Fall 24/25 Days Afield Thread

[G. Gordon Liddy]

Nice, Phall! Congrats. I'd be stoked to get a buck like that!

[crashidy]

It's been a crazy week here too. Rut was in full swing Friday. I got with in 10 yards of a muley doe and then circled above to go for the buck. He turned as I released the arrow..pretty sure I sent it straight into his back left. Found the arrow with only 7 inches of penetration. Tracked small blood trail for a mile and then his track for another half mile until I lost it in the deer super highway. It was a nice looking buck.

The doe stuck around while I waited after the initial shot.

Then when I decided to back out for a while a massive 4x4 muley and doe were mating in front of me. Literally 5 yards away they stopped and looked at me. They both looked drunk. Absolute tank of a muley. I have a video. Pretty funny.

Gutted I missed but also very confident it survived.

A few more days left to try and help buddies fill tags.


Beauty buck you got there!

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Beautiful deer phall!

[yeahman]

Wife and I had our chance at a cow elk the other day, 75 yards away in the woods, but somehow it did not appear in the opening between the timber where we thought it was headed. Slipped up an unseen gully instead and just walked away while we waited trying to figure out where the heck it went.. Tracked it until dark but it was in travel mode, not spooked but not lingering. Heartbreaker after all the work we put in. Oh well.

[The Reverend Floater]

The old lady brought me some jewelry this morning!




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[Norseman]

Good doggo. Good pic.

Banded leg, what's it mean?

[The Reverend Floater]

Good doggo. Good pic.

Banded leg, what's it mean?

USFW and their Canadian and Mexican equivalents bands ducks, often very young ones. They then use hunter (or other folks) reporting to track migration, age, etc. So that band had a unique number on it which I entered in their site along with location of harvest. It then told me it was a 5 year old originally banded in Oregon. I have maybe ten bands from as far away as Alaska and plenty from Alberta and Saskatchewan. Pretty cool. Roughly 1 in 10000 ducks in NA are banded.


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[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Wife and I had our chance at a cow elk the other day, 75 yards away in the woods, but somehow it did not appear in the opening between the timber where we thought it was headed. Slipped up an unseen gully instead and just walked away while we waited trying to figure out where the heck it went.. Tracked it until dark but it was in travel mode, not spooked but not lingering. Heartbreaker after all the work we put in. Oh well.

It's good to know I'm not the only one. My buddy and I passed on cows early in rifle. Like 80-100 yds at first light feeding. Lay-up opportunity, but I already have a bunch of meat in the freezer (got a free bull from a client thanks to byates!) and we were real fucking far from the TH and had overnighted so we already had heavy full packs. Shouldn't have passed. A few days later a very well fed buck stood up at like 45ish yards and just stood there. Had to take him. I might add it's the best tasting buck I have ever eaten in my life. Don't know what this MFer was eating on but he was built like a horse and tastes like filet mignon.

Another week or so later we are hunting a bulls only zone and still hunted some blow down areas. They love hiding in that shit. We find one at only like 60 yards. Big bastard. 2 or 3 trees in the way. Not spooked and just casually turns down a slight hill and walks off. Gone. Of course next evening in the same unit we end up in a Nat Geo scene. 80+ herd all around us, calling to each other, all cows, a couple spikes, one 2nd year bull but not yet legal etc etc. No shooters.

Unless you are out there doing it yourself, people just don't really have any idea how hard it is to tag out on public land. They call em Ghosts of the Forest for a reason.

[yeahman]

Truth. This season was a real grind. I hunted hard. Had two really good opportunities but just never had a shot. I saw and was around more elk than ever, but couldn't put it together. I am going on a last-chance game damage hunt in January, fingers crossed I can fill the freezer with elk.

Nice you scored a free bull!!!

[wendigo]

Currently dropping pigs in Hawaii

Had an exciting trip a couple weeks back, shot this guy, had a boat lose its anchor, got charged by a brown bear. Good times

[The Reverend Floater]

No brown bear charges over here, but a fun weekend in the chukar hills and on a friend's ranch.

[zion zig zag]

I’ve been out hunting cow elk with my son. We really need some snow to push them down out of this scrub oak. That has to be the worst type of vegetation to try and move through, much less spot bedded elk.

[wendigo]

Never been upland hunting, sure looks fun!

[The Reverend Floater]

I’ve been out hunting cow elk with my son. We really need some snow to push them down out of this scrub oak. That has to be the worst type of vegetation to try and move through, much less spot bedded elk.

Whenever I hate sagebrush I think of you poor bastards.


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[yeahman]

Anybody added a suppressor to their rifle? Thinking of making the investment.

[The Reverend Floater]

Anybody added a suppressor to their rifle? Thinking of making the investment.

Yup. Bought a Thunder Beast 7 for my .300WM and 6.5 Creedmor. Really happy I did…you’ll practice more.


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[zion zig zag]

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Well fuck, damn emoji storm. I bought the same as Rev. I’ll have to give details when not on an iPhone

[yeahman]

Yup. Bought a Thunder Beast 7 for my .300WM and 6.5 Creedmor. Really happy I did…you’ll practice more.


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Well fuck, damn emoji storm. I bought the same as Rev. I’ll have to give details when not on an iPhone

So you guys now shoot without any ear protection at all? No ill effects, no ringing in the ears etc..

[The Reverend Floater]

So you guys now shoot without any ear protection at all? No ill effects, no ringing in the ears etc..

My ears already ring.

I still use foamies at all times (paranoia of more hearing loss) but no, you don’t need ear protection with the 6.5. Very similar to shooting a .22 rifle.


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[zion zig zag]

So you guys now shoot without any ear protection at all? No ill effects, no ringing in the ears etc..

When target shooting I still wear ear protection. But when hunting I carry foamies but don’t get stressed if I don’t have time to get them in. My buying decision was a couple of years ago when I took a quick shot at a buck in a tight draw with a 7mm rem mag. I spent the next two days with ringing intense enough to drive me to action. The Thunderbeast 7 seemed like the right mix of noise attenuation, weight, and length.

When I put it on my 7mm-08 it softens recoil enough and is quiet enough that I noticeably shoot better. I heard wait times are down to less than a month now?

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

I listened to the recent meateater on supressors. I guess it use to be like many many months of wait, but that wait time has gotten shorter?

[Phall]

I've had clients and friends have some approved in hours to days now. The problem is finding inventory. Lots of suppressor brands are having trouble keeping up with demand.

[The Reverend Floater]

I listened to the recent meateater on supressors. I guess it use to be like many many months of wait, but that wait time has gotten shorter?

Steve shoots a .300WM for literally everything. Dude better be using a suppressor!


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[zion zig zag]

I listened to the recent meateater on supressors. I guess it use to be like many many months of wait, but that wait time has gotten shorter?

I waited almost a full year.

[zion zig zag]

Steve shoots a .300WM for literally everything. Dude better be using a suppressor!


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He’s not buying into the 6mm trend, eh?