Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Opening day is a Sunday?
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5 year old buck +
Bow season always opens on September 15th in Missouri and runs through January 15 (with 10 days off in November for firearm season).
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Is that thing's snoot abnormally long or is that how they all look? Thing looks like a hog/anteater cross.
Some do have really long snouts - that one maybe a hair longer than normal. That old dinosaur below has an abnormally long snout
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The smaller ones better on the grill for sure
omicron1792
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Why don’t you suppress that thing?
$. Which one do I suppress - .450 bushmaster I use the most? Or .300 or 6.5 grendel that get 50/50 use in daytime? Or save $3000 and keep shooting like I have for 65 years
But you don't want to startle the animal do you?$. Which one do I suppress - .450 bushmaster I use the most? Or .300 or 6.5 grendel that get 50/50 use in daytime? Or save $3000 and keep shooting like I have for 65 years
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
This. Your reply @SwampCat has an easy answer!
Didnt know one worked from .45 on down. Thought it was .30 on down. I dont ever shoot with anyone else - dont really see the need
Angus 1895
5 year old buck +
The wild pigs I hunted in California, would come right back out after the shooting, non suppressed.
These pigs wont come back out after shooting with a bow. A rifle shot 300 yards away wont bother them. Everything my son shoots is suppressed. Even he agrees suppressed is to protect the hunter’s hearing - doesnt help with alerting the game. He uses thunderbeast - whch are some of the best suppressors going. I have no trouble hearing him shoot over a quarter mile away
Telemark
5 year old buck +
That's why I do it. I have tinnitus, and I'm doing my best to avoid any further damage. I have earmuffs everywhere, and I use them for everything louder than a vacuum cleaner. People make fun of me when I run to get hearing protection, but I don't care. Better than being deaf.
Angus 1895
5 year old buck +
It’s been a banner year so far for me.
I have had whitetails in bow range every time I gone out. I even had mule deer and whitetails in bow range within 15 minutes of each other this morning.
I had a group of whitetails at 8 yards. I was sitting on a stump next to a fence crossing. And I have seen 2 ten points and four eight point whitetails.
I have yet to get the tens in bow range, but I have had them in rifle range two separate times.
It’s been a fun week!
I have had whitetails in bow range every time I gone out. I even had mule deer and whitetails in bow range within 15 minutes of each other this morning.
I had a group of whitetails at 8 yards. I was sitting on a stump next to a fence crossing. And I have seen 2 ten points and four eight point whitetails.
I have yet to get the tens in bow range, but I have had them in rifle range two separate times.
It’s been a fun week!
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5 year old buck +
After church I helped my son from Kansas assemble his bale blind he got for Christmas (which he is placing on our farm) and he helped with the assembly of a new hard-sided I picked up to install on a trailer. At 5:30 we decided to get a short hunt in, and went to the new blind on the SE corner of our property. We busted two does going in, but I knew there were more than would likely come into the acorns, which are nearly done dropping (very early this year). At 6:30 a doe gave my son his first crossbow kill at 20 yards. We blood trailed it for over 250 yards. It was a great first sit in the new Maverick XL blind.
The non-lactating doe weight 112# on the hoof, with a great layer of fat.
The non-lactating doe weight 112# on the hoof, with a great layer of fat.
Angus 1895
5 year old buck +
This morning I exited my “ man cave” aka lever lounge. And a Bull elk whistled at me.
We met again at my under construction elevated enclosed blind!
As it became light a whitetail Dink 2.5 year old buck was thrashing the willows at 44 yards.
Finally his buddy showed up and they jousted amongst the whitetail does at 85 yards. I got to see a pair of twins nursing!
Shortly after the whitetail wandered off a dozen mule deer were eating the willow pile….they were 15 yards away.
Them bigger whitetail bucks I feel sense my pressure…… strongly feel the more you hunt an area…..the less the chance of a bruiser until the rut makes them reconsider their risk management..
We met again at my under construction elevated enclosed blind!
As it became light a whitetail Dink 2.5 year old buck was thrashing the willows at 44 yards.
Finally his buddy showed up and they jousted amongst the whitetail does at 85 yards. I got to see a pair of twins nursing!
Shortly after the whitetail wandered off a dozen mule deer were eating the willow pile….they were 15 yards away.
Them bigger whitetail bucks I feel sense my pressure…… strongly feel the more you hunt an area…..the less the chance of a bruiser until the rut makes them reconsider their risk management..
