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The freezing rain drove me out of my new ladder stand in the woods. I am in the box blind that I moved over by the corn now. Hopefully, they will come looking for a shot of carbs around sunset.

I am up and in for my last couple hours of crossbow season, trying a new stand in the front corner of my woods for the first time. Hopefully, the rut is still in full swing and something shows up. I counted 16 road kill deer on the edges of the highway, driving across the state, between NY and Wolcottsburg this morning. I also saw one big pressured looking doe standing about 50 yards off, just the other side of the Cohoctin river, looking like she wanted to cross but waiting for traffic.

The older I get, the lower I like it. At 56, the highest I go is 10 feet, but I am most comfortable at around 7 feet up.

They were behind 3:0 before the one hour rain/thunder/tornado warning break. They went back out under the lights to finish the last quarter and a half. The final score was 5:0. She was a little sad with the loss, but happy they get to do a NY city tour with the team tomorrow. I hope to catch the last few hours of daylight, for one left crossbow hunt at home tomorrow.

That’s what they called it. It looks like the worst has past. There was a quarter and half to play and we were down 3 goals . No lights on the field so they got to restart fast if we are going to finish.

We are in the car for a tornado break drinking hot cider with cdbing right now

Looking ok for a sun evening hunt. We are down 3:0 at the half.

I switched to a 30/30 to save on some meat, along with a few other reasons.

Sunny and 60 degrees on the island.

Are you recoil sensitive ?

Maybe the op will post back and say if he is looking for a short range or an all round deer gun. I would go along with a .243 for the latter if he is recoil sensitive.

The fact that the op is going with a scout indicates that he may be looking for a short range deer gun, advantage .44 (nit wits see previous post for technical reasoning).

Thanks, I feel the same way about you, and appreciate that you are not a nit wit, like some of the others here. There is hope for all of them though. her final four game starts at 2:00. I am waiting for my older daughter to come down out of her dorm (she goes to college in purchase) and then we are driving out.

Because you said that I was the only one who had a problem with the .243 and l didn’t want you to remain a nit wit.

That’s still 59.9999 pounds more than those little green tags. If you could only have one or the other , which would you pick ?

I am very thankful that I didn’t make the mistake of getting a .243 for a deer gun. I would have never known that, had I not been blessed with that gifted buck my neighbor hip shot with his. That said, it is a fine choice for the women, children, recoil sensitive, and trophy hunters, just not so hot for a big meat guy like myself. ps, ask g-man what he thinks of the .243 as a deer and bear gun.

That’s cool, hope you get a shot at him. I am hoping the cold weather holds off for a while and there are still some up at my in-laws when I go up to the Adirondacks over Thanksgiving. My mother in law sent me photos of a few from a trail cam up there last week. I would like to see how my 30/30 does on one.

English ?

Not quite in equal proportion though. The .243 bullet would hit at more than double the velocity of the .44. Since bullet energy (and meat damage) is proportional to the velocity of the bullet squared, that means that there would be a lot more “grape jelly” from the .243. I have personally butchered well over 100 whitetail deer, with the vast majority having been killed with shotgun slugs. Dozens of those were struck in the front shoulder, and several were struck in the hip. None of those had “grape jelly” even close to that of the .243 killed buck that I talked about up above, and all of those bullets were much heavier than a .44 pistol bullet. if you just want antlers and a dead deer, no problem with a .243. If you want meat and a good short range deer gun, then dumb move, compared to the .44. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Which one is going to wreck more meat if you fire it into a deer’s hip or shoulder from 30 yards away ?

I know exactly what you mean and I have suffered a bit of that myself lately. Seeing the smiles on some of those kids faces, as they headed off to the tournament (different sport) in the big charter bus, made it all worth while.

Somebody’s got to keep those places running and it means a lot to the kids. Thanks for your help.

Looks like high fence or escaped high fence. Way too much body mass and antler “junk” for free range from that part of the country (central OK). Many of the ignorant will be fooled though.