The “Opener”

[Chicken Dinner]

To borrow (and edit) one of my favorite Posthole expressions, I’m about to hunt in my pants.

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[Arty]

I’m super pumped! Headed out Friday evening with the youngest. He will hunt sat and sun then i bring him home and head back for 2 more days solo!
Weather is perfect so far.

[quercus alba]

I haven't fired a shot but I've bagged 6 hindquarters, 8 shoulders and 2 necks.

[Chicken Dinner]

Hopefully, not all with your truck!


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[Chicken Dinner]

I’m super pumped! Headed out Friday evening with the youngest. He will hunt sat and sun then i bring him home and head back for 2 more days solo!
Weather is perfect so far.

Everybody better load up on .243 cartridges because there’s liable to be a run on them after Sunday!


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[Arty]

Everybody better load up on .243 cartridges because there’s liable to be a run on them after Sunday!


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a little less than a box is all I have. May have to reload some.

[Trav]

Everybody better load up on .243 cartridges because there’s liable to be a run on them after Sunday!


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.243, is he hunting with the wife?

[Chicken Dinner]

Bam!


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[Arty]

.243, is he hunting with the wife?

243 is a damn good deer rifle.
He’s 14, and well endowed... so he doesn’t need big guns and a jacked up tricked out truck to feel like a man.

[quercus alba]

A 243 is a perfectly acceptable hunting rifle.


Provided of course, you're hunting ground squirrels or chipmunks

[Trav]

A 243 is a perfectly acceptable hunting rifle.


Provided of course, you're hunting ground squirrels or chipmunks

I agree, I dated a girl in the 8th grade that deer hunted with one.

[Thumper]

It really is a good caliber. I have a cat that hunts field mice with a .243! ;)

[Chicken Dinner]

The got a .243 for my older boy’s first deer rifle when he was 12 and my only regret is that he’s left handed. It’s a great little rifle that kills deer way better than the ballistic chart says it should.

That being said, please return to giving RT a hard time!


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[Thumper]

The got a .243 for my older boy’s first deer rifle when he was 12 and my only regret is that he’s left handed. It’s a great little rifle that kills deer way better than the ballistic chart says it should.

That being said, please return to giving RT a hard time!

The main point there is .... he was 12! ;)

[Arty]

The main point there is .... he was 12! ;)

Can you read? The .243 is my 14 year old boys gun. I bought it for him when he was 10? 11? It kills deer, and it’s a gorgeous winny model 70, so he still uses it.

[Captain]

If you need some .243 casings to reload I’ll run by the Girl Scout camp and see if I can talk the girls into saving them for you!

[Thumper]

Can you read? The .243 is my 14 year old boys gun. I bought it for him when he was 10? 11? It kills deer, and it’s a gorgeous winny model 70, so he still uses it.

Read??? I don't need to do no stinkin' readin'! ;)

Trash talk is trash talk! Facts don't matter. ;)

[Arty]

If you need some .243 casings to reload I’ll run by the Girl Scout camp and see if I can talk the girls into saving them for you!

Yeah man, that would be great! I know you were stopping by there anyway to pick yourself up some tampons.

[Thumper]

And I'll go with him to see if I can pick up some Girl Scouts! :biggrin

[Chicken Dinner]

Why do you guys want to scare those poor girls like that?


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[quercus alba]

If you need some .243 casings to reload I’ll run by the Girl Scout camp and see if I can talk the girls into saving them for you!


If they don't have any you might stop by Weenies -R-us and pick up some subsonic rounds for him

[Penguin]

Opener is going to be very odd for me this year. I've never hunted on my own property before AND where the deer are at makes them double barreled difficult to get to.

I see does and fawns all the time in my fields. But the bucks? Ah, that is different. They only show up once in a while and I cannot find any place they have marked out on my place. At least where the lumber company isn't thinning out things. So my stand is right on the edge of the field where I see the bucks occasionally figuring that they go around behind my house to get from one field to another without walking right across the fields. I think they run below the house between the two entries they use to enter the fields.

So I own 82 acres and am set up about a 100 yards from my front door and right on the edge of one of the fields. Hopefully the wife doesn't yell to me from the porch asking how its going. :p

Will

[jb]

Just add up 243, they equal 9, good age appropriate.:fine

[Thumper]

Just add up 243, they equal 9, good age appropriate.:fine

OUCH!!! ;)

[Penguin]

Crap! There was a good caliber argument up there and I missed it. :(

Looking at the long term forecast it looks like rain/snow with a high of 37 degrees. Looks like the kevlar/stainless 7-08 will be my choice. The walnut/blue 06 is too pretty to hunt in that kind of weather lol.

Will

[Arty]

I will be sending a large bag of jerky to each person that hasn’t talked shit on this post.

In short, I’ll be saving a trip to the post office.

[Chicken Dinner]

Hey!




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[Chicken Dinner]

Opener is going to be very odd for me this year. I've never hunted on my own property before AND where the deer are at makes them double barreled difficult to get to.

I see does and fawns all the time in my fields. But the bucks? Ah, that is different. They only show up once in a while and I cannot find any place they have marked out on my place. At least where the lumber company isn't thinning out things. So my stand is right on the edge of the field where I see the bucks occasionally figuring that they go around behind my house to get from one field to another without walking right across the fields. I think they run below the house between the two entries they use to enter the fields.

So I own 82 acres and am set up about a 100 yards from my front door and right on the edge of one of the fields. Hopefully the wife doesn't yell to me from the porch asking how its going. :p

Will

If reports from this past week at my hunt camp near Warm Springs are correct, I’d say the rut is just kicking in out your way. Hunting over those does could be just the ticket.


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[Thumper]

If reports from this past week at my hunt camp near Warm Springs are correct, I’d say the rut is just kicking in out your way. Hunting over those does could be just the ticket.

Quit kissing-up brown-noser! ;)

[DeputyDog]

I will be sending a large bag of jerky to each person that hasn’t talked shit on this post. .

Since I stayed out of it, I’ll DM you my address. When should I expect delivery?


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[Arty]

If reports from this past week at my hunt camp near Warm Springs are correct, I’d say the rut is just kicking in out your way. Hunting over those does could be just the ticket.


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Ditto

[Chicken Dinner]

Truth be told, RT admitted to me in a side conversation that he got a free bottle of Mydol when he bought that .243.


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[Penguin]

Hank, I have seen two does being run in the fields over the past week. One 6 point and one 8 point ran a doe practically across the front yard.

This is the first time I've actually built a stand. With me sitting on the edge of a field, and standing out like a bourbon bottle at a country revival in the old timber that borders it, I got out the chainsaw and went to work. Built a nice little brush stand that looks like the other ones I left after cutting firewood there this spring. Kind of cool... has a Tred Barta feel to it. :)

Will

[DeputyDog]

The stands I use most often are ones right on a fence line or the edge of the woods overlooking a field. I could count on one hand the number off deer I’ve shot in the woods over the past 30+ years. Dang near every one has been out in the field.


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[quercus alba]

I've only only hunted two hours opening morning but just sitting around the camp has netted me about 100 lbs of venison, a fish dinner, couple packages of Ornx sausage and several cups of coffee. That's the only way to hunt

[Arty]

Since I stayed out of it, I’ll DM you my address. When should I expect delivery?


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Absolutely. I’ll send you some if that .243 will kill anything

[Captain]

Absolutely. I’ll send you some if that .243 will kill anything

IN other words, don’t look for any....

[Thumper]

Squirrel jerky?

[Chicken Dinner]

Bam!


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[Captain]

Rabbit.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I've only only hunted two hours opening morning but just sitting around the camp has netted me about 100 lbs of venison, a fish dinner, couple packages of Ornx sausage and several cups of coffee. That's the only way to hunt

Sitting around camp?

SLACKER!

BKB

[jb]

Ours opens tomorrow, these two just came yesterday from a few miles away, (bow season)
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[Captain]

Man! Those would have been goodones next year!

[BarryBobPosthole]

Damn. You could saddle one of those and ride it.

BKB

[Big Muddy]

"Somebody" around this joint was "suppose" to return a favor to me, and send me some deer jerky about 15 years ago, but I guess the statute of limitations on promises has expired. ;););)

[Chicken Dinner]

I’d say his camo don’t match, but he’s not wearing any.


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[Thumper]

I’d say his camo don’t match, but he’s not wearing any.

His gloves. ;)

[Big Muddy]

I went macho many years ago, and thought I could kill a deer, even with a pea shooter.....I hung up my Rem. 700 in .30.06, and bought a Rem. .243 auto.....I had to track down the first 5 deer I shot with it.....each was shot thru the heart/lung area, but managed to run over 500 yds., and one even ran nearly a mile.

I shot that gun those 5 times, but it in now sits in the very back corner of my gun safe.....I didn't even want to start my grandson, hunting with it, because of the disappointment factor of losing a deer at a young age.....I handed down my Ruger .270 to him, and his deer don't run off, either. ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

If I can’t kill it with my 270 then I ain’t gonna shoot it and piss it off.

270 is my all around favorite.

BKB

[jb]

I have a 270, it is my "out west" gun, but I really like my 308 better, I gave #3 my 7mm08 which is another great caliber for up here.
I'll bet more deer up here over the years have been taken with a 30/30 than any other caliber.
#1 is using one tomorrow morning.

[Trav]

I have all manner of guns, .257 Weatherby Mag, .300 Weatherby Mag, 6.5-300 Weatherby Mag, .270, 30.06, .308, .223 but my 2 favorites are my 25.06’s and my .270WSM.

[quercus alba]

All foolishness aside, just about any center fire bullet is adequate for whitetail. The 280 was the only rifle ever designed with the whitetail in mind according to Jim Carmichael. Been my experience bullet performance and placement has much more to do with dealing death than caliber. Maybe Eddie is as scatter armed with his shooting as Dak is passing. That would explain crippled deer and incomplete passes

:shoot

:poke

[Big Muddy]

Aww, come on man, that really hurt. ;););)

[Thumper]

Well, actually a .22 will kill a deer with proper bullet placement, but it ain’t no “deer rifle”. ;)

[Chicken Dinner]

Light snow changing over to rain here this morning. I’m out the door to camp this afternoon to hunt the last morning of ML and the rifle Opener this Weekend. I sure hope some of the white stuff sticks around in the mountains.


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[BarryBobPosthole]

My old buddy Mallard Fillmore’s dad used to kill a deer every once in a while on his place. Sometimes it was in season, sometimes it wasn’t. The one thing they had in common was they were all killed with a .22 mag. He swore that was the best deer rifle ever made. He was a neck shooter too.

BKB

[Captain]

Good luck CD and Matt

[quercus alba]

Well, actually a .22 will kill a deer with proper bullet placement, but it ain’t no “deer rifle”. ;)

Jim, when I started deer hunting in 1968, I used a bolt action 22 LR which was perfectly legal in Arkansas at the time.

[Thumper]

The .22 is a poacher's favorite tool. :D

[jb]

16 degrees and snow, no wind, just what the Captain loves.
Some saw, non shot. (yet)

[Captain]

16 degrees and snow, no wind, just what the Captain loves.
Some saw, non shot. (yet)
Y’all are crazy!

[Arty]

A day and a half in, and we’ve seen exactly 1 deer, Including the one that ran across the road in front of the truck on the way to the property this morning

[BarryBobPosthole]

its those flashes on the trail cams running them right out of the county.

BKB

[Penguin]

Boom!

Posty lands a kidney punch out of nowhere. :)

Will

[Arty]

Boom!

Posty lands a kidney punch out of nowhere. :)

Will

‘Cept I ain’t got no game cams!