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Biggest bucks of the week! π€―
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Wow some NICE deer went down! Here’s some of ’em:
It was just 4.5 years old??
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> “I wrapped my hand around one of the bases and my thumb and index finger didn’t touch.” …one of Monroe’s other buddies put a tape to deer’s rack. They got a rough score of 223 4/8.
How ’bout his Ozonics + camera setup:
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> “I said to my wife after I got out of the hospital, ‘I’m never going to hunt again,'” said Voigt. “She said we’ll figure it out. And somehow we did….”
> What Jeremiah and Mandy eventually found was a device by Bestsight, an apparatus that attaches to the back of the hunter’s scope sitting atop his Ravin R10 crossbow. While originally designed for night-vision use, the device’s wire connection transmits a daylight image to a 5″ screen that shows where the crosshairs are aligned on the target downrange.
> With Voigt’s crossbow mounted on a tripod and an observer sitting next to him, instructions are quietly whispered like “Up, up, up, right, right, right, over, over, over, Shoot!”
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> “He was 4 3/4 inches at the base, but 6 1/2 on the other circumferences. His longest tines were over 11 inches, one main beam was 28 1/2 inches long, and we came up with a rough gross of 184 and change. To be honest, I didn’t do the best job of scoring him because I wanted the taxidermist to preserve all the velvet still on him, and I didn’t want to mess that up.”
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> The 10-point buck weighed 215 lbs and was aged at 5.5 years old…scored an impressive 163 3/8.
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Why the first sit is the best sit?
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> I’d estimate that almost 90% of the bucks I’d encountered that season were on the first sit.
> An Auburn U study: “We found an immediate effect of hunting pressure, where the amount of time spent in a particular stand over the course of a week impacted deer behavior. The odds of a buck entering the ‘harvest zone’ during daylight hours were reduced by half after 12 hours of hunting pressure. In other words, a buck was twice as likely to avoid putting itself at risk if the stand had been hunted for 12 hours over the course of the previous week.”
Here’s how long it takes to get your stand back to almost “fresh:”
> “…if the stand was hunted the previous day, bucks appeared to respond immediately and displayed avoidance behavior. This avoidance lasted on average for 3 days.
> “By the 4th and 5th days following a hunting event, the response was no longer significantly different from neutral, and thus deer were no longer considered to be avoiding the hunted stand β though they still were not ‘attracted’ to the site as they were before the stand was hunted.”
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Are these the best weeks to hunt this year’s rut?
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Week of Oct 25: New Moon
> Their data showed that during a new moon, which this rut cycle rises on Oct 25 and wanes on the dark side through Halloween…deer move most actively at daylight, with movement decreasing noticeably the rest of the day.
Week of Nov 1: First-Quarter Moon
> Looking back to my notes and all the research I’ve done over the years, it’s a fact that many huge bucks are killed every season during the seeking phase of the rut the 1st week of Nov. This is a good week to take off and hunt hard during any year.
Week of Nov 8: Full Moon
> We know this flies in the face of what Granddaddy told you: Bucks move all night on the big moon, it’s the worst time to hunt! But…the more I hunt a full moon in early to mid-Nov across the US and Canada, the more mature bucks I see wandering around glassy-eyed from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm.
Week of Nov 16: Last-Quarter Moon
> You might think it’s a little late for the rut, but from a moon perspective, deer movement should be good or even great from Nov 15 through about the 20th, especially in the afternoons. The NC state moon data I refer to often shows the most extreme deer activity of the entire study occurred during the last-quarter phase, and more specifically during the last hour of shooting light each day.
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“Brushing-in the blind is critical to success…. The better you brush it in, the more relaxed deer will be.”
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Just make sure a bigfoot doesn’t take a liking to that deal lol.
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> The cause of death was determined to be suffocation.
> [His wife said:] “I ask that each of you, please, never go out alone. Also, that you carry a sharp knife that is in some way strapped to yourself. This is in the hopes that should anyone find themselves in a situation like this, that you have help and a way to free yourself.”
Please pray for his family. πβοΈ
Who would ever pass a law like this?? Now they are trying to remove just the jail time part:
> Under current law, should a person fail to report a deer kill within that 3-day window, they could be punished with a misdemeanor resulting in up to 90 days in jail or a fine ranging from $50 to $500. That person would also need to pay the cost of prosecution.
Insane.
> “Generally speaking whitetail deer hunters can expect tougher hunting than average due to reduced populations, especially in the Palouse, Blue Mountains and Selkirk management zones. Mule deer hunters shouldn’t expect too much deviation from last year….”
Hate hearing that. Here’s the rack, from CowboyStateDaily.com:
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> We are pleased to welcome Ray Livingston as our newest brand ambassador. Ray will be utilizing the BHA Model 90 in .460 S&W Mag and the AR500 in 500 Auto Max as part of the partnership.
> A lifelong outdoorsman, he is a current hunting guide for Upfront Outfitters, a mentor for the First Hunt Foundation, and the newest cast member of a popular outdoors-centric television show (tba) which will begin filming its latest season this Oct.
…you have 3-5 days to take advantage of his newness.
Too many to list here but hunting interests seem to be represented:
> “Hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts have some of the deepest connections to wildlife and form the bedrock of habitat conservation efforts,” said secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
> If you decide to try saddle hunting β and trust me, you’re not going to be disappointed β it’s best to get your gear and start practicing with it ahead of the coming season. Like all new setups, it does take a bit of time to get used to.
> Once you get your saddle hunting gear, do yourself a favor and be sure to learn from ground level before actually climbing a tree.
Loooong post, and they don’t have a favorite.
First you gotta be up for it:
> The mountain blacktail hunt requires perseverance through exhaustion, hypothermia, isolation and repeated failure. However, when it all works out and ends with a tagged deer, words cannot describe the emotions.
13. 2A stuff
> …the state’s “Hurricane Gun Law”…allows Floridians to carry a concealed firearm for 48 hours while complying with a mandatory evacuation order, regardless of whether they have a valid Concealed Weapon and Firearm license.
Seems like it’s appropriate to ask: Are these credit card companies committing treason?
14. Keep an eye on…
Don’t really like the “is it ethical” part because it is and hardly anyone really has time to sit in the woods day after day, and also don’t like the “leave it up to the states” to regulate any controversy (it should be up o the state’s hunters β they work for us!), but the rest of it is solid.
Talking CWD. Zero evidence in that deal because there isn’t any. The fear campaign is just getting started….
Wouldn’t that be something:
> …author, researcher and journalism professor Karl Grossman alleges that Lyme disease was one of the many bioweapons produced in this US government-funded laboratory originally staffed by Nazi scientists who were brought to the USA under Operation Paperclip, a program that saw the US government recruit former Nazi scientists to work in fields like rocketry (NASA), medicine and computing.
> “The ‘godfather’ of the Plum Island laboratory was a Nazi bioweapon expert, Erich Traub, who was brought to the United States after the Second World War.”
Well said! “Fuzzy math and questionable science” β both of which can be easily manipulated β is all over the place!
Headline of the Week
In other words WAY more than lead bullets ever will.
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Deer Disease News
Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman counties. Sounds like they will just be taking samples at check stations.
> …split a 4 to 4 vote on moving the measure to final adoption so it failed to advance.
> The use or possession of urine-based deer attractants does remain prohibited in CWD Management Areas.
Why say that? It is not being ignored, and how does anyone know whether a “point of no return” would happen or if only deer that are susceptible to it would die out β or something else?
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> …this model is Ruger’s first reintroduction in the Guide Gun family of rifles and Ruger’s first introduction of an alloy steel Marlin rifle with a blued finish.
> Chambered in .45-70 Govt…features a 19″ cold hammer-forged barrel with a 1:20″ twist. The threaded barrel (11/16″- 24), comes with a match-polished thread protector and will accommodate common muzzle devices.
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From an American Hunter review:
> The all-new Hyper XP 405 is built around the narrow-diameter HyperFlite arrow. Barnett says it is the first crossbow company to improve the “ammo” in the crossbow category by advancing the technology of narrow-diameter arrows into the crossbow platform. …numerous advantages: deeper penetration, less wind drift, increased durability and engineered to deliver maximum kinetic energy.
MSRP: $599.99
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> Nosler suppressors have a unique modular design that allows you to replace the baffle stack in case of damage without having to go through the purchase process again.
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> …choice of two ACSS reticles. Priced at $449.99….
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We looked all over the place to see if it was an April Fool’s type of deal, but it looks legit? If so it obviously has zero to do with deer hunting but it could be tons o’ fun! More from The Firearm Blog:
> Based on the Strike Industries Oppressor blast shield muzzle device, which aids in redirecting blast and sound, this SI Oppressor Golf Ball Launcher also uses the quick detach patented Strike Rapid Engage Mount (SREM) system mount.
> Using blanks, golf balls can be launched 100s of yards…attaches (and detaches) in seconds….
> You can also use this SI Oppressor device as a blast shield and/or concussion-reducing device with live ammo without a golf ball inserted.
> Compatibility: Only with SI Oppressor Strike Rapid Engage Mount (SREM) muzzle devices….
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> There’s just a powerful pull that draws all of us to that comfortable, convenient stand overlooking a delicious-looking green patch. So, we hunt food plots too much. We hunt them at the wrong times, in bad winds, from stands that are too close and in places that force us to walk through the plot to get to them.
> Yes, we still kill deer in those plots. But could we see more, or see adult bucks, if we changed our food-plot hunting strategy?
> [Auburn study:] Food plots are only 6% of the landscape at the study site but 23% of the total area in which deer can be viewed from stands. In other words, hunters are dialed in on food plots and hunting them more than any other cover type, leaving large areas of cover lightly pressured or not hunted.
> Both sexes are more likely to choose food plots over all other cover types at night and then strongly select away from food plots throughout most legal hunting hours.
So:
> Hunt more “natural pine” or its equivalent. …they are better areas than food plots for seeing deer in daylight hours. Yet they are not heavily selected by hunters.
> Hunt food plots in the evening. This data shows deer started evacuating food plots before shooting light arrived but began working their way back into them while the sun was still in the sky.
> Use food plots for doe harvest. The Auburn study suggests…food plots are much better places to encounter does than bucks.
> Save food plots for the post-rut. Auburn’s data showed bucks and does were more likely to select food plots at dusk in the post-rut than any other phase of the season.
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“…if you think you can…see a deer on your cell phone trailcam, jump in the truck and drive to the hunting spot, and then sneak in there and plug that deer, you are way more hunter than most of us. In fact, I doubt you could do that 1 in 100 times.”
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Who knew someone made a life-sized Sassy the Squastch target?? Life size means it’s tough to get those arrows out… posted by @bowmarbowhunting:
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