| Heck yeah I'm going, I've put over 62 hours in the stand bowhunting. My place is damn prime for rifle season, taking over 50 yard shots with my bow is a lot out of my comfort range and I have no trees out there thick enough to move my set. Got my eyes on a few, a 10 and a 12 keep popping around, hope they stick around a bit longer, slick heads are a dime a dozen at my place. Hunting horns this year. |
I've done zero scouting but I'm going to be sitting at the in-laws' place Saturday. Just replaced a bunch of gear that needed it and visited Parma to check zero on my POS .270 ... still a shooter. Tomorrow I'll de-scent all the gear that's been in boxes for way too damn long.
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| Hubby got a nice big doe a few weeks ago with his bow (first bow kill!), I haven't had such luck. Had 3 does pass my stand but I misjudged the distance so I never took a shot. Had a big 8 come close but not close enough. Hoping he survives rifle season and comes back. I don't have any opportunity to rifle hunt this year but I'll be back out with my bow soon. Instead, Im sending the man out to rifle camp this year while I tend to the homestead ;) Good luck to those of you going out! |
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Think I have everything ready for the morning. Went by Wally world after work to grab some orange. Probably 20 people inline to get tags  . Using my 6.5 Creedmoor. 140gr Nosler Accubonds (white tip) 41.5gr H4350 2.810 210M Hornady virgin brass. Rifle is a built by yours truly. Rainier Arms Ultramatch barrel, Vortex HST 6-24x50. Geissele National Match trigger. I am 28, have hunted deer off and on since I was 11. I have NEVER taken a buck so I hope this year that will change. I have only ever seen one buck while hunting and that was when I was probably 15-16. He was in hot pursuit of a doe and went right under my stand. What a rush that was. |
I wasn't sure I was going to be able to go this weekend. Wasn't prepared. I had a small window of time this morning and decided before I went out I was going to bust the first one I saw. Grabbed a box of fusions and my coyote rifle this morning and this is the result. Not big but it'll eat well.
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Passed up on three does this morning while walking to a new position. I was on a forestry road when we our paths crossed so I didn't take a shot, wasn't sure if it was legal. Would have been to easy too, I saw them first at about 35 yards. Crouched down in the road and hoped they wouldn't see me. The leader looked me square in the eyes for a few seconds, let out a yelp, and they were gone. Paris was in the back of my mind most of the morning and today though  . |
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Don't know how to post photo but shot a 10 point with 19" inside spread. Saw him chasing a doe at 6:45 this morning... could not get a count of his points until he stopped on the opposite ridge and then he had a bunch of limbs screening him that didn't offer a very good shot but while he was climbing the ridge I could see that he had a good spread.
About 3:00 he came back on about the same track but the light was better and I was able to slip one through a gap in the limbs when he paused... bang-flop, 30-06 700 core-lokt around 150 yards. Saw 6 other little bucks and 2 does and 1 yote...numbers are really down from what I had just a few years ago. |
| Past on a 3 year old 8 point that was drinking out of the pond at 30 yards, worked his way up to my brothers blind and he shot him. Seen some doe and a good sized 10 point I've been after for a few years, couldn't get a bead on him. Had an unusual amount of traffic on our road, all different cars, I'm thinking the neighbors are cooking meth. |
Jumped a few deer up the ridge on my way to my spot Sunday morning, sat out there until dark and didn't see anything else. Yesterday, it rained all day but I still got out at 3pm and again, nothing. Today I go back to work, and wouldn't ya know it, the temperature has fallen and the deer are probably starting to move more. I'll either have to get my lazy ass out of bed in the mornings (hard to do working 2nd shift), or wait until Saturday to hunt again.
In the meantime, I went ahead and put an Eotech on my "Alternative Methods" pistol!
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For the reloaders out there, what's your deer recipe for this year? Mine: 300AAC Blackout 124gr. Nosler BT CCI #400 18.2 Gr. H-110 COL- 2.150 For 223: 65 grain Sierra Gameking 25.4 gr TAC Remington 7 1/2 primer LC brass For .308 180 grain Sierra Gameking 42 gr IMR 4064 FGMM primer and once fired brass My boy used the first in his AR to shoot a button on opening day. Right at 100 yards. DRT. We've killed at least a half dozen deer with it in the last few years and all but one didn't go more than 10 yards. Headed back up tomorrow morning for a long weekend. |
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For 223: 65 grain Sierra Gameking 25.4 gr TAC Remington 7 1/2 primer LC brass For .308 180 grain Sierra Gameking 42 gr IMR 4064 FGMM primer and once fired brass Mine is very close .223 65gr Sierra GK SBT 25gr Tac CCI SR R-P brass .308 125gr Nosler BT 38gr H322 LC Brass Gets about 2650fps out of my 700, which for where I hunt is plenty. Very light recoiling load, also. Have seen 1 buck, unsure on head gear, only saw him for about 2 seconds. Seen two antlerless deer twice, but two were very small, didn't get a good look at the other two as they were running as I walked into my stand. Didn't go out this evening, but the wind was rocking me to sleep in my stand, so a 30 pointer could have walked past the stand this morning. Tomorrow is another day. |