08-09 deer season - Page 3

BryanK · 11-30-2008, 11:28

Congratulations to your son! Didn't see a tail yesterday myself, but there's still a couple weeks left up here.

anythingrandom · 11-30-2008, 15:28

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Originally Posted by Maytime

By no means am I an experienced hunter, but my friend got me hooked, so here goes:

I recently acquired a newer Ruger M70 in .257 Roberts, and was wondering: compared to my older rifle in .300 Win Mag, which would you (the more experienced hunter) take with you in the inland Northwest (Eastern WA, Northern ID)? Say the target is relatively soft-skinned game like white tail or black bear.

Accuracy is not the issue, as both are almost equally sharp at 100yds, but I'm concerned about range and versatility. Both are also roughly the same in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Thanks!

(Edited to add) The choice of rounds I have are: Federal 120gr .257 (+P) Nosler Partition, vs. Hornady 180gr .300 Win Mag Inter Lock

If there's a lot of brush, take the heavier bullet. Slugs and sabots are great to penetrate the little trees and bushes here. We just use rifles for the long, open shots.

abc_123 · 11-30-2008, 15:53

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Originally Posted by BryanK

Congratulations to your son! Didn't see a tail yesterday myself, but there's still a couple weeks left up here.

The mast crop is exceptionally bad this year. Earlier in the year I could see the reminants of acorns EVERYWHERE, this fall... Nothing.

Just read an article in the paper talking about the same thing. Last year caused an increase in the squirrel population and this year they are starving.

My boys and I will get out the .22 and 20ga shotguns and see if we can help out those suffering squirrels in a bit....

Next week i'm taking a couple of days off and giving the deer one more shot with the bow. The property I hunt really has nothing to hold deer or funnel them with the acorn crop as bad as it is. (given their likely direction of travel towards the nearest cropland). It will likely be an exercise in futility, but who knows...?

sparks1 · 12-02-2008, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maytime

By no means am I an experienced hunter, but my friend got me hooked, so here goes:

I recently acquired a newer Ruger M70 in .257 Roberts, and was wondering: compared to my older rifle in .300 Win Mag, which would you (the more experienced hunter) take with you in the inland Northwest (Eastern WA, Northern ID)? Say the target is relatively soft-skinned game like white tail or black bear.

Accuracy is not the issue, as both are almost equally sharp at 100yds, but I'm concerned about range and versatility. Both are also roughly the same in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Thanks!

(Edited to add) The choice of rounds I have are: Federal 120gr .257 (+P) Nosler Partition, vs. Hornady 180gr .300 Win Mag Inter Lock

Personally, I would take the .300Win. Mag if I were to be hunting any bear. LOTS more knock down power. The .257 roberts would be just fine for deer. I hunt with a 6.5 Grendel AR (100g Hornady interlock) and it does the job admirably. I also use a .308 Win. just my 2 cents worth.

Ron

sg1987 · 12-02-2008, 21:56

My ten year old son took his first deer today. God that was fun!!! Man was he pumped!!!! Dropped him dead in his tracks at a little over 100 yards. Not to shabby.... With his marksmanship and love of the woods he just might make it to Camp MacKall one day!

(I routinely “program” him with John Wayne films and he has a poster of The Reaper’s avatar over his bed.)

---gotta raise him right!

abc_123 · 12-03-2008, 00:15

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Originally Posted by sg1987

My ten year old son took his first deer today. God that was fun!!! Man was he pumped!!!! Dropped him dead in his tracks at a little over 100 yards. Not to shabby.... With his marksmanship and love of the woods he just might make it to Camp MacKall one day!

(I routinely “program” him with John Wayne films and he has a poster of The Reaper’s avatar over his bed.)

---gotta raise him right!

That's pretty cool, isn't it? Mine was pumped too. Congrats.

Sigaba · 12-03-2008, 09:54

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Originally Posted by sg1987

I routinely “program” him with John Wayne films...gotta raise him right!

I'm jumping out of my lane for a quick post on this thread.

I cannot describe the heat I take at the office for holding the view that the Duke was one of the greatest American actors to appear on the sliver screen. My position remains unchanged: what other actor has taught so many what it means to be an American?

Now, I'll get back in my lane.

anythingrandom · 12-21-2008, 09:13

Got three Thursday with the .54 muzzleloader. 2 does ran by me, the first one went down and about 15 minutes later her friend came back to check on her and joined in the fun. In the evening, I took my 8yo nephew out with me. He did great and even experienced his first gray squirrel alarm. The little guy ran across 6 trees to see what was sitting down in his woods and then let us know he wasn't happy. The little buck was the third taken, the two does were hanging by this time. Nephew enjoyed hmiself, stayed still, and didnt complain about the cold and wet. After the muzzleloader smoke cleared, he was still shaking like a leaf, and asked if we could go again in the morning. He's hooked!

Pardon my face camo, my "makeup artists" have a combined 7 years of age and did a bit of playing . Nephew was afraid he'd spook the deer without his paint on, so we had to go back to the house to grab it and get him all done up too. 150 pounds of meat in the freezer. The flank steaks will go to jerkey, and the hearts made excellent anticucho (recipe from this site) over brown rice.

pennywise · 01-03-2009, 22:03

He went down @ 261520R DEC 08. Already looking forward to next year. This one was definitely the best of this years deer season ( 4 kills total). Unless the urban season has something to yield.

olhamada · 01-04-2009, 15:38

Hunting a field standing behind a hay bale. 135# doe at 200m with a Remington 700 .300 Win Mag with fluted Sendero barrel and 6.5-20x50 Leupold scope. Field dressed in the dark. Now at the butcher for steaks, sausage, and hamburger.

Air.177 · 01-04-2009, 15:51

I took a Whitetail doe yesterday evening at about 35 yards with a 16" AR using 75gr. TAP. Heart shot and she ran uphill about 35-40 yards in a gnarly cedar thicket and fell dead. 5.56 most certainly did the job, but that small exit wound made tracking of blood sign difficult at best, with the only blood having been at the sight of the impact and where we ultimately found her balled up. I saw a very nice 8 pointer yesterday morning but he was at about 105 yds walking dead away and I did not have a stable rest from which to shoot, nor did I want to chance a,"Texas Heart Shot" with the 5.56 . This was my first deer, and she field dressed out at #65. Unfortunately no Pics.

Good times,
Blake

JoeyB · 03-17-2009, 11:31

Well I finally managed to down a deer last week of season, nice sized buck that had shed. Then I started planning a 10 day Elk trip to CO right up till the wife reminded me of the promise to take her some place warm and lazy for vacation. So no Elk this year

abc_123 · 03-17-2009, 20:01

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Originally Posted by JoeyB

Well I finally managed to down a deer last week of season, nice sized buck that had shed. Then I started planning a 10 day Elk trip to CO right up till the wife reminded me of the promise to take her some place warm and lazy for vacation. So no Elk this year

Congrats!

Maybe you could get someone to stand in for you so you could go get that Elk?

JoeyB · 03-18-2009, 10:28

Well considering her idea of a vaction is the NC coast in the summer, i think id gladly take a stand in

abc_123 · 03-18-2009, 19:35

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Originally Posted by JoeyB

Well considering her idea of a vaction is the NC coast in the summer, i think id gladly take a stand in

You know, I think the real person making that decision would be your wife. Especially since you wouldn't even be there to watch.