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Fluffy you were correct the new big game coordinator is a leslie mclnenly. I have no clue who she is or her background but hope somebody does something to figure out what is going on, LOL.
We had quite a few fawns this spring with a mild winter and milder spring.
Saw a bunch of fawns up until opener and then they went to ground.
My longest shot here was 406 yards, my youngest took his first at 300 yards even, average is about 100 yards or less. We happen to sit on an alfalfa field but also hunt pastures and thick wood lots.
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We had quite a few fawns this spring with a mild winter and milder spring.
Saw a bunch of fawns up until opener and then they went to ground.
Well, then I'm thinking they're holding tight while Ma is getting chased around. If you had them up to opener, I'd wager your paychek on it.
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i frequently shoot across a 60 :-D the woods is 400-450 depending on where, to the right the swamp is 600, many a nanny has been dispatched down there to. this is 300 Remington ultra mag territory, or as the neighbors call it ( dat gawd dam;d cannon in coopers coulee) this here i can shoot maybes 200 yards, but last time i hunted this hillside i saw 36 deer before noon, and shot a nice 10. this will be my 7wsm with 160 accubonds.
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200 in that timber! Hard for me to imagine if it looks like that in all directions.
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It looks like it is pretty open from the pictures, you can pick out some pretty clear lanes. Love that woods type. We have a lot of overgrown popple mixed in with semi old growth, it is a pain to walk thru much less think of shooting thru.
Those are the kind of woods I love to stalk thru.
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this here i can shoot maybes 200 yards, but last time i hunted this hillside i saw 36 deer before noon, and shot a nice 10. this will be my 7wsm with 160 accubonds. This is what most of my hunting looks like. I LOVE this time of year!
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Hey BD. Feel free to PM the specs on that Ruger .257R. I have a half chub for that cal for some reason or another.
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Coop what do you use for a shooting stick in the blind?
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For crype sakes hang an orange ribon or 2 on that camo tent so you don't get accidentally shotted sitting in that thing.
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That's why I like my blind...it has a flap on all 4 sides that folds down to reveal a patch of orange.
Can't remember who made it, but I will dig it out and see...
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I just just a gander mountain bipod type, ive got a technique for locking my gun elbow in the corner of the arm rest, and pulling the gun into my shoulder, its very steady. Dont need any orange, both those stands are over 800 yards from the nearest propery line :-D.
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The woods are more open than they look, below that it was logged roughly 10yrs ago and thick doesnt begin to describe it, this is part of the "old growth" that is left on the farm, its scheduled to be logged in 2014 per our MFL plan
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ac, you are trusting. I tend to find that folks that are likely to take a poke at a big box blind are also not likely to be inhibited by small things like property lines. Be careful.
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haha i get on well with the neighbors, most of them dont hunt, the ones that due know where the field stand is, they'd have to be 500 yards over thier property line to have line of site at it.
If i get shot in the woods by a stray bullet, well i guess it was my time to go
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We just had that happen here opening weekend guy standing next to his truck shot by an acquaintance. Sad and not really talked about much. Sounds like the shooter was shooting blind at noise
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yeeesh, that kinda stuff is scary.
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Used to hear about sound shooting, holy crap I can't believe it still happens
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My dad almost got shot 30-35 years ago by a drunk 2nd cousin when walking to his stand and O dark 30 opening day, well my dad was what one would say is, a guy you wouldnt want to meet in a dark alley or surely not shoot at in the dark woods, scout sniper in nam' etc etc. He proptly scuttled up in our 2nd cousins box blind and beat the ever living piss out of him :-) Dad died in 2006 but that story gets brought up by the old timers that are left, every year.
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Used to hear about sound shooting, holy crap I can't believe it still happens You'd be shooting in the general direction of a squirrel about 99.9999999% of the time in the area I hunt, and the random shots would ensure that you wouldn't have to worry about actually seeing any deer.......
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Closest I came was deer hunting about 20 years ago, had a young guy in our group. We were dealing with warm weather, high winds and no crops picked.
Got permission to drive a cornfield.
Drivers were told not to shoot at all as the plan was to just get the deer out of the corn into an adjacent woodlot.
Kid got all excited as three doe started running up the rows towards us.
Fired three shots out of his 12 gauge with slugs. One went over each shoulder and the third thru the brim of my cap. I went to ground. My brother and a couple friends grabbed his ass and threw him in a truck while a couple of others held me down and my dad took the guns away.
Needless to say I was done hunting for the day.
You'll never forget that sound.
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