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You've got a good hunting story going there.

Well I sent Bobby up the mountain alone on a four wheeler and my gps that has all the way points of past events. I went out to glass a hayfield. Saw 4 whitetail bucks and I nice bull. Watched the bull all the way into the timber. We are running outta time. Starting to look like tag soup this winter.

Not as dramatic as that, but I whacked a fat little fork horn Saturday morning. I let him amble to within around 30 yards and put a .45 ball through his neck. Lights out. Then when I hiked back to my truck for the cart on which to evacuate him, I discovered I forgot a pretty important thing- line with which to lash him onto the cart. I pulled the laces out of my boots and put on my street shoes, between that and the cargo net from the back of the Jimmy I managed to secure him in a halfassed manner and got him back to the parking spot. Like I said, I always forget something...

Congratulations! Well done. I am just getting ready to zero my 220 savage. Heading to minnesota better get my slug on.

Good work! I went through a lot of boot-laces over the years for unintended purposes, often to secure a deer tag.

Rod

Congratulations. Good eater. But WITHOUT pictures, it NEVER happened..................

Ha ha. Yep, but you see my phone is an old flip phone (dinosaur be me) sans camera, and my digital camera went tits-up. I'm not inclined to go through life sharing it in photos with the world via the internet. I guess being surrounded by people with their noses buried in their phones has made me sick of the whole digital circus.

Come on Man! It might qualify in the dink a thon! You show yours I will show my archery dink! LOL! [img]http://[/img] sorry I don't know how.

Hey Rod, send me a boot lace.

Whatcha gonna do with a bootlace? Rig a snare for that bad boy?

Tie a tag on his ear!

Jim--

Well, you can see where is at 4:41 a.m. Now you just have to figure out where he'll be at 7:00 a.m. on November 15.

Rod

That's better 9:33 am trying to hide his antlers but not his vitals.......I thought you said the shoe laces are for affixing buck tags.

I'm not sure my boot laces are heavy enough for that buck. You'd better lay in a supply of bailer twine.

Rod

Can only hope I can time it right when I am in the woods with rifle in hand. For now, it has me hopeful.

When is does season open 4 U?

Our friend Angus1895 John with another kill- news at 11



And another! A real contender for the campfire dink contest

The 16.75 inside spread 9 point was 70 yards from my barn eating grass we have kept the mules off of. The buck was all alone. The other field had 8 or nine bucks and does together, we almost missed seeing this one. The Prince of the Forest spike was harvested on public land near a fence line. Everytime a doe would bend over to crawl through the gate the spike would stick it's nose under her tail....start bucking and racing around in circles. I did not want that bruiser genetics going further so on the fifth or sixth lap past my swivel stool I pulled back the bow. Junior saw the movement....slid to a stop to check me out.WHUP!

Here in the east (more or less), I'll be hunting with both of these this year:

Just picked up the T/C New Englander sporting a 50 cal barrel but have a 54 cal on the way. Looking for extra thump on Bambi. Been casting a few 530 PRB too.




I was at the range Friday and the guy next to me looked at the New Englander and said "That goes back a ways". Well not really but I understood his point. I remarked how I like the "old school" stuff. He said he liked the modern stuff. After a bit, I pulled the 99 out and he say's "Man, you really are old school!" As a 48 year old kid, I took it as a compliment.

Get used to it. We aren't getting any younger and the "black gun-slinger kids" are growing up and remaining ignorant.