Thank you! Believe me, I wasn’t sad to shoot it haha (I went to school in Virginia and remember how those deer were too)
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Hunting & Fishing Pics out of or from your blind or stand.
- Thread starter drglock
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Early this morning. 1 degree out. Beats the 18 and 20mph winds and blizzard conditions from yesterday.
Lunker doe, fawn and scrubby buck just coming into the frame.
A little foggy this morning at 28 degrees. Hunting from my cabin. Easier to shitpost.
I like chassis and I saw that chassis on a video by Panther Hollow Optics for his .22 Rimfire. He was highlighting the Hawke Frontier. But I like the Night Force you have on yours. What's the caliber? .308 W? 6.5 C?
It’s been a great season so far. Couple in the freezer (1 pretty decent buck for these parts) and getting my kids out in the woods chasing squirrels, deer, turkey, etc.
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This turned out to be the best rifle sit I’ve ever sat. 90 minute hunt on last day of WI rifle.
That's the kind of shit most of my hunting is in. Which is why I usually laugh at threads when I read the standard line "If you're patient and willing to wait for the right shot..." Uh yeah.
Frankly the fact that I SAW deer made it a successful season.
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The honest answer is that I took a first shot at 9 o’clock that I shouldn’t have, through a bunch of vines and small brush. He spilled out into the middle of the shooting lane at 12 and I hit him again.
Both shots hit heart on a moving animal. Leisurely stroll on first, stumbling downhill on second.
First at 75y then at 60.
There was 10 seconds total between first sight and dead on the ground, and that’s about what I expect where I hunt.
We’re not all in a tower on a bean field or on canyon overwatch
Gotta kill them where they live.
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Yep, wait for the perfect shot. LOL
It would take a week to clear shooting lanes in this crap.
The public land I hunt and have hunted all my life has been logged in recent years. So it's good for the deer, but pretty much an impenetrable mess of briars, cut off limbs and saplings. You can't cross it, let alone hunt it. The private property I've hunted most of my life is now used for maple syrup, so even the "open" areas are interesting to traverse and all the horizontal lines make spotting things very difficult.
This is fairly open and not a lot of tubes, but it's the only pic on my phone.
And of course the great irony. I drive 4.5 hours to hunt where seeing a deer is considered a success. Seeing a buck a rarity. Seeing a mature buck happens once a decade. lol
But back home, at work , these are weekly sights. (sigh)
Both parking lot bucks.
This is fairly open and not a lot of tubes, but it's the only pic on my phone.
And of course the great irony. I drive 4.5 hours to hunt where seeing a deer is considered a success. Seeing a buck a rarity. Seeing a mature buck happens once a decade. lol
But back home, at work , these are weekly sights. (sigh)
Both parking lot bucks.
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pics from a climber on state land. The underbrush is mountain laurel, average of 4 to 6 feet high. There are times where I can hear footsteps, but all I can see is the brush moving or a flash of white tail. All I can do is follow the movement and hope it steps into one of the small open areas. Frustrating and exciting at the same time. The other day I followed a dozen flashes of white tail without confirming doe/buck.
One day I’ll get to hunt out west. But for now, this is my hunting experience.
I have not yet been able to harvest a deer. I hope to one day and I will certainly post here.
There is a dead cow 450 yds in front of my set up. The fog was rolling in and out. I got 1 coyote before the fog stayed.
Sea island sunset near Edisto, hunting coyotes. Big 6 pointer walked by at dusk.
Tried to GTFO of the house yesterday. These were near where I was going to make a stand. The trees are about 200m from the road. Found the road blocked 3/4 of a mile before the place I used to park and walk in. There were 6+ parties parked at the end of the road/BLM shooting area, so I turned around and left. Visibility there was <100m.
I have a couple spots I hunt on my property but this one is my favorite treestand. Took a nice 8pt that I should have let go a couple more years but he had a hole in his back that just missed his spine and a slice on his belly from two people missing him during bow so likely wouldn't have made it past the first day of rifle anyway. Also after four years of watching and waiting we finally had an owl perch in the hollow of an old maple tree by the house. Been there for a week now.
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This spot has been a great honey hole this year. Maxed out my buck tags. Every kill was with the VaRmInT RoUnD .223.
Actually more excited for the spring use of a depredation permit and killing them with thermal. Completely overrun on my farm with does.
Actually more excited for the spring use of a depredation permit and killing them with thermal. Completely overrun on my farm with does.
NYE hunt this morning. No harvest. Tomorrow evening is the close of general season for rifle hunting deer. However, I can still hunt here until March with a rifle for feral hog. Then, they close it off for a few weeks to get rid of pressure and open it back up for eastern spring turkey, which can use a 12 ga if you limit it to holding 3 shells.
In this one, that hill through the trees is about 100 yards.
Showing the rig. TC Compass II .308 Win in an Oryx chassis and the Arken 6-24X50 FFP scope on it.
In this one, that hill through the trees is about 100 yards.
Showing the rig. TC Compass II .308 Win in an Oryx chassis and the Arken 6-24X50 FFP scope on it.
I figured there’d be another picture coming moments later showing him on the ground…come on man, it’s been 20 minutes.
Thermal hog hunt from weekend before last.
Full moon rising and waiting for dark.
Raccoon on the right pocket under the oak limbs.
Full moon rising and waiting for dark.
Raccoon on the right pocket under the oak limbs.
