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Look at this 253-inch NE monster!!
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Don’t know about you, but if I saw that deer I’d be chewing some aspirin and have some electrical paddles ready! 😁 Here’s some of the story, starting right after he bought the land:
> “This piece of land hadn’t been hunted since I’ve been around here, and all I knew of it was what I could see when shed-hunting the surrounding properties. We had found 3 consecutive years of sheds from a big buck on the neighboring properties, and we figured that deer was living on the place we just bought.”
> By utilizing trail cameras and occasional long-range glassing,…an area favored by the local deer. It was a 65-acre overgrown pasture that was surrounded by a cedar-filled canyon on 1 side, steep draws along 2 sides, and a standing cornfield bordering the 4th side. It was a natural sanctuary….
> In late Oct [2020], one of his trail cameras snapped a night photo of a giant buck. Trenton knew immediately what deer he was looking at…now he was a monster non-typical with stickers protruding everywhere.
> …Trenton took up his bow and went after the buck. 2 days into his archery hunt…was very close to taking the deer…. That evening as he watched the giant buck approach the water tank and come within 20 yards of his ground blind, Trenton had his first experience with “hyperventilating”….
> Nov 14 was the opening date of the 2020 NE firearms season, and Trenton had his rifle, location and plan all in order. It didn’t take long before Trenton spotted his first deer. Just as he identified it as being a doe, Trenton saw a huge set of antlers materialize out of the cedars. The doe was headed up the canyon, and the buck he was looking for was spitting distance behind her!
> When the doe stepped into the pasture, Trenton’s breathing went from fast to rapid…20 seconds later the buck stopped in front of him….
> “I was pretty excited when I took the first shot, but it still surprised me when I missed. Missing is what snapped me out of it, and I realized I had better make this happen before he caught on. Fortunately, the buck was running towards me and getting closer. This time when he stopped, I was ready, and the buck went straight down.”
The deer had 32 points and just a 13″ inside spread. Grossed at 253 5/8 and the record-book net is 236″ – amazingly that is just the #6 all-time for NE.
> The number of deer known to exceed 250″ of antler with an inside spread of 13″ or less could probably be counted with 3 fingers, if not fewer.
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“There are studies showing that in just a few hours in the forest…the body’s natural killer cells, key immune system cells in our blood, go up by as much as 50%.”
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> “I’m always returning to air, water, earth and fire. How do I get them back into my life….”
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What’s “better” – 6.5 Creedmoor or 6.5 PRC?
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> The 6.5 CM was released in 2007, and was named after the farm in Queens, NY where the NRA and the NY legislature combined to acquire a shooting range for International Competitions. …a rimless cartridge which headspaces off the 30-degree shoulder, and has a well-earned reputation for its accuracy and long-range capabilities.
> Its most common bullet weight is 140 grains, leaving the muzzle at right around 2700 fps, depending on your barrel. This equates to mild recoil, yet delivers a formula which makes the CM a perfectly viable 1,500-yard target cartridge….
> The 6.5 PRC (Precision Rifle Cartridge) mildly resembles the short magnums of the turn of the century, using the H&H base diameter of 0.532″, minimal body taper and the same 30-degree shoulder of the CM. …can be crammed into a short-action receiver, and in its factory guise will better the velocity of the CM by 250 fps or so.
> …the beefed-up velocity makes a substantial difference in trajectory and wind deflection at longer ranges, in fact the 6.5 PRC hits roughly 8″ higher at 500 yards. That performance does come at the cost of higher recoil, but I haven’t found the 6.5 PRC to be in any way unmanageable.
> The CM will strike 8″ low at 300 yards, 22″ low at 400 yards and 44″ low at 500 yards, while the PRC strikes 6″ low at 300 yards, 18″ low at 400 yards and 36″ low at 500 yards. This trajectory difference is very similar to the difference between the .30-06 Springfield and the .300 Win Mag, and it isn’t wrong to look at the CM and PRC as smaller versions of that famous pair of .30s.
> If you want a deer rifle which will do double-duty as a target rifle, and prefer a 7mm or .30-caliber for the larger species, the CM makes perfect sense. If you’re looking for an all-around choice for hunting the majority of North American species…the 6.5 PRC is a fantastic choice to fill that role. I feel the 6.5 PRC cartridge will continue to grow in popularity….
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Ever seen one frozen like this before? 😳
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GoHunt with the deets:
> …served with new trespassing charges for an incident in 2020 – just days after they were cleared for the same crime in 2021. According to WyoFile, in the new lawsuit, each MO hunter now faces one count of “violating WY’s criminal trespass law or the state’s trespassing-to-hunt statute.”
> …the original 4 also face a civil case brought by [NC resident and ranch owner Fred] Eshelman.
> During their spring meetings, the AK Board of Game made the decision to allow caribou and deer (mule and whitetail) to be taken with pre-charged pneumatic airguns (.35 cal and larger). This change will take effect on July 1. The AK Dept of Fish and Game is currently working on the regulation change.
Here’s what one looks like, the .35-cal Ataman M2R Carbine Air Rifle:
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Interesting angle:
> …fighting ME’s Sunday hunting ban under the “right to food” amendment to the state constitution. This is the first challenge of this ban under the new constitutional right to food.
> “Epizootic hemorrhagic disease dramatically reduced whitetail deer numbers along the Missouri River and parts of some western hunting units. As a result, license allocations in some units were dramatically reduced.”
168,427 deer:
> Of the deer harvested, 53% were antlered bucks, 4.4% were button bucks and 42.6% were does. Most deer were harvested with a gun (76.4%), followed by black powder (9.7%), bow (7.8%) and crossbow (6.1%).
> The commissioners voted to increase tag allocations in 8 WMUs, decrease them in 1 and hold the line in the remaining 13.
> After years of putting up with baying dogs and dead chickens, Medeiros and several other property owners are suing the state over its “right to retrieve” law, arguing that allowing hunters to go on their property without permission amounts to an uncompensated taking of their land and violates the state and federal Constitutions.
Since 1937. Bet that’s at leat $14.555555 bil more than so-called environmental groups!
> The investigation confirmed the Rineharts placed bait so their clients could kill deer, a violation of WY hunting regulations. The Rineharts charged hunters up to $3,000 for each deer hunt.
Just like with Remington, have to ask: Don’t we have an ammo shortage here in the US??
…maybe because:
> All sheep relocated to the Little Belts [Mountains] were tested for disease, but results weren’t available in time for the relocation.
16. 2A stuff.
> “At the end of the day, constitutional carry is about rights. A citizen authorized by law to possess a firearm shouldn’t have to pay a fee and ask permission from the government to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
Headlines of the Week
Talking about deer eating on some aspen grove in UT. National Geographic isn’t on our team….
> Over 300 with ‘neutral-seeming’ names were considered racist, while over 200 names further ‘white supremacy’
We definitely need more opinions from more professors…🙄
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Deer Disease News
> Since the fall of 2020, 11 wild deer have tested positive for CWD, all in Wyandot and Marion counties. 9 were confirmed in Wyandot County, and 2 were confirmed in Marion County.
> …will conduct informational public hearings May 27 in Winnsboro and May 28 in St Joseph on a notice of intent (NOI) that bans supplemental feeding and cervid carcass export from the Chronic Wasting Disease (control area, which includes Franklin, Madison and Tensas parishes.
> “There’s a need for us to determine how concerns over CWD have affected hunter participation in the area.”
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L to R – Browning Ovix, Eberlestock Dopple:Ganger Winter, Kryptek Obskura:
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> It is often helpful to imagine all the desirable components of a whitetail property (forage, security/thermal cover and water) to be well-balanced on a scale. Once you tip the property in favor of one or more of these components, you are taking away from the other components. Depending on the existing structure of your property, this may or may not be a problem.
> Ideally, vegetative succession of fawning cover would be maintained at or near your waistline.
> …fawn recruitment drives a property’s productivity. As a result, it often makes sense to develop these unused areas into fawning cover that leads to increased recruitment rates.
> One technique we use to evaluate fawning cover is to conduct the basketball toss test. Take a basketball to your managed fawning habitat and toss it backwards over your head. If you can turn around and see it, you better grab a chainsaw and get more sunlight to the forest floor!
> Whitetails thrive after habitat disturbances, such as hurricanes, tornados and timber cuts. So if you want to maintain a high level of daylight deer observations from your stands, you better sharpen your saw!
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“I remember smelling the fresh-cut corn. I also remember smelling the exhaust from the combine….”
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Michael Doggett’s 15-point KS smiling buck scored 223 4/8!! 🤯 Wildlife Analytical Labs tested the deer and found it was 6.5 years old:
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