Hock3y24

either no nuts or damaged nuts i bet.

put it behind that shoulder and you’ll be good. Sure is nice to carry that light gun tho.

6.5 Grendel is NOT a shoulder shooting round. Especially in a 16” barrel. I had two quarter size holes in both sides of chest cavity.

I used a 123 grain hornaday black eld-m and had phenomenal results at 200 yards. I recovered my bullet after it smashed the opposite leg bone and got caught in the hide. What’s your barrel length? Mines 16”

Next county over from me, first I’ve heard of it.

What round did you use? My 6.5 Grendel flattened a 4.5 year old Buck. With the velocity out of the creedmore I’d use a bonded bullet though. I’ve seen deer flattened with hornaday precision hunter creedmore rounds.

No I leave my 4 roasts, backstraps in 6 sections. Cut steaks, and then either stew, speidies or ground meat. You can always cut steaks out of roasts or backstraps when you pull them out and thaw. Neck meat is for the crock pot.

All you need is a tree branch, sharp knife, table and vacuum sealer. I’ve done 9 deer between mine and my friends this year, they don’t take more than 1.5 hours from hanging to bagged. Grind the meat the next day but that optional as I can just make stew meat with it. And any weather under 40 you can keep them hanging. I do have a 4x4 across my garage rafters, with a boat rope winch attached to the wall and a pulley up top.

Numbers up here, everyone I know has gotten at least a buck.

Every processor is just like that one around here, I cut my neighbors buck up for him last night cause he couldn’t find one.

Congrats to everyone who got one, great buck Grampy!

Keep hunting, best way to learn is to make mistakes. You’ll get one.

Could be anything, my bucks a few years back had it on his brisket. Taxidermist said it’s from so many ticks they rub it on hard objects it actually shaved down the hair thin.

Most all butchers here had to stop taking deer this weekend! Never heard of that ever

I think my NY season is just gonna consist of hunting when my nephew or dad wants to the rest of year, I only have a dmp left. Can’t wait for pa rifle.

Depends, my dad dropped his buck at 7:30 and I was ready to leave so I got down, he said he wanted to sit longer and dragged the buck to his stand, so we climbed back up and I shot my buck 2 hours later. Depends on mood, and if I have more tags.

Rut is in full swing in 7s, buck chasing doe in road yesterday, my buck had a doe locked down watched him watch her for over an hour.

My buck was defiantly locking down his doe, dads buck was cruising looking for a date. They should be leaving these does anytime though

It says that for liability reasons I bet.

Very nice! I got a doe tag left but still have pa doe and buck!

Was kinda hoping dad didn’t show up to my house to hunt this am cause it was cold and I’m tired. Glad he did, we head out at 5:30 and are in stands by 6:10. At 7:30 he shoots a small 4 point, I climbed down and do my business in the bushes, climb back up and see a deer across the field 200 yards away. I bino him and think it’s the 7pt I have on camera and decide to pass. This deer stands in the same spot looking the same direction for 45 minutes, later find out he had a doe. He feeds out into the clearing and I notice he’s not the 7 but a broken up 8 and he is HUGE body wise. I put the scope on 4 power and shoot him with the 6.5 Grendel at 200 yards, does a backflip and flops down into the woods. Went and help dad clean his deer (he’s only 150 yards up the hill) we then go over to my hit sight and find him 20 yards in woods. The Grendel outperformed my expectations out of a 16” barrel, in shoulder broke opposite leg in half and got caught by the hide. In 12 years of hunting this is the first time ever my dad and I were able to shoot deer in the same sit. This is pretty much the reason I took him. I didn’t weight him but he is all of 190-200lbs dressed.

Dad and I both shot bucks this morning, mine was tending a doe, was an 8 but broke both g3 off. His a small 4. 200 yard shot with the 6.5 Grendel smoked him. Backflip.

Snack sticks are smoking!

Had a 6 pt at 25, then he went by dads stand and he passed. 2 smaller doe came out at 200. Want a closer shot with the Grendel than that for the first time.neighbors sounded like a damn war zone, 6 shots.

Couldn’t find my coffee thermos.