Any hunters out here?

[Airborneguy]

Elk. 6x6 not small ya jerk

I didn't mean it that way!

It is young though, right? Don't the antlers turn much darker as they get older? I've never hunted elk before, but when I lived in Colorado I use to see them all of the time while camping and fishing. Elk are beautiful, I hope to hunt them one day.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Yes, young bull. 3-4 year old, but he did have is own heard already. He was going to be BIG, but then he walked in a restricted perimeter.

 

[delta]

I mostly hunt turkeys and ducks, but I've been known to occasionally hunt deer. My nephew killed two does the first two days of season here.....he is now home....the target buck will, hopefully, have a 41mag hard cast 255gr pushed with a stout load of 2400 in its shoulder by Friday.

 

[judge-t]

hunting time here in texas,my son killed a 17and1/2 in. 8pt. whitetail last saturday morning!can`t wait to get meat back from locker, goes great with a good beer!

 

[porcupine73]

First year really trying to hunt anything. Mostly taking my nephew out because he is really into it. He gets a lot of squirrels. We we went out for deer opening day. He shot a buck, I was really surprised, but we couldn't find it. I think the shot might have just grazed him. We saw a couple spots of blood but that was about it. I'm really proud of him. He weighs maybe 110 lbs but he fires my Browning 12 ga 20" barrel with 2 3/4" slugs with no problem. He got a 20ga as a gift but it is light, and with 3" slugs it left a black and blue mark on his shoulder.

 

[PapsD]

I like to hunt deer, turkeys and pheasants and one day if I get time ducks and geese.

I've been getting more into bowhunting lately. Just traded in my Bowtech Destroyer 340 for a Hoyt Charger. It's a pretty sweet bow for the money.

 

[PapsD]

First year really trying to hunt anything. Mostly taking my nephew out because he is really into it. He gets a lot of squirrels. We we went out for deer opening day. He shot a buck, I was really surprised, but we couldn't find it. I think the shot might have just grazed him. We saw a couple spots of blood but that was about it. I'm really proud of him. He weighs maybe 110 lbs but he fires my Browning 12 ga 20" barrel with 2 3/4" slugs with no problem. He got a 20ga as a gift but it is light, and with 3" slugs it left a black and blue mark on his shoulder.

That's awesome you take your nephew hunting. He'll remember that for the rest of his life.

No blood doesn't mean the deer isn't dead especially if it was shot out of a treestand with a 20 ga. Even a 3in 20ga slug usually won't go all the way through a deer. Did u find any hair where your nephew shot him?

The buck might be dead out there. The meat is almost certainly spoiled but you could still get the antlers.

 

[porcupine73]

Thanks I may take another walk back to see if we can find it. He actually shot it using my 12 ga, with a 2 3/4" rifled slug shell. I didn't notice any hair in the area. I couldn't believe how quickly he acted. We were sitting in our 'blind', and he heard something behind us. He had been using some kind of doe sound thing, and he said this high pitched noise we were hearing was a buck. I saw his eyes get huge as he slowly turned around. Next thing I knew he stood up and fired a round at that buck. We looked around and could see the spots of blood and some fresh marks on this little ravine it jumped over but didn't know where it went after that. It was kind of thick brush around that area.

 

[phenry]

Got this 8 point last Friday.

 

[PapsD]

A 12 ga won't always pancake them either. Slugs are extremely powerful @ close range but rifled slugs are pretty inaccurate past 50 yards even 3in magnums. A deer that's just wounded even with a slug can still run a long way.

That buck might be in that thicket.

But if you're in a ravine and if your nephew shot too far back he might be laying in a creek.

The best thing to do is go back to the last place you saw the deer or blood and start walking in widening spiral around that spot. It's easier the more people you have with you.

 

[Subsailor]

OK, we got our Salmon earlier and now there is Caribou in the other Freezer!
Planning a moose hunt with my BIL!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I liked the fridge pic but I gotta say I must disapprove of having that much cocaine in your freezer

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Worked this last week end on two bamboo backed bows, One is osage core the other is ipe. Got them tillered and overlays glued on the tips. All they need is a handle wrap and a few coats of finish. Also finished up an osage self bow. I guess with thirty or forty bows I am almost ready. Mike

 

[Subsailor]

Worked this last week end on two bamboo backed bows, One is osage core the other is ipe. Got them tillered and overlays glued on the tips. All they need is a handle wrap and a few coats of finish. Also finished up an osage self bow. I guess with thirty or forty bows I am almost ready. Mike

I know what osage is but what is ipe?
Any pictures of your work?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I wonder how the backstrap loins of the caribou would hold up to baking in a salt dough per Alton Brown's recipe.

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Ipe is a tropical wood. It is very hard and is similar to ebony only it is brown. Doesn't seem to have grain layers like wood here does. I thinks that is because they never freeze. It is spelled ipe but sounds like epay when pronounced, just like you would say ebay. Makes a fast hard hitting bow. Mike

 

[mikescooling]

I liked the fridge pic but I gotta say I must disapprove of having that much cocaine in your freezer

Why, where is he supposed to put it?

 

[Subsailor]

Ipe is a tropical wood. It is very hard and is similar to ebony only it is brown. Doesn't seem to have grain layers like wood here does. I thinks that is because they never freeze. It is spelled ipe but sounds like epay when pronounced, just like you would say ebay. Makes a fast hard hitting bow. Mike

Thanks, so, are your bows traditional longbows, recurves and do you sell them?

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

The backed bows are relfex deflex and the self bows for the most part are flat bows sometimes I will recurve them. I sell some and keep some. A flat bow is similar to a longbow but shorter and flat cross section verses acorn . Mike

 

[Airborneguy]

Cooked up some some of my amazing venison from last year's doe tonight. The highlight of my past 6 months was hearing my 2 year old daughter say, "I love deer meat!"

Tonight's meal was actually an awesome one all around: my venison, a tomato/cucumber/basil salad all from my garden, and farmer's market corn and potatoes.

Good luck to everyone in the coming seasons. This year will probably be my last "slim" hunting season. If all goes well, starting next year I can get back to hunting how I used to: nearly every weekend!!!

 

[bob1852]

Going elk scouting as we speak. Sure my hunt doesn't start for 7 weeks but the weather is getting cooler and the rut should be starting soon. Nothing like bugling bull elk on a rainy night in the woods.

 

[mikescooling]

How many of you guys shoot Muzzleloaders? They have a powder for modern inline rifles called BlackHorn209, it is freek'en great. You can shoot the 12oz can all in the same day and never clean the muzzleloader. I'm not kidding. It's about $40 for the 12oz can

 

[Rhumbline]

This thread brings back some happy memories.

I was a young Marine just joining the Fleet and was stationed on Guam. Wasn't d#&k to do there until a SSgt asked me if I was into hunting. Wild hogs were considered a nuisance and there was no limit.

From then on we always kept the gear in the trunk of his car. We'd blast a few of the porkers, clean them and get the outdoor BBQ started up. The surrounding barracks' would empty out and everyone brought beer as the price of admission. Man, life was sweet.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Going elk scouting as we speak. Sure my hunt doesn't start for 7 weeks but the weather is getting cooler and the rut should be starting soon. Nothing like bugling bull elk on a rainy night in the woods.

Amen

 

[Airborneguy]

Going elk scouting as we speak. Sure my hunt doesn't start for 7 weeks but the weather is getting cooler and the rut should be starting soon. Nothing like bugling bull elk on a rainy night in the woods.

Bastard!!

 

[Airborneguy]

How many of you guys shoot Muzzleloaders? They have a powder for modern inline rifles called BlackHorn209, it is freek'en great. You can shoot the 12oz can all in the same day and never clean the muzzleloader. I'm not kidding. It's about $40 for the 12oz can

I used to hunt the muzzeloader seasons in NJ with my uncle, but since having kids I haven't been able to get out as much as I used to. I'm hoping next year I can start again. I swear to all that anyone holds dear that I've only fired a muzzeloader 3 times in my entire life, each time taking a NJ deer with 1 shot! If it wasn't for my uncle being present for all three, no one would ever believe it.

 

[unionrdr]

What places we have left to hunt up here are swarmed with city folk with their expensive gear & vehicles. Small parcels of public land here & there. They even concider leavins on a farmers field as baiting & must be removed. Crazy dumb white fools in government. This state is run by friggin *******!
No place for atracker to hunt with a 50 cal Hawken rifle. It has a cherry wood stock & is from TC. At this point,it works better then I do. Can't hardly walk anymore to go out in the woods.

 

[mikescooling]

I have lots of other guns I reload for, I even cast my own bullets out of wheel weights; but the muzzleloader is my favorite to shoot, lots of fun. I don't know why I like shooting it so much. On a good day I can drop bullets in at two hundred yards and keep them all on a target the size of a paper plate, keep in mind it's hard for me to see 200 yards away. In many states they have muzzleloader only sessions that you can buy tags for over the counter.

 

[unionrdr]

Here in Ohio the bow hunters get first dibs. We muzzelloaders gotta wait till it's friggin cold out. WTF?

 

[sfgoat]

I love hunting but where I live now there is very little public land available and what little is available is grossly over hunted. I'm not from here so it's very hard to get access to private land. If I had the time to travel out to the western side of the state and set up camp for a week then there would be plenty of public land but it's nearly impossible to get that kind of time off in recent years. So I've wasted a lot of money in permits and I haven't bagged more then a few squirrels and turkeys since I moved to this state.