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TN velvet season wraps up with some good’uns!
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Only runs 3 days on private land, but TN’s velvet hunt is making a name for itself in the 4 years it’s been around. Bowhunting.com had a roundup of a few nice bucks – pics L to R:
> Despite the heat, the weather for this year’s hunt was a big improvement over the endless thunderstorms and tornadoes that swept across the state during the 2020 velvet buck hunt.
> J.T. Ardis: “The buck was with 2 younger bucks as they came by my stand just 20 yards away. I made the shot and watched the deer crash away. I wasn’t sure about my shot at first, but was later stoked to find my shot was good and my velvet buck was piled up not far down the trail.”
> Josh Wilson: “With a small window of opportunity, I sent the arrow from my TenPoint crossbow toward the buck. After sitting for a few minutes to settle down, I called my buddies to help me track the buck. We found blood shortly after my buddies showed up, and we soon found my buck laying at the end of the trail. It was a big blessing God gave me that morning!”
> Wes Hancock: “After sitting in the heat for several hours, I caught movement coming up the ridge towards me. To my excitement, 3 bucks in a single file line were heading right towards me, with Bullwinkle in the back of the line. I grabbed my bow and stood up, saying a prayer under my breath as he stepped in the clear.”
Congrats fellas!
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Whitetail Diaries guys got ‘er done in KY! 👀
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> Day 3 in KY was an epic rollercoaster of emotions. Last night I put an arrow in this buck at 22 yards. Shot felt and looked great but in bowhunting anything is possible and in reality [the shot] was a bit back. After 22 hours we finally got our hands on this stud thanks to Odie (the beagle) and his team of handlers.
Sounds like Steve connected on his beast a couple evenings before. KY is a regular early-season stop for Wade and this is why!
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Last day OH beast coulda been in the 200 club!
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That hoss scored 184 4/8″ typ which nobody’s gonna turn their nose up at. But it lost at least 20″ of mass from scrapping with other bucks. Buckmasters had the story of Scott Rawlings’ last-day-of-the-season buck, which started with a single trailcam shot:
> He realized he knew a guy who owned land closer to where the deer had been photographed. After gaining permission to hunt the property, he set out a trail camera. 4 days later he retrieved a daytime photo of the deer….
> The rack was missing 2/3 of its longest drop tine, and the matching pig-stickers were gone, but it was still breathtaking.
> “I had about a month to get the job done before bow season ended.” To increase his odds, Scott decided to hunt with a crossbow instead of his compound…wasn’t much cover around his stand, and he didn’t want the deer to bust him mid-draw.
> He collected a lot of photos of the buck throughout Jan, but he never saw it until Feb 5, the last day he could hunt.
> Soon after he’d settled into his stand that freezing-cold afternoon, 10 does arrived. The 11th deer to take the snowy stage was the giant buck….
Didn’t say how long the shot was, but he made it:
> The rack wound up scoring 184 4/8″ as a typical. The missing points would’ve sent it well above the 200″ mark and into another category.
> …he asked his taxidermist to restore the rack to its original state, using the many trailcam photos as references.
We couldn’t find a pic of the mount….
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Mossberg’s MVP Patrol Rifle is now in .300 Blackout.
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A patrol rifle is a great option if you want something light and maneuverable for thick woods or a close-quarters deer blind. .300 BLK is a great-hitting, short- to medium-range load designed to be shot subsonic – and the MVP has a threaded barrel! Guns and Ammo took a look:
> Innovation is at the core of MVP Patrol rifles with their patented designs that accept and reliably feed from both AR15-style magazines (300 BLK/5.56mm) and M1A/M14- and AR10-style magazines (7.62mm).
> …include 16.25″ medium bull, button-rifled and threaded barrel with A2-style muzzle brake (protective thread cap included); pillar-bedded stock; oversized bolt handle; Mossberg’s LBA Trigger System that is user-adjustable from 3 to 7 lbs; optimal twist rates for bullet stabilization; factory-mounted Picatinny rail; and front fiber optic and rear barrel-mounted adjustable rifle sight.
> Its superior ballistics make this intermediate rifle cartridge effective for mid- to large-sized game including deer, hog and black bear.
Seems kinda like steal at $613 MSRP.
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> After doing some research on this deer and talking with some friends we’ve figured out he has fibroma, or deer warts. They can live with it forever but….
Nothing new in the deer world but they sure are gross!
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They even have a firearms season….
…an increase in antlerless harvest, expanded shooting hours, and hunter orange or pink clothing, among other things.
5. IA will have fewer deer processing locations this year?
Processors have a ton of beef and pork, maybe because of the western droughts? (Ranchers having to sell their stock.) Can’t put in the link, it’s at: wgem com
> Interested parties should reach out to careers@archerytrade.org. Please indicate interest in the position by Friday, Sept 24.
Legacy Sports International = Howa, Hardy Rifle, Pointer, Citadel, Nikko Stirling.
> Net sales were $274.6 mil, an increase of $44.7 mil or 19.5% over the comparable quarter last year.
Goes WAY beyond firearms safety.
Amazing:
> “The commotion caused by the attack and the boy’s screaming alerted the mom who was inside. She ran outside and immediately started striking and punching at the lion and managed to fend the lion off her son.”
Ain’t just bear moms that are fierce!
Our 2c: If people are seeing them, they’re there. Doesn’t just have to be a biologist who sees ’em….
17. 2A stuff.
18. Keep an eye on….
Big media sites in OH, KS and other states are saying that covid is in deer. That evidence is not solid, from what we’ve seen, and no evidence so far that it can jump to people if deer have it. Not saying it is or isn’t true, just keep an eye on it!
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Deer Disease News
> Under the new policy, DNR will focus on deer in rotating regions of the state each year and also enlist taxidermists and meat processors to submit samples, instead of statewide.
> A “Do Not Eat” advisory perimeter around Clark’s Marsh was shrinking to a 3-mile radius around the marsh from the previous 5-mile radius set in 2018.
> “Within a 10-mile radius of that positive case, we’re going to try and collect 300 samples. That should give us a 95% confidence interval of detecting the disease if it’s present in at least 1% of deer.”
🤔 So many numbers…!
Doesn’t say who’s on it but:
> “…will assess how we’re directly managing the disease on the ground. But what has really emerged in the last decade is that the key to managing CWD is hunter behavior. So as the department, [we ask] how can we get buy-in with people and various stakeholders and really shift hunter behavior to the best practices to lower the risk of CWD spread.”
6. WY DNR wants lymph node samples for CWD monitoring.
Can’t link it, at: oilcity news
Says it happens every summer….
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> Offers both a striking design statement and a high-precision way to access the great mysteries of the natural world in a compact form. A key point…was the seamless and clean-looking bridge design.
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Love us some pocket blades – really cool styles:
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> The M360 Revolution is a swiveling seat built on a 40″ circular platform with the seat in the middle so the hunter is set back from the tree.
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> This portable, lightweight (2-lb 6-oz) seat is compact…new dual-pole design allows for greater stability, more comfort, hands-free sitting and an easier setup.
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Jay’s had his eyes on these for a while now (thinking about the .357 Mag!) – looks cool, supposed to shoot well, threaded, and has the side loading gate now so…. Game and Fish took a look:
> …includes rifles chambered in .38 Spl/.357 Mag, .44 Spl/.44 Mag, .45 Colt, .30-30 Win and .45-70 Govt, as well as a .410-bore shotgun….
> Rather than hardwood…the X Model sports a polymer buttstock and fore-end. Polymer is impervious to the elements and less susceptible to scratches and dents than wood….
> Unique to the X Model, the fore-end is one of the rifle’s defining features. Molded into its bottom in front of the sling-attachment point is a 4-slot Picatinny rail, and 2 Magpul M-Lok slots are located at the 3:00 and 9:00 positions. These provide options for attaching accessories such as lights and lasers.
> …no question that suppressors have become more popular in the field and on the range, and the muzzle’s 5/8 x 24 thread pattern permits easy attachment of many models.
> The magazine can be loaded through the gate with a suppressor in place. Moreover, whether the rifle is equipped with a can or not, this loading method is faster than removing the magazine’s brass liner and loading through the port in the tube.
> Sights have disappeared on many hunting rifles, particularly bolt-action models, but Henry knows they have a place on lever guns and gives them emphasis on the X Model. The front and rear sight both contain fiber-optic inserts for better visibility.
> During my range time with the X Model, I put more than 140 rounds through the rifle, and it functioned without fail.
> The X Model was among the most accurate .30-30 lever-action rifles I’ve ever shot. The overall average of 15 3-shot groups with 3 different loads fired from 100 yards was 1.26″.
MSRP is $1,019. WANT!! 😍
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> …most ladder stands are not hidden adequately. Think of them as elevated ground blinds. I like sprawling limbs above a stand platform, and plenty of cover from the ground up. For some sets, that’s a double- or triple-trunked tree. For others, it’s a big cedar or several leafy saplings growing near the tree base.
> I also want multiple pieces of cover – extra trees, cane thickets, grown-up field edges – between the stand and the best shooting lanes. Our stands are rarely facing directly at the best shooting lanes. Instead, they’re offset so that the lanes are to the side or, in some cases, slightly behind the tree.
> …those lanes…are small and carefully created. Rather than fell a whole tree to open a path…one of us will climb into the stand and direct the other to cut away smaller, specific limbs, often with a pole saw.
> We set 3 of our best stands on ravine edges (2 of those 3 stands accounted for all the buck tags filled…). You sneak up the edge of the ravine to the base of the ladder, and crawl in virtually unseen. One of those stands is on the edge of a food plot, and we’ve actually crawled in and out of it undetected while deer were in the plot.
> Playing on your phone. Swatting mosquitoes. Practicing drawing on deer you don’t plan to shoot. All no-go moves from a ladder stand. Pretend like you’re turkey hunting. Every single movement you make, especially if a deer is in sight, needs to be planned, slow and deliberate.
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“This doesn’t seem like a job to me. I feel like I’ve lived my retirement already.”
– Wayne Plummer talkin’ – who with his wife Barbara have operated the Northern Pride (hunting) Lodge in Kokadjo, ME for the last 21 years. Sounds like fun!
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