2020 Hunting Pictures
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That's a great hunt Jake, congratulations. That's about 3 seasons worth of coyotes for me. Nicely done buddy!
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The DNR issued us some Disease Control tags because of CWD in our area. I set up on a heavily used runway close to a bedding area and shot this doe. She was aged at 8.5 years old and tested ok. The 338 RUM with a 250 gr AB dropped her in her tracks.
Going to turn her into pepper stick.
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Going to turn her into pepper stick.
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DrMike
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Excellent job, Jim. No doubt she will make fine pepper sticks.
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Thank you fellas. I really like hunting with the big 338 RUM. It just flattens everything it hits. That is the 7th deer I've taken with the new barrel.
We have a lot of deer on our property. Here is a picture from Sunday morning. I'd say that the rut is still on!
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We have a lot of deer on our property. Here is a picture from Sunday morning. I'd say that the rut is still on!
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My wife shot her big Tom on opening day of the 2020 MI Turkey Season at 20 yards with her T/C Encore Hunter and the 12 ga Turkey barrel topped with a Leupold 3x fixed power scope and loaded with a Winchester 3" Long Beard 1 3/4 oz of #5's. The Tom came in on a string and put on a magnificent show strutting all the way.
Sue did a fantastic job waiting on him to come out of strut so she could take a good shot at the head and neck for a perfect clean kill. He has a 10" beard and the spurs are 15/16" each, a darn nice Tom!
I'm proud of her!
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Sue did a fantastic job waiting on him to come out of strut so she could take a good shot at the head and neck for a perfect clean kill. He has a 10" beard and the spurs are 15/16" each, a darn nice Tom!
I'm proud of her!
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Outstanding, sounds like a perfect day.
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DrMike
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Excellent report, Jim. Looks like a fine bird Sue tagged. Congratulations.
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Yes Dan I was. I called him in.NYDAN":1tan6yyk said:
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Bitter Sweet ending
Last fall Sue shot a dandy 8 pt chasing a doe with her xbow. He ha passed by her stand and didn't offer her a shot and was heading my way. She sent me a text giving me the heads up. About 10 minutes later I saw the doe and hot on her tail was a dandy buck heading directly to me. At 30 yards, the doe busted me and went back the way they came from taking lover boy with her. I sent a text back to Sue telling her. When they crossed the creek, I texted her again and said, "Get ready". Seconds later I heard all hell broke loose. Then my phone buzzed with a message "I think I missed". I got over to get stand about 45 minutes later and Sue showed me the scene. The bolt was in a log smeared in blood! Blood everywhere! Body hair indicated solid hit! I started blood trailing awesome blood trail 50 yards to the marsh. He ran across the he waist deep marsh and the blood trail became sparse. I followed it to the neighbors property where I had to give up the search. We determined that her shot was deflected and ended up with a liver shot.
Well my daughter found him the other day,it looks like he doubled back to the marsh. She spotted the skull sticking up out of the water. He's a decent buck!
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Last fall Sue shot a dandy 8 pt chasing a doe with her xbow. He ha passed by her stand and didn't offer her a shot and was heading my way. She sent me a text giving me the heads up. About 10 minutes later I saw the doe and hot on her tail was a dandy buck heading directly to me. At 30 yards, the doe busted me and went back the way they came from taking lover boy with her. I sent a text back to Sue telling her. When they crossed the creek, I texted her again and said, "Get ready". Seconds later I heard all hell broke loose. Then my phone buzzed with a message "I think I missed". I got over to get stand about 45 minutes later and Sue showed me the scene. The bolt was in a log smeared in blood! Blood everywhere! Body hair indicated solid hit! I started blood trailing awesome blood trail 50 yards to the marsh. He ran across the he waist deep marsh and the blood trail became sparse. I followed it to the neighbors property where I had to give up the search. We determined that her shot was deflected and ended up with a liver shot.
Well my daughter found him the other day,it looks like he doubled back to the marsh. She spotted the skull sticking up out of the water. He's a decent buck!
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DrMike
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Heartbreak, but those things do happen. You gave it a good effort, but the wily old buck sought out what he felt was a place for him to hole up until he could heal. Unfortunately for all concerned, his healing wasn't in the cards. Still, a dandy buck. I'm just sorry Sue didn't get a chance to take him home. He did pass on his genes, so there is that.
salmonchaser
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Dang bad luck.
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Spent the morning in the turkey woods with my favorite call a copper call in a cocobolo pot I made a few years ago...Had several hens show up and one small, loud mouth Jake. He never got any closer than 70 yards. But I didn't want to shoot a small Jake, anyway.
