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Saw three doe this am. Headed to pa camp. Told my dad to hunt where I hunted this weekend. Tons of tracks and sign from early Nov.

RECEIPT at the GUN Shop

The killing scene in this guy's video reminds me of a kill I made on one of my better Bucks. The gang I hunted with back in the seventies and eighties hunted a huge farm on big hills outside of Norwich NY called King's Settlement. I had an escape route spot where I built a brush blind a couple of weeks before season about 3/4s of the way up on one of those hills and I was in it on a cold opening day before daylight. I hoped as the orange army made their way up the hill someone would push something past me. I heard a noise just as it was getting daylight and could make out a really nice buck moving away from me through a scrub apple orchard, he was too far away and there was too much brush in the way for a clean shot so I just watches him disappear, the best I could hope for is he would run into some other hunted and maybe comeback through. The rest of the morning was uneventful and around noon I headed back down to the vehicles and meet up with some of the guys to warm up and get something to eat. So while we were going over the morning's events one of the guys spotted a nice buck way up the hill standing in some high goldenrod only a couple of hundred yards from my blind. I grabbed my gun and started to haul ass back up the hill jogging up a farm dirt road, just maybe I might get a crack at that guy. The farm road was in a gully with high banks on both sides and as I got in that buck's vicinity I hear some shots from the buck's direction. I stopped and listened and all of a sudden here comes the big Buck running full tilt right at me over and down the bank. I was ready and when he saw me, he turned and I let him have one broadside, he went down on his haunches, and I gave him two more killing him, that was the last time I fired more that one shot at a Deer. Everything happened in just a few seconds, and I did not have any time to think. I was using an Ithaca model 51 Deerslayer 3 shot semi auto, probably the most accurate slug gun I ever owned. I gave that shotgun to my youngest son and a few years later he killed a nice buck with it just a short distance from the one killed above. Ahh, the good old days!! Al

I think I’ll pass. The idea of cheesy feet is rather unappetizing! lol

THanks . I just ordered them on EBAY $23.39 total ...........

All the years I hunted the southern zone I used various shotgun slug models and took my share of Deer with them, a well placed slug kills as good as anything. Back then it was the law so we used what we could. I can understand sticking with a firearm you are familiar with and have had good results with. For the last thirty-five years doing all of my Deer hunting in the northern zone I have used various rifles, not because they kill better but for their much more precise shot placement especially at longer ranges. With an accurate rifle you can thread the needle through small openings if need be or make a kill easily out to several hundred yards if the opportunity arises. From my perspective a rifle has performance in spades over the shotgun slugs in almost every situation giving the hunter a better chance at success. If I could have used some of the rifles I own now back in those old open country southern zone hunting days it would have been a massacre. Al