Ohio x-bow giant! Grunt tube in the heat? New Realtree perfume??

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> “He had 13 points, with a split brow tine and a kicker. I found his sheds the next spring and he scored 123, which is pretty amazing for a 2-yr-old….

> “The next summer I started getting pics of him almost immediately on my mineral licks. The buck was growing all summer, and when the archery season opened, he had 18 points and a drop tine. I figured he would be right around 170, and that would be the biggest buck I’d ever killed.

> “But I just kept thinking about the jump he’d made from the year before and wondered if he could do that again. If so, I’d be looking at something special. So when he walked out on the food plot and fed to within 10 yards, I didn’t even draw my bow. I knew I had to let him go.”

So Ryan was kinda like this?

> “But I was not prepared for the jumps in growth I’d see as the summer progressed. His rack seemed to blow up every week.

> “I almost always use a vertical bow, but I knew if I got a chance at this buck, I wanted every advantage. I have a TenPoint Vengeance, so decided I’d use that.

> “[Last fall] he fed within easy bow range, and I made a perfect double-lung shot. Still, I gave it a couple of hours before looking for him. I called my wife, my parents, and a couple of friends who joined me on the blood trail, which was pretty easy to follow.

> “I honestly didn’t think he was a 200-inch buck until we walked up on him. When I got to put my hands on him, I was pretty sure he was breaking that barrier with some room to spare.”

Heck yeah Ryan, love the self-control and wow what crazy growth! What’s in those licks??

> “Late that evening I started grunting with my tube call. I sat there until 30 minutes before dark and grunted a few more times. I’ve grunted up quite a few deer with that call, especially during the early muzzleloader season. I think it’s best used then anyway because they’re more interested in fighting.

> “I was sitting between 2 great big rocks. When I stood up and turned around close to 7:00, ready to leave, I saw this buck looking in my direction from right about 100 yards away. There was a perfect rest for my muzzleloader right off one of the rocks.

> “I guess it didn’t see me because of the boulders. I shot, and the buck went about 10 yards, rolled over and started kicking. I reloaded, but then decided to just let him die.”

Scored 193 3/8 – nice one Dean!

> The unique record-setting sheds got the attention of collectors willing to pay an extremely high price for the pair even though only one of them has any real value.

> The right antler has the #2 (just over 14″) and the #5 (slightly over 13″) drop tine all time. The shed has no chews and comes with the smaller antler suspected to be from the same deer from another year. The buck is from Marshall County IL.

What do you do with $18,000 sheds???

> Realtree Mountain Series for Her opens up with a distinctive combination of red orange, green tea and amber, mingling with jasmine, bergamot and red rose.

Guys if your wife’s not a hunter, you might wanna make sure no frying pans are around before you give her your gift lol.

> It is estimated that the deer population…is around 314,000. Compared to 2018, the population has dropped by more than 55,000.

> Officials stated that bison, elk, and bighorn sheep permits may increase – this is under the same proposal.

2. IL bill would expand rifle season from 3 days to 4.

> “It’s been brought up to me many times,” said state Rep. Andrew Chesney…. “It would also be a little closer to the rut.

> “We spend over a million dollars to test deer to try to combat waste disease. The more deer harvest that we can have to try and give these hunters who are still paying their permit fees, it’s a better practice and will be welcome by anybody who likes to enjoy deer hunting.”

3. ND: Bunch of bills on new outdoor regs.

Lotsa stuff, including asking permission from private landowners to place trailcams and being able to wear fluorescent pink too. The weirdest one: Having a disabled vet license and season passed the House 91-0 but failed in the Senate 39-8?? 🤯

4. NH buck harvest is 2nd-biggest evah.

7,986 bucks and 13K+ overall.

5. TX allows deer tracking dogs in east TX.

6. NY opening day will be during a full moon?

7. PA study: Does disperse farther than bucks.

> …males travel more than 3 miles, typically in direct, straight-line fashion. Females…often seemingly wander around before settling down an average of about 9 miles from where they started.

8. PA: UPenn still refuses to allow student hunting/shooting club.

School says it’s now because of covid rules…which makes no sense but then again a bunch of what colleges (especially the Ivy League) have done makes no sense. Ben Franklin founded UPenn – wonder what he’d say about it? 🇺🇸

9. ID will install new livestock fence better for muleys.

Can’t link it, at backcountryhunters org.

10. NV: Case made that predator management doesn’t help muleys.

11. New Bob Nosler autobiography: “Born Ballistic.”

Maybe it’ll be a fast read? 😁

12. Haynes Shelton is new editor of NA Whitetail mag.

They also hired a new digital editor.

13. 2A stuff

PNC, Chase and TD Bank among those saying no to folks in the firearms biz. And here’s a list of companies and CEOs that are anti-2A.

CA still wants “assault weapons” registered, activists pushing for ban.

14. Other stuff to keep an eye on

We all know the mass media is used to sway public opinion so:

It’s time to eradicate wildlife killing contests from New York

That has been popping up regularly across the country for the last 2 years. What they are talking about wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar of most hunters. But it does give the impression they want.

Buy an AR-15 and join the Criminally Insane Men’s Club

The mass media and politicians have pretty successfully convinced the non-gun-owning public that the 2A is about gun technology rather than restricting the intrusion of the federal govt. And they are still at it.

Real interesting post about how the efforts of anti-gun folks end up incarcerating more people of color.

1. WY stops commission from closing winter elk feeding grounds…

…due to CWD fears:

> The WY legislature on Monday passed a bill that strips the WY Game and Fish Commission of the authority to close any of WY’s 22 winter elk feedgrounds and gives that power to the governor.

> Amid elevated worries about fatal incurable chronic wasting disease infecting feedground elk and spreading more rapidly because of the artificial crowding on feedgrounds….

So…the governor-appointed commission can’t do it but the governor can…who is maybe then advised by the commission? 🤔

Joe is a member of the Buck family and an artisan knife maker. They all look cool, like the blade on this Bowie: 😍

> …called Specter…it is actually generated by an algorithm programmed to mimic naturally-occurring patterns in the wild. …also worked with seasoned whitetail hunters to field-test the product….

> A portion of all sales of Specter will go directly to the National Deer Association….

> Every aspect of the chair is designed to be quiet so that a hunter can swing around and check every angle without making a peep.

…to find your stand in the dark? Works up to 300 yards away – maybe great if your path is clear and straight?

> …the FireMax earmuff and FireMax Walkie Talkie combo provides greater communication convenience than conventional hand-held radios and ensures hearing protection is never compromised.

Summit Carbon II and Ridgeview Carbon.

7. Better the Hunt x-bow mitt for cold-weather hunting.

> Colt first released the revolver in 1990. It produced the gun until 2003. After 18 years, it returns.

> For those unfamiliar, the Anaconda is a 6-round, large-frame revolver. Colt chambered the original version in .44 Mag and .45 Colt. The new 2021 Anaconda is available in .44 Mag.

> The original version featured barrel lengths of 4″, 6″ and 8″…the 2021 Anaconda…just 6″ and 8 “. The profile comes from the full-lug, ventilated rib barrel.

> Colt fully redesigned the revolver to utilize an oversized Python action with a bulked-up frame for added strength.

> …features a leaf-spring action, which improves trigger pull. Like the other re-releases, recoil-absorbing Hogue overmolded grips are interchangeable with the grips. Meanwhile the sights are elevation and windage adjustable. Users can switch them out with an Allen key.

> A recessed target crown offers protection. Also, like the other Colt revolvers, the cylinder rotates clockwise. Colt drilled the frame and tapped it for optic mounts.

MSRP is $1,499.

Yep drawing a tag for primo western hunts is hard to impossible. But Petersen’s Hunting says if you’re willing to hunt with a shorter-range weapon, you might have a chance:

> if you are willing to use short-range weapons like crossbows, handguns, muzzleloaders, air rifles or shotguns, you can put a tag in your pocket. In Colorado, for instance, hunters can draw muzzleloader hunts with fewer points than are required to draw general rifle hunts in premium areas.

> As a bonus, the state’s muzzleloader season is in the middle of the rut and prior to general rifle season. Idaho pronghorn tags are another notoriously difficult draw, but applying for short-range weapon hunts can significantly increase your odds of being selected.

> Red-dot reflex sights are a popular choice for all short-range weapons, and with good reason. At ranges out to 100 yards or so there’s simply no better optic for hunters than a reflex sight because they offer a wide field of view and, unlike magnified optics, they are parallax free and offer unlimited eye relief.

> One reason so many hunters select red dot optics for their short-range weapons is that reflex sights are more compact and weigh considerably less than traditional scopes.

> For shots under 200 yards, reflex sights give up little to magnified optics with regard to accuracy.

– New Zealand hunter talkin’ about making sure of your target and beyond for the red deer season this “autumn” – which means right now down there. They celebrate Easter in the fall! They also call the rut the “roar:”

> The popular hunting period known as the “roar” gets its name from the behavior of male deer, which roar to warn off rival stags. Hunters mimic the roar to attract them.

And:

> “…we also have Easter this year coinciding with the peak of the rut.”

How weird does that sound!

> I was lucky enough to gain permission to shed-hunt a new farm for my last trip and boy am I thankful for that opportunity!!

> I really wasn’t expecting for a home run hunt but that’s exactly what happened. Called the local DNR and got this boy tagged.

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