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Post by Mars on Nov 28, 2008 14:05:38 GMT 12.75
I'm done with hunting this year so I can get ready for trapping. Besides my freezer is full and my mothers is half full. If you ever had Cabelas summer sausage that is made by the same company in MI that did my deer. Where's those pics ET?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 6, 2008 11:53:55 GMT 12.75
Dad and I took a day off and headed to tiger Isand to bust a hog and wound up doubling on boar hogs. I hunted wiff my .45cal Muzzleloader and busted a boar about 120# and Dad was carrying his .357S&W and made a sweet shot at about seventy yards on a boar hog nearly 200#. ;D I'll get pics up later.
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Post by Mars on Dec 6, 2008 15:17:46 GMT 12.75
Leave it to pigs to mess up a deer hunt! Our bear season is open again to the 17th then it's closed for the year. I'm thinking of giving it another go.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 7, 2008 6:21:58 GMT 12.75
Leave it to pigs to mess up a deer hunt! Our bear season is open again to the 17th then it's closed for the year. I'm thinking of giving it another go. ;D Actually, it was too cold, so when the first hog stepped out that fit the size and color I wanted, it died. I had heard Dad shoot about a hundred yards off. He had a small herd move past him and the big boy stopped and got shot.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 12, 2008 16:29:13 GMT 12.75
Here's Dad (on the right) with the landowner and Dad's handgun hog. ;D We were hunting as guests with Tiger Island Outfitters along the Central Fl. Gulf coast. Crichton, the guy in the photo there with Dad has plenty of land to get around on and has several corn feeders set up for stand sites. Tons of hogs in the area taking advantage of all the free groceries. He sells hunts there and lots of hunter show up wanting to bust one of his trophy boar hogs for a wall mount. I've no interest in shooting any big boars, but I have seen plenty of them. Just before I popped the one that I did, I spotted a true monster crossing the sand trail about eighty yards out from the blind Crichton had set up for me. I'm no expert at judging hogs weight on the hoof, but I'd conservatively guess that boy at near 350# with four inches of teeth visible beyond the lips even at that distance! Ever make it to Florida and want a shot at a sweeeet hunt, lemme know and I'll hook ya up! Here's a shot of Dad and I together outside my blind. Notice that beach sand; it's a pretty good indicator of how close we are to the water. That deep beachlike sand is rough to walk in for a fat man like me, but it does make for a pretty backdrop in the photo. Definitely Florida hunting! Crichton's got a pretty nice cabin set up for his overnight hunters and a full service taxidermist onsite. Helluva set up, and a lot of fun. He's a really nice guy; sho 'nuff Florida Cracker! My kinda folks!
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Post by Paws on Dec 12, 2008 23:45:18 GMT 12.75
Very nice pics there Toby.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 13, 2008 7:44:12 GMT 12.75
Here's a pic of that doe I popped a few weeks back. With the hungry bunch around this place, she's pert near gone already. Gotta get busy and put a buck or two on the tailgate before the seasons over. Had some fine eating there; Dad made another pot-pie with some of the leftover roast. Shouda been there's all I can tell ya, because it was good! ;D
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Post by Mars on Dec 14, 2008 10:17:42 GMT 12.75
I get deer without even hunting! Somebody hit this guy and left him in the middle of the road still alive. I was driving into work and had to stop because several carloads of people had the road blocked as they stood around watching this deer. I asked what the problem was and they stated nobody wanted to move the still alive deer. I grabbed it by the antlers and pulled it to the side of the road and started to leave. Everybody else was leaving now that the deer was not in the road but one guy asked what I planned to do with the deer. I told him I wasn't planning on doing anything and since he hit it then he should do something. He said he didn't hit it and he didn't have a gun to finish it off and didn't want it to suffer. I shrugged and threw the deer into the bed of my truck, still alive. I got to work and borrowed a knife and cut it's throat. I gave the deer away the next day.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 24, 2009 13:18:28 GMT 12.75
Dad and I enjoyed a great last weeked to our season. We were guests of an organization called Outdoors Without Limits, who arrange hunting opportunities for disabled sportsmen. We hunted limited access public land and were semi-guided to re-scouted stand sites. Dad and I drew an area of dense oaks along a dry creek bed that passed between two extremely thick fields of saw palmetto. An excellent spot to ambush critters too lazy to fight through the thick stuff. The photo above is Dad with Friday morning's eight point he shot twenty minutes after I unloaded my rifle on a spike. I didn't get any pictures of my buck, but we already ate both backstraps off him, Mmmmm,mmmmmm! This was Sunday morning's buck, a bit bigger, but still only eight points. He missed a 10 pointer on Saturday and I missed a hog Saturday as well. The only shot I had on Sunday was the four poiter that this above buck was chasing, but as I was sighting in on it, Dad cut loose on the big one I never even saw. Three bucks and two misses in three days. All together we saw six bucks, a dozen does,ad twenty-plus hogs. That's about as good as hunting gets in Florida! We brought Dave with us to shoot a hog, he's in the picture with Dad. He was a HUGE help in finding this buck. It dove for the thickest patch of pametto scrub he could find and we had hell's own time getting it found, but Dave was patient and went in on his knees and got it located. Like their camo? That's their new DK Flatwoods Camouflage and they LOVED the way it worked up against that palmetto scrub background. I'm newly invited to join the DK Flatwoods national pro-staff and am awaiting my custom built DK outfit...they don't carry my sizes on the shelf, so they've contracted a seemstress with good humor and she's hard at work on my outfit now.
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Jan 25, 2009 1:43:42 GMT 12.75
That's cool Toby. Thanks for sharing all those pictures. I noticed one thing for sure, you are your Dad's son. If you had grey hair you could pass as his twin...sort of.
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Post by azslim on Jan 27, 2009 7:07:01 GMT 12.75
Back in town again, finished up the Jan Archer Deer & Javelina hunts down south. Saw some good mule deer bucks out in the cactus patches. Nobody took a deer and several folks got javelina. I got mine on the morning of the last day in a gully washer of a rainstorm. Spent the last week as cook for 10 guys - never again, I'll rob 7-11's before I cook for that many again. They enjoyed the chow but I didn't enjoy the hours and the loss of campfire camaradarie. Now I have a couple of javi's to butcher and turn into sausage, one of the guys game me his, a skull to boil and a hide to flesh - will keep me busy for a couple days.
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Post by Mars on Mar 17, 2009 17:24:52 GMT 12.75
Picked up our new licenses for the year. $206.! Juvenile turkey is this weekend and the daughter and I are going up the road Saturday morning. We saw a half white turkey in a flock that she got excited about until I told her it was probaly a hen.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 18, 2009 10:36:46 GMT 12.75
Best of luck on that hunt this weekend! Got a special call you'll be using???
Our season opens on Saturday as well, but it's been awhile since I was able to get out and scout...my transmission burnt out and I been grounded, so to speak. Ah well, it won't be the first time I hit the woods blind.
There's enough birds in the area I'm sure we can make something happen, lol. Brian and his boy Matt will be joining me and TominTennessee from the NAHC board on a hunt in three weeks on Tiger Island on the west central coast.
I'm really looking forward to that hunt! ;D
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Post by Mars on Apr 2, 2009 15:13:18 GMT 12.75
Yeah. Some southern rednecks made a couple we will be using. The wife, oldest daughter and myself put in for the Tn. elk hunt that they are having this year. I hope one of us draws a tag but especialy the wife. There are only 4 tags in the draw and 1 for auction.
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Post by Mars on Dec 2, 2009 11:25:15 GMT 12.75
I succumbed to the pressure of others and had my '08 Michigan buck scored. For those that want to know it scored 148".
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 2, 2009 12:22:53 GMT 12.75
;D ;D ;D
My last five added up didn't score 148"! Helluva buck!
;D ;D ;D
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