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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.


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    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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    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.

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    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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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by DeputyDog View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
    Absolutely. I’ll send you some if that .243 will kill anything
    IN other words, don’t look for any....
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    Squirrel jerky?
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    Bam!


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    Rabbit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quercus alba View Post
    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!

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    Ours opens tomorrow, these two just came yesterday from a few miles away, (bow season)
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    Man! Those would have been goodones next year!
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    Damn. You could saddle one of those and ride it.

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


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Dinner View Post
    I’d say his camo don’t match, but he’s not wearing any.
    His gloves.
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    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.
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    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.

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    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.
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    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.
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    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



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    Aww, come on man, that really hurt.
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    Well, actually a .22 will kill a deer with proper bullet placement, but it ain’t no “deer rifle”.

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    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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    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.

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    Good luck CD and Matt
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thumper View Post
    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.
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    The .22 is a poacher's favorite tool.
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    16 degrees and snow, no wind, just what the Captain loves.
    Some saw, non shot. (yet)
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