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Team 4 Campfire

BTaylor said:
@Swamp Fox__On The Run I failed to mention how accurate your post was. Those otters ran within 7-8 steps of a mature bucks scrape.
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BTaylor said:
That's why this place is special. You cant get that kind of knowledge anywhere else.
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The truth is out there.

You just have to spend a lot of time in the woods, the pool halls, and the juke joints.

Also, the campfires ... :p
 
I know it doesn't help us out as far as the contest goes but I thought I'd share a unique deer hunting experience I had this past week. A buddy and I made the trip via boat to go try standby at a WMA located on an uninhabited barrier island off the Texas coast and actually got drawn! It was special experience to hunt whitetail while looking at the Gulf of America. I ended up taking the first legal deer I saw which was a funky 4 point spike and my buddy of course got a much larger 8 point. It's not everyday you get a whitetail trophy picture with a palm tree in the background!
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I hope those of you hunting this weekend punch some tags!
 
Jammintree said:
Man I wish I could post a video on the subject. A couple years ago I was set up on the ground in a pinch point between two huge swamps waiting for a buck to cross and had 3-4 otter come at me - teeth gnashing! @woodsdog2 can verify my account!
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Yes sir he sure did…. After I stopped laughing I realized how aggressive them dang things can be!!! Very unnerving!!
 
Well after our rifle opener last Saturday a buddy and I headed to Iowa for public land and permission only……. You guessed it…… pheasants! He’s been out 8 times over the years and I’ve always wanted to try it so we were there all week.

Drove back Thursday. Went out yesterday back home for deer am and pm and saw nothing. Since I’ve been hunting out of town all last week I decided to do some much needed tasks around the house today. Sorry I’ve not been able to contribute yet everyone!!

Hopefully Thanksgiving week will offer me some more woods time and I may try to get out tomorrow afternoon. My wife works all this weekend and my kids have work and sports engagements too blah blah blah blah….. anywho….. that’s what’s up with me!!
 
woodsdog2 said:
Well after our rifle opener last Saturday a buddy and I headed to Iowa for public land and permission only……. You guessed it…… pheasants! He’s been out 8 times over the years and I’ve always wanted to try it so we were there all week.

Drove back Thursday. Went out yesterday back home for deer am and pm and saw nothing. Since I’ve been hunting out of town all last week I decided to do some much needed tasks around the house today. Sorry I’ve not been able to contribute yet everyone!!

Hopefully Thanksgiving week will offer me some more woods time and I may try to get out tomorrow afternoon. My wife works all this weekend and my kids have work and sports engagements too blah blah blah blah….. anywho….. that’s what’s up with me!!
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Yeah, the NE chapter of team 4 needs to make it happen. I’m personally having one of my hardest years to date. For whatever reason, it seems like things in the deer woods heated up very late this year. It also seems like deer numbers are way down from prior years, but I have no data on that outside of sightings.
 
I let a hammer of a 7 pt walk yesterday. Never even touched my rifle. It was only after looking at the Live Photos that I saw how big he really was, lol.

And now I’m watching a button buck take a dump with his butt facing me.

Self esteem is low.
 
Jammintree said:
Yeah, the NE chapter of team 4 needs to make it happen. I’m personally having one of my hardest years to date. For whatever reason, it seems like things in the deer woods heated up very late this year. It also seems like deer numbers are way down from prior years, but I have no data on that outside of sightings.
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I don’t know what it is, I’m not sure the numbers are down here as I always have activity on my cameras but this year pickins’ are slim on larger age class bucks compared to previous years.

I did manage to get out yesterday afternoon after all and I could have taken a medium sized doe but I was hoping for an amorous buck on her heels but to no avail. The wind died down at deer thirty and any slight movement sounded like a large scale land invasion.

I’m not sure what the antidote is at this point except time in the saddle. This year has been a struggle bus year for me personally as I had to sit out the first month of bow season for medical reasons. Also a lot of family milestones taking place. Being out in the woods during all those things would have been pointless as my mind was on dad and work stuff. Years like this truly make you appreciate prior successes that is for sure.
 
Jpdarby2 said:
@dalton916 congrats, looks like some nice shooting on your part!
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A borrowed 350 Legend. Never shot one before, not sure I won’t be converting one of my M1 Super 90s into a slug gun before I go back. Not to say the rifle don’t do its job because it did. I shot him slightly quartering too at 100+/- yds in a CRP (first year cut, fallow) field and he trotted about 30 yards like he’d been hit hard then stopped and looked around for about 15-20 seconds before he just tipped over.

I saw this big ass 7pt around 11 Friday morning…..

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……and didn’t shoot him. Foolish decision. I watched him walk across the back edge of the field and while he was there I picked up the binos and looked at his rack. Didn’t look like anything special. Then while looking at my phone while trying to focus a picture he walked into the open. I was concerned about getting a picture, not gauging the buck. He’s at 112yds in the pic. After that he turned and worked a scrape and licking branch on the edge of the field then turned and went into the woods. I had a broadside shot at 74 yds and another at 100+/- but never touched the rifle. It wasn’t until I watched the live images right after he left that I knew I had made a major mistake, lol.

The buck I killed came off public and was headed across the field behind the buck in the pic above like he was going to come to the field just like the 7pt did the before. When he got to the tree line he turned and headed for some does. He ran one around for about 30 minutes and got 300 yds from me. Then some idiots started shooting. They shot 12 or 13 times over the course of a few minutes. I heard several bullets hit in the woods on my side of the line (but at the other end of the field) and I heard what I thought was a couple of bullets hitting the mud. I swear these ****heads we’re trying to shoot ahead of the buck to get it to run back up the hill to the public land.

Anyway, I lost sight of him for a bit, then looked and he crossed the tree line into the field and walking the far edge. Then he turned into the field and came straight my direction. When he turned and stopped I shot him.

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That’s a 65qt cooler. Didn’t measure anything, but my size 14 muck boot will fit inside without touching anything, lol.
 
@dalton916 once again congrats! I love the story, I'm glad the ****heads didn't win! I've thought long and hard about the 350 legend, no rifle regulations down in Texas but the novelty has some appeal. Good work!
 
dalton916 said:
A borrowed 350 Legend. Never shot one before, not sure I won’t be converting one of my M1 Super 90s into a slug gun before I go back. Not to say the rifle don’t do its job because it did. I shot him slightly quartering too at 100+/- yds in a CRP (first year cut, fallow) field and he trotted about 30 yards like he’d been hit hard then stopped and looked around for about 15-20 seconds before he just tipped over.

I saw this big ass 7pt around 11 Friday morning…..

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……and didn’t shoot him. Foolish decision. I watched him walk across the back edge of the field and while he was there I picked up the binos and looked at his rack. Didn’t look like anything special. Then while looking at my phone while trying to focus a picture he walked into the open. I was concerned about getting a picture, not gauging the buck. He’s at 112yds in the pic. After that he turned and worked a scrape and licking branch on the edge of the field then turned and went into the woods. I had a broadside shot at 74 yds and another at 100+/- but never touched the rifle. It wasn’t until I watched the live images right after he left that I knew I had made a major mistake, lol.

The buck I killed came off public and was headed across the field behind the buck in the pic above like he was going to come to the field just like the 7pt did the before. When he got to the tree line he turned and headed for some does. He ran one around for about 30 minutes and got 300 yds from me. Then some idiots started shooting. They shot 12 or 13 times over the course of a few minutes. I heard several bullets hit in the woods on my side of the line (but at the other end of the field) and I heard what I thought was a couple of bullets hitting the mud. I swear these ****heads we’re trying to shoot ahead of the buck to get it to run back up the hill to the public land.

Anyway, I lost sight of him for a bit, then looked and he crossed the tree line into the field and walking the far edge. Then he turned into the field and came straight my direction. When he turned and stopped I shot him.

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That’s a 65qt cooler. Didn’t measure anything, but my size 14 muck boot will fit inside without touching anything, lol.
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Fantastic work! Congratulations- all your hard work is paying off.

My state doesn’t allow rifles and so I’m considering buying a savage 220 - 20 gauge shotgun with a rifled barrel. They are good out to 200 yards and don’t pack a mountain of recoil.
 
I will be spending time in a blind with my son this week as he is home from college. But to be honest shooting something with more points is probably not going to happen for me this year. Hey you never know though! I will be back in the saddle the second he decides to not hunt or goes back to college.
 
Well, I’m about to go back to Vermont to chase em on snow for 2 days. But I’ll be in the saddle for the rest of the week once I get back.
 
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