Firearm Season

[buckhunterbb]

Wishing everyone a safe & successful hunt this firearms season. Going to be a nice crisp morning tomorrow.

 

[Leadeye]

Looking forward to it, should be a good opening day here in the GSF.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

Got my buck 7:24 this morning. Good luck and safe hunting

 

[bocefus78]

Buck down. Shot at 0845. 308win nosler 180gr partition anchored him in his tracks. 10pt Not even a blood trail that I can put my dog on

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Nice. Stupid neighbors spooked 'em into the back field. I've been watching them play, but they've gotta come into the front field a little ways before I'll have a good shot. So I'm just sitting out here loving life.

 

[Indyal]

I had a little 3 pointer bed down 25 yards from me (up in a treestand). Left me after an hour. None of the gunshots around me got his attention

 

[bobjones223]

14 yo daughter POUNDED her first deer at 9:30 this morning.... Nice little 4 pointer came in....got about 20 yards away...and was even nice enough to stand broadside while my daughter fumbled around in the stand getting into position... Shifting her body...moving the gun and whispering to me....he was awesome... Stood there and stared at her saying "it's ok...just take your time"

She shot him..he ran 15 yards...got his horns tangled up in some brush...stood there for a second and fell over...punched both lungs and dead center of the heart....SHE ROCKED IT LIKE A BOSS!

 

[Slonsteady]

Cograts Bobjones223, that is a great feeling. My girls dont hunt but they both had a bite of the squirrels I bagged last wekend. You never know when the spark will catch, so I keep trying.

 

[Hookeye]

Guys set blind up around the field corner (no orange either).
They popped something.
I was at my usually lonely corner of the thicket.
Car came by slowly, beeping the horn 20 times.
Neighbor across the road was hooting and hollering too (same ones that splashed laundry detergent along road last yr, edge of our woods).
Dunno if they've actually gone in and jacked with stuff.
Azzholes.

8:30 cuz rips one. CVA, .35 Rem trimmed. 3 deer in 3 years. Total blood trail for all three combined? Two steps.

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I only saw two fox squirrels. That was it. Was a pretty morning, heard about 20 shots total, 2 close (not counting cuz).
Most were shotgun. Think somebody had a .357 mag rifle close. Pretty wimpy sound. Proly the buttheads with no orange on their blind.

 

[Hookeye]

I hunted with my Ruger #1.
That's why I bought it.............so when nothing shows up I can still smile, because my rifle is pretty.

 

[oldpink]

Shot a youngster, a five point, this morning at 9:50 with my Ruger M77 .30-06 and reload of Federal brass, CCI #200 primer, 57 grains IMR4831, and 165 grain Barnes TTSX.
He hunched up and leaped skyward, then started to run, but only started, going to a slow walk after only five or six steps, then stopped altogether.
I found him where he had stopped, not 50 feet from where I had shot him.

 

[bobjones223]

Her first deer.....priceless moments!

 

[bobjones223]

Ummmm I didn't do to bad in the afternoon myself...

 

[oldpink]

Ummmm I didn't do to bad in the afternoon myself...
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Great job to your girl getting her first, but yours is a total bruiser!

 

[bobjones223]

Great job to your girl getting her first, but yours is a total bruiser!

He was a pig...let his doe go out into the opening before him and hung back with just his head looking over the ridge...untill she passed us and was heading up the next ridge and decided it was safe?....ooops......blew his heart into mush but he still had enough energy to run 50 yards down to the bottom of a very steep revine.....love my helper but she needs to work on her deer dragging muscles.

 

[chubbs]

I picked this buck off last night. I had seen him and some doe crossing the bean field in the am from my stand. But it was way to far away for a shot. So in the afternoon I moved over to the wood line by where I seen them. Sat my big butt on the ground for a few hours and he crusied back through. He didn't take another step after the 350 grn xtp hit him.

 

[DapperDan]

Hadn't been hunting in probably 10 years. Scored this decent little buck yesterday morning with my 700.

 

[Dirty Steve]

My youngest son (16) smoked his best buck yet with my .243 shooting a 95 gr SST this morning at about 8:15. It's an 8 that'll go about 120-125". Have not put the tape to it yet because I can't hardly pry it away from him. Doesn't matter though, he's estatic. Proud of him. Dad's turn now. I don't hunt until he's killed his, then Pappy's Guide Service closes unless mom decides she wants to go.

Dirty Steve

 

[d80hunter]

I brought home a doe and passed on a 6 pointer. I'm having backstraps for diner

 

[KJQ6945]

Congrats to all the people that have had success.
I had a beautiful morning with a rifle that needed to go for a walk in the woods. Nothing died, no expensive rifle ammo was shot, but it was a beautiful morning spent with a good friend. Maybe next time.

I wouldn't trade today for anything. It was perfect!