2010 Hunting

[Robert_in_NY]

Here are the bucks we have taken so far. Mine is a decent 8pt, my friend got his nice 10 point the same time on opening morning I shot my 8 but on the other side of the road about a mile away. His brother then shot a small 9pt the next morning. They come up from PA to hunt with us opening week every year.

 

[Thomas]

Robert_in_NY.
"Here are the bucks we have taken so far."

Nice..very nice healthy bucks..congrats.

Your father etc. have any luck from tall fancy hunting blind.

 

[missingstexas]

I took a management 10 pt from a very close friend's ranch in South Texas. He measured 120 4/8's, weighed 158lbs dressed, and was about 5 1/2 years old.

 

[SkyPup]

Wow, nice bucks there fellas!

Right before sundown tonight I had a sow and a dozen piglets rooting around my backyard making a mess of the property eating up all the recent live oak acorns.

Did not want to kill the sow and have all the piglets without their momma but I sure could use some baby back BBQ ribs.

At a laser measured 155 yards I put the crosshairs of the scope on the head of a hog facing me. Pulled the trigger of a 75 grain Hornady handload and this one dropped dead while the others took to hoofing it off into the woods squeealing up a storm.

The piglet was about 30 pounds and DOA, the bullet had entered in the forehead between the eyes and came out behind the shoulders through the upper back, did not appear to fragment as the exit hole was just a pencil thin hole.

Gutted him out and skinned him and left the head on to BBQ him whole on the gas grill and then slow smoke him in the smoker with some mesquite wood until the meat falls off the bone.

I was completely surprised to see a tiny little exit hole out the top of his back right behind the shoulder? There really was no evidence of any bullet expansion or fragmentation.

I gutted him out from the neck down and dropped all the entrails on a plastic sheet.

Took the sheet out back and dropped the guts out in the open to use for coyote bait, however within 15 minutes there were two Bald Eagles on the remains fighting over the organs.

One Bald Eagle took the entire skin of the hog and flew into a large live oak right over my barn to devour it!

 

[gauthier]

Got a very nice 4 point this morning.

 

[s78wingrider]

Thought I had a good shot, but all I got was a twig off a sapling :ashamed: :confused2:

 

[gauthier]

Its a lot of carma,,luck,,,or prayers done right:laughing::laughing:,,,That one of mine this morning,,was 100 yds off[or so],,walking fast,,through heavy woods/brush,,picked a spot in front of his path,with my scope,,and bam,,he didn't take another step,,amazed me,,thought I hit him in the head or something,,but hit him perfect in shoulder,,he was following a doe,,,,have shot 8 points who didn't have the horns he's got,,,7mm mag,,160 grain federal premium,barnes triple shock bullit.

 

[Wesdor]

Last Friday was opening day of shotgun season. I had 5 hunters on the farm and they all got at least one. We have a major deer population problem and counting bow season a total of 15 deer have been taken off the farm with 11 of them being female.

Here is a picture of one of the 5 bucks shot on Friday.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert_in_NY.
"Here are the bucks we have taken so far."

Nice..very nice healthy bucks..congrats.

Your father etc. have any luck from tall fancy hunting blind.

No, I am the only one that does hunt from the tower currently. So far he hasn't had any luck yet in locating a buck but he has been avoiding a couple areas till later in the season.

 

[N80]

Earlier in this thread I posted a picture of my daughter with her first buck. It was hardly on the ground before she decided she wanted a bigger trophy. Saturday morning she got this guy. He's not a monster but certainly a few steps up from her spike buck:

Saturday afternoon she wanted to go back in the woods and look for a bigger one. That afternoon we had three bucks out in front of us, grunting and running back and forth through thick brush at about 150 yards. One of them stopped with a fair but not great shoulder shot. He was probably a bit bigger than the one above. I was watching the deer through the binoculars and she asked me if she could shoot. I told her she could but it was a difficult shot and she was shooting off hand....and she decided to wait for a better shot. Well, it never came. They continued to move around but never gave us a good clear shot.

Now, I'm as proud as can be that she has gotten two bucks this year. And I'm thrilled to be able to spend quality time in the woods with my 17 year old daughter. But I've got to say, I'm as proud of her for not taking that shot than anything else. As much as she is driven to get a bigger buck she still had the discipline not to shoot when she didn't feel comfortable that it was a money shot. That made me feel good.