**OFFICIAL HUNTING THREAD**

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  1. wes tegg

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    The one I shot was in an AR-15 platform, which was badass. The .243 Win has to be in an AR-10.
     
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  3. a.tramp

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    Went to the range this afternoon to shoot this rifle for the first time and also sight it in for 200yds. Really nice shooting gun.

    Started off 3 shots in the upper left, then 2 shots just below and slightly right. Then realized i was halfing the clicks on my scope instead of doubling like I needed to :facepalm: 3 shots left and slightly high of center, adjusted too far to the right for the next 2 and finished off with 4 where i wanted it.

    Will clean and return to the range next week to double check.

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  4. TDintheCorner

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    Just put a Nikon monarch scope on it last year
     
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  5. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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  6. Gert B Frobe

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    I have a Winchester that was my dads, and a Marlin that I bought. Probably killed 2x as many deer than with my others combined. We still dog hunt though, so a lot of mine are in the woods or on small trails where 100 yards is a long shot. Just have 1/10 the time to react. Neither has a scope. You have to be damn quick to draw and shoot in those conditions, scope would just be in the way.

    Have a Browning .270, Remington 700 30-06 and a Browning 7 short mag for the open fields and such. Probably killed the second most with the 30-06. Just a good, versatile round.

    For the guy wanting the smaller .243 type round, if you want it for varmits, look at the .17 HMR. I used to shoot a .243 for that, but the .17 is a hell of a round for it. Fast as hell, with plenty of killing power.
     
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  7. Doug

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    I went varmit hunting in Wyoming and probably shot a few thousand rounds through the 17 over 3 days- it's an all around great round.

    I do most of my squirrel hunting with the .17 now
     
  8. Gert B Frobe

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    I was skeptical when I first saw the round. Thought "that's cute", but like you, after shooting it a bit, I haven't picked up the .243 in ages. Not only is it dead accurate, it's just fun as hell to shoot.
     
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  9. oknole

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    My varmint/coyote/hog/doe gun. The Barnes 55gr TSX is a great bullet. Got that baby dialed in with a Nikon P223. The Spot On app makes sighting in and dialing up long shots a breeze. Popped a Prairie dog at 394 yards laser ranged.


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  10. Tommy Callahan

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    A-Bolt 7 mag with a luepold VX-3 on top
     
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  11. blind dog

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    buck on the right is one of two 12s on our club. we voted to leave them alone this year in hopes they get mad doe pussy
     
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  12. oknole

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  13. Van Earl Right

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    Deer Season w/ gun starts Saturday for youth (15 & under).
    Me & the eldest Right boy will be putting meat in the freezer, God willing
     
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  14. Doug

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    Primitive (aka a single shot 45-70) starts next weekend. I'm taking a 4 day weekend to bow hunt Friday, and primitive hunt Sat, Sun, Mon- right now looks like a small cool front is rolling through on the Thursday. Hoping it stalls a day for me. This weekend I'm going to try to hunt but with an inch and a half rain predicted for Saturday, and over 10 inches in the last 3 weeks I may be working on fixing our roads more than anything.
     
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  15. Captain Caveman

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    Laid one down this morning

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  16. Doug

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    Game cam recs?

    I have 7 bushnell ones right now but one is at bushnell on a warranty repair, 2 more aren't working and Outside of fresh batteries not sure what trouble shooting I can do and 2 more of them just kind of suck with shutter speed and quality of IR pic at night.

    I need something that can handle a lot of pics on batteries. I've had 5k pics in a week before, and normally get 2-3k per week per camera
     
  17. Doug

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    Oh yeah I use the less than $100 bushnells
     
  18. Captain Caveman

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    If you are getting that kind of volume you may want to adjust your timing intervals- you may be burning them out. I set mine at a minute- I just need to see what's there and what time- I don't need to see every move they make. Squirrels also bounce around so much it makes the cameras take a lot of duplicate pics
     
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  19. oknole

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    We use the $100 Moultrie's. Like them a lot.
     
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  20. Doug

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    I have the 3 pic burst every minute, we just have does that sit under the feeders until they eat everything

    I think if I had better trigger / shutter speed I'd be good with less pics, hate finally getting a rack and having it just a blur

    Anyone use the browning strike force? Seems to have great reviews and a quick trigger for a reasonable price
     
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  21. -Asshole-

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    Ive used moultrie cameras for years and like them. Just bought 2 more moultrie m8's (i think thats the model). They were $120 each which is $30 more than i usually spend but i like them a lot.

    I usually get ~500 pics with the delay set to 1 minute with 3 shot burst over a 1 week span. And the batteries will last for a few weeks.

    I tried the 5megapixal moultrie that was on sale for $60 but the pics weren't good enough quality during the night.
     
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  22. a.tramp

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    heading to northern oklahoma to our land to finish prepping for the upcoming rifle season. it has been 20 years since i've stepped foot on that property for hunting purposes. so many feels right now.
     
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  23. AIP

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    this guy was in my yard the other day.

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  24. Van Earl Right

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    Neck is already on swole. How far north are you?
     
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  25. AIP

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    Outside Philly, north and west of the city proper.

    What is swole ?
     
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  26. -Asshole-

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    The buck's neck. It happens as the rut approaches.
     
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  27. lhprop1

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    So this little guy walked in front of my slug Saturday morning. Tenderloins last night, and a roast tonight.

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  28. blind dog

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    blind dog, jr shot a 10 pt last weekend, found some frothy pink blood (assuming lung). looked for 5 hours and came up empty. sucks the meat is lost but hopefully i'll find the horns this next weekend. i cannot for anything get him to shoot lower, almost want to adjust the scope where aiming at the middle of the deer will hit heart area, but worried if i do that he will actually listen and aim where he is suppose to and miss low (also he just needs to learn where to fucking aim)
     
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  29. Doug

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    Know anyone with a tracking dog? I've heard of them working trails a few days later. That sucks though...look for buzards. If it was pink frothy he got lung, that deer isn't more than 150 yards even if he nicked it.
     
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  30. blind dog

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    don't have "tracking" dog but taking our dog just to sniff around. she can smell alive moles in our yard, hopefully she can find a dead deer. its all thick thick brush, gonna be a chore. could have been a fluke but i've seen a deer run much farther than that on a lung shot. hopefully this one didn't
     
  31. Doug

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    Worst thing about shooting them high is just so hard to track, deer is dead hopefully you can find it and at least salvage the mount.

    I found a 7 pt my friend shot a year later less than 100 yards where we lost the trail. Made a European mount and kept it so he has to look at it every time he comes to my camp so I can give him shit for screwing it all up- from shot to knowing where the deer was when he shot.

    If your dog does find something, let her eat the liver- maybe make a tracking dog out of her
     
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  32. StandUpDrunk

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    Anyone here from Georgia? I'm heading down this weekend to hunt and had a few questions on the permits.

    Out of state apprentice tags are only $20 but big game tags are $90 in addition. Do I need it if I'm hunting private land?
     
  33. dawgonit

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  34. TDintheCorner

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    I think as long as you're with the land owner then you're good. I know in-state apprentice hunters can get a license for free without any other requirements as long as they're accompanied by the land owner. Not sure how similar the requirements for out of state are.
     
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  35. TDintheCorner

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    I'd call the DNR and see if you can get a better explanation.

     
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  36. Doug

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    not in GA but from reading that it sounds like you'd need both- if ever in doubt give them a call, they want you to be legal just as much as you do
     
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  37. Chocolate Giddyup

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  38. HotMic

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    Missed a nice 8 past his ears last night. He was hot on a doe moving fast through the pines, and when I let one fly it nicked a grapevine on its way. Knocked it off course enough where it caught a branch on one of the pines.

    Not only did I not get my rut buck, but I managed to trash my bolt and broad head in the process too.



    Here in NE Ohio they're locking down hard, I don't expect seeking/chasing to last past this weekend.
     
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  39. Doug

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    This always blows my mind how early rut is in most of the country.
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    This is the Louisiana rut map, as you can see there are pockets of the state that don't start until late January, our rifle season normally ends around January 20th. I've seen nice bucks chasing while squirrel hunting in February, and scapres in early turkey season.
     
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  40. wes tegg

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    Maybe farther than 150 yards, but with lung contact you aren't going to have a situation where they'll bed and then get back up like you might with a gutshot or pass-through. That deer isn't going to be too far away if you saw pink frothy blood.
     
  41. wes tegg

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    Parts of Alabama now have a brief February season because the rut hits so late there. Growing up, we always either had it the last weekend of the season or missed it altogether.
     
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  42. dawgonit

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  43. HotMic

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    It's crazy how Louisiana alone is all over the calendar, I can't imagine hunting the rut that late in the season.

    Sometimes you can catch the secondary rut during muzzleloader season here, other than that you're locked in to getting your big boys out and about during bow (last week of October-first few weeks of November). Our shotgun season comes in the week after Thanksgiving when most of the Bucks have gone totally nocturnal.
     
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  44. FightingCock

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    Going home next week for 16 days. Hopefully it will frost a couple of times to knock back the skeeters
     
  45. Fafa fofo

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    blind dog, same license question for Arkansas. Hunting private land with owner. Florida resident.
     
  46. blind dog

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    I live in Texas now, and have taken friends from here and they have always gotten the either the 1 day or 3 day non resident all game ($55 & $125 respectively). I have never heard of the apprentice tag thing

    http://www.agfc.com/licenses/Pages/LicensesHuntingFees.aspx

    Before I moved from Arkansas 10+ years ago I bought a lifetime license for $1000, paid for itself in 3 years (I would have had to pay $350/year to hunt at our club otherwise)
     
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  47. sc_chant

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    I was out a couple weeks ago and they weren't bad at all. I got a 6 point the first evening then missed a doe (old man got her Tuesday night) the next but the mosquitoes were almost nonexistent
     
  48. FightingCock

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    Most of our land is right next to swamps, so the nickel and dime sized bugs are out and about. They have gator jaws
     
  49. blind dog

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    Getting drunk by myself by the camp fire, about to wake my kid up in about 5 hours to go shoot a big buck in the face, my favorite time of year
     
  50. blind dog

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    found my kid's deer from last week, wore myself the fuck out looking for it. was ~1000 yards from where he shot it

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