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Post by jsanders on Nov 23, 2014 15:19:25 GMT -5
Did you use the UTV to skin that deer?
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Post by jsanders on Nov 23, 2014 7:30:55 GMT -5
Hey I'm ready for a lemonade stand on the ice again.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 20, 2014 15:57:32 GMT -5
I don't think I like the idea of that. Too many people that don't know or don't care with high powered rifles on opening day could be very scary. A guy that lives down the road from me is butted agaist public hunting grounds and has shotgun slugs hit his brick home.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 20, 2014 8:03:32 GMT -5
So my Remington 700 VTR .308 would be a legal deer rifle here in Indiana?
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Post by jsanders on Nov 19, 2014 8:51:04 GMT -5
I had Swhacker and had one not open. I got them as a gift and thought they were neat. I pull 70lbs and it didn't open either. I think I am going back to muzzys
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Post by jsanders on Nov 16, 2014 7:50:06 GMT -5
So, I've since added a fox to the fur collection and I also had to turn a nasty grinner loose out of the foothold. This early season coyote gig is about to make me go nuts. I'm getting lots of fired traps with no animals in them. Sometimes they are fired off and laying right where I set them which would indicate that a yote rolled on it and it fired off on his shoulder. I have had others where the trap has been pulled tight indicating that a pull out has possibly happenened. I have also had a what appeared to be a dug out trap that hadn't fired off and was laying upside down. I have yet to bag a yote. The one thing I am getting accomplished is that I sure am making them smarter and harder to catch Someone suggested laying a log just in front of the trap to prevent them from being able to roll on it. So that may be the next adjustement I make to some of my sets. Hopefully I get these "diggers" figured out?? Put a trail cam set on video to see exactly what is happening. I was just given a dozen foothold traps from my buddy's grandpa over the summer and I haven't got around to cleaning them up. The more I try to do something outdoors, the more the family calls me to do something else. With that said, I'm living the outdoors vicarously through everyone else for the most part. So good luck to you guys. Question for anyone that has trapped a skunk. What do you do and how? I have seen a few while bow hunting this year and if I trap one, what next? I'm wondering if a more firmly bedded trap wouldn't fix your problem.. and maybe a pan tension adjustment. My biggest problem is my sets attract cows somehow.. I'm yet to set a foothold that hasn't been trompled by cattle. Have you talked to your fur buyer about prices any? I doubt ill mess with coon trapping this year, ut ill probably still lay some steel for them for the fun of it! I do know that crows can spot anything out of place and it either attracts them or scares them away.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 16, 2014 7:35:28 GMT -5
That is awesome, especially for his second deer. Congrats to your dad
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Post by jsanders on Nov 16, 2014 7:33:44 GMT -5
Sweet!!! I didn't realize that it was posted. Thanks Fever3810, I thought the musky and smallie were impressive. Thanks Strippitman for mentioning putting it in the fish of the year.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 14, 2014 22:51:56 GMT -5
Shot a doe at 37 yards and it passed through but failed to deploy the blades. This a G5 T3. I'm going back to fixed. Had blood but the deer ran until the blood stopped. Unfortunately I did not find it. Searched on my hands and knees for 3 hours. I hate wounding an animal but I had no blood to follow anymore. Comments and constructive criticism welcome.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 12, 2014 6:51:33 GMT -5
You could get Hevi-Shot® "Dead Coyote" but that is some outrageously expensive ammo. Cabela's has it for $54.99 a pack, that is 10 shotgun shells. $5.50 a shell . You might kill a coyote with what you are using at the that distance but you may not find it. I'm sure 30 yards would knock them down though.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 11, 2014 7:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by jsanders on Nov 6, 2014 7:15:15 GMT -5
This is the inside of my blind as of 6am. I have one of the tripod seats in there and when I sat down, I sunk fast. But hey, I'm out
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Post by jsanders on Nov 4, 2014 11:16:26 GMT -5
Only been 3 times. First night out, the girlfriend called because her car broke down, 15 minutes into the hunt. Second time, had a small 6 pointer bed down behind my stand at 30 yards. Third time I watched a small 8 point try to mount a doe and she wanting nothing to do with him. Still trying to get out.
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Post by jsanders on Nov 3, 2014 12:00:15 GMT -5
Awesome, congrats
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Post by jsanders on Nov 3, 2014 11:20:50 GMT -5
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