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PA’s #1 x-bow typ almost (shoulda?) got blown out!
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> “As soon as I settled in around 3:00, I immediately noticed the wind hitting the back of my neck. I was horrified….” Rather than lose stand time and risk spooking deer, he opted to stay put. Not long afterward, he seriously regretted the decision.
> Just as he’d feared – perhaps not enough – a mature doe wandered into his scent stream at a mere 35 yards, got as noseful, and did a 180…. Deer #2 did the same thing, only [faster].
> “Soon after the doe left, I saw a beautiful 8-pointer approaching from 50 yards. When the deer was at 30 yards, I thought, This is it. I’m going to get a crack at that buck.”
> The wind shifted, however, and the buck whiffed him. Its departure was far faster than its arrival.
> “I’d just glanced at my phone (it was 3:35) when I heard a twig snap and turned to see a buck with a monstrous rack coming toward me, this time – thank God – from upwind.”
He aimed his x-bow and made the shot: “I knew that deer was toast.” Sure was! Public-land 15-pointer is PA’s #1 x-bow typ.
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WI hunter arrowed a stud buck that came back after 3 years.
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John Kjos got pretty dang excited when he got pics of this big buck in early October – a buck that had come back since going awol in 2017. John told NA Whitetail he started hunting it right away – and after 10 days had a close call with the buck but nothing to show for it. On Oct 27, he sat in his stand again:
> The wind was perfect, blowing right into my face. At 3:38pm 4 does came down the trail to the pond. Around a half-hour later, about 4:20pm, I heard something again. I was shocked when I looked up and spotted the 16sq buck [nickname] coming down the same trail….
> I slowly reached for my bow and stood up. I turned my sight to 32 yards…pulled back my bow. He stepped out from behind the brush, and I released. I watched my arrow bury into his rib cage…he stopped for a couple of seconds after the first 50 yards before turning and walking up a steep hill out of sight.
> The next morning, 4 of us met Rob, the owner of a skillful tracking dog named Jager. We showed Rob and Jager exactly where the deer was standing when he was shot.
> We moved forward about 50 yards and Rob found my arrow. As he picked it up and looked it over, he declared the buck would be dead in another 75 yards.
> Jager and Rob were about 40 yards ahead of us when Rob called down the hill that there was lots of blood, and my 17-yr-old son climbed that hill in seconds! As my son crested the hill to where Rob and Jager were standing, he looked back at us with a huge smile…. When the rest of us finally caught up with my teenager we looked over the hill and there was the 16sq buck.
Grossed 188, and netted at 171 4/8 typ – real nice deer John!
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Brow tines nearly as tall as his G2s!
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👀 GIANT Indiana deadhead green-scored at 211!! 🤯
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Found in Sullivan County, IN by @swampbrosoutdoors. They say he’s almost ready for the dry-out score. Hard to imagine there’s gonna be a lot of shrinkage on a deadhead that’s been sittin’ in a field so wow! Great pic too….
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Lol how great is this! .22 LR so pretty sure it ain’t legal for whitetail anywhere, but man it’s real dang cool! CMMG built a .22 Han Solo replica based on their Banshee lineup. Features a Kalashnicarver grip, 4.5″ barrel and the sweet new zeroed .22 LR flash hider.
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> About 26,200 deer licenses will be available for the 2021 season, which is about 400 fewer than 2020.
General whitetail season runs Nov 6 – Jan 2 (North) and Nov 6 – Jan.16 (South).
Knoxville Wildlife Area, now accepting applications.
… from Bass Pro/Cabelas:
> Will combine the grant with the skills of union volunteers to complete projects that improve public access to the outdoors in Illinois, Georgia, and New Jersey.
About 500 fallow are destructive to meadows and trees.
Realtree pro-staffer Travis “T-Bone” Turner told the Outpost Podcast he has the disease that’s transmitted by the Lone Star Tick. Causes serious allergic reactions when you eat red meat. Please pray for our deer brother.
> His blood tested positive for Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis – all known tick-borne diseases. Fortunately all 3 diseases are treatable.
Who knew?
12. 2A stuff.
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Deer Disease News
One in the Hill Country, one on the coast. Both had received deer from another TX CWD-poz facility.
A little but sounds like more bureaucracy:
> …hunters who harvested deer they wanted to be mounted had to use taxidermists who were located within the CWD management zone where it was harvested. Under the proposed rule, hunters will be able to take deer heads outside the zone under certain conditions. …will be required to take the head to a taxidermist that is participating in a program where MDWFP staff are allowed to come to the business and collect tissue samples for CWD testing.
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Called “the Compound,” measures 7.25′ w x 5.75′ d x 6.5′ h.
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> The 4MM AXIS will offer bowhunters even more of what they want in a micro-diameter arrow. AXIS Long Range promises more speed to the target, driving broadheads deeper….
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> Made with a special synthetic felt, the drag-strip material will not react with or change the scent, and is designed with tails to more easily dip into the scent bottle.
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> Why do I love this gun? First off, it’s stainless steel. I’m one of those guys that uses a rifle, and I use it pretty hard, and whatever the conditions you’re in, whether it’s rain…you don’t clean it every single day like you should. If I leave it in the stand for a week, I don’t have to worry about the thing rusting.
[Leave it in the stand for a week?? 🤔]
> The other thing that I like about this gun is the synthetic stock. It just holds up to the abuse, plus it’s super lightweight.
> This gun is loaded with features like the other X-Bolts. It has the locking 4 pins per your base so you don’t ever have to worry about that (scope) moving.
> A lot of these firearms, when you have it on safe, you can’t use the bolt. Well here, they’ve got the overload button. All you’ve got to do is push that down, and you can actually unchamber your rifle without it being off safe.
> It has a special buttplate so when you pull the trigger, it literally moves the firearm away from your cheek, and therefore you don’t have to worry about the recoil.
Anyone ever try out that buttplate deal? Please let us know.
Looks like you can find one of these rifles for around a grand.
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> Oftentimes proponents of lighter, faster arrows point to the arrow’s kinetic energy as support for their preferences. The problem with using kinetic energy…is that it’s not really applicable to how well an arrow will perform on a live animal.
> [Kinetic energy] is non-directional, so that when an object such as a bullet makes contact with its intended target, kinetic energy is released in all directions. That works well for ballistics because of the shockwave effect…damaging tissue well beyond the actual bullet hole.
> With an arrow…we’re not concerned with how much “shock” or tissue damage outside the wound channel is created. What we as bowhunters want is for the the broadhead and arrow to pass completely through the animal, severing any arteries and cutting through any organs it contacts along the way.
> Momentum is force in motion. It is directional. In other words, it is the ability of an object (an arrow in our case) to continue moving in a particular direction against resistance.
- A 350-grain arrow (the minimum weight recommended for a 70-lb compound bow) moving at 320 fps has a kinetic energy of 79.57 ft-lbs and a momentum of 0.497 slugs [measurement of force].
- A 500-grain arrow moving at 260 fps has a kinetic energy of 75.04 ft-lbs and a momentum of 0.577 slugs.
- A 700-grain arrow moving at 175 fps has a kinetic energy of 47.59 ft-lbs and a momentum of 0.544 slugs.
> So, as you can see, while a lighter, faster arrow shot from a modern compound bow produces significantly higher kinetic energy than a traditional bow shooting a much heavier arrow, the heavier arrow is actually carrying more momentum and, with all else equal, would be more likely to pass through the animal.
> The benefits of a heavier arrow don’t just stop with better penetration. Heavier arrows reduce stress on your bow and typically produce a quieter shot than a lighter arrow.
> The tradeoff for that increased weight is a slower arrow, and a slower arrow means you have less room for error when judging the distance to your target.
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“I had a few squirrels freeze-dried in there. Get a little hungry, ain’t got no deer meat left, fry you up a squirrel or two and just go eat that.”
– Nothing wrong with that! But sounds like Ben “Big Country” Cleveland‘s new Baltimore Raven’s teammates and the media were amused and maybe a little horrified. 🤣
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