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20 years of hunting to kill a buck – with his dad’s 870! 🤯
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> As the drive started, I heard some rustling in the timber below and realized it was a couple of does. I didn’t have a clear shot from where I stood, so I decided to try and stalk toward them.
> By the time I made it roughly 200 yards, I noticed the does were now running over the hill toward my friend. At that exact moment, I noticed a buck crest the top of the hill. The buck was about 250 yards from me, but I could see the rack as plain as day.
> That’s about the time that my friend cracked off. The noise of his gun sent the buck running towards me with even more speed. Immediately the nerves kicked in! The buck was running hard but slowed down for a split second and presented me with a nice broadside shot at about 30 yards.
> …pulled the trigger on my Remington model 870 shotgun, I saw it was a clean lung shot. The buck stumbled a bit…continued over the next hill and into a field of switchgrass to my west. I hurried to the top of the hill and scanned across the field looking for the buck.
> He was down about 200 yards away in the switchgrass! The moment was completely surreal. We had no clue this buck existed, let alone lived on the property! If I hadn’t walked to the other side of the timber that morning, I would not have been in the right position to shoot this extraordinary whitetail.
> …I let my brother borrow my gun for the hunt so I was using my father’s Remington 870 – the same gun I’d seen him use to drop a deer on one of the first hunts I ever tagged along for.
> I’m so grateful to everyone in my hunting party for being a part of this amazing hunt, but ultimately I owe all of this to the grace of God.
Amen brother, congrats!
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“I sat out there for a while and felt like I should have had on suntan oil.”
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– 😆 You know a guy didn’t say that! That’s Victoria Garland talkin’ about the unseasonally hot day she shot this beast…after her husband Thomas missed it a couple times:
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> The afternoon passed uneventfully. Victoria saw some young bucks and does, but nothing else. Victoria admitted she was paying more attention to her phone than she should have been. When she looked up from her phone, she panicked.
> “He was straight in front of me. I was so nervous because there were no mature does out there so I knew he wasn’t going to be there long.” Victoria grabbed her rifle and took a shot, but said she was shaking and so nervous that she missed [the 3rd missed shot on that buck!].
> Strangely, the buck didn’t run. “He wasn’t alarmed. He stood perfectly still.” Victoria chambered another round, took a deep breath and fired again. The buck didn’t act like he was hit…but he did run away.
> …she saw nothing about the shot to indicate the deer was hit and there was no blood to be found. …a neighbor who was nearby when she fired…said the impact of the second bullet sounded like it hit the buck. She and Garland took their tracking dog, outfitted with a GPS collar, to the field and let him do his job.
> “I was freaking out. I totally thought I’d missed this deer and there he was, dead as a door knob. I started crying. I was loving on the dog and crying. I hugged Thomas. It was just the best moment. There was so much adrenaline and excitement.”
> The 8-point gross-scored 146 1/4 with 5.5″ bases, 25″ main beams and a 23″ spread.
> Thomas said he’s become the subject of lighthearted jokes among friends, but long after the jokes are gone he’ll have a reminder of how he missed the buck twice only to have his wife harvest it. “Now I get to look at that deer on the wall the rest of my life thinking, That should have been my deer.”
😂 All good, congrats Victoria!
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Most interesting new bow sight?
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The Archery Trade Assn show happened last weekend, and one of the new products announced there is the Spot Hogg Triple Stack bow sight – a cool new deal that deserves a deeper look. Here’s a little more on it from Bowhunter.com:
> …sports a trio of individually micro-adjustable pins set on a vertical plane, and 3 individual yardage indicators let you know right where pins are set. In short, you get a single-pin sight with 3 distinct aiming points set at 3 different yardages.
> Plus the sight can be dialed to exact yardages via the yardage wheel. F…when combined with the MRT Rings, this tough-as-nails beauty will have you putting carbon on the mark.
> “Now you can customize your pin gap….”
> “…your pins in-line…you’re taking up a lot less of your sight picture.”
He shows how to adjust it too, and compares it size-wise to another Spot Hogg sight.
MSRP is $379.99-$529.99.
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“Hunting has one major enemy inside the hunting fraternity: ego.”
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> As a wildlife officer, [ego is] the one common denominator that I found to be evident in many game violations – especially those involving big game.
> Is technology in the hunting field a bad thing? Of course not. Improvements that help ensure the clean harvest of an animal are always welcome. Better optics, bullet construction and general equipment allowances all play a positive role.
He quotes Daniel Pedrotti Jr of B&C’s Hunter Ethics Subcommittee:
> “So, where is the line? Each of us has to make our own determination and live with it….
> “When a particular technology allows a hunter to disregard a typical or normal hunting skill (think extreme long-range shooting equipment), you are getting warm.
> “If a technology decreases the game animal’s opportunity to elude or escape detection (think trailcams with…cellular capability), you are over the line. If the use or application of a technology changes the natural circumstance of the hunt (think genetic manipulation), you probably aren’t even hunting anymore.
> “When ego requires one to get the trophy at all cost, the sanctity of the hunt is forfeited. When one is willing to forego the effort, manipulate the odds or change the circumstance, the end product is a fake.”
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Sounds like he’s okay – good to hear!
> “The NY state Dept of Environmental Conservation has gone the extra mile in the past year to address limitations regarding hunter opportunity, suburban hunting, deer overabundance, and their integration of setting deer population objectives using social and biological science ranks among the highest in the country.”
Hate seeing it but a real nice one:
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Article said it was “illegally poached”…as opposed to…😂
2nd consecutive year it was canceled. Those suburbs must be full of deer by now….
Seems like so far all or most of the states that have done this have Democrat governors so…a pattern? 🤔
West Point grad, spent time at big companies. BPI = Bergara, CVA, Powerbelt, Quake, Durasight.
Internal promotion.
Spent 29 years at the NRA.
11. 2A stuff.
Headline of the Week
> Police who pulled over a suspected drunken or drugged driver in PA discovered a live deer that had apparently been hit and then placed in the hatchback area of her car.
🤯
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Deer Disease News
Lauderdale County:
> Hunters will be able to kill all the deer they want in Lauderdale and Colbert counties on private or public properties in the area through the end of the season to help eradicate the disease, but they must submit animals’ heads for testing in the highest-risk areas.
2. WY: 98% of kills from 1 muley herd tests poz for CWD.
Can’t link it, sorry – it’s at oilcity[dot]news
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Sounds like a shotgun/rifle/bow lol! Deets:
> Not only can it launch a full-length 376-grain arrow downrange at a swift 450 fps generating 169 fpe, but with a quick push of the barrel selector switch zings an equally powerful follow-up shot in less than 2 seconds.
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3. New Sightron riflescopes.
> …employs premium Japanese glass with Extra-Low Dispersion (ED) elements to enhance contrast, improve clarity and reduce chromatic aberration for the cleanest and sharpest sight picture possible. …gives shooters excellent light transmission and flare reduction when performance matters most. …best-in-class fields-of-view at 100 yards with 74.4 ft (5x)-12.4 ft (30x) and a comfortable eye relief of 3.6-3.4″.
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> …factory-fletched helical utilizing our 2″ Bully vane, designed exclusively for Easton by Bohning to provide the utmost in broadhead accuracy. For those who prefer to roll their own, Sonic 6.0 is also available in a bare shaft configuration.
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> If you’re bowhunting…chances are you’ll be wearing a glove. You need to practice at least a few shots with whatever gloves and coats you plan to wear.
> Gloves, especially those with tacky palms, can significantly affect your grip by not letting the bow settle into your hand. This will cause you to torque the bow and can throw off your point of impact.
> Switching to a heavier coat also can create contact with your bowstring that wasn’t a factor in warmer weather. …I was hitting a foot left of the target because my bowstring was contacting my coat sleeve. The coat was so thick that I didn’t even feel it.
> Muzzleloader hunters should be aware of possible moisture problems related to moving their gun from extreme cold to warm locations, which creates condensation. Wet powder and pellets won’t fire, so avoid that. You can remove the primer and be perfectly safe letting your muzzleloader in your vehicle (the trunk or bed of your pickup would be best for the same temperature-change reasons).
> In short, once your muzzleloader gets cold, it’s best to keep it cold, even between sits.
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“I started to crouch down…to shoot through a basketball-sized hole, and the buck picked me out in the tree. ‘That Deer’ was now locked on me….”
– Hunter Kade Means talkin’ on Bowhunter.com about getting the shot that put down this gargantuan deer – grossed 227 4/8 and netted 222 6/8:
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