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[powslut]

went out with my old man and got 8 pheasant and 11 partridge. never seen the dog work so well. pointing left right and centre, jumping through 3 foot snowbanks and tunneling underground all to find the birds

anyone else get out this year?

[L7]

I trust you went somewhere like Johnstone Lake and used your Mountain Bike to get into the bush.

What kind of dog do you have?

[Mott the Hoople]

You guys are having way too much fun. Wish I was there.

[MT]

Nothing to brag about, but it has been a lean ass year around here. Hopefully a big bull elk will find its way to me before the season is over...

[powslut]

Originally posted by L7
I trust you went somewhere like Johnstone Lake and used your Mountain Bike to get into the bush.

What kind of dog do you have?

Which effectively destroyed the migration route of the rare rocky mountain dirt mite. Parks is gonna have my balls again.

Spike is a 9 year old German Wire Haired Pointer. looks like an old man, hunts like a killer, and is the biggest suck EVER.

[powpowpowderwheels]

Been out for pheasant twice, with two more to go.

Deer hunting for the first time on saturday and sunday in a week. It's IL, so we are gonna be slugging for them. If anyone has any interesting or informative links, post.

http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...ormal_alex.jpg

(insert banjo music here)

chaps rule.

[pollard]

now I don't like such a redneck. Went duck hunting last weekend. Been doing lots of quail hunting.

[Castro's]

Perfect thread for me to vent in.

So last weekend we had the deer opener. I have never missed the deer opener since I started deer hunting 9 years ago. My job as a hunting/fishing specialist required me to work last weekend as we work every other weekend last weekend just happened to be my weekend to work so I had no way of getting it off. I also get to work next weekend which is the last weekend of deer hunting. I basically got to hunt 2 days out of the season this year.

Yesterday morning, roll into my area around 7:00am. Its foggier than shit. Visibility--50 yards. Wait all day long for fog to lift. It doesn't.

This morning, perfect visibilty. We drive over to our area and we are there about 10 minutes driving around a corn field at the foot some hill and come across a MONSTER buck feeding. The only problem was that he was on the verge of being out of range and if I were to hit it would be a one in a million shot. It was to open to sneak up on him so I pop off four long shots. He has no idea where they are coming from, but decides its best to head to the hills. We let him get comfortable for about an hour then two of us post and the other two start walking the hills. The MONSTER gets kicked up but before I saw him he was almost between me and the other guy posting so I have to get quick shot off while it is still safe to shoot. I somehow miss, but the buck sees the other poster and decided to charge right at me. This MONSTER gets within 10 yards of me and I squeeze the trigger. NOTHING HAPPENS!!!!! I have shot I don't know how many deer with this gun and I have never had it not go off!!! So he gets away.

Next shitty thing. The old man and I decide to head over to another field. I walked in from one side and posted while he walked in from the other. About the time I stopped walking my dad had kicked up a very nice buck and doe that came running right for me. I crouch down and sit perfectly still with the buck in my crosshairs. These deer have no idea I'm sitting there and literally come charging right at me from about a quarter mile away. The doe was first so I waited for her to basically run right into me before I pulled the trigger on the buck. He was probably less than 40 yards and and he dropped like a rock. He kicked around a little as they usually do so I figured I would give him a couple of seconds to die before filling him with more lead. Then, the bastard gets up!! I line up on the vitals and drop him again. I can see the hole in his side where I hit him, but before I could bring up gun down, he's off and running (well, about as fast as a wounded deer can run). I fire twice more, buts its off the races. He ended up getting into this slough and disappearing, but there is blood everywhere so I figured it would be no problem tracking him down. 4 HOURS LATER I am still without my deer. Five of us tracked his blood trail for close to a mile of him doubling back around through trees and slough. The deer and fell down in 6 different places, but still managed to escape somehow. I have never lost a deer in my life, in fact I've never had one not die after the 2nd shot. So, I am going to bed tonight feeling very pissed about not filling my tag this year, and also actually feeling very sorry for the poor deer. Two weeks to massive goose and pheasant hunt.

[BobMc]

Originally posted by Castro's
Perfect thread for me to vent in.

He was probably less than 40 yards and and he dropped like a rock. He kicked around a little as they usually do so I figured I would give him a couple of seconds to die before filling him with more lead. Then, the bastard gets up!! I line up on the vitals and drop him again. I can see the hole in his side where I hit him, but before I could bring up gun down, he's off and running (well, about as fast as a wounded deer can run). I fire twice more, buts its off the races. He ended up getting into this slough and disappearing, but there is blood everywhere so I figured it would be no problem tracking him down. 4 HOURS LATER I am still without my deer.

Dude, I don't even hunt, but I can figure out why you don't have a deer. When you hit them sit still, let them lie down. Give them a good half hour or so at least. They'll run off somewhere close and lay down. Once they lay down they're toast.

Don't go chasing a wounded deer, you'll never catch him, and he'll never lay down.

BobDeerHuntingJongMc

[MT]

Castro's, you honestly need to learn how to shoot your rifle before next season. At 350 yds, shooting twice at a deer is acceptable, maybe. Close range, there is no excuse for not killing an animal with one shot. Being a good hunter is all about proficiency, ethic, sound judgement and respect for the game that you are pursuing. Taking multiple half-assed shots and wounding a deer, so that it has to endure a slow painfull death, and then you can't find it so it's wasted, is about as far from being a good sportsman as you can get.

[Castro's]

MT, I shot the deer at 40 yards in the vitals. I don't need a lecture on being a good sportsman. This was a freak occurence. I have never ever seen a deer get up after getting drilled in the vitals twice from 40 yards by a 30-06. The only thing that could have happened is that I caught a bone in the shoulder blade and the bullet deflected.

Bob, although you are a hunting jong, you are correct, and that is exaclty what I did. The deer ran about 200 yards arcross the dirt field and into the slough. I gave him about a half hour before tracking his blood trail. You don't however have to typically wait as long for a deer to die after shooting it with a high power rifle as you do if you shot it with a bow. He should stayed down after getting hit the first time, especially after getting hit the second time.

[Beaver]

2 hits with a 30-06 at 40 yards and he ran away? Holy shit! I've never seen one go more than about 50 yards after having a single 30-06 hole in him.

[Beaver]

I was pissed this weekend. Mule deer (black tail) season closed on the 10th and I was left with an unfilled tag. When I woke up on Saturday there was a 6 point standing in my field about 100yard from my front door. It was almost as if he knew the regulations. Fukker. Next year he is in my freezer.

[The Reverend Floater]

I've been a'shootin' lots of mallards, a few qualudes, a few pheasant, a few hun, a few chukkar, a lot of grouse and now I'm gonna get me some geese!


mmmmmmm.....duckballs!

[Foggy_Goggles]

Originally posted by Castro's

We drive over to our area and we are there about 10 minutes driving around a corn field at the foot some hill and come across a MONSTER buck feeding. The only problem was that he was on the verge of being out of range and if I were to hit it would be a one in a million shot. It was to open to sneak up on him so I pop off four long shots.

So your comfortable taking 4 shots when it's 1/1,000,000? WTF dood! If you hiked into your area before dawn instead of driving you might of been able to get a better shot.

Me, only been out for duck so far with varying success. Pheasant just opened so a should get in some good days soon.

[xboat]

things have been slow here. waiting for cold weather and snow....

[powderfarmer]

Damn, I haven't been out all year, nobody I know hunts in colorado, man I miss it. Any you front rangers non hippy types hunt? Oh well, I'll be back on the farm in jersey for blackpowder(my favorite) deer season, and pheasant/rabit season, can't wait to get out with old friends and have some fun.

[Castro's]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
So your comfortable taking 4 shots when it's 1/1,000,000? WTF dood! If you hiked into your area before dawn instead of driving you might of been able to get a better shot.

Hiking into an area is not a possibility in ND. If you haven't heard, it is flat and wide open here. I will admit that the shots at the monster were not good, and I would have not taken them had the old man not been yelling at me to shoot. Road hunting is the only way to hunt here at dusk and dawn, and long shots are generally the rule, not the exception.

Beaver, I agree, that is why I am still so baffled about what happened.