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How ’bout this 195 net non-typ downed in MO!
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Adam Cummings got it in Nov, woulda been happy with a 150 on the farm he hunts but instead wound up with 13 scorable points, a 21″ inside spread, 40″ inches of mass, grossed 197 6/8 netted 195 as a non-typ!! 🤯 Here’s the story from Field & Stream:
> “Our area doesn’t produce giants like the ones you see coming from IA and KS.”
He was more than a little surprised then when he pulled that first trail-cam pic of the buck back in October. “It was an absolute giant MO whitetail.
> “As the days went on, I got a few more pics, all in the middle of the night. Toward the end of the month, he started moving earlier, but still after shooting hours ended. I kept hunting carefully, wanting to be in the stand, but not bust him out of there.”
> …on Nov 3, Cummings took another swing at the giant. “I sat in a different stand, this time in the northwest corner of the same field. At 5:30 pm, he came out again, using the same haul road to enter the field, but this time he was 100 yards east of me.” The buck chased a few does around the field, but never worked into bow range, so Cummings stayed in the stand until after dark so he wouldn’t spook him, then snuck out.
> Nov 5: “The wind was perfect for the stand. My DeerCast app said the conditions were ‘Great,’ and I just had a feeling that something special was going to happen. I got in there about 2:00pm and did not see a deer for 3 hours. But at 5:00 they started pouring out of the timber and into the cut corn. As soon as I saw the first one, I just grabbed my bow and held on.”
> …kept his bow in his hand for almost an hour straight, and at 5:50 he looked in the opposite direction of where he expected to see the buck, and there he was, standing 40 yards away on the haul road. “Once I knew it was him, I never looked at his antlers again. Amazingly he walked right down the road toward me, and there was some cover between us.”
> Cummings drew his bow while the buck walked perfectly broadside at 17 yards. “I managed to make a perfect double-lung shot, and he tore off but only made it about 90 yards before he tipped over. I was shaking so badly I couldn’t stop, but I finally gathered myself and was able to call my wife and my buddies.”
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“During mid-Nov, my dad came upon a severely damaged vehicle on the road right where we hunt. The driver said she hit a buck that was just absolutely huge.”
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– That’s IN’s Jon Geis talkin’, and he was afraid it was the buck him, his brother and dad had been tracking on their trailcams. Turns out it was – but he got it anyhow!
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BOOM! That’s a 200-incher! Jon’s 2nd buck ever – the 1st one was a 168! Not many details on this hunt, but the deed got done shortly after the car accident, on the 20 acres his family hunts outside Indianapolis – info from North American Whitetail:
> Jon sat all day in the stand and never saw a deer, until the last few minutes of shooting light. With less than half an hour left of legal shooting light, Jon laid eyes on a big, mature buck.
> The buck was standing across a small creek and out of bow range. So when the other deer that arrived with the buck started heading the other direction, Jon reached for his flextone grunt call. It took a few loud grunts to get the buck’s attention. The buck lost interest in the deer that he was with and started toward Jon. Jon added in one short snort-wheeze and things instantly changed!
> Within minutes, the huge buck was just 27 yards away, and Jon touched one off. The deer only ran about 30 yards before going down.
> When Jon and his family members recovered the buck, they noticed that his entire hide and skin on the back half of one side was gone! The poor buck had been living with quite the open wound. A grotesque sight for the hunters, but a testimony to the whitetail’s will to survive.
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GA “Pope” buck ended up being a Pope & Young!
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What’re the odds of that?? Nick Utley called that buck the Pope “because his rack is shaped like the hat/crown that a Pope wears on his head.” That crown rack rough-scored at 151″ and will probably net in the low 140s. Deets from GA Outdoor News:
> For about 2 years, Nick watched a deer he called “The Pope.”
> The Pope made regular appearances on Nick’s trail cameras throughout the entire 2021 summer, but when Sept came he disappeared. Oct rolled around, still nothing.
> “Toward the end of Nov I pulled all the cameras, kind of losing hope, thinking the season was basically over.”
> Christmas Day, Nick went to…visit with family and made a last-minute decision to hunt that afternoon. “I saw a doe followed by a small 6-point, then an 8-point. Right behind the 8-pointer was The Pope.”
> Nick couldn’t believe it considering the buck had been missing in action for quite some time. The Pope made the fatal mistake of coming in at 25 yards…draw back his Mathews V3 and make the perfect shot.
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Check out this headline from today:
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Just going to say a few things:
1. That would all of sudden be the #1 threat to deer hunting because it would kill the food web.
3. This whole deal is being pushed on Bloomberg, and we know all we need to know about Bloomberg.
4. It sure seems like the bad guys like to tell us what they’re going to do before they do it so….
5. Remember that “climate change” used to be called “global warming,” but the data didn’t support warming (despite that Bloomberg headline) so the term was changed – because for sure the climate will change one way or the other. It’s a dynamic system! Plenty of science on both sides of warming, so a few people deciding to block out the sun seems nuts.
6. Are these people crazy? Yep, does seem that way….
Not intended to be “political,” we just gotta pay attention to this stuff in the context of threats to hunting.
Prediction: Bet other liberal “news” media start running with it.
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Congrats to @chief_outdoors!
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> 60% of PA deer hunters support a Saturday-after-Thanksgiving start to the firearms deer season, while another 12% have no preference between a Saturday or Monday opener, and 27% oppose a Saturday opener, based on recent survey results….
> The top reasons cited by hunters who support a Saturday opener are that they have work obligations on Monday, that a Saturday opener provides increased hunting opportunities for themselves and others, and convenience with their child’s school schedule.
> …opposition to the Saturday opener is higher among hunters 55 and older, and among those who hunted from a hunting camp on opening day….
Because of threats to moose?
> …while whitetails can carry (and spread) brainworm benignly, the parasite poses a major threat to moose survival in the northeast.
> “In developing the (proposed deer-population goals for the northeast) we realized deer hunters wanted more deer.” But, “moose…did inform these deer population goals.”
> How rare are deer in the northeast? Last year hunters killed fewer than 0.3 of an animal per square mile, down significantly from a still-meager 0.9 as recently as 2011. Statewide, the deer harvest average is 2.5 per square mile.
Link ^, says to use a computer, not a phone.
Talking the 2020-21 season:
> According to the Natl Deer Assn…hunters harvested an estimated 6.3 mil whitetails over the 2020-21 season, the highest US deer harvest since 2011.
> An estimated 3 mil of those whitetails were bucks, which…makes the 2020-21 buck harvest the biggest in 21 years.
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> The majority of the claims, more than $760,000, were attributed to deer. Geese caused the 2nd-most damage with about $230,000 in claims, while bears were blamed for about $200,000 in damage.
Is that paid out of a DNR budget that’s mostly license fees and excise taxes on hunting/fishing gear? If so, should hunters be paying for that??
> These new [Land for Maine’s Future] projects are all over the state and they protect working lands and wildlife habitat…. And for the first time, they also protect deer habitat because of a bill approved by the Legislature which I signed into law, giving preferential consideration to those projects that conserve deer wintering habitats.
From an Ag website:
> Leasing property for hunting is one of the most unrealized sources of income for landowners, according to JT Kreager, CEO Base Camp Leasing, Fishers, IN.
Start talking to some folks!
> Commission dollars will be matched 3 to 1 by other sources, amounting to a total of $1.79 mil going to on-the-ground projects. The projects are anticipated to enhance 3 mil acres and benefit 7 herd units that make up 25% of the state’s mule deer population.
And…what does that mean for us??
> “…many species of flora and fauna, because of unique physiologies and habitats, are sensitive to exogenous EMF in ways that surpass human reactivity.
> “…this indicates enough information to raise concerns about ambient exposures to non-ionizing radiation at ecosystem levels. Wildlife loss is often unseen and undocumented until tipping points are reached. It’s time to recognize ambient EMF as a novel form of pollution and develop rules at regulatory agencies that designate air as ‘habitat’ so EMF can be regulated like other pollutants.”
- 40% more pistol ammo production at Federal, CCI, and Speer
- 15% more shotgun shells loaded across the board
- Hundreds of millions more primers added to the commercial market
They start in March.
Came from Vista Outdoor Inc, also worked at Hunter’s Specialties and Remington.
15. 2A stuff.
16. Keep an eye on….
Hunters are the conservationists! These groups and their allies in the media and gov’t are purposely trying to take the perception of middle ground from us by co-opting the term “conservationist.” We can’t let ’em!
Believe it or not, this MIGHT be less about human health and more about finding ways to stop folks from hunting. The anti-hunting/anti-gun lobby is that strong.
> These data points fly in the face of the July 1, 2019 CA law (AB 711) that made it illegal to use lead ammunition when taking wildlife with a firearm in the state.
So then what is the lead coming from? Not bullets!
Implication is that climate change is bad and deer expanding into Canada is bad.
Important because politicians are attempting to ban hunting NOT based on biology/ecology.
Headline of the Day
No such thing! There’s hunting, and there’s poaching, and that’s it!
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Deer Disease News
Here it is:
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> Starting this fall, deer hunting in Wayne County will be managed under the TWRA’s special CWD regulations. That includes requiring all harvested deer to be checked for CWD before transporting.
> Any CWD-infected deer will be confiscated and incinerated, and the hunter allowed to kill another one in its place.
> In the report, the DNR called for rapid detection of CWD within captive herds, timely slaughter of herds when they become infected by CWD, faster deadlines for herd owners to report deer deaths and faster deadlines to test the remains. Also, the DNR recommends movement restrictions be placed on any herd if the operator fails to test all dead deer for the disease.
Check out this MN farm deer head gear: 🤯
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> …5.56/.223 and .30-cal rifle suppressors offered in full titanium or titanium/aluminum tube material options….
> The length of 30-cal Nosler cans is 7.963″ and they weigh 9.2 oz or 13.1 oz depending on the tube material. The 5.56 cans are shorter, 7.533″, and weigh 9 oz or 12.8 oz. The diameter (presumably at the largest portion) of all Nosler suppressors is 1.74″. The 5.56 cans are threaded with the 1/2×28 thread pitch and the 30-cal Nosler silencers come with 5/8-24 mounting threads.
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Spoiler alert:
- Best Overall: Gold Tip Airstrike
- Best for Elk: Easton 5MM FMJ Autumn Orange 100 Year Limited Edition
- Best Long-Range: Easton 4MM Axis Long Range
- Best Affordable: Gold Tip Hunter XT
- Best Lightweight: Carbon Express Maxima Sable RZ Select
- Best for Deer Hunting: Carbon Express Maxima Red
- Best for Young People: Victory VForce Junior
- Best Technology-Rich: Victory VAP SS
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Rapid-Expansion, Reduced-Penetration, Mid- to Low-Weight-Retention Bullets
> The primary benefit of using a rapid-expansion bullet with mid- to low-retained weight – such as the Nosler Ballistic Tip Hunting, DRT TerminalShock, Remington Core-Lokt, Hornady InterLock, Winchester Power-Point, Berger VLD Hunting, and Lehigh Defense Controlled Chaos, among many others – is that the projectile creates tremendous damage to vital organs for speedy expiration of the animal. The washed-off material results in additional “secondary” wound channels for hastened hemorrhaging.
> …the more excessive the damage will be to edible meat if bone is encountered during penetration – especially if impacting at extreme velocities…. Hit the scapula and you’ll loose considerable meat….
> …bullets that shed a significant portion of their weight during penetration, or have excessive expansion diameters, don’t penetrate as deeply. Shots must be selected carefully, though. Except for follow-ups, these aren’t the bullets you choose for raking or frontal shots, as they can fall short of reaching the vital organs….
> Oftentimes there’s no exit hole – even on broadside shots – so there’s less blood to follow when tracking, but said internal damage quickens hemorrhaging, so the distance that the animal will cover after being shot is often short.
Deep-Penetration, High-Weight-Retention Bullets
> …because of smaller frontal diameters post-expansion, offer very deep penetration. The smaller expanded diameter, when coupled with the fact that minimal material is washed off during penetration, reduces damaged edible meat.
> I prefer using bullets of this type for novice hunters; even if the hunter makes a bad shot (shoulder, angle, head-on, etc.) the projectile has a better chance of hitting critical organs and structures to down the animal quickly.
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“Finding arrows, blood trails, rotting, dismembered deer carcasses and wounded deer are not only violations, but a level of violence most urbanites find repulsive.”
– That’s true and is from a post against urban deer hunting. Not sure what to do about the blood, but the rest should be cleaned up because most city folks think differently than we do.
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