Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting How the hell .......

.... are we going to fill the time till deer season!?! 6 months to kill. I'm going to pick up another otter six this evening. An older ADL. Won't take six months to debug that. Then what? Trail cameras? Food plots? Exercise? (Lol). So how are you all filling the void between seasons?

Could always pick a fight or two in the optics forum.

I'm faced with the same dilemma on an annual basis and have yet to come up with a solution.
I do know that I have accumulated far too many rifles thinking that was the answer to biding the time.

What is that, too many rifles? Can't be.

Knee surgery June 17th
PT and Training will start 3 days later for
September bear....Colorado
October pronghorn....Colorado
November Mule deer....Colorado
November whitetail....Missouri
November whitetail....Oklahoma
December/January whitetail Missouri

PT and mountain work will keep my next 3 months busy

One rifle and one load for all the above

30-06 150 grn Accubond @ just about 2850

Go to work. Walleye fishing in May and early june. Go to work. Channel cats in June, July and August. Go to work. Smallmouth bass in August. Maybe some flathead fishing this July. Go to work. See my daughter this July . She comes home for 4 weeks . She lives in Taichung, Taiwan.

Otter6,

I think tomorrow my Weatherby will be ready to go hunting. I have only one more test. After that, Lord willing, I will go rabbit hunting and maybe even try to find some of those pig I heard about in Southern Oregon. I might even throw in a little fishing.

I am training a horse, beautiful, pet, pasture stale.

I'm nearly done with my 6.5 Swede

I'm looking for a REAL gunsmith who can WELD mis-aligned scope base holes and RE drill & tap. Somebody 'screwed up' a 98 Mauser. There are smiths w/in reasonable distance BUT I don't know them well enuff to TRUST them.

Jerry

I just 250 miles up and 250 back to hang two trail cameras today. Also put out two salt blocks and two mineral rocks.

Since the first of the year I have put over 300 rounds of 300 RUM downrange and about the same in a 300 SAUM not to mention 338 and 7-08 and 06 ammo. Also working towards this years elk trip. So I am trying to stay active and engaged.

We used to hunt woodchuck here in the North East in the summertime.

That was great hunting. They are gone?

Do you have any chucks in PA?

Then we shot in the outdoor matches. Both slow fire and some rapid. This was at 200 yds.

Our club ran a running deer match as well with a paper deer target on a track pulled by a motor.

I've been shooting woodchucks and fishing. Walleye and Northern pike opened last Saturday.

There are still lots of woodchucks in some areas of NY. I shot 6 this past Saturday afternoon on a farm in Otsego county. The Cortland/Syracuse area is still loaded with them.

LOL

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Hope ya make it but, I wouldn't get my hope's up to high. My left knee was replaced Sept 16 last year and while I'm getting around pretty well now, it's taken to long to get here. I have this strange click in that knee every time I bend it, I was told it's normal.Right now I'm at a point where I can get up off the ground without holding something, been years since I could do that. If they give you the drugs they gave me, one is a powerful narcotic. They can't call it into the drug counter, you have to call the Dr ahead of time so he can send you a prescription. I don't recall much of anything while I was in there and not much more for several days after I got home. Make sure ahead of time what you have to do and whoever is taking care of you, make sure they get that in writing. I went about a week and getting them built up again was a chore! I was told recovery time is about a year. Good luck to you!

I'll fill in my time fooling with my dog's and hopefully a catfish trip!Also gonna hunt deer again this year, first time in years. Started casting bullet's for my 308 and 30-06 and gonna get them dialed in.

Cool. No idle hands in this crowd. I'm looking forward to taking my daughter to the first 400 yd deer target shoot at Anderson Creek Sportsmens club on the 22nd She wants to get as many in as possible before college in the fall.

How about a trip to the Lone Star State to hunt one of these.....

I have two boys, aged 8 and 5. A whole lot of my time is spent at a baseball diamond in the summer. In between times, I have a pup I'm trying to train to find birds. Right now, guns for me, are WAY down on the list.

took me quite some time to figure out otter six... LOL.

For us, its maintenance... we start hunting around Sept in AK, and finish ducks in Jan here.

That means Feb/Sept we have to take care of 3 houses, yards, maintenance, 100 acres of land, dead trees, fence repair/replace, road maintenance and so on.

I'm SO thankful when end of Jan comes around, and Sept gets here so damn fast its not even funny.

Probably doesn't help all the fire/ems volunteer calls I run, almost 300 on an average year...

When we used to shoot highpower and all the other cross training shooting, we rarely got anything much done. Was thankful for deer season as it meant we could quit shooting until the spring again. What a refreshing break!

That was years when a lot more of my family was alive to work around the farm etc.... and now its the same amount of work but only 2 people to do it.

Really ??

It should tell you something.


Jerry

You guys are already shooting chucks? I was raised to not shoot them til the middle of May at the soonest so the little ones are not with momma anymore.