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    Deadly Force opinions.

    in General Chit Chat

    Posted

    1 hour ago, WNYTRPR said:

    Dam Bill ,I have a big mouth usually and still don’t get in them situations that much/ever lol

    Yeah me either. I cannot recall more than a few times in the last 30 years. You know, when I became an "adult", where I was in a situation that was anywhere near a serious confrontation . Lucky .. maybe;)

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    Ever experience this ?

    in Trail Camera Pictures

    Posted

    Sort of an honest thief.. a few years back a friend and I stumbled into a large patch in an old beaver meadow. Probably 1/2 an acre. I'm pretty sure they were  harvesting ,because some plants had been chopped down and a lot of of "people sign".

    I just said quite loudly as we passed through, "I don't care,just passing through" ...

    Is knockdown power a myth ?

    in General Chit Chat

    Posted

    It is interesting how different bullets out of the same gun, or different distances changes how it affects the deer.

    Or the difference between a gun and and an arrow.

    We did the experiment once of shooting a milk jug full of sand. .308 bullet just kind of thumped into it and you could pour it out. An arrow equipped with a muzzy broadhead blasted right through...

    I am a big advocate of a lighter bullet for a given cartridge being more effective at "knocking " down game.   For example. I don't believe I've shot a single deer with my 300 win mag with 150(except for 1 . I gut shot and it died within sight) grain bullets that took a step afterwards. I have a friend that swears by 180 grain or larger bullets in the same gun. His all run. Not very far but they rum, and occasionally have to track.

    I always pick on him. He'll say "I want a pass through and  good blood trail " 

    Me I just like to walk over to where I shot it ..lol

    Ok guys what are you using to hunt deer this year

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, ncountry said:

    Well. I'm going to start out with my TC Encore muzzleloader hunting elk in Colorado.  Shooting 297gr thor bullets with fffg powder.

    Then I'm going to break out my 75# Obsession m6 with 125 gr Rage broad heads.

    Couple weeks later I will break out the mzl again for a week. 

    Then switch barrels on my TC to .300 win mag. Hunt for a few weeks

    Head to Letchworth using my bow and occasionally my Barnett whitetail  for 1 1/2 weeks.

    Switching back to the muzzloader for the southern firearms opener and a few days.

    Returning home and breaking out the 300 again. Untill....

    Late muzzloader season..

    Wow!   Breaking it all down , it sounds pretty complicated...lol

     

    Oh yeah. Somewhere in there I need to do a basement and dry in a house on top of it..ha.ha

    Ok guys what are you using to hunt deer this year

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted

    Well. I'm going to start out with my TC Encore muzzleloader hunting elk in Colorado.  Shooting 297gr thor bullets with fffg powder.

    Then I'm going to break out my 75# Obsession m6 with 125 gr Rage broad heads.

    Couple weeks later I will break out the mzl again for a week. 

    Then switch barrels on my TC to .300 win mag. Hunt for a few weeks

    Head to Letchworth using my bow and occasionally my Barnett whitetail  for 1 1/2 weeks.

    Switching back to the muzzloader for the southern firearms opener and a few days.

    Returning home and breaking out the 300 again. Untill....

    Late muzzloader season..

    Wow!   Breaking it all down , it sounds pretty complicated...lol

     

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    If You Butcher Your Own Deer.....

    in Deer Processing

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Nytracker said:

     

    Last year my son shot his first deer in many years . He thought I would butcher for him .  He was surprised when I said no . I made him come up and we butchered it together while his mom pacckaged it up . Probably  the most fun in many years doing it . Drank a few beers and enjoyed fresh backstraps on the grill.

    Nice! I think everyone should butcher their first few deer. It's part of the whole process..

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    If You Butcher Your Own Deer.....

    in Deer Processing

    Posted · Edited by ncountry
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    19 minutes ago, Lawdwaz said:

    I've been doing my own butchering since about 1985.  I had a banner season in 1984 and paid a small fortune to a butcher shop in Clarence Center (Hobart's?) to process them.  I was just a young guy that spent most of his money on girls and beer so figured I'd have to learn the trade at some point.

    The following September I went out west with 6 other guys and ended up (between us) killing 6 antelope and 6 mule deer and those guys wouldn't dare take an animal to a processor.  Since I was one of the first to score the opening evening of antelope season (on a dink buck) I was going to be butchering some animals!  My buddy Albert showed me the ropes and to say I'm grateful would be an understatement.  With some help from another guy from the group we butchered, wrapped and got all the animals ready for the long ride back.  Dry ice procured locally made for easily transporting back the meat.  I should have mentioned; we drove out in a pick up truck and a huge motor home so getting the goods back was a piece of cake......

    So since then I'm sure I've cut up well over 150 deer and a handful of antelope.  Worked some elk and caribou too.  

    Over the years I've shown a few friends how I do it (right or wrong, you really can't bung it up too bad) and that makes me happy.  What prompted this thread was a Meat Eater episode I just caught the end of.  Steve Rinella was doing a show on butchering deer and goes further into depth than I do but, like I said, you'd be hard pressed to mess up the deal.  At the end he said how he prefers to use plastic wrap and butcher paper over a vacuum sealer for red meat.  I called my wife out and she watched the end of it with him wrapping the meat up and she said, "huh, just like how we do it".   :)

    So.....how did you learn, trial and error or were you fortunate to have a mentor like I did? 

     

     I was lucky and had a good friend/ mentor show me the ropes . How to hunt, process ,and cook them too..lol. you probably have twice the # under your belt.. the last bunch of years I've been feeling rich and paying someone else, often my old friend/ mentor ,who is retired, to cut up my deer..

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    It's that time of year,..

    in General Chit Chat

    Posted

    11 hours ago, mowin said:

    Nettles, burdock, what ever you call them, they suck.

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    Lol.. Yes they do. My favorite pastime.. sitting in a treestand scraping them off with the blade of my knife.. 

    I have a shirt or 2 that I threw away after getting into the "sticktights" 2 pronged ones.. I wadded them up into a ball and it just together. 

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    Afghanistan falls in a week, WTH?

    in Gun and Hunting Laws and Politics Discussions

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

    Perhaps in YOUR lifetime....Where the hell is Ronald Reagan when we need  him..??....

    Reagan was the last pres candidate that I REALLY wanted to vote for....The rest have been just the lesser of two evils...

    TRUMP  ??  I'd rather get kicked in the groin than vote for that egosistical asshole  , but I'd rather be breast fed by Bruce Jenner  than vote for Hilary  or any of those other liberal commie bastards... 

    OK..That's my political statement for this year... I'm going out in the garden to eat worms...

    X2. Except for the eating worms part..ha.ha

    Looking for advice on managing mature pines

    in Land Management, Food Plots and QDM

    Posted

    On 7/24/2021 at 12:39 PM, kmorgan8999 said:

    My property I own used to hold lots of deer they would always bed on the property. The past 3 years have stopped bedding on the property. The pines the use to bed in are very big some 4ft+ diameter. What can I do to help improve the pines to hold deer again? It's not over pressured throughout the year or hunting season usually hunt the property around 10 days out of the whole season so there is not much pressure. 

    Pine actually has a decent timber value depending on how tall and straight they are.

    Loggers are paying $100-150 a thousand. Less than the more valuable hardwoods but often has  twice the footage for an equal size tree at breast height.

    Either way it sounds like they should be removed.  No nutritional value and nothing grows under a mature pine..

    Running shots

    in General Hunting

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, G-Man said:

    Most people have all that's required so no real expense. I've done the balloon in a tire with BOW.  Its fun and.you learn to lead pretty quick.  Imo it should be added to all 3d shoots.( would put a lot of target shooters egos back in place) 

    It is a lot of fun and will really surprise you how far off you can be even when the target is moving slowly.

    We took an old push mower, removed the motor and mounted a foam deer target on it. (Really nice to move around the yard, practicing different shot angles and distances.  

    We also would hook a long rope to it and take turns hiding around the corner of a building and pulling it across the yard..

    Afghanistan falls in a week, WTH?

    in Gun and Hunting Laws and Politics Discussions

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Gobbler Chaser said:

    We've had 4 presidencies for 20 years spending billions to train and outfit the Afgan army with the finest of American made weaponry to keep the Taliban from wreaking havoc on the region. This is not to mention 2200 young Americans who died for the cause. Now it's been only 5 days since our withdrawal and all is lost...already???

    Sadly. You cannot buy will. After listening to interviews over the last few days of some women from the region (the ones that most likely ill suffer the most under taliban rule), I just shake my head.

    How can u be a man with a mother and or sisters, cousins and friends and walk away from your post ?

    A different mentality I guess. I cannot wrap my mind around it anymore than I can some of our own far lefts..

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    So what did you spend on a deer mount this past season?

    in Taxidermy

    Posted · Edited by ncountry
    More info

    I pay $350 for shoulder mount on a plaque to a good friend that does a fantastic job as a hobby..

     

    WNY,...Lots of good input. I will mirror what many have said, having been self employed most of the 30 some years of my working life . To be really successful the business end is just as important , I would say maybe more important , than the work. Quality work with good customer service,accounting,etc...  You will be in the $$.

    It is not that often that they go together.. 

    Vaccination

    in Gun and Hunting Laws and Politics Discussions

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, left field said:

     

     

    Trying to come up with something clever, but I got nothing.

    It's a big beautiful world, fellows, and yours to explore.

    I've been all over the states. And Much of canada including skiing Montana,Colorado, and British Columbia. 

    Much more to see before I have to start flying . lol. 

     

    Vaccination

    in Gun and Hunting Laws and Politics Discussions

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, coonhunter said:

    Don't feel alone Jeremy K, I am over 50 and I have never flown. Just never came up in my life where I needed to.

    I had covid and was never sick at all. All I experienced was really dry eyes. Like below zero and out snowblowing on a windy day dry. Cost me a couple weeks of work that was paid without using any of my time. My wife had a fever and shortness of breath for three days, but as soon as she started moving around more, her lungs cleared back up and her fever went away.

    We were both exposed directly several times without catching it. Then, I caught it from my owner at work where we were wearing masks. Of course, then i gave it to my wife and her college age son. We just stayed the hell home like we were supposed to and got through it without it spreading to anyone else.

    I am not a believer in the mask at all. It is just something to make people feel safer. I got the vaccine just so I no longer had to wear a mask at work. I do not care if people get the shot or not, and I do not know anyone else that cares about what other people do about the shot. I refuse to live my life scared of dying from a virus that nobody seems to be able to get a good line on yet.

    I want to know why I didn't get sick at all, my wife got a little sick, and a guy on my bowling team almost died. All basically healthy and over 50.

    I'm with you guys. Over 50 and havnt flown yet.

    I always say its because they won't let me drive. Ha.ha. I'm that guy that always drives if I'm in a vehicle..

    It is funny how the virus affects people differently. It went through my gfs extended family. Cousins ,aunts uncles ,grandmother.  As a whole, they where the stereotypical fat American family. Not a one of them over 16 that doesn't weight at least 250#s.. Nobody was hospitalized. Including her 78 year old grandmother who is asthmatic and borderline diabetic. 

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