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I'll have a few. A .280Rem, a 7x57 and a .30-06 Rem pump.
My boy will be bringing his RAR .223 Rem.
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.280 AI and .243 maybe my 256 win mag if I wanna stunt shoot
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I probably won't be carrying a rifle in camp. It will be in a rifle case. But when I'm hunting deer, I'll be using a T/C Venture 25-06.
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Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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Got several that haven't been hunted with in a long time. 9.3x57,.250/3000, 8mm Mauser, 6mm Rem, and a couple of new to me .30/06s..
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Savage 220f 20 ga
If I venture over to rifle zone, it will be either a Ruger M77 7mm Rem Mag or Ruger M77 22-250....although...I have never shot a deer with my Marlin 30-30 before. That would be fun.
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"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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For me, camp is a bed&breakfast (let a pretty woman make my bed and cook my meals, and keep me company over a glass of scotch at the end of the day - shower assistance not included though, darn it ). Rifles taken along this year will probably be a custom Savage M1899 .22 HiPower I built earlier this year and my M54 Winchester .30-30 that hasn't had a run in the woods for a long time. Of course, that choice will probably change 20 times between now and December...
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Hopefully a nice 10 point. As for weaponry, depends on the hunt. Elk - M70 EW 300 WSM, deer - M77 AW 30-06, bear - M77 AW 35 wh
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I fully expect to be carrying nothing. I will go to deer camp, but I am pretty sure I will have my deer in the freezer come mid-September. I need do some more population reduction in my neighborhood and I plan on doing that with an Excaliber 330. Been counting deer on trail cams and as of now there are two who've set up living quarters about 100 yards from my garden and two more not more than 150 yards in the opposite direction. There's four more that I don't know where they live and am not entirely sure they are still alive. All those but for one are antlerless. So, there should be 4-6 bucks anyway nearby too since I didn't kill any of them last year, and only does and fawns were killed on the roads as far as I know.
It'd be nice to take about 8-10 out of the section and get the population back down to what it can carry which I figure to be 4-6. If I can reduce them to that there's a chance that taking out 1-2/year I can keep up with infiltration and reproduction. There's an area a mile away that I often enough see two dozen or more in though, and I may be just wishful thinking that I can whittle them down.
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M70 FWT 257 Roberts, 120 Speer Deep Curls.
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Savage Weather Warrior 300 Win Mag with a Trijicon 5-20x50 Accupoint and 165 Gr Hornady Interlocks.
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I fully expect to be carrying nothing. I will go to deer camp, but I am pretty sure I will have my deer in the freezer come mid-September. I need do some more population reduction in my neighborhood and I plan on doing that with an Excaliber 330. Been counting deer on trail cams and as of now there are two who've set up living quarters about 100 yards from my garden and two more not more than 150 yards in the opposite direction. There's four more that I don't know where they live and am not entirely sure they are still alive. All those but for one are antlerless. So, there should be 4-6 bucks anyway nearby too since I didn't kill any of them last year, and only does and fawns were killed on the roads as far as I know.
It'd be nice to take about 8-10 out of the section and get the population back down to what it can carry which I figure to be 4-6. If I can reduce them to that there's a chance that taking out 1-2/year I can keep up with infiltration and reproduction. There's an area a mile away that I often enough see two dozen or more in though, and I may be just wishful thinking that I can whittle them down. Well I can come help you with that dave!!
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The various hunts I have are all game-time decisions.
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Well I can come help you with that dave!! Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process. This area really out to be part of 601.
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BEER! leaving the shooting to the kids this year.
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait!
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I might carry this old Brno 21h carbine 7-57 up north. Today it stayed sighted in and put two 162 gr Amax's into one hole at 100 yds. The 3-9 Leupold Compact fits just right in the factory mount.
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Well I can come help you with that dave!! Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process. This area really out to be part of 601. I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not.
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For the Opener, I'll carry: Savage 99, 308 WIN 165 Hornady SP backed up with Ruger Hawkeye in 30-06 165 Hornady SP For Week #2, I'll rotate in Custom Mauser 25-06 117 gr Hornady SP and at some point I'll bring out the Whelenizer Remington 7600 35 Whelen 200 grain Cast Lead. This is my big experiment for the year. Over the summer I started using powder-coated cast lead bullets. It's shooting velocities more like a hot 35 REM, but it should kill deer just fine.
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I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not.
Not much to eat there come late fall and they move out. The odd thing is that road kill on 8 is almost non existent there, but not uncommon half a mile east. Dangerous driving in my neighborhood too.
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Remington 7600 carbine in 30-06 with a Leupold vx III 1.75-6x32
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Savage MLII. Might be kicking it up a notch this year. I've been turning XTP's inside out since I got it, so I'll probably switch to a 300 grain in .458 and running a slower powder to get it up around 45-70 speeds. I've got some Barnes's if that doesn't work.
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