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40 minutes ago, chrisw said:
I agree with some of this for sure. This site turned into some people's diaries. They couldn't walk into the woods without writing a short novel about it. I don't care what you're eating for dinner, what dream you had last night, so many stupid/pointless threads being started. There were also a lot of "cliques" for awhile here, that was annoying. I don't see myself going to a new site, if this one dies one day, so be it, life goes on.
Sent from my moto g fast using Tapatalk
Still the same cliques over there...just at a different IP address.
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Pointing the truck north from Florida, early AM Wednesday. I'll spend 3-4 weeks at camp, up on the hill, with the best bunch of guys I've ever had the pleasure to know.
Best of luck to all.
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15 hours ago, dmandoes said:
Private ? public land? What unit? I would not be happy hunting that way either.
It was all timber company land, between Roseburg and Glide, Oregon. It was a general western blacktail OTC tag.
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Very cool!
Enjoy, and best of luck with it.
Looks pristine. Not sure I'd drill any extra holes in it, myself. But, hey, its not my rifle.
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On 2/10/2022 at 7:47 AM, wolc123 said:
Smart move. You couldn’t pay me to hunt mule deer again, because those I ate tasted bad compared to whitetails, and it is ALL about the meat for me. I have never tried blacktail, but I have heard that they are at least as good or better than whitetail.
I have not hunted there, but work has taken me to Northern Oregon, and Southern Washington blacktail country a few times. It is a scenic area and the closest I have seen to NY’s Adirondacks, in the lower 48. Way better than the high desert Colorado Rockies.
The Timberline lodge up on Mt Hood was cool, but that’s a ski joint, and I don’t know if you can hunt from there.
I'm surprised. Any of the muleys that I've shot, were just fine on the table.
I would think that blacktails would taste quite similar to muleys, since they are a subspecies, after all.
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15 hours ago, dmandoes said:
Anything?
@dmandoes
Nope. Saw lots of deer and quite a few bucks, but they were all dinks. Nothing I would care to put a tag on.
It wasn't my kind of hunt, anyway. They rode around, glassing huge clear cuts for 13 hours a day, with $6000 thermal imaging devices, without ever getting out of the truck. If a buck was spotted, the outfitter wanted me to use his 22lb bench gun to shoot 600-1000 yds. It might be legal, but completely against any ethics I have as a hunter.
My fault....I should have pressed him a bit more on his hunting style while booking the hunt. When he said spot and stalk, I assumed he meant walking to gain high ground, then glassing with traditional optics and then stalking to within 300 yds, for what I feel is an ethical shot at a game animal.
I did get a bit serious about a very large chocolate phase bear with a blond muzzle, that I watched for a half an hour, sleeping under a young Madrone tree. He was easily well over 400 lbs., and, at 255 yds, well within my comfort zone and the 7-08 Montana. In the end, I just wasn't feeling it.
No matter. In 10-12 days, I'll head up to my camp in Delaware county for the whole rifle season with the fellas, and the old 300 Savage 99F . Good times....
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Texas Pete with 3/4 tsp of ground Thai chili pepper added to the bottle and shook up.
But, to answer the question, Tabasco.
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4 hours ago, airedale said:
I have one of the 452s in what was called the Lux model, pictured below it is a good shooter to be sure. I like the 452 models the best personally.
Just want to mention ammo, I have found the Federal auto match stuff to be very accurate in just about everything I have tried it in, works great for Squirrels and target shooting. The good thing about it is that many stores have it in stock and it does not have a premium price.
Congrats on the Kimber, they are good ones.
Al
Both my 452s and the 455 are Americans.
They all prefer SK Rifle Match, which is a little spendy, but still a bargain when compared to centerfire ammo. The older Wolf Match Extra was extremely accurate as well as RWS R50. Wish I would have laid a few bricks of Wolf away while I still could.
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1 hour ago, airedale said:
It is a 455 model, the 455s were a transition model made for a short time while CZ changed from 452s and 455s to production of their current 457s that are completely different rifles.
Currently I think the CZs are "thee" best buy when it comes to new bolt action rimfire rifles, they pretty much have it all ,price, decent looks, quality materials and they are shooters.
Al
Ah,yeah. Couldn't really see the straight barrel contour forward of the receiver. I have a 455 22/17HMR and two 452s. The 455 is a very good shooter, but those 452s are astounding! I have no experience with the 457...yet. Almost bought one a couple weeks ago, but a Kimber Classic Select fell in my lap, instead. I agree, they are fine rifles.
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1 hour ago, airedale said:
Now this a subject that would take a book to cover and to cover thoroughly it would be of many pages. Squirrels rank right at the top for me as one of my favorite animals to hunt. Being serious I am not talking about bird feeder squirrels, all the things that go into the making of a good hunter are needed for squirrels such as finding habitat, food sources, stealth, concealment and precision marksmanship.
In a nutshell, early season when the leaves are on and shooting distances fairly short I like using a good quality 22 rifle, a medium powered scope with an adjustable objective for parallax mitigation firing standard velocity or even match ammo which almost always gives me my best groups and has more than enough pop to kill Squirrels. I sight in dead on at fifty yards and my serious hunting rifles will print groups that are ragged holes.
Later in the season when the leaves are off and the shots a bit longer I use a couple of specialized rifles that group very well with hyper velocity ammunition like Stingers, Yellowjackets and Velocitors, this ammo shoots fairly flat and makes for pretty easy shots out to seventy five yards and a little beyond. These rifles are sighted dead on at seventy five yards.
When it comes to Squirrel guns I spare no expense, for my way of thinking my favorite type hunting should be done with the best equipment I can afford.
Al
CZ 452?
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I use a nitecore HC33 headlamp without the harness. Its barely bigger than the 18650 battery that powers it. I use it handheld for going in and out. I bought a small helmet clamp for it, that goes on the bill of my hat for field dressing and deboning after dark.
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Well done! I hope you enjoy them.
I don't hunt them because they taste like schiet. I wish more people did, though. They make a disgusting mess out of the kids' soccer fields.
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Is a permit still required to access the NYC watershed properties? Seems I remember that they might have dropped that requirement a while back, but I could be wrong.
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I went a different direction, with Vantage B62 shooting sticks. Super light and compact for hiking miles on the western prairies. I don't hunt that way, but I would imagine they'd work well in a tree stand.
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At 1/2lb of meat per meal X 180 = 90lbs. So I'd say, 1.5-2 deer, depending on the size deer you tag. That number does not include dinners and other meals, and feeding others.
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Same advise from dad and grandpa, when they were teaching me to stillhunt. When you think you're moving slow, slow down some more.
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First one was a Daisy. It was a Winchester M94 look alike. Don't know exactly when I got it, but I got my first .22 at age six, and I had the Daisy well before that. After the Daisy, I completely wore out 2 Crossman 760s.
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This is all pointless and mute. It will all come down to who will by controlling the polling stations and the ballot count again.
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1 hour ago, dmandoes said:
Did u find an outfitter?
Do you mean Oregon...yes, I did.
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I'm hunting Oregon this year and staying out of Wyoming for awhile. Hopefully,things will turn around in a few years and the antelope and deer herds will recover. They've taken a beatin' the last 3-4 years.
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5 hours ago, airedale said:
Would not be a heck of a lot different from the so called stand-blinds some hunt out of equipped with all the comforts of home.
Al
You mean the ones overlooking the planted live bait stations.
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I have my dad's 336 RC. It's a '54 chambered in 35 Rem, with a straight grip and a Lyman receiver sight. I take it for a walk at least once every deer season in the Catskills.
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On 6/2/2022 at 8:43 PM, eaglemountainman said:
I started Keto 9 days ago, along with intermittent fasting 18-20 hrs a day. Also did a 24 hr fast the other day. Caloric intake between 1000-1400 a day with less than 12 net carbs a day on average. No results to report until first 2 week weigh in on Tuesday. The Keto piss strips have me in the optimal ketosis range consistently though, so hopefully I'll see rapid results. I did have a few days of Keto flu beginning around day 3. Nauseous/spongie gut, headache, low energy, achy joints....
Wishing continued success to all.
Lost 11lbs first 14 days in.
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