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I'm running out of likes... But I will say this, what goes around comes around. Carry on................... X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Did you take the gun to the range after receiving it back from a repair? Most scopes sit about 1.62" above the barrel, so at 20 yards, POI shouldn't be much more than 1.5" or so from crosshairs. I do hope you find the deer, good luck and update us. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Coyotes with collars you don't say? X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

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Got in the woods late today. Had a long night chasing Striped bass, landed a 36" fatty and got home just after 2am. Set the alarm for 4am and 4:30am, just in case I sleep through the first one. Woke up and was delirious as to not knowing why my alarm didn't go off, got into a panic as I was worried I overslept and my hunting buddy may have been waiting on me. Turns out I woke up before the alarm went off, 3:58am. I get up and slowly drag myself out of bed and start getting ready. We leave around 6am and make it to our spot around 7:40am. We've never hunted or scouted this area before, but it would be as good as any. Spoke to a local while gearing up and was tipped off to the surrounding land layout. We took his advice and walked the trail. Walking down the trail, we saw 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hunters all set up right off the trail. We contemplated a few times to do the same, but the areas didn't look appealing to me, that's until we came across a bend in the trail and ran into some young pines, a flowing stream, next to hardwoods with some low cover 80-90 yards out. I said to my buddy, "this place looks good, but let's walk down some more and see what's down the other end." Not 20 yards into the walk, we spotted our first deer of the day. I tell my buddy, "deer, get ready!" We get into a crouched shooting position and wait for an opportunity. That opportunity never came. We saw the two deer turn away from us and disappeared into the woods. We stood there in disbelief, contemplating what our next move should be. We decided to pursue and stalk them to get a shot, chancing pushing them to other hunters or back the way they came. After a steady, fast pace of about 80-90 yards, there was no sign of them, and I suspected they didn't get that far ahead of us. I signaled to my buddy to slow it down and get ready to get in a shooting position while I glasses the woods in a 180 degree sweep. That's when we spotted movement about 160-170 degrees behind us, 3 does. I wasn't sure at that point if these three were different from the two we saw minutes earlier, but it didn't matter at that point, "deer! Get ready!" We both get into a crouch shooting position again, but this time the deer would continue their path into and out of some small saplings giving us small windows of shooting lane. My intention was to let my buddy take the first shot, as his rifle was proven accurate and mine left me with some doubt. I waited, and waited, and waited both the shot from my buddy never came. He was about 20-30 yards away from me, and communication was difficult with us both concentrating on the target ahead. I locked into one of the does, and saw an opening 10 yards in front of its path. 9, 8, 7, .... 1, boom! Shots fired, doe down! The rest is history. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

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You guys must operate on a different set of rules! Must be cool to hunt where there's so much action! X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

There's a little bit of public land on 3M. Good luck! X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Or a new wife. Probably easier to get a new wife than vacation. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Pretty sure he ate some wild mushrooms. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Yeh, I have the Primos squirrel buster call, hasn't worked for me. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Blind called a big body buck in today. Almost ran me over. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

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Last 2 outings, seen 3 different bucks. At least I'm seeing something other than squirrels and chipmunks. I'll have to cull them before next bow season starts. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Do you bowhunt Andy? X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Squirrel calls? X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Called in a really big bodied buck around 2pm, he practically ran me over. Didn't see him charging behind me until he was 20 or so yards away, and I had no choice but to freeze. Now I know how it feels like to be a deer with a 2 ton hunk of metal with 2 lights heading right at you. He busted me and put on the brakes and stopped 5 yards from me and bounded out to 35-40 yards and stayed there. He decided to do a little modeling, turning left, turning right, moving his head up and down for that blue steel look from zoolander. Once he realized it wasn't a camera that was pointing at him fully drawn, he wasn't having that and trotted away. This thing was massive, shoulders the size of a horse. I've seen bigger racks, but never this big of a body. Was a fun experience. Oh, and almost hit one on the way to a meeting around 5:15PM. Doe ran across 6 lanes of traffic 65mph. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Purdy shure there's no need for dentists up that way. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

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Not according to AT. Most report them as identical. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

I would personally turn around and take the boots off. Might have some female visitors over and give you a surprise, or vice versa. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

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Took you less than 1hr to go on the offensive, but more than 7 to own up to your mistake? Makes sense. Guess you had to call the cops on your neighbors or something, right? X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

Where's the photo of the deer you shot last year? Oh, that's right, I forgot. You lost that deer because you made a poor shot in poor conditions, maybe next time. [emoji27] X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

You didn't shoot that talking doe?! X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems