Buck
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Topic: Buck
Posted By: Honkytonk
Subject: Buck
Date Posted: November 23 2018 at 8:27pm
| Just finished hanging my nice basket buck. Used my L39A1 clone, 180 gr ProHunters, 39 gr H4895. 125 yds. Dropped in tracks! |
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Posted By: 42rocker
Date Posted: November 23 2018 at 9:29pm
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Good Job. Wish I was there. Later 42rocker
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 5:27am
yeah? If its so great..howcum theres no pic for bragging rights??  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 5:52am
| Hoadie? Is that you? We hadn't heard from you and your sunny disposition for a while! I was beginning to think you had gone into hibernation! It was a nice 4 pointer. Small rack, we call basket bucks. As far as pictures, my flip top cell phone camera is broke, and even if I did have pic's, the chance of me figuring out how to post them are slim to none. We have have one more tag to fill so we:re going out today. I'll be using my cammo'd, bobbed "Rescue Gun" (sorry for the term "gun", Hoadie, but it just fits the rifle!) shooting 180 gr ProHunters. |
Posted By: Pukka Bundook
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 6:23am
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Good job Honky! Re gun and rifle; Calling a rifle a gun, doesn't bother me half as much as calling a Smoothbore a rifle!!
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 6:52am
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I do not see or shoot bucks many in North Carolina. No matter how long you cook horns, you still can not eat them. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 7:13am
| Very true, but they do make good handles for dragging it out of the bush! |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 7:40am
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My Scottish Father-in-law uses the as back scratchers. I have a set I use as rattlers for hunting. My 30 pound cat has single one he drags around the house and chews on. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 7:51am
Congrats, HT! Here's a couple bucks we harvested. That's me in the orange jacket.  ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 8:17am
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Very nice! ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 8:52am
| Very nice indeed! Are those what they call blacktail deer? Also, that doesn't look like an Enfield you're cradling! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 9:05am
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Rhino's son got one as well...with his truck again!! ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 9:23am
Road kill Bambi again. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
hoadie wrote:Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 9:26am
| I'm pretty happy as we've had only a bucks only season for several years and I hadn't bagged an animal for quite a while. I forgot to mention, I first saw this buck, another buck and four does about 400 yds away in the field. My buck and a bigger buck started scrapping! It's only the second time I've seen this! Anyway, it didn't last long and my buck lost. He started heading towards me. I waited till he was in my wheelhouse. Bad day for this guy... |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 12:28pm
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Aw man! First he loses the fight (& the babes that go with it.) He's probobly got a good pounding & hurts, then you go and shoot him!! Man, kickin a guy when hes down... Venison hip for Christmas dinner!!   ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: 42rocker
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 1:12pm
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Way to go guys. Going to shooting at paper again tomorrow. But at least outside and getting to be around a few interesting weapons. Later 4rocker
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 8:39pm
| nice to see success , our harvest was down this year - more to hit with your car i supose . |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 8:41pm
| Hoadie. Had his tenderloins (marinated in Italian Zesty dressing for 4 hours) then wrapped in bacon done on a charcoal grill to share with buddies while we cut and wrapped the rest of him. Yummy! To be true, I honour all game I kill. I try to recycle. I put a big piece of back fat in my bird feeder. Birds love it! The carcass we take back out to the field... then wait for the coyotes. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 4:21am
My buddy came from Blighty on the 8th. We went to cabin on 9th. Started to snow just north of Toronto. Didn't stop for the duration.Snow was so deep, the ATVs stayed in the garage. We saw lots of tracks in the snow. Game cameras showed lots of deer (1 10 point & 1 8 point) lots of does...but they were only at night!!  . The 13th it was -20C. Driveway(450 meteres downhill) turned to ice w/a layer of snow on top. We moved the lighter vehicles to upper lot for parking early..but when I went to leave on 17th - I was pulling the trailer. Got 1/3 way up & ice took over. Trying to go forward I managed to keep evrything straight for a bit, as I slid backwards, gathering momentum downhill. Finally it jacknifed badly.(Thought trailer was going to roll) Guess I was lucky with only $2,500 damage. ...& NO G/D VENISON!!  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 6:12am
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OUCH! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 8:18am
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I've been in a similar situation as you, Hoadie. It gets scary and as you experienced, expensive as well. I'm glad you made it out alive and well. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 8:35am
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The snowmobile was left behind for us. We used it & the ski-boose to shuttle folks & equip up & down the drive. I thought it would have chewed up the is somewat..it didn't. When I saw the guys slipping & falling all over it, I figgered I'd be in a bit of trouble. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 9:02am
| Scary hunting trip. One of the few benefits of living on the prairies, no hills! |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: November 25 2018 at 9:10am
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Not an Enfield but a T/C Venture 30:06 with Vortex Viper 3-9x40 scope. Deadly accurate and great for those very long shots. I always bring an Enfield with me but it was in the truck. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Oldhand
Date Posted: November 26 2018 at 6:32am
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Hey Canuck, don't mean to be a pain, but those are the same pics you posted last year. What's up? ------------- Retired USAF, NRA life member |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: November 26 2018 at 9:33am
Oooops, I'm getting old and possibly senile. One year melts into the next so quickly! LOL. Same deer hunting area, same friends, new pics coming as soon as my buddy sends them to me.  ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: November 26 2018 at 11:16am
| Same dog? |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: November 26 2018 at 2:26pm
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Same dog too....now you guys can tease me all you want! LOL ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: November 26 2018 at 5:54pm
| that sounds like a spendy trip , not sure i would have done it but i commend you for your efforts and stamina |