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Post by ronj on Feb 21, 2017 20:28:57 GMT
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Post by American Deagle on Feb 21, 2017 20:43:19 GMT
nice catch of that bear, where I live bears are not common place in southern michigan. There are pockets of hogs but I have yet to see any. We have lots of deer( Have seen herds as big as 50 deer!) probably even more turkeys, pheasants are around, but limited due to destruction of fence rows and habitats. But we got LOTS of coyotes. Every night I hear them in the fields fighting and howling. I would love to go hog hunting sometime tho, I know they are basically open season in michigan, pretty destructive.
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Post by ramrod on Feb 21, 2017 21:17:44 GMT
We have deer around the house every day. Sometimes a herd of them. We live in one of five counties (and expanding) where the Arkansas game and fish commission has verified CWD (chronic wasting disease). This is the first season I haven't bothered taking a deer and we moved here from Washington County Arkansas early last year. We lived in the big city then, and I had to travel 75 miles one way to a club plot of land where I could hunt deer. Now they are in my back yard. Go figure. There are plenty of wild turkey here, but I'm not a big fan. Rabbit? While I do like the taste of rabbit, I got my fill from the mess hall while in Okinawa, Japan. I'm not seeing any evidence of hogs on my property (yet) only five acres, and haven't even seen any on adjacent lands which are mostly cattle. I took three squirrels this winter, two greys and a red. Since then, I think the rest of them must have moved to a different territory. While I have never been one to hunt and not eat what I kill........we have a serious armadillo problem here. I guess I don't REALLY hunt them........I just kill them when I see them and toss them off the property where the buzzards take care of the rest. I've killed 8 armadillos since July 4th of last year. I use an AK47 7.62x39. The one time I used an AR in 5.56 I took three shots, the dillo spilled it's guts in front of me then ran off into the tall grass never to be found. Most armadillos will be seen early morning when it's dark so a weapon mounted light is a key thing to have to take them out. Enjoy the pics. Last pic is the guts the armadillo lost right in front of me. All three shots hit it.....once it was running toward me, broadside (shot guts out), and shot once running away from me without guts. It still kept going and I never found a carcass. Neither did the buzzards apparently. Guys tell me all the time they are killing armadillos with 22LR. Whatever. I know first hand they don't go down easily. If you take a head shot it's like a blood geyser. Just saying. Dillos can also carry leprosy.     So........anyone else here ? |
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Post by ronj on Mar 1, 2017 20:10:57 GMT
heck the Elk at my son's in Utah Click to inlarge 
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Post by jmden on Mar 2, 2017 0:09:38 GMT
Do quite a bit of big game hunting in Washington State. Not with the DE, though.
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Post by ronj on Mar 2, 2017 2:20:36 GMT
Do quite a bit of big game hunting in Washington State. Not with the DE, though. I have three guns that I normally hunt with. S&W 500mag , S&W 460 mag or my Weatherby 300mag. I love that gun. I have a Weatherby 22-250 I use for varmint. Both are Mark 5's. |
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Post by jmden on Mar 8, 2017 17:18:43 GMT
It was a season to remember this last year. I drew a 2nd elk tag this year and was able to shoot the first elk of the year on August 4. Then we can shoot 2 bear a year here and was blessed to get a bear up high in the mountains in early September. I was solo and had a 4000' elevation up and down backpack hunt up in designate wilderness. Beautiful up there. That was a 630yd, -29 deg shot. Next, shot a decent 5x6 Muley at 603 yds on another solo backpack hunt during the 'High Buck' hunt in another wilderness area. Coulda shot a bear there before that on same morning, but deer was on the menu. Next, was back closer to home and shot a second bear up high at 525 yds and -20 deg in an absolutely stunning alpine area. This had a nice color phase hide--gave that bear meat away to some grateful friends from church. Next was elk season...a bridge was out so we could not get back to where we usually hunt backpacking back into yet another wilderness area, but were very blessed to find a new area and I shot a spike bull just before dark on October 31 at (it was a late night backpacking this elk out of a roadless, very steep and dark and rainy, trail less wilderness area up high in the mountains), I think it was about 620 yds, -10 deg or so, then two days later, my brother shot his spike bull in same area at 853 yds--2 shots about 3" apart right in the boiler room with his 300 WSM and 210g Berger bullets with a load I worked up for him. Then, a few days later, the best one was my 13 yo daughter shooting her first big game (shes backpack hunted for muley's for 3 years, but no dice), a cow elk at 985 yds, -7 deg, one shot right through the engine room with a 338 EDGE custom built for prone shooting and pushing the 300g Berger bullet at a moderate 2720fps, back in a wilderness area again--lots of designated wilderness areas in Washington state. It was Veterans day and she'd drawn a youth antlerless tag--pretty cool. That story got written up in the New Zealand hunting magazine, 'NZ Hunter' as I happen to be acquaintances with the editor. We gave half of that elk away. So, just my family had 3 elk, 2 bear and a deer this last year. Going to be tough to repeat that again! All my critters were taken with a 338 Allen Xpress pushing the 300g Berger at 2982 fps or so using Retumbo (Now using VV N570 and am pushing that 300g Berger bullet at and average of 3060fps or so--still finalizing/tweaking that new load.) My other daughter had drawn a youth deer tag and the same youth elk tag, but couldn't hunt at all do to being too busy with school and being gone for a week back east for a national competition during hunting season, which was a major bummer for her. Quite a year though!
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