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With the Winter Bow season open till Feb 20th and 24" of snow that fell the week befor I headed to my stand hoping for a nice doe for the freezer. A group of deer came by from several trails and I spotted a good size doe limping into one of my shooting lanes, I drew back and just as I was about to shoot I noticed this buck trotting in on the same trail, so I held my draw while aiming on the same spot and when he was in my sight I let fly my arrow. It was a double lung and he ran 80 yards spaying blood on both sides of the trail in the snow, stopped and tipped over. When I got there it looked like someone threw a bucket of red paint on the snow. I am truly blessed and look forward to sharing this bounty with friends and family.

I posted this nice deadhead find back in December. I finally got around to skulling him out. He smelled so bad by that time that I almost sawed off his rack and called it a day. Instead I got to work with my hatchet and busted some teeth out trying to make quick work of separating the lower jaw. He was so rotten, the skin almost peeled itself off as soon as it hit the water revealing two sweet FANGS! I just so happened to have an antler that fit this skull perfectly too for a nice stand,lol

Cliven Bundy offered several times to pay the Federal government the money he owed them. Every time he did so the BLM would raise the financial bar, essentially reneging on their contract. His only recourse was to hire attorneys and present his case to the BLM's own court of dispute, or whatever they call it, which would of course uphold the BLM's position. He got tired of financially supporting both sides in the Federal government's case against him, out-of-pocket on one side and his taxes on the other. The BLM moved in to seize the property and met with resistance. It's not about 'rancher welfare'. The Hammonds in Oregon were sentenced for an "act of domestic terrorism". They set fire to scrub brush in an effort to create a fire-break and keep wildfires off their ranch. Their fire got a little out of control and burned 140 acres, some of which was considered Federal land. They were sentenced to 5 years in prison. In the same time period, the BLM intentionally burned several thousand acres of private property to create the same kinds of fire-breaks. Nobody from the Federal government is being held responsible for that. If this was happening in the Adirondacks or the Finger Lakes, I suspect some of the views would be different.

I apologize to those that have seen most of these.......She's 12.5 now but she put her time in!

......K I S S.... For the shooting that most of us do within 400 yards, all that junk just confuses things... Beyond that range, I don't care...

The BDC reticle to me, is too clustered with all those little circles. I prefer the Duplex reticle on the Leupold or the Nikoplex from Nikon. My hunting rifle is hold center body from 20 to 250 yards. I just like to keep it all simple, like me.

Back in the late seventies and early eighties I worked in a friend of mine's sporting goods store. During that time we sold hundreds and hundreds of scopes of all brands that were popular back then and would mount them on the customer's gun for free. If they had any problems like fogging, lens cracking, crosshairs failing and adjustments that stopped working we would take care of it, boxing them up and sending them back to the factory for repair or replacement. By the way fogging was probably the number one issue we had. I can tell you most problems happen in the field when the scope was needed most and I heard about a lot of scope horror stories. Back in them days we mounted a lot of scopes on slug guns for deer hunters and they could and would do a number on any scope because of the severe recoil. Anyhow out of all the scopes we sent back and there were quite a few we only had one Leupold incident and it was because the front lens loosened slightly and by the way replaced at no charge. Al

I have the Leupold VX-1 on my Savage Axis 7mm/08. For the money, it is perfect for deer hunting. It's clear even in low light and as said above, you can see detail easily at 100 yards. For under $200 I think it is one of the best scopes you can buy.

It kind of tells you a lot when the Democrat nominations have Hillary and a socialist as the front-runners. I'm not super excited about the Republican roster of candidates, but for crying out loud ..... Hillary?? .... Bernie?? The U.S. road map is pretty clear these days. We've dropped the façade now. We are being forced into choices between crooks and commies. No offense people but I am damned glad that I have no affiliations with the Democrat party.

All of my get serious rifles have Leupolds mounted on them, some go back to the late 60s and they are as good today as they were when I bought them, zero issues. My favorite for big game is the 2x7. Al

Leupold, Leupold, Leupold. Don't skimp on glass. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Growing up 4 out of 5 days a week I used to eat liver sausage on white bread for breakfast before I went to school..mom didn't care what I ate...as long as I ate. I believe she always bought it from Redlinski's at the Broadway Market.Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

hehehe...Old Fat Father is an affectionate nickname that he gave himself..... He once referred to himself as my " Old fat Father" and it stuck.... He stood 5'6" and weighed maybe 140 soaking wet.... New friends would give me strange looks when I introduced him to them as " Fat Father".... I like to think that I inherited some of his sense of humor as my heritage... He was my hero...

I'll be 66 on St Patty's Day next month... I've been hunting LEGALLY for 52 years... I could tell you that my Old Fat Father allowed me to roam armed about his property for a number of years before I was old enough to have a hunting license, but I WON'T tell you that because I have never done anything illegal.

I am an old bass turd, but my wife is younger, so if I can bring her into the retirement community you guys have to let me post here. (Time we get a dove season she will be pushing me out in the field in a wheelchair).... Before After Two woodcock and my upland team

Dang things always botched up my bong when I tried smoking them

$173-$200 is the going rate (shipped) For a Leupold VX-1 3-9x40. The new series VX-1 is the same scope as the older series VX-II which sold for $299 at Cabela's a few years back. There are several vendors on E-bay selling them at that price range. Here is one example. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leupold-VX-1-Rifle-Scope-3-9x40-Matte-Duplex-113874-/361294369847?hash=item541ed29437:g:is4AAOSwnH1WZakc Nobody has better warranty service than Leupold & you are supporting American jobs. America’s Optics AuthorityLeupold & Stevens is a fifth generation, family owned company that has been in business for 108 years and employs over 650 American workers. All Leupold Golden Ring® Riflescopes are designed, machined, assembled, and tested in Leupold’s state of the art manufacturing facility in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Leupold uses over one million pounds of aluminum, amounting to over 100 miles of extrusion, in its facility every year and has the largest installation of Index Turning Centers West of the Mississippi River. The current average tenure of Leupold’s all-American workforce is approximately eleven years, with the longest tenured employees being on staff for over four decades. Leupold & Stevens pioneered such ubiquitous technologies as waterproof scopes, side focus parallax adjustment, compact riflescopes, and the Duplex® reticle. Each Leupold Golden Ring Riflescope model, from the least expensive Rifleman® to the industry leading VX-6 must pass Leupold’s uniquely punishing durability testing, which no other competitive scope brand or model has ever consistently passed, regardless of price or country of origin. Leupold’s Golden Ring Lifetime Guarantee is the standard by which all other customer service agreements in the sports optics industry are judged, and is the industry leader today, after over 60 years in use. Leupold uses foreign sourced components for some parts of Golden Ring products, primarily lenses. This is because at this time, there is no American manufacturer that can supply the quantity of high quality lenses that Leupold needs for its annual Golden Ring Optics production. Leupold’s lens systems are designed at Leupold, by American optical engineers, in its state-of -the-art optics lab and then procured from outside vendors who must meet stringent quality standards. Incoming parts are carefully inspected in our testing facility before they are accepted into the assembly process. Incidentally, all major optics producers worldwide acquire some or all of their glass from the same sources as Leupold. Some of these sources are located domestically, some are European, and some are Asian. Leupold has acquired its lenses this way for over 50 years. As Frederick Leupold said: The Customer is entitled to a square deal. These are the words Leupold has lived by for over a century and continues to live by today.

I'm surprised he is not plying his phony visa trade in the middle east . Seems he would do a better business there. And I think the moderators here, do an awesome job! Thanks guy's!

As a conservative it's easy for me to see that the liberal media is brainwashing their viewers to believe what they report. But I had an awakening watching FOX news clearly trying to destroy Donald Trumps bid to be the Republican nominee. Was it because he pulled out of the debate? They acted like a bunch of cry babies. Now after an expected second place finish in Iowa they smell blood in the water so every question asked of the pundits is. "Is It over for Trump"? As if to try to sway the public away from him to their obvious pick, Marco Rubio. The opinion shows are fine. However, I would like to see the news just report the news, unbiased, state the facts without the hidden agendas, get to the truth and let us make our own minds!

Top of my list is to find who did it and why my mothers head stone was moved. Next, is to find a frikin Dr. who can get this issue with my back and neck worked out so I am not in pain every frikin day! Then, to find a house, trailer, w/e in our price range in the country so we can move out of the wretched city we live in. After all that, I want to make a new bucket list.

She won by five votes? I thought she won by five coin tosses. She's obviously not a true liberal. If so she would have given 2 1/2 of those votes to Sanders.

If you think the barrel looks long, you could send it to Stubby ( Whelen7600) and he'll hacksaw the barrel off to 16 inches.. Or you could send the rifle to ME, and I will hug it and love it and cherish it and name it GEORGE...

When does less equal more? My answer to that is less hunters on StateLand, Less members in my hunting lease, Less Dog Crap in the yard when I am cleaning it up.....Those are just off the top of my head. I like the second picture better but it doesn't matter to me....what do you like? Which way do you want to use it for the hunting you do? I would take function over looks every day of the week

Plenty of populated areas around the country have tight restrictions on wood-burning appliances. It's dealt with at the local level because it's a local problem. Regulation and restriction at the Federal level is wrong.

OP is looking for something in the $200 or less range.

If it's anything like Hotdogs , SPAM & TREET are made from "Lips and A-holes" according to the movie "The Great Outdoors" starring John Candy .

Brant Fajitas, a little terryaki marinade grilled & sliced em up.Shredded cheese, olives, sour cream, guacamole, & franks red hot. Had to fight my daughter for the last one. Of course I let her have it....

My 2 cents is the quality of the scope is more important than your choice of any modern rifle. Spend a little more if you can. Leupolds are good, solid. Mine is probably close to 40 years old. Never a problem. I have looked at Swarovskis in the store. Wow. Comparing a Leupold to a Swarovski is like comparing a Jetta to a Ferrarri.

"I'll give you my wood stove when you pry it from my cold dead hands"

I own 1 scope that's not a leupold and I hate it. Leupold vx2's are imo the best "value" on the market.

Swarovski You Can't Beat My Meat!

The new series VX-1 will have enough low light performance to pick out antlers at distance way beyond legal shooting time & certainly for any ethical shooting light scenario. There is no difference throughout the Leupold line as far as durability or dependability. The higher priced lines offer some improvements in optics but mostly it is bells & whistles that add to the cost. If you don't need the added features, the VX-1 will serve you well.

Born in 57 and I'm 58. Started roaming the woods behind the house alone at 8 or 9 with a BB gun terrorizing the local starling population. Got my first 22 on my birthday in 68 and have been shooting and eating squirrels and small game ever since. Killed my first deer at 15 as we needed the meat for my seven siblings and single mom. Times were hard back then, but they were some the best days of my life.

Look around.... Leupold VX3 are discontinued in favor of the new VX3i. The new "i" is supposed to retail about $100 less....yes less....than the older model as Leupold claims eliminating some versions will reduce price across the board. 1....I think the "i" designation is stupid; as other major manufacturers use that to signify illuminated reticles. 2...they already outsourced glass to Asia and the scuttle at SHOT was they found a cheaper maker for grinding lenses. And we all now cheaper is better and you never get what you pay for. They had a $100 rebate on the old models through 12/31 last year (already received one) and I think if you shop around you will find old inventory at reduced pricing. (Camerland had some inventory listed the past several weeks)

What's weird is that it's ONLY "sometimes" that you lay awake! Almost every night, after I wake up around 3:30-4:00am to take a wiz, I'll climb back into the sack and have a hard time getting back to sleep. After a minute or two I start thinking about some of the most recent deer I've killed and how it all went down. Some of the best memories that just don't seem to fade! After 30 minutes or so I'm back in LaLa Land, happy as a clam........

liver sausage on rye with Webers mustard and a slice of purple onion goes in hunting backpack egg salad always goes hunting with me too.

I think Ive only been hunting for about 2-3 months. Hooked. Sometimes I stay awake at night thinking about deer. Pretty weird.

The gals should chime in too. (hey, equal rights and all) 54 yo and started small game hunting at 14 and deer hunting a year later, IIRC. In 1976 the State started a program called Junior Archery and 14 & 15 yo kids could hunt deer (maybe bear too??) with the bow of course. Gun hunting started at 16 yo. Soooo, I'm 40 years into it, legally.

How about peanut butter & Fluff...............that there is about s good as it gets.

Maybe I should mention that where I used to live there were multiple packs within a couple hundred yards. What I learned is they were territorial and my stand was the half way point between two deep and long reviens. I learned that if I heard them start to howl early evening that meant they were out of the den or packed up to go hunt. I would always give them time to split up and I would do some basic vocals, if they answered I would stay quiet and that would work, they would come investigate immediately. If I got answers back, but nothing came in I would do some challenge calls, wait and if they answered I would wait again... That worked too, and if it didn't I would just let the pup in distress go on full volume and use the foxpitch feature after a bit. If that didn't work I would pack up and head in. I barely had many kills with rabbit or bird distress. I think after a kill or two they wised up. It really seemed like they were more in the mood to fight than hunt, so I basically played each pack against the other.

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Driving me nuts!

You asked for it... On the retrieve . Honoring in the back yard 10/1 opener out back A little water work Last week

Nice! Transylvania Romania is sure a long ways away to shed hunt. Count Buckula.

I like the honey on fresh warm baked bread

Won't derail at all reason I started really find like minded people in our age group Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Venison steaks with mushrooms and garlic, baked tater,3 veggies,and started with a tossed salad. Dang! That gun 8 pt. is so tender and tasty!

Not bad I got 318$ uncle got 40 Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Nice!! Must have fallen out of wolley's pocket! LOL Sent from my VS980 4G using Tapatalk