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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 25, 2008 17:26:36 GMT 12.75
There ya go Phil! Why don't you take a day away from the house an critters and go help thatr young lady put some venison in the freezer. I bet you could even sweet talk her into cooking some up for ya! ;D If I lived a might closer, I'd be there in a heart beat Faith. I figure putting it in the freezer for you'd warrant a nice resh roast with trimmings wouldn't it?
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Post by Mars on Sept 28, 2008 7:13:41 GMT 12.75
Only squirrels this morning at which I shot my target arrow and missed and lost the arrow. ;D Another hunter came walking by at 9:30 or so and said nothing was moving so he was walking around to get things stirred up.Moron!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 28, 2008 13:19:14 GMT 12.75
"Another hunter came walking by at 9:30 or so and said nothing was moving so he was walking around to get things stirred up.Moron!" Don't ya just love those guys? ;D ;D ;D I hadn't been out again, but I'm hoping to get to hunt some during the week. A buddy of mine in South Florida killed a pair of eight points, both really nice bucks, within a minute of each other. The pair approached at thirty yards and she shot and hit the first one in the spine and it dropped like a rock, the second ran in a big semi-circle and stopped thirty yards behind him and he shot it through the lungs. What a morning!
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Post by Mars on Sept 28, 2008 14:43:55 GMT 12.75
We walked up the App. trail and then about a half mile up a hollow and sat on an old logging road. I set off a anise bear bomb. Just as it was getting dark in the hollow, prime time, I heard a blue jay cussing something off. I told my daughter to get ready as something was coming up the hollow. About 10 minutes later we hear a branch snap and a growl. I tell my daughter to turn on the red dot scope and take the safety off the crossbow as a bear was following the scent trail up the hollow. We hear it coming closer, breaking branches and coming quick on the scent trail. My daughter was visibly scared and shaking and I asked if she was OK to shoot to which she handed me the crossbow and picked up a big stick in case I missed.LOL! Now we not only hear it coming but catch glimpses of black coming through the laurel thickets. I point the crossbow down the logging road, the only clear area, and see a patch of black fur about 10 yards off the side of the road and 30 yards away.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 28, 2008 16:55:52 GMT 12.75
Damnit Mars, that ain't fair! [glow=red,2,300] What happened???[/glow]
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 28, 2008 23:06:07 GMT 12.75
He never got to finish because the bear ate him ;D
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Post by Mars on Sept 29, 2008 0:55:31 GMT 12.75
Aggravating ain't it! ;D ;D
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Post by Paws on Sept 29, 2008 3:37:38 GMT 12.75
...and then???[/color][/size]
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Post by Mars on Sept 29, 2008 3:40:56 GMT 12.75
The bear is barely visible in the laurel thicket but is headed for the road and a clear shot. 3 steps later and he is perfectly broadside at 30 yards and in the clear.
He turns his head to look right at us. He is dead and knows it.
I put the safety back on the crossbow.
The bear is a large black lab with an orange collar and that collar just saved it's life. The owner appears a second later, dressed in a black sweatsuit. I tell the hiker he was the luckiest man in the State today and he was a dam fool for walking around the woods during big game season let alone dressed in solid black at dusk. He quietly says "OK" and backs down the mountain the way he came. My daughter looks at me and says that she would have shot the dog or the guy if she had the crossbow. It did provide the opportunity to really let it sink in to ALWAYS ID your target before shooting and not to shoot at sounds and or partial views of your target.
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 29, 2008 3:43:57 GMT 12.75
I am glad to hear it worked out the way it did. Just imagine if the worst did happen.
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Post by Paws on Sept 29, 2008 3:46:43 GMT 12.75
Phew...!![/color][/size]
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 29, 2008 12:58:04 GMT 12.75
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Post by Mars on Sept 30, 2008 0:18:59 GMT 12.75
About 8am opening morning my daughter asked if I thought anybody had killed a deer to which I replied I didn't know but I hadn't heard any shots.
It took a second or two before she hit me. ;D ;D
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Post by Paws on Sept 30, 2008 0:24:17 GMT 12.75
;D Must take after her Momma; too smart!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Oct 12, 2008 9:45:46 GMT 12.75
Finally got a chance to hunt that new spot on the Withlacoochee River and saw a dozen turkeys two does and a big black boar hog, but nuttin inside of bow range.
Dad was a quarter mile away and saw a dozen hogs and a lone gobbler. He was able to slip a broadhead into a ninety pound boar that got too close and we spent the better part of last evening boning him out. We didn't get pictures because the battery on my camera's dead and the cell-phone pictures we took were way too grainy in the dark.
It was a nice multi-colored boar with rolls and rolls of fat inside him and his liver was nice andclean too. Healthy boy; gonna be some good sausage soon! ;D
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Post by othmar on Oct 12, 2008 10:34:33 GMT 12.75
So far my hunting season shaped up good. The freezer is slowly filling up with upland birds and waterfowl. I have seen plenty of deer and had several times a chance at a nice buck, but I am holding of for that monster mule deer I have seen several times during my scouting trips and twice in the hunting season. I filled my cull moose tag and the fall bear tag. This is the result of this mornings one hour duck hunt I could squeze in.
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Post by Jerry on Oct 12, 2008 12:59:30 GMT 12.75
My son-in-law killed a nice buck with a bow. We now have our first deer steak and sausage of the year. Love it fresh!
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Oct 12, 2008 15:20:35 GMT 12.75
Taking number one son tomorrow for youth only gun deer hunt. I hope he gets one. But we will have to butcher in the field due to the heat. It's gonna be in the low 80's again tomorrow.
Nice ducks there Othmar
Congrats to your Dad Toby.
Congrat as well to your son-in-law Lam.
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Post by Paws on Oct 13, 2008 0:14:57 GMT 12.75
That is a terrific picture there Othmar. Cudos to you boys there Toby and Jerry. Carter hang in there might be a rack in your sons immediate future. I appreciate you boys sharing your stories with this old housebound "falsely imprisoned" geezer.
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Oct 13, 2008 10:42:58 GMT 12.75
My son killed a six-pointer at 07:55 this morning. I was doing a little doe bleating and short grunts and it came ambling from way across the open field right towards us. He put the crosshairs of the .243 on the left shoulder when he stopped broadside of us at 37 yards. He dropped it like a hot rock. This was his first field dressing job and he did okay. I did worse though I think on my first butchering" job. We had to leave it for about an hour and a half to go get a saw so we could cut the rack off at base of skull. When we returned the buzzards had already eaten the large gut pile and picked most of the bones clean. Even though there were a bunch of them they still worked awful fast in that short time. Next weekend is our first muzzleloader hunt. The second one is in December and it lasts a week. Our modern gun season opens second Saturday of November.
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