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Post by timk on Nov 22, 2008 15:15:05 GMT -5
Shot a spike at around 11am today. 8-9" spikes, 120-130lbs. good size deer for a 1 1/2 year old, corn fed deer taste pretty good too I will also be switching back to 180gr bullets in my 308. I put 3 150s right in the boilermaker before this guy actually went down. now I can go back to trying to get one with the bow. Had a doe come in at 6 yards on Friday AM, she was so close I couldnt make a move on her.
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Post by doublehaul on Nov 22, 2008 15:38:25 GMT -5
Way to go Tim. Hey- sometimes they just go no matter how bad you drill them. Full grown bucks are TOUGH. 3 years ago, Al wacked one with a 30-06 then I put FOUR in him with the .280 before he finally secumed to lead poison & those were 160 grain hordary partitions at 3100 FPS. Unless you upgrade to an RPG, first shot kills are rare. The only time I have ever dropped one in it's tracks is with a head or spine shot. Don't believe everything you see on the TV shows.
NICE BUCK- CONGRATS!
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Post by timk on Nov 22, 2008 15:50:50 GMT -5
Ive dropped 3 of my 5 deer in their tracks (including one that was trotting at a pretty good clip) with the 180gr Hornady SSTs I used to use when I reloaded. I like the hornady SST projectiles, the exit wound looked like I hit it with a slug gun. Ive been using the remington 150gr core-lokts for the last 2 years and there is a noticeable difference for sure. This deer actually went down on the first shot, then got back up. I dont like tracking so I put 2 more in him.
One of these years ill get up to the adirondacks for some big bucks. I was talking with my dad about going out to pieseco lake next year where he used to hunt back in the 80s and shot several very large bucks.
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Post by ripple on Nov 22, 2008 16:11:44 GMT -5
Awesome....
we (my son & myself) have hunted hard and almost everyday (except today) on the prime land in Oneonta. It has been tough finding the big bucks. I passed on a nice 6 point last sunday, figured it was a healthy deer that should become a shooter next year. Also had a healthy spike about the size of yours walk under my stand. I let my nephew shoot a runt 4 point that I figured would never become anything more than bad genes, it was his first deer. He used a 243 with 100 grain, dropped it cold. Yesterday my son and myself took 2 doe just to keep the herd in check. Tomorrow we may take 2 more, but we will see there is still plenty of time left. Seeing plenty of deer just not what I expected. They are there but lying in the thick brush.
We used 30-06 150 grain again these deer dropped in their tracks. I have never shot a deer more than once with a rifle or shotgun and this year was my first non found deer with a bow. Am I boasting or trying to put anyone down ? NO . Take your time and place your shot, they will go down , If the shot is not there , let it pass .
I know it is impossible on most properties to manage the deer into becoming trophies, but where I hunt it is the only way we hunt. We have 800 acres without any outside interference and I only heard a few shots off in the far distance on opening day, none since.. Problem there as with the ADK's so much free reign for the deer to travel.
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Post by streamer on Nov 22, 2008 16:28:57 GMT -5
Good eats there,congrats
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Post by doublehaul on Nov 22, 2008 16:40:42 GMT -5
Problem here is we can't hunt that way. Big country- few deer. But when you do find one- OH BABY! Stand hunting is not an option here. Only outlaws who bait have sucess using them(ADKs). You must cover ground & a lot of it. Different territory-habitat and hunting styles. Whitetail are essentially farm country animals. Finding them in the big country is tough and you generally don't get a lot of time to study them. If you are counting antlers, you are too late to pull the trigger. The deer we kill have never seen corn alfalfa nor soybeans. Beechnuts and acorns is the best they ever do.
WMU's 5G,5H,5F,6F&6J are basically the Adirondacks About 42% of the state land mass and accounted for 22% of the state buck take last year
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Post by timk on Nov 22, 2008 16:52:29 GMT -5
I forget what the website is but apparently there is this famous 'deer hunting family' out of Keene valley and they have a website with all of the monsters theyve taken out of the valley and elizabethtown area, ive also seen them mentioned in the schenectday gazette outdoors section. Either way, they have some videos on their site (sorry, cant remember the address, maybe someone knows what im talking about?) and they hunt as desribed by DH.
They dont stand, and they hunt in pairs at times but when they kick out a buck holy turd is it a firestorm. On 1 video the two brothers spook this buck and they both unload on this thing before it goes down, the deer was absolutely huge though.
4 of my 5 deer (including this one) have been shot while I was still hunting (this deer was nose down on a trail, god only knows how he didnt hear me, it was loud as hell today) and either spotted the deer feeding/chasing does, or took quick shots at moving deer. I havent missed a deer doing this since my first year hunting, but im a little anal about my accuracy and i shoot very will with quick reaction shots.
All three of the shots I took today hit the lungs/heart area, and in reality I probably could have let it go after 1, but when it got back up after it went down there was no way I was about to track off the back end of the property it so I shot it twice more. It wouldnt have gotetn back up if I was shooting those 180 SSTs instead of the 150 corelokts
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Post by timk on Nov 22, 2008 19:08:13 GMT -5
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