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tomorrow is our great state's muzzle stuffer opener. and sadly in a short 6 weeks it will be over. good luck to ya'll who are blowing smoke and lead at deers this weekend! hopfully I get a picture or two of slickheads down. I'm taking my boy with me in the blind, he promises he's ready, I think he is, we'll see. good luck all!
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I'm stuck at work taking inventory all weekend.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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got a doe with the smokepole last night, going back this morning to see about getting another one. woke up at 2 am and can't sleep. figured this is better than sleeping in and missing a mornings hunt
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I got a doe last night also. I was using a 250 grain,T/C shockwave bullet,90 grains of 3fffg goex blackpowder,range 110 yards,Knight wolverine. Dang bullet didnt expand one bit,just the little plastic tip broke off,found it under the hide on the far side,shot was a bit high,took out the arteries that run along the underside of the spine,DRT,but no expansion at all.A double lunger ,it would have sailed on through. I didnt think I was getting much velocity,maybe 1500 fps or so,gonna have to check that.
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Fluffy, how old is your Wolverine? I think I bought mine over 15 years ago. I never actually saw another hunter using one.
Edit: Mine is the old MK-93 with the stock similar to an old Ruger boat-paddle.
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Mine is an lk-93,with a boat paddle stock. I dont know how old it is,I bought it a few months ago,in very good condition, for $100. The trigger is so good,its become my #1 choice.
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Well me and Nate went to the cabin and tried a little hunting, didn't work out. But it was a nice test run for the yeller truck after some recent tuning, cab weatherizing and a new u-joint. Truck works awesome. Then while visiting with a friend last night I made a trade, I gave him a stainless MKII target .22 for a stainless single six with .22 and .22 magnum cylinders. It matches my old frame vaquero .45 really nice.
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Dave I am worried about you and the vehicle addiction....
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It's a terminal condition.
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Mine is an lk-93,with a boat paddle stock. I dont know how old it is,I bought it a few months ago,in very good condition, for $100. The trigger is so good,its become my #1 choice. Yeah, I always wondered who made the triggers. Mine is pretty nice, especially for an inexpensive firearm. I also actually like the screw-in/out safety. It is easy to manipulate with gloves on, and makes it impossible to strike the cap.
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I use that safety when pulling up /down in the stand,crossing fences,etc. I actually could buy another tag for zone 338for myself,in fact my son has an unused bonus tag from youth season,if I buy him another tag,he would then have two.hmmmmm...... If only I have time.Sometime this week,I need to drive to Bemidiji and back,and try to keep up at work.
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I got a doe last night also. I was using a 250 grain,T/C shockwave bullet,90 grains of 3fffg goex blackpowder,range 110 yards,Knight wolverine. Dang bullet didnt expand one bit,just the little plastic tip broke off,found it under the hide on the far side,shot was a bit high,took out the arteries that run along the underside of the spine,DRT,but no expansion at all.A double lunger ,it would have sailed on through. I didnt think I was getting much velocity,maybe 1500 fps or so,gonna have to check that. I've killed a few deer with the same bullit they shoot good but don't expand . I'm going back to Barnes 250 gr I think they call em Expanders or something like that . They flat out work and most deer I've shot with them have been a "Bang Flop" kinda deal . My first inline was a LK93 IIRC Knight used Timmney triggers ?
"Papa ! Nana made turtles in the potty !"
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Our dang internet has been down for over a week . Had a Netgear DSL motem router combo . Netgear customer service sucks like really bad so we payed 12.00 to Staples for a service plan so we can talk to an OKLAHOMAN in TULSA instead of Osama's brother in Iraqnadbadistan or some friggen where . Whew man I feel so much better now .
"Papa ! Nana made turtles in the potty !"
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i love children that are mine. more than beer and I'm going to buy them anything they want!! yay me.
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Hacked!!
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Yeah, it was the part about loving kids more than beer that gave him away
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LOL, too funny!
I took my boy hunting tonight, boy what a fiasco. he was restless in the blind, but it's a pop up so it is very forgiving. we got out there early and decided after we got settled in we both had to pee. he unzipps the "tent" as he calls it we clamber out there and drop trou next to a barbed wire fence, as we're talking I look across the river and see a 4 point white tail and 2 does staring at us from 50 yards away. oh crap. they absconded in the fashion that whitetails do, taking the meat we were after with them. we settle back in, watch a few mule deer go to water, the buck was wide and tall, but lacked points, still a nice deer, fun to see. after a cinibun and gatoraid, little man plays angry birds while I watch for deers. low and behold a doe and fawn make their way across the river and up past our blind, at 25 yards I drop the hammer on the doe, flop she goes. little deer bolts and then turns back for mama, and walks back, I reload super fast in a minute and a half while this "medium sized deer" is standing at 25 yards. little man covers his ears again and BANG, down goes the fawn. little man is stoked, I'm thinking "cool! now the work begins" we drive home at 35 MPH because we broke a strut on my car on the way in, long story. but now we're home, little man had the time of his life and thinks I'm the greatest hunter that ever walked the earth. deers are hung up, mama's making supper and I have a fashionable adult beverage to help me unwind after a long day. life is good.
* disclaimer, usually I don't Intentionally shoot fawns, but the landowner I'm hunting for wants the does/fawns thinned out. so if it's brown and not wearing head gear it's down. I've seen several nice bucks, been really fun.
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Awesome day in the bushes of northern MN today. Scouted and hung some cameras. I'll post pictures tomorrow, I'm pretty wiped.
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Dave,the single six is a good companion piece to your Double Nine. I recently purchased a Smith&Wesson .22 auto pistol.Model 22A.It has a rail on top so I mounted a 2X Tasco pistol scope.What an ACCURATE pistol with a great trigger pull.At the range the other day I hit a small plastic aspirin bottle eight straight times at 50 yards. The Camp Chickenbuck truck looks great.
Stan in SC
The more I listen,the more I hear....and vice versa.
45/70,it's almost a religion.
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Wow that's impressive accuracy and even more impressive shooting Stan! Nate and I spotted a bobcat in the forest yesterday. We didn't get a shot opportunity but it was really cool to see one. Good sized too, he looked like a medium sized dog. Here's a better pic of that single six. We also cut a charlie brown xmas tree yesterday. The women folk are pretending to be impressed with our Christmas tree.
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