biggamefish

Windy!!

Then I dabble in some photography.

This list could go on for ever. I love to make arrows, splicing feathers and cresting I turn grunt tubes on the lathe. These are Bacote and Cocobolo.

I use the survey flagging for blood trailing, it works great. I don't keep hanging it as I go though. I get three or so tall straight sticks and constantly hopscotch them as I go. You can put them so the flagging is right over the blood and it gives you a good sight picture as you look back. They stay with you as you go for easy pic up and it slows you down on the blood trail. Which I think is crucial.

Nothing this morn. Crazy quite to start off now breezy.

Steve it is better when they sit on the deer for a pic!!!!

Pouring here. Need a boat!!

Yes you have to buy the muzzelloader privilege. I think it is another 100-200.

I would take the arrow and another and recreate the shot and see if it does the same thing at 28-30 yards. Make sure you are in the wide open where you can't hit a limb or something to deflect the arrow. That will tell the truth of what is going on. Some arrows shoot great short distances but you will see there flaws at longer distance if there are any. Specially with broadheads. That is why tuning your arrow to your bow is critical.

Woodsmen elites for three blade and Simmons sharks for two blade

Grow come on the king is the hunters friend!!!!!!!! He spouts this all the time. If it is on TV it has to be true!!!!! I sat last night got cold and had an epic squirrel hunt saw three but with the wind they were spooky and moving way to fast. Hopefully this weekend will do it. I am sitting home today with a sick kid.

You can tell where you hit it from blood a lot of the time. Bright red bubbly blood usually means lungs. Dark red blood usually is liver. There are times when this doesn't work out. You did say it was bright red so you might good. When you get in and if you loose the blood trail mark it high so you can keep looking back at it. First get general direction and search that way. Then start your circles. Dont do circles until you can find no more blood. I have had a lot of deer stop bleeding after a 50 yardsdeath run and be found 50-100 yards after. Dont give up and good luck. Let us know how you make out

DO NOT USE TAX MAPS as a definite boundary line. As said before they are inaccurate. Yes they will get your close but not right on. If you look at the tax map and get a distance on it and there is an s behind it it means it was scaled and not measured in the field. This causes big problems in the real world.

Raining walked out stopped, got ready walked back out pouring, walked in to check doppler no rain walk out pouring, wait hear rain stop go get everything ready going to truck pouring. NOT going out. lol

Never to late. You might have to spend more time but if you have obedience down you should have no problem.

Ahh the old party permits those were the days!!!! I got mine while hunting with my father and brother. He stationed us and then went to do the drive. I remember it was the last weekend of the year and I thought I was getting skunked. I was even more bummed when I saw my father walking through the brush a ways out and though well that is the end of this season. Then off to my left I caught movement and sure enough I had a deer sneaking through 40-50 yards out. then I saw two antlers on his head, it was a shooter. I pulled up with my 12 Gauge 870 express and let the old X slugger go. I saw the deer hunch run and flop over. The next thing that went through my head was my father saying if a deer runs up behind you don't shoot or if you do shoot and he runs that way don't where your orange!! Non friendly niehgbors. Now I saw the deer go down so the first thing I did was took my mittens off and orange hat and went running to retrieve my deer. Well I didn't notice but my gloves and hat fell just right (like i was laying on the ground) and my father walked up and saw the hat and gloves from a distance and though something happened. That is until he saw me running full blast with my spike horn behind me. He said it was hilarious watching the deer flop over logs!! It didn't mater that it was a spike that deer is a monster to me.

I watched a show once on bullet ricochets and they can do some strange things. The show was investigating a child's death from a stray bullet. It turned out it was a once in a lifetime shot to get the bullet to travel the way it did but it still happened. I think that is why they teach us the "always point the barrel in a safe direction" rules etc.

http://www.buckmasters.com/the-slug-gun-ricochet-factor.aspx http://articles.mcall.com/2007-03-29/news/3709028_1_deer-hunters-shotgun-rifle I got this in my email this morning (Cliff's notes; a shotgun slug has the potential to ricochet farther than a .30 cal rifle bullet. For those who might be attending tomorrow night's Suffolk City Council meeting on the City considering changes to rifle discharge, may find this article interesting (actually any of you who like rifle hunting will want to keep a copy of this). Thanks for Tom Pike for the link, which deals with a study dealing with the relative dangers of hunting with rifles vs shotguns. The US Army did a study and found that the ricochet from a shotgun slug is more dangerous than the ricochet from a 150 grain .30-06 bullet! http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_11_53/ai_n20512665/ The "safe" slug myth: shotgun slugs are required in some areas, but why? Guns Magazine, Nov, 2007 by Holt Bodinson The shotgun slug is less safe and more dangerous in the field than a 150 grain .30-06 bullet or a 50-caliber muzzleloading projectile. Does that statement sound improbable? Conventional wisdom would say so. I've just finished digesting a 67-page technical report commissioned by the Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee that blows a hole in conventional wisdom and the increasing establishment of shotgun-slug-only zones by state's game agencies. What prompted the study? A lawsuit involving a hunting accident in which a woman sitting in a car was struck by a stray rifle bullet coupled with increasing sportsmen's opposition to the expansion of shotgun slug and muzzleloading-only zones on the decision of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. When the professional staff of the Game Commission questioned other states with about their slug policies, they found no state had any definitive safety data to support the decision to restrict zones to shotgun slugs. Quoting from the report, "They found in the shotgun- only states, this appears to be an issue driven by emotion and politics rather than sound scientific data." The Army Weighs In The research firm, Mountaintop Technologies, conducted the resulting outside-contracted study. Its prime subcontractor was the US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal. The Picatinny research team used the concept of Surface Danger Zones to compare the relative risk performance of three projectiles: a 150- grain SP fired from a .30-06 with a muzzle velocity of 2,910 fps, a 385-grain, 12-gauge, 50-caliber sabot load with a hollowpoint, semi- spitzer projectile at 1,900 fps and, for the muzzleloaders, a 348- grain, 50-caliber CVA Powerbelt projectile at 1,595 fps. The March 2007 study looked at the maximum range a projectile would reach at various firing angles of elevation plus the distance the projectile would ricochet after impacting the ground. The data is intriguing. At a maximum firing angle of elevation of 35-degrees, the rifle, shotgun and muzzleloader projectiles travel 13,926', 10,378', and 9,197' respectfully. Because of the angle of descent, there are no ricochets. At a firing angle of 10-degrees, the rifle, shotgun and muzzleloader projectiles travel 10,004', 7,163' and 6,247' respectfully plus additional ricochet distances of 702', 949' and 913' respectfully. Ah, but the big surprise comes at 0-degrees of elevation which would be more or less a typical shot at a deer on level terrain. Here the rifle, shotgun and muzzleloader projectiles travel 1,408', 840', and 686' respectfully plus ricochet distances of 3,427', 4,365', and 3,812' respectfully. Now the total distances traveled by the projectiles are 4,835' for the rifle, 5,205' for the shotgun and 4,498' for the muzzleloader. "The smaller cross sectional area of the .30-caliber projectile and its shape contributes to a higher loss of energy on impact and, after ricochet, the 30-caliber projectile tends to tumble in flight with a high drag. Test data confirm that the 50-caliber projectile's larger cross sectional area and its shape contribute to less energy loss on shallow angles of impact and, after ricochet, the projectile exhibits less drag which results in a greater total distance traveled.

I read an article once and they stated that a rifle bullet will not travel as far as slug on a ricochet. Which makes since because a slug has more mass that a rifle bullet. I am going to try to find the article it was a good read.

I am interested in the ammo sent you a PM

It has happened to most of us. It sucks and we feel for ya. I have have a few of them stolen on privet land where i know it was a neighbor but can't catch him. It just plainly sucks

Elections are three weeks away only reason for the drop!!!!

Saw one huter so far!

Get pics of them hunting and post them around town the dec will have to do something.

If it was the rut I would have done the morning but not now. I think hunting in a good rain just puts the probability too high of loosing a deer. I have shot deer and double lunged them with a pass through and just had a so so trail with rain it would have been impossible.