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    The “Opener”

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




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    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.

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    Hopefully, not all with your truck!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Dinner View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Dinner View Post
    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?
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    Bam!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Trav View Post
    .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.

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    A 243 is a perfectly acceptable hunting rifle.


    Provided of course, you're hunting ground squirrels or chipmunks
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    Quote Originally Posted by quercus alba View Post
    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.
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    It really is a good caliber. I have a cat that hunts field mice with a .243!

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Dinner View Post
    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thumper View Post
    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.

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    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
    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'!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain View Post
    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.

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    And I'll go with him to see if I can pick up some Girl Scouts!
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    Why do you guys want to scare those poor girls like that?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain View Post
    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
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    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.

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    Just add up 243, they equal 9, good age appropriate.
    The older I get, the better I was. I also forget my password and have to have Len reset it for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by jb View Post
    Just add up 243, they equal 9, good age appropriate.
    OUCH!!!
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    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.

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    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.

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    Hey!




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    Quote Originally Posted by Penguin View Post
    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.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Dinner View Post
    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
    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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