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98 sits!! 🤯 If you saw this deer on your land, you’d be after it all season too!
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> Going into Sept 2020, Jason’s then 16-yr-old son found a huge buck, but the deer was nearly a mile away from any ground they own or lease. The buck sported an extra-large typical rack with tall tines and a really big frame.
> The pair moved a feeder to a part of their property that was closest to where the deer was staying…the buck found the feeder and began visiting it just about every night. …the buck remained nocturnal.
> Shortly before opening day of the Sept youth hunting season opener…the milo field nearby ripened. …knew all too well that the buck would likely abandon the feeder for the ripe milo crop. And the buck did.
> The youth season wrapped up, which then rang in the regular muzzleloader and archery seasons. …without so much as a sighting of the buck.
> Jason knew the deer was traveling and staying between the milo field and the feeder, so his plan of attack was to sit at those 2 spots every chance he could in the hopes of catching the deer slipping up, just once, during daylight hours. If it wasn’t raining, Jason and Brandon were sitting in stands waiting for the buck to show…spent about 70 days hunting the buck.
> “The area that we either own or lease encompasses about 3,300 acres, but once mid-Nov hit, the buck moved about a mile and a half into a river system that was just packed with does.”
> The river system was on land the Brin family owns. They were glassing the buck every morning and evening and felt like they had him pegged. The only catch: There was really no way to bowhunt him there.
> “About the only thing you can try to do there is just sit in the river bottom and hope he happens to come by.” So that’s what they did…2 weeks left until rifle season, and the Brin men wanted to get the buck on the ground before then, if possible.
> The big bruiser was either always with a doe, or always fighting with another buck. “We were really concerned that with all of the fighting he was doing he would break off some of his tines. We had already decided that if he broke more than one repairable tine that we were not going to shoot him.”
> …[eventually] the buck showed up, standing in the open with 5 or 6 does. It was the 98th day of hunting the deer…. Jason laid on his stomach and nestled his rifle on his duffle bag. The deer was 370 yards away and downhill. A few seconds and one well-placed shot later, the buck…was on the ground.
Scored 196 7/8 gross and netted 178! 💪 98 sits!! 🤯 👊
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Is the new Revic Optics BR4 Ballistic Rangefinder the next step in rangefinders?
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> …along comes the portable rangefinder, and the rifleman’s life in the field started to change. We could measure distances accurately to the target with the press of a button, so guessing became a thing of the past.
> With the rangefinding issue solved, shooters moved on to using ballistic calculators that factored a bullet’s velocity and its ballistic coefficient (BC) to accurately predict where it would intersect with a target at any distance the shooter could accurately measure. …the ballistic calculator could tell him to dial several minutes of angle (MOA) or mils of elevation onto his scope….
> Of course, accurately measuring barometric pressure, temperature and humidity were also necessary to achieve absolute precision. This need brought the presence of the handheld weather station to the shooter’s kit bag.
> These last few years have seen all 3 of these devices converge into one hand-held unit. Allow me to introduce the Revic Optics BR4 I’ve been recently using. It’s no longer necessary to carry 3 separate pieces of gear.
> Revic Optics is the only maker I know of that shapes and sizes the reticle in the BR4 like the beam the device projects. I’m surprised that no one has done this before. Knowing the shape and size of the beam allows the shooter to use it effectively.
> Another key feature of the BR4 is its scanning mode. It allows the shooter to pick which distance measurement they want to see on the display screen, near or far. Since the beam is wide, it usually hits the target and what’s behind it. Also, sometimes weather reflects the beam before it reaches the target. Revic Optics allows the shooter to work through both of those scenarios. Using the beam’s shape and scanning mode allows the BR4 to do things that no other rangefinder currently can.
> The BR4 has a 10X zoom optical system, so placing the beam’s shape on target is easier than most of the 7X rangefinders available.
> Once properly set up through the free app and loaded into the BR4 (a simple process), the shooter puts the reticle on the target, hits a button, and the elevation and windage holds appear on its screen. Dial those adjustments on the scope and fire to hit the target. Never has so much technology been put to such efficient work with the touch of a single button.
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A new Rem Model 700 is just about here?? 👀
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> I can’t comment too awful much on this one, other than to assure you that the rebirth of the world-famous Model 700 is imminent, and the folks producing it describe the rifle as having “all the features you’d ever want in a Model 700.”
> Seeing as how the new company kept the operation in Ilion, NY and retained the majority of former employees, I am excited to experience the latest rifle in the series…. MSRP: $519-$839.
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“The entire outcome of the hunt depends on 1 bullet and how well you deliver it to the game. I am always puzzled when somebody shows up in camp for a very expensive hunt with cheap, bargain-shelf ammo.”
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> I recommend you practice with the ammo you will use for the hunt. Sure it’s expensive, but it’s better to learn the holds for long range with the exact ammo you will use on the hunt. If you practice with one ammo and then shoot another on the hunt, all your data may be off. Also, any problems with the ammo-and-gun marriage will show up on the shooting range, not during the hunt.
Guilty of trying to cheap it most times! Reminds me of this meme:
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Study says they kill more than deer hunters, which along with bobcats used to do the most damage to deer down there. Panthers = cougars = mountain lions.
> “The GPS collar can tell us more about fawn survival rates, what the primary causes of deer mortality are, and what types of habitats they prefer.”
> “I would forewarn anybody who has a European mounted deer on the wall, or a shoulder mount, that if they are asked by our friends at the DNR how they got that deer, their 5 words need to be ‘this deer has been processed.’ If I would have said that the night they interrogated us, there would be no going to court,” Snyder says.
> “They have a lot of time on their hands. When you can bring five game wardens to a case – one from Polk County, one from Pottawattamie County, and three others – and justify that for a $175 misdemeanor, somebody’s got to explain to me how the DNR runs their ship.”
> The judge found Snyder not guilty right after hearing the testimony – saying he did nothing wrong.
> “No, they don’t apologize for anything. They sent me a note and said I could have the four European mounted deer if I wanted to drive to Taylor County and get them…. But I’m not falling into that trap. I have no idea what they’re up to. And I don’t want anything to do with them.”
> Game management officials say the relatively mild winter helped balance the effects of devastating drought conditions last summer and fall.
> The spring count is a turnaround from last fall’s demographic survey, which indicated a population 21% above the long-term average but with the lowest fawn-to-doe ratio since 2012.
We’re assuming there’s an online map but still…wouldn’t signs be more practical?
…for some National Wildlife Refuges:
> Making it more difficult to hunt, through prohibiting lead ammunition or otherwise, would also undermine the success of the Pittman-Robertson Act. This widely popular law allocates millions of federal dollars from an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and other sporting goods to all 50 states and territories for conservation efforts.
> Elevation is your friend. Find high ground and look down upon your prey. …spend lots of time looking so that when you decide the low ground is clear, you can move relatively quickly and freely through it until you begin to approach the next elevated vantage point.
> This technique is the only way to cover ground quickly when you’re stalking on foot.
…about the number of deer hunters allegedly declining – bearing in mind this is after huge increases in most states due to Covid lockdowns:
> Without hunters, alternative methods…will have to be deployed.
“Without hunters”?? Then he lists:
- “…hiring trained sharpshooters to cull deer herds.”
- “…fertility control through contraception vaccines or surgeries.”
- “…commercialize the harvest of deer.”
This is a reaction to the Chicken Little opinion about deer hunters declining from a Penn State researcher. Disappointing. There will never be a “without hunters”! 👊
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Good to hear – make it a million!
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😂
> Its no-travel design locks into position the trigger and hook forming a solid resting position. The owner and designer Jake Major said, “The trigger and hook have independent axis points and when rotated inward towards each other creates a rock-solid position. This innovative design reduces parts needed and when set, it either breaks clean or doesn’t move. It’s one or the other, it has no travel.”
> …this innovation has been injected into their Moment, Select, Harvester & Professional release aids. No other release on the market has the innovation that reduces parts, increases accuracy, while gaining enormous strength & reliability.
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> …from the point of view of the deer hunter who may take his or her rifle for a few different species, the mild recoil and economic benefits of the .308 Win will shine…. But for a hunter who wants to travel the world and wants 1 rifle for the vast majority of his or her hunting excursions…it is really hard to beat the wide range of applications that the .300 Win Mag is suited for.
> …it seems that my .300 Win Mags get to go on vacation, while my .308 Wins tend to stay home. The world needs both, and I don’t see either of them going anywhere, anytime soon.
14. 2A stuff.
“Incentives” remind you of anything??
> Proposed red flag legislation, for example, already talks about federal “incentives” (most likely grants) to states to implement “extreme protection orders” that allow for removal of guns from a person “deemed unsafe.”
Wow.
[A thought after going through all this: “Shall not be infringed” obviously means that the people who the Founding Fathers were concerned about – about trying to hijack America – is EVERYONE who is now trying to infringe!]
15. Keep an eye on…
Not hunting but it was supposedly because releasing fish is “cruel” – and either way is another case of a gov’t intrusion into fundamental rights. A government can tell you if you can put a fish back into the water or not?? Crazy.
Headline of the Week
Would you read that as sayin MI hunter numbers are down? They’re not. Says right in the article that it’s down 4% from a 5% boost in 2020-21.
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Deer Disease News
Talks about poz tests increasing but not any effect on the herds…?
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8 options from Bowhunter.com ^ – here’s one, the Mathews Tactic ($849.00):
> The Tactic sports Mathews’ ultra-smooth AVS DYAD cam system that delivers a top-end speed touching 335 fps. With a leftoff set at 80% and draw-length adjustments ranging from 23″ to 30″….
> With an axle-to-axle length just over 30″, its compact design makes maneuvering in tight spots like ground blinds or heavy cover a big advantage, and with Mathews’ stable riser platform and a forgiving brace height of 7″, the Tactic has the makings of a top-end bow without the price tag. T…weight just over 4 lbs.
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> …because hunters are excited and want it to happen so badly, they almost always start tracking too quickly. That’s a huge mistake, especially on the large-bodied, mature bucks we have out here. Once these deer recognize that someone is on their trail, they get a huge adrenaline dump and turn almost bionic, running hard even when they might be mortally wounded.
> Well, a running deer never leaves as much blood as a walking one, and out here there’s tons of grass, CRP and crop fields – all spots where finding blood is just a bunch harder.
> The trick is to just try and settle down as much as possible immediately after the shot, while you’re still in the stand. Sit down. Grab your rangefinder and laser the spot where the deer was standing. Write that distance down or text it to yourself. Note a nearby landmark if possible. Do the same thing where you last saw the deer.
> Then sit there, in your stand, for no less than 30 minutes, preferably longer. If you think you had a pass-through, go to the spot you lasered (because once you get down on the ground everything looks different), and make a brief search for the arrow. If you can find it right away, great – it’ll give you clues about the hit. But if not, just back out and give the deer time.
> The buck won’t be any less dead in an hour or 3 when you come back. If [you] can get a buddy, preferably someone with experience, get that person to meet you. You’re still going to be anxious and excited, and your buddy won’t be. Sometimes, the worst guy to have tracking a deer is the guy who shot him.
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“One of the antler spikes broke my skull in the eye socket area. Then it went slightly into my brain.”
> A hunter from Poland was in the middle of a hunt when a young red stag came charging back at him through the tall brush. Unable to get a clear view of deer, and with little to no time to react, the poor hunter stood there and got absolutely railroaded by the charging stag.
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Amazingly it sounds like he will be fine! Praise God man wow!
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