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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Utopia
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She said she liked it. I'll be hanging a tree stand in my yard tomorrow and throwing some arrows. Bwana...bring your ass to Iowania...and there will be some in the fridge.....and probably a jar or two of apple pie. |
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It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Billings, Montana
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#303 |
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Willis, Harris and Davis.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Back in KC
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It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Billings, Montana
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#306 |
lifelong Chiefs survivor
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Several years ago I was hunting with a friend and he gave me one of those artificial doe in heat wafers. He told me to go ahead and use it, but to bring it back after we hunted.
I had this damn thing in my pocket, walking back to the truck, in the dark. I could see a bunch of deer out in the field I was walking next to and one came running towards me. Turns out it was a buck wanting to get a little. It got about 15 feet from me and I was scared shitless. All I could see was basically an outline of the deer jumping back and forth grunting and stamping it's feet. I was hunting with a bow and there's no way I could have hit it, so I started yelling and jumping around myself. It worked, the buck eventually ran away. But, you'll never catch me walking around in the dark with doe-in-heat in my pocket again. |
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It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Billings, Montana
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Location: Willis, Harris and Davis.
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#309 |
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Utopia
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Bow season is in full swing in Iowania...I've only been out once..and saw "the buck" my clan has been after for now 3 years....300 yards from the stand as I was walking in. 10 point monster.
My brother found a rack today, of a buck we both saw on another farm last year and hunted for the last 2....guess we won't get him. obviously the coyotes and Mice have had at him a little. these Idaho deer are sure big...head west young men. |
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A Hypnagogic Landscape
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My pappy just got back from trying to fill his bull elk tag out in Custer county, SD. He didn't see a single elk due to the heat wave but he found a nice skull and rack that is in pretty good shape. I will miss that great pickled elk meat that we had for the last few years though. |
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#311 |
When a nightmare becomes real
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I'd like to go hunting some day. I just don't know anyone around these parts that do it, plus I don't have any of the equipment to do so. Nor a license. Heh.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A Hypnagogic Landscape
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#313 |
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Billings, Montana
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I'm going out tomorrow to take Jr after his first deer. I didn't want him shooting my 300 Ultramag so I invested in a Sako 7MM-08 and hung a Leupold 3x10x50 on it. It is my gun, but he can use it.
![]() Two days after I bought it, I was talking to a guy and he said, "you should have called me first, I had a deal for you." He had a .270 with a scope he was willing to let go for $200 that had had less than a box of shells through it. Needless to say, I went over to his house yesterday and handed him two one hundred dollar bills. He claimed it "shot like shit and couldn't hit anything." When I took everything out in the boonies yesterday to site in, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you this, the Ruger .270 had the factory 8 pound pull on the trigger which sucks like a shop vac. I installed a Timney trigger on my 300 Ultramag a few years ago and I have it set and one and a half pounds. Try going from a 1 1/2 trigger to an eight pound. I shot my laser finder out 100 yards, set up some targets and grabbed the .270 with the POS Simmons 3x9 scope. (Why the hell would ANYONE hang a Simmons on a 270?) I would rather have a POS gun and a nice scope than the other way around. At least you are going to hit something. Anyhow, I line it up, BOOM! check spotting scope.........nothing....WTF? BOOM..........nothing on the paper yet again. ![]() ![]() So that's my story, anyone killing anything? Last edited by Bwana; 10-29-2005 at 05:02 PM.. |
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#314 |
Will KC ever be better?
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Land of Red Dirt & Necks
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Wow Bwana $200 for a Ruger 270? That's a deal - even if you had to take the simmons with it.
FWIW, I always start off at 25 yards on a new gun or when I've had a scope off. Get it zeroed then move to 100 yds. Also, here's a neat tip from Jim Carmicheal on 2 shot site-ins. Put the gun in a good rest, aim at the bullseye, and shoot. Put it back in the rest and hold. Hold the crosshairs on the bullseye again and have a buddy adjust the scope until the crosshairs are on the previous bullet hole. Shoot again and you should be dead on. |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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