Long Range Mule Deer Rifle

[BeeTee]

Here's another photo taken July 2010 through our living room window - about 15' from the camera. That's a crab apple tree, with Tiger Lillies just under the window out of view. Once they bloom, the flowers don't last long. Who'd a guessed? At one point earlier that day, we had six nice bucks in our driveway, right behind my pickup and near our plum trees. Daughter's friends had to wait for them to move, so they could park their car.

I'm just glad they're deer and not OMG Kodiak bears.... :mrgreen:

 

[DrMike]

When we lived in Jasper, ornamental trees and shrubs had to have wire mesh around them to keep the elk and mule deer from treating them as a smorgasbord. It is amazing what ungulates find delicious, to say nothing of the bear that wandered through the townsite..

 

[C.Smith]

I like the air rifle idea, I know you can legally get a silencer for them too, and big calibers. Might be the perfect thing.

Corey

 

[BeeTee]

The middle of hunting season, and they're still here... 8 in this photo (click image for larger pic) as seen off our back deck. More were in the front lawn. No bucks in this pic though. The bucks seem to disappear around rifle season....

 

[DrMike]

Pests like that just need to be taken out.

 

[BeeTee]

Update 2012!

Took this shot off the back deck late yesterday afternoon. It's about 30 yards to the targets.... :wink:

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[Guy Miner]

Wow! That's a couple of nice bucks.

 

[DrMike]

Your pets are transitioning into real brutes. :grin:

 

[Mountain Goat]

At that distance, some might say that if you happen to be shooting Sierra GameKings, then you will need to back up a couple hundred yards.

 

[Kodiak]

And the tears will flow when a neighbor's bullet finds one of those beautys.

Sorry,


Jim

 

[Elkman]

Great pictures.
I use my bow in my back yard. Its quiet and does not alert the neighbors. I have a very nice three point, and fat doe who have been hanging there for a couple of months now. My neighbors also have several in their back yard. Which are sparring in their flowers. My winter meat supply surrounds me.

 

[Greg Nolan]

We might be going about this all wrong. Maybe we ought to be on the other side of the trailer looking out with our wolf rifles.
Just a thought. :roll:

 

[BeeTee]

And the tears will flow when a neighbor's bullet finds one of those beautys.

Sorry,
Jim

Frankly, I'm surprised they've lasted as long as they have. Many of those who live in the area hunt/shoot... Lots of people know they're here.

The deer apparently move around the rural neighborhood throughout the year, over an area of about a mile square. The bucks like spending the summers nearer to us to take advantage of the mowed/watered grass and shade in the lawn - to bed down during the day.

We live just inside the boundary of a hunting district that permits centerfire firearms to be used to take game in season. Across the highway (about 100 yards away), is a bow/muzzleloader riverbottom district. Another quarter mile farther across the highway is a National Wildlife Refuge. We're all expecting that wolves will eventually discover the local Mule Deer and the big numbers of Whitetails in the refuge. I'll have a wolf rifle at the ready if/when that time comes... :wink:

 

[SJB358]

I'll have a wolf rifle at the ready if/when that time comes... :wink:

Wolves, they don't hurt the deer.. Jeeze, don't you all learn anything from all the GREAT things wolves are doing for elk and deer.. They just get rid of the sick ones! HA! :twisted:

 

[BeeTee]

Wolves, they don't hurt the deer.. Jeeze, don't you all learn anything from all the GREAT things wolves are doing for elk and deer.. They just get rid of the sick ones! HA! :twisted:

I know, right?

I haven't seen the regs yet, but I'm told there'll be a two wolf limit this year. Trapping will be allowed for at least one of them, and electronic predator calls will be legal.

I saw an ad recently about a new two-part program on DirecTV Sportsman channel 605 coming this August 16 & 23th (9pm E/P) all about how to hunt wolves. I'll be DVR'ing it...

 

[DrMike]

I haven't seen the regs yet, but I'm told there'll be a two wolf limit this year. Trapping will be allowed for at least one of them, and electronic calls will be legal.

Those regulations sound quite sensible. You will have to keep the rest of us informed. There is undoubtedly interest in what is happening.