RL338
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- Mar 23, 2017
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Jim , congrats to you and Danielle on filling those buck tags.
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Hunter26
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- Jul 10, 2024
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Nice job with the crossbow to you & your daughter!
I shot a 127 lb doe this evening with the 257 Weatherby launching 110gr Interbonds. Had six deer come into the feeder, all does but one button buck. Picked out the biggest and double lunged her right at 110 yards. She made a 75 yard dash with a huge blood trail. Rifle was the same as my other doe earlier in the season, Mark V Accumark.
I shot a 127 lb doe this evening with the 257 Weatherby launching 110gr Interbonds. Had six deer come into the feeder, all does but one button buck. Picked out the biggest and double lunged her right at 110 yards. She made a 75 yard dash with a huge blood trail. Rifle was the same as my other doe earlier in the season, Mark V Accumark.
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filmjunkie4ever
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Get your knee fixed Don, you’ll be good to go again. And for heaven’s sake heed the recovery plan. My boss had a knee replacement last spring. He was told to give 10 weeks to the easy chair. He made it about 2.5 and then started trying to rush things. Thankfully no damage but it took him way longer to heal up because he tried to cheat.
Congratulations on your doe.
Congratulations on a great mule deer.
"Sever" strikes again . did you have good blood trails ? Danielle's shows a lot of blood at the exit , looks like it should have been an easy one . congratulations to you both .
DrMike
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A great muley! He'll make a fine addition to your trophy wall. Congratulations. Give us a review of the hunt; it'll be greatly appreciated.
Blkram
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This is very important.
Cannot stress this enough!
I did the same thing with my ankle as a teenager, and while I did wreck it a couple more times over the next 10 years as a young adult, if I hadn't of pushed it the first time, it would have healed properly and I wouldn't have had as serious of injuries later, and wouldn't have suffered the ongoing pain of the past 40 years. Not counting the new injuries this year.
I learned that lesson and listened to my Orthopaedic Surgeon and my body with the shoulder issues of the early 2000's, where I was supposed to have another surgery on the right after the left healed. By doing so, I am 24 years later without having made my right shoulder worse, and not having had to go for that surgery.
And this is why I am taking this recovery from my right leg and shoulder injuries as seriously as I am and having accepted that at my age, with Diabetes Type 2, I am just going to heal slower than normal, and to heed the Dr's and Physiotherapist's advice, and listen to my body through this recovery process. Taking it as slow, or quickly, as can be tolerated, without exceeding the limitations that the body is telling me. I can push it a little, but not enough to cause more than a tolerable amount of discomfort, but not pain!
I am still using crutches, and can tolerate up to 87% of my body weight on the leg while standing, but when walking with the crutches yet. The extension of the ankle joint has improved some, but is still limited as the damaged anterior tibialis tendon continues to heal. Can move my toes some, depending on the amount of pressure not on, or on, the ball of my foot. My shoulder is still sore, but mostly because of the plate that has yet to be removed. Just waiting on the new Ortho to contact me so we can schedule the surgery now. But I must be off the crutches for it so that I don't need the left arm and shoulder for ambling about.
Rooting for you, and anyone else, that is recovering from injury, or still suffering from those we suffered as younger people, where we tended to push things that we weren't wise enouugh to listen to Drs or our bodies.
Thanks, Dan!
Thanks, Dr Mike! I shot this muley around 6:00 in the evening in northwest Wyoming, west of Cody (where I live), on November 8th. It was on the third day of what was to be a 5-day hunt, and I was fortunate to draw a limited quota tag. I hunted with Butte Creek Outfitters, who I highly recommend. The elevation was around 10,000 feet. Two nice bucks were walking together across an open hillside about 330 yards from where I was glassing. I shot this one with my Fierce Fury 6.5 PRC, using Federal Terminal Ascent 130 grain ammo; the riflescope is a Meopta Meostar R2 2.5-15x56. My great guide - Jason - and I packed thus buck out in the dark, walking the horses a mile or two back to the wilderness camp.
