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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2011 20:44:52 GMT -5
Hopefully, Charlie, Your 100% right and I've got a plan ... We have been getting HAMMERED with torrents of rain up here and the creek is up peaking over its banks and the deer are hesitant to cross it. I've been watching them and they have been traveling down one side of the creek more than the other and of course I'm planning on being on that side Saturday Morning. I know that no-matter which side I pick .... those rotten deer will reside to run on the other-side you wait and see. Well that's my plan anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2011 18:21:14 GMT -5
went out this morning and sat in stand #4 behind the barn with my .54cal muzzle loader and at 8:15am I noticed two very large doe coming out of the swamp behind my neighbors garage ... it was a dream shot ... 35 yards ... I took careful aim and "CLICK" ... the doe stopped and looked right at me .... I re-thingyed and "CLICK" again .... this time she ran off ... RATS, what's the problem!!?? Some how my firing-pin got fouled up and was not functioning .... Grrrrr So I went back home and grabbed my Double Barrel CVA Express .50cal that weighs a ton and went back to stand #4, tied my rifle onto my gun rope ... climbed my ladder ... sat down ... and noticed ... 13 doe and a Monster 8-pointer ... 45 yards out ... staring right at me and my rifle hanging on the rope. Slowly ... I started pulling my rifle up to me ... ever so slowly .... I was just a finger-tips length away from the rifle and that Monster Buck let out a bone curdling scream ... and they were gone. I sat there for another three hours and saw Nothing except Big Fat Squirrels, so I went home and thought I'd line that .50cal CVA Hunter-Bolt Magnum I received for Christmas last year. I shot 8 rounds and was unable to adjust the scope that was on the rifle .. SO, I took the scope off and used the open high florescent sights that came on the rifle. I placed 100gr of FFFg Black-powder and one of my trusty Spear round balls into this really light rifle, walked back 85 yards, inserted a #209 primer .... took aim ... and fired. I really like the gigantic cloud of white smoke that bellows out I walked back to my target and noticed that the round landed 1+1/2 inch off center, Thinking that that could have been me moving when I shot, I decided to leave well enough alone. I will go back out tomorrow and this time ......
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2011 19:03:46 GMT -5
Well it over and I've learned some valuable information, Never trust a squirrel ... I started my day at 7am and for some reason I decided to ground hunt, I have a 5-gallon bucket nested in a fallen tree with great visibility in all directions.
At 7:50am I was watching intently at some rather interesting movement some 70-yards to the East, I was sure it was a big doe ... NO ... it turned out to be 4-squirrels playing "King of the Log" ... I turned slowly to find two doe and a 6-point buck not more than 20 feet from me.
Of course my rifle was pointing in the opposite direction and as slowly as I could I started to move it ..... I guess I wasn't meant to harvest any of those deer as I watched them waving "GOOD-BY" with their tails.
I sat there til 11am then went home for a bite to eat then headed out over across the creek to yet another bucket, sat down and noticed across the creek ... where I was sitting this morning ... 5-doe and that pony of an 8-pointer .... being more than 150- yards away, there just wasn't anything I could do .... except cry.
I did happen to see many squirrel .... witch by the way are going to die, just as soon as I can get back out there ... probably after Christmas.
All in all it was a fantastic day and with two doe in the freezer, it was a good harvest season .... I'm already making plans for next season.
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