Put my M5040HD to good use this week...

[Owenslee]

I hunted in the mornings and evenings and brush hogged during the day.

Got a little over 100 acres cut and put the tractor to good use helping me field dress two deer. A Doe for my ex wife and a very nice 10 point buck...the second largest I've killed on our farm.

The Doe was an easy 80 yd head on shot but the Buck was a quartering away shot at 240 yds while he was trailing a Doe at a quick trot. Made a good hit about 10" behind the left shoulder but he did not go down. He hunched his back and dropped his tail so I knew he was hit good but he stayed on his feet and walked stiffly into the brush. I saw him again about 30 seconds later at a measured distance of 253 yds and placed another shot behind his left shoulder. He immediately dropped where he stood. The two exit wounds were about 3" apart...

After field dressing using the FEL and a couple nylon tie downs...I don't know how I survived without a FEL before. I could lift each deer to work on much easier and saved my back a lot of aggravation. A real benefit when your working by yourself.

Also killed two more Coyotes while watching for deer...

The small one was standing at 85 yds and the larger one was running in a group of four at 200+ yds.

This is the view from where the large one was shot looking toward my shooting house.

I'm finding more uses for that new Kubota every day....and liking it more and more.

Kerry

 

[Big Bri]

Hunting and a little seat time . . . we should all be jealous. What rifle did you use on the coyotes? I've always wondered what people did with the coyotes after a kill, can you sell the pelts or do you just bury the whole thing. just wondering because my daughter wants to hunt nutria which is a nuisance animal in my state. There are a few people who eat them but i don't know of any. The state will pay you for everyone you kill, just have to bring the tails in. again i didn't know what to do with the carcass.
thanks

 

[Unregistered2013]

too bad dear tastes as badly as it does --

there's a reason they don't sell it in restaurants or the grocery.

 

[Owenslee]

The rifle I used for both the Coyotes and Deer is an AR15 with 20" Cardinal chrome lined barrel in a 6.8SPC 110 gr. Sierra Pro Hunter.

The round uses a .277 bullet diamter...same as 270 Winchester but on a shorter 30 Remington case. It still fits in a M16 / Ar15 mag well but has 82% of the energy of a .308 with half the recoil and half the powder yet maintains an identical trajectory out to about 350 yds. It is a GREAT whitetail round.

The accuracy of this combination for a standard off the shelf hunting round is very impressive.

As far as what we do with the carcass....some neighbors hang them from a fence. I just leave them lay in the fields. The idea is that the presence of the dead Coyotes is a deterrent to other coming around...at least for awhile. However, the presence of the dead bodies is not a deterrent to other game as I have watched turkey's and deer feed within 50 yds of the dead yotes and not be alarmed.

Kerry

 

[Owenslee]

too bad dear tastes as badly as it does --

there's a reason they don't sell it in restaurants or the grocery.

If venison tastes badly...it's because it was poorly prepared, gut shot or not field dressed properly. I have served venison roasts to dinner guests who did not know it was venison. They raved at how good the "beef" tasted.

My ex wife prefers it over beef because of the flavor and because it has so little fat.

Some of the best summer sausage I have ever eaten was made from venison here:
Home - Oberle Meats

There are also restaurants that do serve venison much like some serve other wild game and buffalo. Hers's a couple:

http://dine.com/p/guide.cgi?site=dine&local_id=192&action=list&type=Venison


If the venison you've tasted was not good....your eating the wrong venison.

Kerry

 

[pdseifert]

Nice deer and awesome shots I use my loader as well to help with the field dressing. Nice country up there.

Happy Holidays

There is nothing like poorly prepared venison , and there is nothing like it when its made correctly Summer sausage.. breakfast sausage.. jerky.. roasts.. make a country boys mouth water.. Dont give up on it all together.

 

[manganos]

Yep that 1st pic looks familiar. I do the same thing It also makes getting the deer back to the house a lot easier.

 

[Toolguy]

Nice shooting! That is a great rifle/cartridge combination you have. Lightweight, excellent accuracy and fast follow up shots make AR15s great hunting rifles. I enjoy mine. Keep up the good work!

 

[Kubota 2350]

A Doe for my ex wife
Kerry

OK, someone has to ask, why would you do anything for your X?

 

[Owenslee]

OK, someone has to ask, why would you do anything for your X?

Because we are both still good people at heart...and we do nice things for each other now and then.

The divorce was amicable and uncontested....We just couldn't continue to live together after 29 years.

We are both happier now.