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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 7, 2006 10:51:06 GMT 12.75
150??? Who was holding the tape? Heck of a nice buck! I'd be glad to run an arrow through one just like him anyday, but I don't see 150 inches of bone there. It's hard to get an eight pointer to score that high after deductions. If I get closed out of a buck this year, I'll need to plan a trip to Ohio. Maybe kidnap Paws along the way and come hunt with ou guys. ;D
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Dec 7, 2006 11:46:43 GMT 12.75
I agree Toby, although I was too polite to say so I've got a 10 point on the wall that is almost perfect, 14 inch spread, 5 in bases, and it only scored 121 7/8 It was scored officially at the Arkansas Big Buck Classic, but wasn't entered in the contest. Didn't want to get beat that bad ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 7, 2006 12:36:58 GMT 12.75
You're right Pastor. Faith, I'm sorry. That was impolite. It's just that I was a certified scorer for a number of years when I was in the archery business and have put the tape on a pile of racks. That one just didn't "look" like 150...I've been wrong before.
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Dec 7, 2006 12:41:54 GMT 12.75
Toby,
I wasn't trying to call you down, but just agreeing with you. I apologize if it seemed like that.
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Post by Paws on Dec 7, 2006 15:14:36 GMT 12.75
Man that is a nice buck. Good hefty chest and nice shoulders. What did he dress out to Faith? You got to get Tom on here to talk deer with the boys! ;D Toby I'll be up at number 6, 10, and 17 hollows off Hunterdon road off route 78 between Hollister and Murray City the rest of the month. Got to baby sit and try to encourage my lonesome cousin and maybe get us a deer in the process.
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 8, 2006 3:44:37 GMT 12.75
Quite honestly, I couldn't tell you what he dressed out at. I do know he was a booger to hoist up to skin. It was so warm that day that we just wanted to get him knocked down and in the freezer as quickly as possible. There were 3 more hanging that needed done (like yesterday) too!
And guys, no offense taken with disagreeing with the score. I don't think he was that big either. But then again, I don't know beans about scoring racks. The guy that runs the check-in station is suppose to be a B&C scorer. There was a MUCH nicer 12-pt that came in during youth hunt. Tons of mass, height, and spread. It only scored 119. HUH?
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Post by Mars on Dec 8, 2006 10:35:49 GMT 12.75
Our second ML season for deer starts Saturday ( buck only) and bear season is open as well! Planning to have my daughter with her .243 sit where she saw the bear earlier and I'll go to my spot with a ML.
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Post by Mars on Dec 10, 2006 19:52:59 GMT 12.75
A local man got a 535 pound black bear the other day. Not a record for the county but close. I'm wondering if it's the same bear I have a trail camera picture of. It was killed only a couple of miles from where I got the picture.
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Post by ET on Dec 11, 2006 3:37:26 GMT 12.75
I got a rabbit with my Bonneville yesterday. ;D ;D
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Post by Mars on Dec 11, 2006 3:56:46 GMT 12.75
Would that be specie cottontail or VW Rabbit? ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 11, 2006 4:36:56 GMT 12.75
Hope you took it home for the stew pot! Nothing like fresh roadkill!! Went for a job interview Wednesday and one portion of the questions was about my driving record. They actually questioned my honesty because I said I'd never hit a deer. Knock on wood, never hit a deer, dog, cat, bunny or anything else. Well, at least that wasn't on purpose. ;D
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Post by Paws on Dec 11, 2006 5:32:05 GMT 12.75
I hit a Toyota in the tailgate and a telepphone pole that was minding its own business and a huge maple tree that jumped right out in front of me! Other than that maybe a half dozen squirrel, a couple cats, a skunk, a few snakes, a couple o'possums and the odd rabbit or two. Oh, and a huge barbed owl commited suicide on the windshield!
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Post by Mars on Dec 12, 2006 23:18:10 GMT 12.75
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 19, 2006 3:07:33 GMT 12.75
Any of you all get out for the Ohio special 2-day hunt this past weekend??? If so, did you have any better luck than us??? I didn't even see a roadkill all weekend.
Was real warm. Did have a copperhead and a couple of garter snakes cross our paths yesterday. Kinda unusual (but not totaly out of the question) for this time of year in Ohio.
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Post by Paws on Dec 19, 2006 3:31:45 GMT 12.75
Nope did not get out. Too warm. My cousin Jimmy got out about 2 PM and wasn't out five minutes behind my house and fired the first shot winging a doe. Two hours later had fired twice more still coming up empty. From the blood trail it looked like a shoulder or leg shot. We found a spot where she had laid down and it looked like Jimmy had just jumped the gun and pushed her. She went down into the ravine where there is a pond in an old strip mine dig and the blood trail dried up. I'll go back down there today and see if I can find her and bury her. I suspect she'll end up coyote food. I'm going out backpacking with the bow next week. Probably be out four or five days. Wife isn't too happy about it; so what else is new?
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Post by Mars on Dec 23, 2006 3:05:54 GMT 12.75
Took my daughter out deer hunting yesterday morning. I decided to let her hunt alone as she knew the area and besides I had jusy got off work so while she hunted I slept in the truck. About 8:30am she comes running back to the truck. LOL, there was another black bear following her! I gotta use this girl as bear bait next year! I get out of the truck and he wanders off. Roughly 150-200 pound bear. We stopped at the owners house and find out he's been feeding them everyday. He killed one of about 200 pounds during the last bear season, a week ago. He says he has "several" eating the apples and corn. He's going to let my daughter shoot one next year from his stand that he put up.
Note that baiting is illegal but an area is not baited if the bait is removed 10 days before hunting.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 23, 2006 6:38:21 GMT 12.75
150# bear following her? That coulda turned ugly quick! Thank God she made it to safety. Black bears are the most predacious of all of the bears when it comes to human encounters. There are more black bear deaths each year in the lower forty eight states than there are polar bear deaths throughout the arctic! Let her get a shot next year from his stand? AEWESOME!
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Post by Mars on Dec 23, 2006 12:19:31 GMT 12.75
I thought it strange as hunting season had just ended so the bear should have been leary of humans. Since finding out the owner has been feeding them I figure they have grown a little used to associating humans with food. Not the best situation. Live and learn so the next time she doesn't go into those woods alone. If my daughter thought she was in any real danger I have no doubt we would be eating bear steak. She had her .243 with her.
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Post by Mars on Dec 23, 2006 12:26:31 GMT 12.75
Oh yea. Tennessee had another bear attack awhile back. Third one this year and only four known attacks in Tn. history! The first bear attack this year was fatal to a child but the other two resulted in injuries only though the bears were still killed. Many people in the state protested the killing of the bears as the attacks were provoked by the humans but they killed the bears anyway.
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Post by Mars on Jan 8, 2007 14:00:56 GMT 12.75
33 bears were killed in Unicoi County this year and a local hunter killed a 296 pound wild hog Dec. 23rd. The last wild hog killed in this county was killed by a car 6 years ago and the last reported sightings of them in the woods was over 15 years ago.
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