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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/27/2007 at 09:02
Not sure.  It appeared shaggy, with a shaggy tail that it was wagging, almost like a big dog.
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Dolphin,

 Here's a hint for ya.When you said "when the deer appears and it's your time to shoot"

Unless you "are" in the middle of a field you'd better have a shotgun in your hands or there will be no ethical shot taken.hehehe

That deer will appear and be gone quicker than you can blink.

That phrase reminded me of a bunch of englishmen standing around waitin on the drive and sayin "hey dudley it's your turn to shoot"

Now I'm not sayin this to make ya mad just struck me as funny.But please,if you go hunting with the son-in-law take you a good ole 12ga auto and some buckshot or they may be givin you a hard time later.

Good Luck,

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Originally posted by ROCKMAN57 ROCKMAN57 wrote:

Dolphin,

 Here's a hint for ya.When you said "when the deer appears and it's your time to shoot"

Unless you "are" in the middle of a field you'd better have a shotgun in your hands or there will be no ethical shot taken.hehehe

That deer will appear and be gone quicker than you can blink.

That phrase reminded me of a bunch of englishmen standing around waitin on the drive and sayin "hey dudley it's your turn to shoot"

Now I'm not sayin this to make ya mad just struck me as funny.But please,if you go hunting with the son-in-law take you a good ole 12ga auto and some buckshot or they may be givin you a hard time later.

Good Luck,

Rock

No doubt about that.

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The secret to success - WALK CLOSER.  It takes more skill to get bow distance from a deer because scent is a factor, movement is a factor stand placement is a factor and you have to scout where the deer are moving and know why they move in certain ways. Terain is a major factor in why they go one place or another. I always like to go out and scout deer tracks after a fresh snow to see where they are moving. Knowing the deer's habits allows you to get close. It's a real rush to have a trophy buck within 15 yds of you. If you have not ever used deer calls you need to watch some of the Primos videos and learn how to make the deer hunt you. 

As for distance the only time we get to use high power rifles in Iowa is last week of late antlerless season and only for does. Muskets are legal for any of the gun seasons which makes it a 200 yd shot at the most. The DNR does issue a very few Depredation Permits for farmers with extensive crop damage but they are hard to get and the deer is not to be transported or used for any purpose. If you hunt all the seasons you are elidgible to hunt in Iowa as a resident and a landowner you can buy a lot of tags - I have thrown away unused tags every year and thats not because I didn't see deer. 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tahqua Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March/01/2007 at 21:14

Wow, it just goes to show you the diversity of hunting styles here at O.T. For the most part here in the Yooper of Michigan we stalk for our shots. Sometimes it's close and sometimes it's far. Still, my longest shot was at a Colorado mulie @ 300 yards+ with a 4x Burris and a 7mag.

172 pts and an SCI silver award. Great tasting, too, but a properly cared for cedar swamp buck doesn't taste much different......

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nice deer!!
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Thanks, P! Us folks from the northern states owe it to ourselves to go out west hunting (Canada, AK., Africa and S.A, too)
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i lived in mulie land for most of my life, i now live across the pond from you and i really like white tail meat but mulie hunting was fun
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VERY nice buck, tahqua!
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Thanks, Ted, that was my best mulie ever. I took him on my last day in Colorado between Canon City and Guffey.
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that's a beauty.

 

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Thanks, Jon. Here is another one from that same year, I don't remember the distance, though. We were all SCI members and I don't think he scored as well as mine but he was an honest 36 incher. Yeah right, through him back.....

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This is a long shot thread so I'll throw this one in, though it was only 75 yards. My first coyote came into a mouth call. I hit him with that Ruger10-22 in the pic, iron sights. I didn't think it was too far at the time but I had to track him a couple hundred yards through the swamp to recover him, he was lung shot. I now use a scoped 22-250 for doggies. That was fifty pounds ago for me....

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With 30.06 target loads and a pillar bedded rifle with a free floating 26in heavy barrel I usually needed 7 moa for the 300 yd compared to a 100 yd zero, and 21 moa at the 600 yd line. Thats 21 inches and 126 inches of drop at each range. Even with range flags it wasn't easy for me to get a 10 on the sighting shots, harder with varying wind and even more so with mirage. Watching the better shooters around me sometimes they had a hard time too, some who shot 2 inch groups at 100 yds, standing, with a full clip from an M1 Garand that I was working on. 

 

 

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At 400 yds I need two more mags.

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Great deer pics, Tahqua!!

 

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