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  Lawn Ornament Today
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  There was five small bucks behind the house here this morning. Two were engaged in a sparring match with their horns entangled not a serious fight more like practice. One pretty good sized buck wasn't paying any attention to the ruckus and one little nubbin spike that was staying out of everybody's way. Yesterday evening it was all does except for the tiny spike and two evenings prior pigs broke up the party until I cut their visit short. Once they find corn on the ground it's over for the deer.
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  Upgrade the 4wd CanAm
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  @bigfoot Oh my God, heaven don't come cheap.
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  Berger Hunting Bullets
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  12:00 and 6:00 are the worst wind conditions to shoot in. Very difficult.
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  Summer Time pdogs & a bonus!
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  Got out early today before the sun had time to build power. 60 degrees at 6am and had 32 of them dead by 9am with only 30 rounds fired. Doubles are great ways to conserve ammo! The kryptek UPF 30 hoody keeps me from getting skin cancer. Hey, those aren't pdogs! Partridge are eating good with the crazy thick grasshopper hatch. Gotta watch out for those burrowing owls too! They are quite cool, but when the mirage gets up, it can be hard to tell the difference between them and a prairie dog at 600yds. Pdogs have different mannerisms though, and I always make sure I'm not going to kill one of my little buddies accidentally! This one was trying to decide if he wanted to come nibble on that headless carcass or not. Then there was this suicidal little fellow that popped up at 25yds and cussed me out until I snatched his melon off.
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  Senseless
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  @rr2241tx These two slipped out of the big part of the ranch and were crazy wild at first. If they saw you they would take off in that hopping looking way they run I figured out pretty quick they weren't deer and the male had tiny horns. They have some in the ranch that are magnificent looking but he's just a youngster. What tees me off is some worm shot it right down the road from my house. This building is so well insulated I can't even hear a truck honking in the driveway but I felt that hurricane last night. We had an English Mouflon in with our cows for a while but that thing could get over fences and escaped the dart gun and was never seen again. He had some massive head gear. Yep there's plenty of trash running the roads here they like baiting deer and cutting fences to get at them they even use four wheelers. They have some stones when it comes to stealing game but probably don't work a job.
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  Coyotes
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  Got a video of a coyote this morning a little after eight. Long ways from the house this time.
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  2020 Deer Season proved to be another great year!
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  Not sure why the photo won't appear. When I insert it in the (image url) it does not show up?
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  Pigs
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  @bigfoot I guess the one I saw standing a couple of hundred yards from where I shot at the pigs was waiting on its buddy to croak. This morning a pack of Cara Cara's was gathered over by our tank berm and a few buzzards. We took a ride up there and sure enough one black pig taking a dirt nap. Gut shot right in the middle of the body more than likely passed through I sure was hoping for a double. I didn't have my gloves when I take the tractor to load it up I'll flip it over and see what the other side looks like. Can't believe it made it that far guess even gut shot with a big bullet won't anchor them needed to contact some bones.
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  Deer Videos
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  @bigfoot The next video is what happens when the doe finally sets up for a mate. It's on my channel might take some explaining if certain youngsters view it.
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  Deer Pics
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  @orkan man it was Animal Planet here this morning. The temperature dropped forty degrees over night. I got some good video of three good bucks in rut but didn't get a fight going. A couple squared off but the dominant one took the doe. They get plumb stupid this time of year.
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  Evening Serenade
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  I enjoyed your story about listening to the coyotes in the distance as a young boy. I can very much relate. I lease a piece of land in the Okefenokee swamp in GA that I started out originally pursuing wild hogs. That spread to White Tail dear. During the past 5 years of this process the coyotes have proven to be the most elusive of all three species. I upgraded to NV & Thermal yet getting the dogs to come out of the thick brush after dark has been a steep learning. curve. More to follow
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  Daughter's First Deer
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  Very awesome.
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  2019 bow season best yet for Deer!
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  @kea Yeah... the hunters that travel to hunt are some of the worst. Few are good. I like the ones that are, and actually care about something. Most feel entitled, because the money they spent and the distance traveled, they think they are entitled to shoot anything, anywhere. 160 is a great deer. They don't even start looking shootable until 140, in my opinion. ... but yeah the guys from other states think a 120 is huge because all they ever see is 80" deer... because they all shoot everything with ANY horns on its head. I wish more people would stay at home and wreck their own hunting instead of travelling everywhere and wrecking everyone's hunting. ;)
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  Seeing the sights!
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  Taken from my living room in the last couple weeks.
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  Hunting Buddy
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  October Elk Hunt Idaho
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  Beautiful! Congratulations on an awesome bull @tpk936
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  @martino re: 1600yd Pronghorn
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  Taxidermist fail
  • orkan

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  @donnie said in Taxidermist fail: Very hard to find a professional. Boy is it ever.
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  Shame them.
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  Doe control is necessary for a healthy buck population I have been taught. Bucks seem to want to spend more time fighting than breeding when there's an abundance of does. Don't know about antelopes guess they have their own nature. My hunting buddy down here has taken on a ranch of about a thousand acres owned by his sisters husbands family. They don't have any water sources on it and is perfect for whitetail they just never developed it. I guess he's been there about seven years and made watering places with plastic wading pools and convinced his brother in law to get the well going and try to keep water there. He has fed a little protein and he and his sons have been shooting out the old spikes and otherwise dud deer and put up lots of cameras to see what was really in there at night. Two big problems they found as to why there wasn't any "good" deer. One was a pig control trapper and hunter that was allowed in there. He did way more than trap pigs, cameras caught him. He just about annihilated the turkey population too. I would have had him thrown in the pokey. The other was the Department of Criminal Justice had permission to train officers how to catch prisoners with bloodhounds on horseback in that place. That was a no brainer. Unloading a trailer full of hounds and horses in the fall chasing trustees. They finally put them on a schedule that wasn't conflicting with hunting season and they may have stopped altogether now. They had a bad habit of just showing up unannounced. He came up on a riderless horse one time and a couple of inmates were sitting under a tree resting and him with a .270. That could have been bad. The place has only gotten better and some deer worthy of mounting have been taken but seven years isn't long enough. He might be half way there.
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  Bobcats
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  I found the picture of the one we had tanned. It's a picture of a picture so it's not too good. That's my dog Ruby standing by the truck still panting after getting a whipping from the cat. She had the bobcat held down under a little shrub out in the pasture about thirty feet. I was more worried about a rattlesnake than I was the cat at that point. I had a rifle with me but laid it down when I saw where the bobcat was and had to get low for a shot.
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  Texas Doves
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  Prairie Dog Termination
  • orkan

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  @martino1 Decidedly more predators around pdog towns. Seems to be more still after I've hit one hard for a few days in a row.
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  Coyotes 2018
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  Saw a couple of coyotes while planting soybeans yesterday The gray one got out of there as soon as I stopped the tractor but the reddish brown one stuck around a bit.
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  2018 Deer Season was another good one!
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  @kea Finally got my Colorado Black bear back that was taken with my TS Customs 8 mm Remington Mag. Very pleased with how it turned out.
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  Hog Trapping
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  The same morning from the first trap to the last on this side of the pasture. We had three or four more on the east side of the property that caught about as many as these did. I don't know who that goofy person is talking to the pigs and he can barely do math.
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  New Years Day Deer
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  @bigfoot I hung it up after this one. Nature was calling me and I had to answer and I hadn't had any coffee yet. If we get back I am for sure going to clean the window.
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  Great pal for coyote hunt
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  lol!
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  First bull elk
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  @prometheus that’s some sound advice. As I get older I get wiser. Probably would have downed an elk by myself in my 20’s and spent 4 days packing it out. Now, we like ATV access or a group of guys to assist if someone downs one. Same logic when sheep hunting, take 2 guys or hunt close to the ATV’s. We spent 2 days packing out my buddy’s ram in 2016. You see so many guys claiming to do solo hunts and pack everything out countless miles on the first trip. Every honest hunter knows that’s not the case. Don’t know how many horses you would need to pack an elk out in one trip 3-4 plus 1 per rider??
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  Mother Nature isn’t being very nice
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  Well the good thing about the snow is if I move it right I get a firing range.
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  Technology Crushes Hope
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  @rr2241tx congrats on the deer. It’s a shanr that liver with onions is banned from the kitchen. Good stuff!
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  Alberta mule deer
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  Mule deer taste fantastic when they haven't been running hard.
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  2018 archery
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  Very nice,The most fun i had deer hunting is with a bow, you get up close and your heart pumps like a bass drum.
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  First deer with new DT
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  holy dark horns batman.
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  Guest Hunter
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  Not a fan of the poisonous snakes. Nope not at all. I quite enjoy killing them. Killed something like 35-40 of them this summer/fall.
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  X LG ATV rifle case
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  Dusted one.
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  Money well spent and there will be no bullshit with Travis.
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  Grizzly encounter x3
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  @donnie sounds like it’s purely anti-trump BS reasons.
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  Here kitty kitty
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  That’s why I want a 10mm or 357 to carry deer hunting. Dang things.
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  Interesting video on headshots and thrashing around
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  Very cool explanation.
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  Scouting
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  @hypo, It’s probably man-bear/pig. Half man, half bearpig. We have a couple (2) wolves in the area last I checked but they were further north. I have a 85 pound Malinois puppy at home. He’s got big feet, but not this big. I don’t think it’s anything canine. This print has to be at least six inches wide. Figure that quarter is 45 thou less than an inch. I’ve done some checking and that’s too big for all but the odd few cats. I think the official word is bear. I’ll be back up there in a couple days for more scouting. I’ll see if I I can’t find more or better prints.
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  Death from above
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  I really like these pictures. Thanks for sharing.A
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  Caught in the rain.
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  I enjoy shooting, stalking, practicing in the rain. Thinking about going out while in the house might be daunting and even sometimes when it starts raining my "city" brain tries to kick in and say "why are you out here in the rain". But the funny thing is, when you are out in the rain, it seems far less disruptive that when you are actually out in it. Even "noah's rains" don't seem too bad. Of course, I grew up in Florida where our idea of a "regular rain" most people call a "heavy rain". Also, more recently, when I've been doing my wind practice, I've noted the rain (or the snow) is a useful wind gauge, so it has value for that as well! == Well, in Kansas, we don't have hogs and we don't have p-dogs ... just coons, opossum, yotes ... so I dont' get to have fun shooting p-dogs ... though it does not sound like I would like what they do to pastures.
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  Some sod puppies meet my 6 Dasher
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  Looks like a whole lot of fun, that is some good rifle shooting greg. God Bless
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  2018 Hunting Thread
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  Draw deadline for AZ Deer/Sheep is Tuesday. Just put my draw in for me and my youngest. I'm going for Whitetails only in two different units. For my boy, I put him in for Youth only, any antlered deer, in two units, and a youth only, any deer, in a unit near the AZ/UT border. I bought a point only for my son for Javelina, and a point for me in bighorn sheep.
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  Advise for a newbie on coyote hunting
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  Thanks fellas, I’m gonna give it a try soon. Not sure when exactly but I’ll ley you know how it turns out.
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  New Eberlestock camo
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  @tackyp Very cool. I wouldn’t mind hiking the 150 miles from. Death Valley to Whitney, but as you say I can’t stand California politics and don’t intend to return. It is a shame that such beautiful country is wasted on liberals.
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  .264 SMK 142gr for Deer
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  142SMK will definitely kill deer.
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  Black coyote double
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  Is it possible the black yote might have been a hybrid. It looks beefier that the other yotes.
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  Proud daddy
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  Them’s good days right there! Get the pictures printed and put them in her baby book. Kids grow up fast and we forget how precious they were before we got so damned old.
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  Day After Thanksgiving Buck
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