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It rained almost every day they the early ML season up north last year and about half the days this year. My T/C Omega is stainless, so I didn’t worry much about rust. I did use black electric rape over the end of the muzzle, which did not seem to affect the point of impact when i shot a doe thru it from about 40 yards away. I didn’t have a roll of tape with me when it started raining again later in the week when I was out for a bear or a buck. I cut the end off one of the fingers of my field dressing gloves and used they over the muzzle.
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Where would you find deer now, late season?
wolc123 replied to Northcountryman's topic in Deer Hunting
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My stand was above a small patch of thick cover and about 50 yards from a big block of nearly impenetrable cover. I think that is where the buck and the turkeys were, most of the time I was up in the stand. My stand was a small hang-on, identical to this one, and about 12 feet up a pine tree. The only difference was that I used cut off pine tree branches and not an old aluminum ladder to get to it. I had trimmed all of the branches off the tree below me, but my tree was ringed by shorter pines and brush, that I could see over from the stand. The turkeys and the buck must have covered the distance from their daytime hideout, to my little ring of cover, in the time it took me to climb down my tree. I was very careful and slow, because my gun was still loaded. I am not sure if I would have shot it, had I known the trouble it’s killing would stir up. I had hunted those woods since I was 14, but the old lady that owned them had died, and her daughter sold them to a friend of mine a few years prior to my “Bible/turkey” buck kill. I am also good friends with his brother in law, who’s son (a fishing protege/buddy of mine) offered to do a euro mount of the buck (that was before I got my power washer). He used the old boiling water in a stinky pot method. The new owner of the woods knew about my stand, and was ok with me hunting it. I had also taken a smaller antlered buck from it with my bow, while he owned the woods. He was not thrilled with me killing the bigger one, with my gun, but I think he would have gotten over it. When his nephew finished the euro process, and before I took delivery, another brother in law (who has a reputation for stirring up trouble), took a photo of it. He had it made into a “happy New Years” card, signed my name to it, and dropped it into the owner’s mailbox. The new owner promptly banned me from hunting those woods, cut the tree, and claims to have thrown my stand in the garbage. It took a while to make amends, but he got over it after about two years, and we get along good again now. He sold the woods last year, and I never got around to asking permission to hunt them again, while he owned it.
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The first step is the easiest: Get yourself a copy of the world’s all time best seller and read it cover to cover. You don’t have to do it all at once and you don’t even need to start at the beginning. It is chock full of hidden gems. Things like why God populated the world with plants, fish and animals and which ones are the best to eat. What version you get is unimportant, because they all contain the same basic message. I have read most of the common ones, started with the King James, then NIV, and even the modern “The Message” version. I carry a pocket-sized King James New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs in my hunting pack. Except for the Sunday’s, when I am able to make it to church, I try to read a couple pages every day before I leave the house. That takes less than 10 minutes. I started reading the Good Book around 10 years ago. The very next hunting season, on opening day afternoon of gun season, I experienced the first clear sign of its effectiveness: I had a good morning hunt, and there was a pair of fat button bucks hanging in our garage, one that I had killed and the other was gifted to us by a friend. Our kids were small then and didn’t eat much yet, so we were in good shape with meat, including a 4 point that I had taken with my bow. I contemplated not even going out after lunch in the house with my wife but it was still opening day of gun season for crying out loud. I grabbed grandpa’s old Ithaca 37 and my Bible, and headed for my stand, deep in the woods, across the street. I hadn’t heard many shots, from that side of our road in the morning, while our side had sounded like WW3. My shotgun hung from a cut off branch and I was up in the stand reading. The only action that I saw, was another hunter sneaking thru the far side of the woods, about an hour after I was up there. The minutes ticked away with no more action until 5 minutes before sunset. I always knew sunset time, and always unloaded my gun the second that it hit, on afternoon hunts. For a reason known only to The Man Upstairs, His Book slipped out of my hands 5 minutes early, and fell down onto the forrest floor. Not desperate for meat, I decided to climb down 5 minutes early, but I did NOT unload my gun. Seconds after I reached the ground, a flock of turkeys landed right in the little patch of brush under my tree. That startled me, but not as much as the 8 pointer, that stuck his big rack, head, and neck out from behind a tree 10 yards away. His turkey sentries were not able to help him then, and my slug hit the base of his neck with about 2 minutes to go. Had I stayed up in that tree stand till sunset, they would have picked out my blaze orange-camo jacket, from a mile away. From that point until now, we have not had to buy much chicken.
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Mistakes , Bad luck and Unforeseen Circumstances
wolc123 replied to Northcountryman's topic in Deer Hunting
I could tell you right here, but it might rile up some of our more liberal and atheist members, so I will start a new thread in the political section. -
Mistakes , Bad luck and Unforeseen Circumstances
wolc123 replied to Northcountryman's topic in Deer Hunting
I had a few years like that until I connected the dots and realized that Jesus Christ alone had the final say on the final destination of all living things. If I wanted that to be my freezer for some deer or fish, then I had to base my actions on His preferences and not my own. Everything has fallen in to place rather well since then, and we haven’t had to eat much store bought chicken. You still have plenty of time to get things straightened out. -
Besides this year’s 3.5, which you have seen enough of from various angles, these are the bucks that I have killed since 2015. Three other 3.5’s, two 2.5’s and a single, lonely 1.5, that showed up after Thanksgiving and took it up the poop shoot. I saved the lower jaw this year and that from another, nearly equal sized 3.5 year buck a couple years ago. I also weighted that one, on a certified butchers scale, as a means of calibrating the PA chest girth edible meat chart to my local wny area. I will probably save the lower jaws from now on, because it doesn’t take any extra time. That way, if there is a dispute over aging I can send it in to deerage.com for settlement . I am ok with you being a pure antler guy and I know you will never change. Similarly, you will never change me from being a pure meat guy. The sole reason I pass younger antlered bucks, is to get more meat from the older ones. I see absolutely no point in letting them get older than 3.5, because that is when most free range deer carries the most meat in NY state.
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wolc123 replied to grampy's topic in Deer Hunting
49 degrees and 20 mph WSW wind here in wmu 9F for the last hour. Quite comfortable up in this stand with my body out of the wind thanks to the barn wood wall, but my orange hat just went flying. I climbed down (unarmed) to get it. Target bb has 45 minutes to show up, if he wants to join his brother today, and then I am outa here. I might come back next Sunday afternoon with my ML. -
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wolc123 replied to grampy's topic in Deer Hunting
I am nearly starting ML season a day early because I forgot the clip for my 3 shot Marlin M512 bolt. It takes almost as long to get off a second shot without that as it does with my ML. If my target button buck shows up, before I clock out at 4, he is going to have to give me a real easy shot for me to try it. I had to shoo him away, when I killed his brother with the same gun here in September. It was warm then, and I only had room for one in my deer fridge. It would be cool if I could reunite him with his brother today, using the same gun. It would have been tough up here in yesterday’s wind. I see a dead ash fell nearby and the ladder up to my stand was blown down. Ma and Pa said that my target bb was last out about 4:00 pm on Friday. They got a real good view of the clover plot from their back window. Good luck to all out trying to get it done on their last hunt of the 21 sz gun season. -
I am sorry if I hurt your feelings and I understand your frustration this year. I have had a few years like that myself. There really is no reason to resort to personal attacks, like you and FSW have, but if you got to do it, I am thankful that I am the one who they are aimed at. You still got Late ML to get it done this year, and best of luck to you. Hopefully, The Good Lord blesses you with an early Christmas present, that looks good up on a pedestal and tastes great.
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Don’t know about the scale, I will try if I have time. I have a friend with a certified butcher’s scale about half way between our place and my parents, where he spends most of his time. I will definitely get a chest girth on him, if I am fortunate enough to get him. He is lucky that photogenic former 11 pointer (maybe his father), that you are getting sick of seeing, showed up before he did last time I was in that stand. looks like I got both of the sites antler worshipers pretty fired up now.
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God provided deer to feed mankind, not to worship their antlers. You and Chris might want to take that into at least a little consideration. The only reason that I save my buck tags, during the first half of the seasons for those over 1.5 years old, is because my family of four needs about 150 pounds of boneless meat for a year. Antlerless deer are hard to come by where I am, and I have limited time for trimming out doe fat. I am going to keep trying for that 100 pound button buck until January 1st. If I get him, I will try and post some pictures for you and Chris. Then you two might finally see what a REAL trophy deer is. What state do you plan on retiring in ?
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There was no estimate here either. My guess is that the current labor shortage has affected the grid operators, just like everyone else. During an event this widespread, they probably send all qualified and available manpower out into the field. It was almost comical, how the estimate of numbers out in our area remained the same (1850), from my wife’s first call at 5:00 pm (power went out at 4:05 pm), until her last at 1:00 am. This 11 hour outage was the longest since the October storm, more than 10 years ago. During all of the in between events, a conservative estimate was given on when the power would be restored. I liked that, because most of the time I didn’t need to bother with hooking up the generator.
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I thought exactly the same thing, pure sales pitch. NY is in the top spot for deer hunting in this meat hunters book. As far as the trophy guys go: if you don’t love it leave it. There is 49 others that might welcome you with open arms. I am very happy that the power came back on. Now I can get out there, for a couple hours after church and try to punch one of my three remaining dmp tags, on a button buck that I have had my eye on for a while. That is the stage when they are the biggest trophy to my wife anyhow. If I reorganize a bit, I think I can make space for one more of those in the freezers.
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Hooray, we are back on after being out 11 hours. I ran the generator for 8 of those. My biggest worry was the big freezer in the basement. The Good Lord went to great lengths to pritineer fill that sucker up this year. Hopefully, everybody else who is out gets back on soon. A big thank you to the folks working out in the storm to get everyone’s power back on. We would be hard pressed to find another state where they do a better, faster job of restoring power after a storm than right here in NY. As a pure meat hunter, I would also put our deer hunting very close to, or right on the top spot. There is no state where I would rather be right here right now.
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Prayers sent for him and family.
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I have only killed (3) deer with center fire rifles and all were DRT (1 mule deer with 165 gr Hornady light magnum 30/06, and two white tails with 150 gr Federal classic 30/06. I don’t have a reason to hate either of those. My least favorite foster type shotgun slug would be the Remington slugger. Group size was always about double what I got with Winchesters, from my Ithaca 37 16 gauge. I only use them because they are all that I have left in sufficient quantity. They have always got the job done for me on deer, but I have to keep the shots under about 75 yards. This one didn't quite make it all the way thru this 3.5 year old 9 pointer’s rib cage, from 50 yards away, two weeks ago. It stayed relatively intact though, so we shouldn’t have to worry about much lead in our burger.
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wolc123 replied to grampy's topic in Deer Hunting
I am going out for a few hours , after a bb over at my parents place. Hopefully, he shows up by 4:00 pm, when I got to go help watch over a flock of sheep in a pasture. I killed that bb’s twin brother in September, during the early antlerless season, when he field dressed about 60 pounds. His brother looks like he is up close to 100 pounds now. He should make two good neck roasts, so I can share one with one of my fellow Shepard’s. -
I fired the generator up at 7:15. Freezer, sump pump, reading light, and phone chargers now have power. I opened up a window in the garage to keep my beer cool. I guess I will move the milk out there, if we need to open the fridge. I probably shouldn’t have burned up a gallon of gas power washing my nine-pointer this morning. I am guessing they will have power fixed by sunup, so we should be ok. If I use up what I have left in my 5 gallon can with the generator (it also had a full tank), I think I have a tractor or two with pretty full tanks that I can siphon from.
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wolc123 replied to grampy's topic in Deer Hunting
Well it sounds like we are in complete agreement then because I never claimed that. The worst recoil experience I can remember was when I put a pistol grip on my short barreled Remington 870 12 ga. My right wrist hurt for a few weeks after about 6 shots, sighting that in from the hip, with magnum loaded slugs and a laser sight. The laser would not have been legal, but I figured with enough practice, I might be able to hit what I looked at, from the hip. The wrist pain killed that idea. In sharp contrast, a friend suffered a detached retina a few years ago, so he asked me to sight in his 44 magnum Ruger single action revolver for him. I never fired a pistol and was anticipating the worst. I missed the target paper completely from 50 yards with my first shot. He was mad because the special max loaded hunting bullets were very expensive. The very mild kick of the .44 (compared to that 12 gauge) came as a great surprise to me. Reluctantly, he handed me another expensive bullet, which I managed to put within an inch of the bull (that time with no flinch). -
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wolc123 replied to grampy's topic in Deer Hunting
Pictures of dead deer don’t really prove anything, because a .22 short will do that, if you hit the right spot. The 30/30 is more forgiving if you miss that spot. in a short range, near or in heavy cover situation, I feel that both the 30/30 and the .44 mag are better than a .243. I hope g-man finds that doe tonight but even then. I am pretty sure he would agree. Never shot a 7mm/08 but I have not been bothered by recoil while hunting. On the range is another story. This is my hardest kicking gun: Ithaca featherlight 16 gauge. I always use a pin on recoil pad when I check the zero each September. I dont remember any “kick” from it when a big one stopped nearby, 50 yards away, a couple weeks ago. It was cold that evening, and I had multiple layers up top, so maybe that’s why. -
I’d trade 1.5 times the weight of a heart in backstrap if you tossed in a pair of nuts. Only interested in liver from 6 month olds.
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I just had a 12 horse with dinner. At least the temp is supposed to drop so I can use our insulated garage as a big refrigerator. Wife and I had a nice romantic dinner with an oil lamp. I brought a bunch of extension cords into the garage while it was still daylight. I guess it’s time to wheel up the generator and fire it up.