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I just went to Gander and got the paperwork started on a Rem 870 12 ga slug gun.
What do you mean "paperwork"? Did you have to order it or something? That should be an in and out purchase, like buying a pack of smokes or a 6 pack of beer.
Something clever here.
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Sorry gopher but... that's pretty damn funny. lol!
So after hunting all week, I finally see a deer, and it's a fantastic plastic! Yeah-it's kind of funny! I just wish it hadn't happened to me!
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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I got my hands on a muzzle loader last night. A smoking deal would even begin to do the deal justice. It's a TC Impact. A low end line of muzzle loader from tc. So today I picked up some bullets, powder and I had some primers from years past. It's windy as hell again today and I didn't have a lot of time or high hopes for getting dialed in on a short time frame. I used 100gr of 777, and 300gr TC bullets. Shot 1 at 50 yards was just off the 4" circle. I almost adjusted the sights but thought I'd take one more first. Shot 2,3,and 4 were in the black, about 1" high of center. I cleaned it and took one more poke...1" lower than the others and about 1" left of center. I never touched the sights. It's minute of deer as far as I'm concerned. So find us a REAL buck Gopher!  I know where there's one that won't be too hard to hit, but as for the REAL part......... I bet that guy's still either swearing at me or laughing so hard he fell out of the danged tree.
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Sorry gopher but... that's pretty damn funny. lol!
So after hunting all week, I finally see a deer, and it's a fantastic plastic! Yeah-it's kind of funny! I just wish it hadn't happened to me! A lot of things in life are funnier when they happen to someone else. 
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Sorry gopher but... that's pretty damn funny. lol!
So after hunting all week, I finally see a deer, and it's a fantastic plastic! Yeah-it's kind of funny! I just wish it hadn't happened to me! A lot of things in life are funnier when they happen to someone else. Gee, thanks Goalie!
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Camp is where you make it.
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Was it a set of 8 deer and a sleigh with a jolly good fellow at the reins or was it just a single buck deer? Red nosed or "regular"? LOL!! Ok, I'll stop! 
Something clever here.
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I just went to Gander and got the paperwork started on a Rem 870 12 ga slug gun.
What do you mean "paperwork"? Did you have to order it or something? That should be an in and out purchase, like buying a pack of smokes or a 6 pack of beer. They still have to run the background check and I didn't have the 45 minutes to an hour (according to the clerk) that it takes to come back.
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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Those guys are slow then.
I'm in and out of a hardware store on a long gun purchase in minutes.
Something clever here.
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Those guys are slow then.
I'm in and out of a hardware store on a long gun purchase in minutes.
This is Gander Mountain we're talking about here....
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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ahhh, well at least the prices are good....
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Yep, keep you hanging around the store so you'll buy something else.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except for bears. Bears kill you.
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any pics of the colorado buck Bill?
tell your boy congrats!
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Sorry gopher but... that's pretty damn funny. lol!
So after hunting all week, I finally see a deer, and it's a fantastic plastic! Yeah-it's kind of funny! I just wish it hadn't happened to me! A lot of things in life are funnier when they happen to someone else. Gee, thanks Goalie! You are quite welcome
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Hey dave, i regret to inform you dat der' pre 64 264 of mine upn gotted bought. some feller is awfully happy, and about 15 other fellers in my PM box that waited are gonna be awfully mad.
I kill chit. "The Heathens nest"
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ahhh, well at least the prices are good....
Camp is where you make it.
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Hey dave, i regret to inform you dat der' pre 64 264 of mine upn gotted bought. some feller is awfully happy, and about 15 other fellers in my PM box that waited are gonna be awfully mad. That was a real beauty coop. I would have hunted with it, where a lot of folks would have safe queen'd it.
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Camp Isabella update
Well it did warm up today, got to 36.
Now for the bad news. Sat on the stand until 11 this morning and then went to camp for lunch and to do some camp chores. Headed back at 1 and there was a deer track in my footprints not 50 yards from the stand. Nothing seen or shot so everything is normal.
I did sneek up on some duck decoys once but they would not fly so I did not shoot.
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Oh man TJ, that stinks.
The first or second hear at Chickenbuck I came in for lunch and the scrape my blind was near was clearly freshened between the time I left and the time came back.
It's a bad feeling.
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We had that happen at our camp too, TJAY. Not just one track, but deer followed our trail out to the logging road.
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