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  1. Love your stories, thank you very much for posting them and for all you do for the hunting community!
  2. I've never done this before, so forgive my ignorance : https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/bergara-b-14-hunter-243-winchester-bolt-action-rifle IF I wanted to order that, I could have them ship to my local store? Or is that only in stock because that site doesn't ship to local gun stores?
  3. Yeah, this. I switched up and cruised my hillside and got lucky.
  4. All good advice except"alter 1 thing on your deer rifle", no way man! So confident in that 700 with the Leupold on it, I don't dare. It's 7/7 on one shot 1 kill shot since I adjusted the trigger a few years back. Maybe just get the scanner plus a red light this year. I Know next to nothing about AR's that's going to require some research.
  5. Is 300 Win Mag overkill for a coyote? Asking for a friend........ Called about 4 stores and no Bergara in .243, and no 20 inch AR barrels. BOO!
  6. Ugh. People are nuts. My usual gun shop said basically "No Bergara available, and no 20 inch AR barrels available". Might have to broaden my horizons.
  7. You guys are aware I've killed a buttload of Yotes, right? I mean I've been on a "one a year" schedule for about 15 years running. Targets of oppurtunity. This years was with the pistol, though only winged it (yeah I suck). Killed quite a few with lights + scope at night, and plenty during the day. I'm not ready to go full on 3500 rig yet. I'll talk to my gun shop and see if it's feasible to get a Bergara B-14 in .243 in the next month. I've always wanted an AR too, so that's a possibility. The 500$ Wraith seems like a good "toe in the water" level. Not like I'll be sad to have another firearm even if I don't get into it more than a couple nights a year.
  8. Well I'll miss seeing him in the woods and on my cameras. But I won't miss him for long, because @518BowSlayer has his noggin. There's at least a decent 8 running around still.
  9. I don't want to drop that much dough on something I'm not sure how much I'll use. If it becomes a thing, and I get into it, I'd happily get a bigger and better rig.
  10. More of a bolt action guy. Was thinking of a Bergara B-14 in.243? https://www.bergara.online/us/rifles/b14/hunter-rifle/
  11. Yeah thereabouts, scope / rifle / spotter if necessary. Feel free to tell me if my price tag is unrealistic!
  12. Title pretty much says it all. I don't want to touch my deer rifle, and I want something with say 300 yards of range. Thermal might be a bit steep for starters, but a decent night scope is definitely in order. I'd happily spend up to around 2K.
  13. Opening day campfire with my Dad, and our buddy Dave, who has an 18 year olds heart and carries the donors memory with him as he gets to see hunting seasons again which he didn't think he was going to. More important than missing a slob buck that morning. But I'll keep reminding him!
  14. Biz is going to blow everybody out of the water until they sit Mahomes week 15
  15. 9 points for team 2! Now 2 weeks wait for muzzleloader.
  16. I'm not sure I've ever taken a big buck in the afternoon. Had a couple of bad blood trails result from afternoon hunts, so there's been opportunity, but mornings are a much higher percentage.
  17. What the H is this bird? Too big to be a red tail. I'll make a separate thread for everybodies favorite game : WTF is that on my trail cam?
  18. Very happy. Not my biggest, but probably biggest rack in 15 years. Decided I'd cruise the hillside this morning, wet leaves and very little wind. On my way down the first long stretch of logging road my bootlace broke. So about 15 seconds into retying it I hear something very in squirrel like. Look down towards the sound and there he was. Gun up, he's standing behind a tree. Steps out after a minute, off goes the gun, down he goes. Shot went in the left shoulder and out the right low run cage, diaphragm intact, not a morsel of meat ruined, heart was just obliterated. Happy! Took a couple hours to get the quad down close, and then hoist him out if there then back out again. Little dicey, some side slippage getting out. The hill drops 1000 feet in half a mile, and that stream bed is deep on top of that.
  19. This is the view from where he dropped, one side had a 30 foot bank. We hand hauled him up on a rope, couldn't get the quad close enough. I was smiling the whole time though! Slippery. I'm going to remember this spot, it's a sneaky little saddle that was well used.
  20. Don't know if this will upload, but I've got a hell of a job ahead of me getting him out of here. Bottom of a stream halfway down the hill. Probably my best deer yet. Not the tank, but one we've been calling bowhinkle. I was tying together a broken shoelace on my way down the hill when I heard movement, and there he was sneaking through a small saddle in the streambed. Happy pictures later in the harvest thread.
  21. Up and moving, probably going to cruise the side of the hill since stand hunting hasn't been too productive as of late. Luck to all, and grats to those (lucky bastifs) that scored!
  22. Been in since 130, don't have high hopes because my dad and his buddy have been stomping around the property all day. Tomorrow might be a walk and stalk sort of day on the hillside.
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