Now you're gonna have to wait 6 months and get tested for deer aids! Good luck!Got a 4 pointer yesterday evening with a 14.5 556 shooting federal fusion 62 grainers. View attachment 174268
Afterward I was skinning it and had a little accident but got it sewn up soon after. Be careful guys it only takes one little slip.
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Little Accident? JFC, I have gutted deer that were not cut that badGot a 4 pointer yesterday evening with a 14.5 556 shooting federal fusion 62 grainers. View attachment 174268
Afterward I was skinning it and had a little accident but got it sewn up soon after. Be careful guys it only takes one little slip.
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Dawn or dusk?I just killed my first deer in 22 years! It's also my first deer since moving to NC.
I shot it off the dam of the pond in my back yard with a .300blk AR pistol. It was the easiest hunt of my life. Sixty yard shot, open sights, from my back porch.
I wasn't even wearing a jacket...
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You should add a tourniquet to your hunting equipment, just in case... Even if you didn't want to cut off circulation to your whole hand, you could put it directly on the injury and use it as a pressure dressing.I hope you were on your property very near to home and disentangle have to walk far out of the woods.
I hunt public land, walking in 1+ mile or so and if this happened to me things could go wrong real quick.
Hoping for your quick recovery, what did the doctor say, a full recovery with no lasting damage?
You should add a tourniquet to your hunting equipment, just in case... Even if you didn't want to cut off circulation to your whole hand, you could put it directly on the injury and use it as a pressure dressing.
It's always good to have a TQ on you...
I hope you were on your property very near to home and disentangle have to walk far out of the woods.
I hunt public land, walking in 1+ mile or so and if this happened to me things could go wrong real quick.
Hoping for your quick recovery, what did the doctor say, a full recovery with no lasting damage?
Eeeyow! Venison's Revenge!Here was the stitch job, 6/7 on the inside and I think 11 on the outside View attachment 174315
At least your knife was sharp.
Christ man. You need to get stainless fillet gloves to clean deer next year
Guess you guys are having about the same success that I have. No posts in over a week.
I’ve been after the same buck for 6 weeks now and he continues to duck me. I’m starting to think he may be hunting me instead of the other way around.
Me too but I’m deep in the Voodoo Rangers so we’ll see how that turns out.I think I've been one time since my last post. Only saw a button head.
I was hoping to go this morning, but 8.0% double IPAs and a whole freaking can of peanuts before bed guaranteed I would spend my morning on the toilet, instead of in the blind. It's the reason I changed my title.
I hope to go in the morning.
40 minutes after getting getting into the stand, I was settling into a pseudo nap, derned squirrels rattling about, crap... that’s a buck.
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*edit* A 125g Hornady Amax 300BLK in a 10” SBR hammered him in front of the game camera, AND IT DIDN'T GET IT
I was hoping it caught his back flip with a twist and spraying a 3’ blood trail for 30 yards then piled up.
I now have a lot more confidence in the BLK.
This is the 1st harvest with the HD rifle and seeing the 3’ spray out the exit wound as he imitated Simone Biles gives me confidence in this setup.if I ever use my 300blk pistol for home defense, maybe I won't have to worry about over penetration...
There is alot of badassery in that photo!!!This is the 1st harvest with the HD rifle and seeing the 3’ spray out the exit wound as he imitated Simone Biles gives me confidence in this setup.
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BTW that blade was great for dressing him out, I bought it and got to use it on the same day
Thanks! It’s the 2nd AR I built, almost 10 years later it’s a favorite. Geissele SSA-E, Hogan ambi billet lower, WMD NiB BCG, MF stock, 10” McGowen SS hand lapped 1-7 barrel, Syrac adj gas block, Seekins rail, Ranier ch, TBAC can and an Aimpoint T2 that works great with the PVS-14.There is alot of badassery in that photo!!!
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yes he is and he bout killed my old arse dragging him up the hill from the creek but I'd do it a thousand times over. I thanked him and the Big guy for letting me take him today. I've always felt beholding to an animal when it gives its life for me to take its body to use. I know may sound goofy to some. I was raised to respect any animal I hunt to eat, and to give them their due respects when I've taken them. I wondered at first if I was going to be able to get him he was really cautious to a point. I watched him for close to 20 minutes as he had came up from the creek and he stood probably 10 yards from me and watched, smelled and listened and then figured he best walk around and check it out better from another angle. He turned went back down to the creek and went up about 40 yards and came up again about 60 yards in front of me coming up the other side of the ridge I've got our blind on. He came straight in on me to about 30 yards then went uphill to check out around the place. He then after bout 15 minutes came back down feeling it was ok and started to eat the corn probably 12 yards in front of me. I waitied bout 5 minutes and he got in a good position for me to shoot and I did end of what I considered and awesome evening, well not end long from it as I had to track and find him then drag him back up the hill from the creek back to the house but its all done now and once again I give thanks to the big boy and the boss manBeautiful 6!
Well said ed.yes he is and he bout killed my old arse dragging him up the hill from the creek but I'd do it a thousand times over. I thanked him and the Big guy for letting me take him today. I've always felt beholding to an animal when it gives its life for me to take its body to use. I know may sound goofy to some. I was raised to respect any animal I hunt to eat, and to give them their due respects when I've taken them. I wondered at first if I was going to be able to get him he was really cautious to a point. I watched him for close to 20 minutes as he had came up from the creek and he stood probably 10 yards from me and watched, smelled and listened and then figured he best walk around and check it out better from another angle. He turned went back down to the creek and went up about 40 yards and came up again about 60 yards in front of me coming up the other side of the ridge I've got our blind on. He came straight in on me to about 30 yards then went uphill to check out around the place. He then after bout 15 minutes came back down feeling it was ok and started to eat the corn probably 12 yards in front of me. I waitied bout 5 minutes and he got in a good position for me to shoot and I did end of what I considered and awesome evening, well not end long from it as I had to track and find him then drag him back up the hill from the creek back to the house but its all done now and once again I give thanks to the big boy and the boss man
Yep. I agree. It's always important to be thankful.yes he is and he bout killed my old arse dragging him up the hill from the creek but I'd do it a thousand times over. I thanked him and the Big guy for letting me take him today. I've always felt beholding to an animal when it gives its life for me to take its body to use. I know may sound goofy to some. I was raised to respect any animal I hunt to eat, and to give them their due respects when I've taken them. I wondered at first if I was going to be able to get him he was really cautious to a point. I watched him for close to 20 minutes as he had came up from the creek and he stood probably 10 yards from me and watched, smelled and listened and then figured he best walk around and check it out better from another angle. He turned went back down to the creek and went up about 40 yards and came up again about 60 yards in front of me coming up the other side of the ridge I've got our blind on. He came straight in on me to about 30 yards then went uphill to check out around the place. He then after bout 15 minutes came back down feeling it was ok and started to eat the corn probably 12 yards in front of me. I waitied bout 5 minutes and he got in a good position for me to shoot and I did end of what I considered and awesome evening, well not end long from it as I had to track and find him then drag him back up the hill from the creek back to the house but its all done now and once again I give thanks to the big boy and the boss man
My son who is 12 got his first one this afternoon. First one he has shot at he watched one last week for 10-15 minutes and wouldn't shoot. Today he said it was on if one came in. Bout 4:16 I wasn't even looking hard yet he said there is one in the corn. Got the rifle up asked if I was ready, and dropped the hammer. Hit him in the neck dropped in his tracks. He was using the same gun I used to kill my first couple of deer 30+ years ago. We got down and went to get it, I asked him why the neck shot after we had talked about shooting lungs, he said that's where I was aiming, I must have flinched. Well it was a good flinch, it all worked out. Nice button head and he didn't mess up any meat. He is ready for Wednesday afternoon now.