2021 Deer Hunting

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15 hours ago, LockedDrag said:

Since the RI guys don’t do something cool like this I’ll share here with you awesome folks. Quick scouted 30 minutes last weekend and decided to set up where I found a bunch of scrapes today. Botched a shot at a really small doe at 10 yards due to my release hitting my grunt call as I drew back. Then this guy snuck up right in front of me at 17 yards while I was on my phone. Don’t even know how I didn’t spook him since I was sky lit in my tree lol my first ever bow buck and first deer in 4 almost 5 years. Very rewarding

Great job! Very happy for you. Almost no one in RI archery hunts during ML season. Extra points for difficulty 

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28 mins ago, pogie_boy said:

Nice!  I know how it feels to break a dry spell

 

Thinking about getting it mounted?  A euoropean mount is a great DIY project and I rather like how it comes out.    Unless I shoot some world record, it's how I'm doing all my bucks in the future.

I have gone to euro mounts exclusively the last 10 years. 

[LockedDrag]

On 11/12/2021 at 10:16 AM, pogie_boy said:

Nice!  I know how it feels to break a dry spell

 

Thinking about getting it mounted?  A euoropean mount is a great DIY project and I rather like how it comes out.    Unless I shoot some world record, it's how I'm doing all my bucks in the future.

No. Just took what meat I could off of it and left the rack and carcass. Didn’t want ticks in my car lol

[DanCbass]

23 hours ago, LockedDrag said:

No. Just took what meat I could off of it and left the rack and carcass. Didn’t want ticks in my car lol

...and didn't even have to waste a tag. 

[KidDkivahh]

23 hours ago, LockedDrag said:

No. Just took what meat I could off of it and left the rack and carcass. Didn’t want ticks in my car lol

What part of the carcass did you pin the tag too? 

[LB]

On 9/30/2021 at 8:10 AM, ged said:

Shortly after this picture was taken last youth day a very nice buck walked into range. For whatever reason the kid didn’t shoot! He has spent a year thinking about that buck. 

There is nothing wrong with that, l have done the same thing a couple of times l wasn't in the right frame of mind to kill something at moment l just sat there and watch the deer for while and it just walked away.

[LockedDrag]

1 hour ago, DanCbass said:

...and didn't even have to waste a tag. 

I tied the tag on the leg and reported it

[z-man]

On 11/14/2021 at 11:01 AM, LockedDrag said:

No. Just took what meat I could off of it and left the rack and carcass. Didn’t want ticks in my car lol

Did you butcher the entire deer out in the woods???

Or did you just take a few select pieces of meat and leave the rest?

[Gwiz]

Got a nice 5pt. in CT last week. 135lbs.

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Rhode Island Muzzle loader deer today. 

[gregwa]

that's a good one, congrats

[giggyfish]

On 11/20/2021 at 9:18 PM, ged said:

Rhode Island Muzzle loader deer today. 

Congratulations could you go into detail on that muzzleloader and load and how you like it. I want to get a new smoke pole 

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3 hours ago, giggyfish said:

Congratulations could you go into detail on that muzzleloader and load and how you like it. I want to get a new smoke pole 

You probably don’t want to hear my point of view. Most normal people use their muzzle loader a few days a year and any modern inline would suffice. I am special

 

I currently own 4 inlines. Two LHR Redemption and two Woodman Arms. Both a superb designs. The Woodman is a lighter, and still in production so I have a slight preference for them. All are 50 cal. 
 

I currently use 90 grains of blackhorn 209 and Barnes 250 grain all copper bullets. I am likely going to in read my powder to the max of 120grains by volume. This in hopes for 2 holes instead of 1. 
 

The Woodman Arms is unique in that the owner recommends that you don’t clean your gun. Once a year you should remove the breech plug, clean it and coat the threads with anti-seize. The internals are 17-4 stainless and will not rust or corrode from blackhorn 209.
 

I hunt from the first Saturday in November to the end of December with the muzzle loader and I save a lot of time not cleaning now. 

Edited November 22, 2021 by ged

[specialist]

On 11/20/2021 at 9:18 PM, ged said:

Rhode Island Muzzle loader deer today. 

Nice buck

[specialist]

I've been hitting it pretty hard since day 2.  First sit of the year my buddy Rich took one of two tri-beam bucks we have been watching. 9 pointer dressed around 168lbs.    Ive heard a bunch of deer from the stand, kicked a bunch in the dark but hadn't seen any from the stand so after a couple of weeks I too a small doe for the freezer on a Friday evening.  I hunted all day that Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and on Wednesday I was getting to the point where I was going to head out after lunch and take a mental break.  Was talking to some friends who were telling me to keep at it, it could change any second, so I checked a cam at a stand I had been leaving alone.  there was a nice buck in the middle of the day on it.   This stand is a high ground  pinch point between a bunch of swampy areas and they love that travel corridor , there is also a bedding area surrounding it.   The wind was perfect for this stand so I decided to sit it. Around 4pm I heard an epic buck battle behind me, they were really going at it in this swamp.  I decided to try some calling, and let out a long aggressive tending grunt.  This stopped the battle immediately, everything went quiet.   I waited a couple of minutes, and threw the grunt again, this time with some bleats.   Within a few minutes I could hear one walking toward me from the swamp battle area.  I caught a good glimpse of him, and saw he was sporting a big rack, then realized it was the same buck from the camera.    He was about 90 yards behind me and crossing, so I followed his trail ahead and found my opening, ranged it at 43, and set the sight.   As he started walking , I was getting myself calm with some combat breathing.   About 15 yards from the opening the deer stops, and starts sniffing the air and looking around.  all of a sudden he turns toward me on another trail, and is coming quick.  I looked at that trail and found one opening at 23 yards, so I adjusted the sight, and he was close heading behind an oak, so I drew. As soon as he hit the opening I drilled him, he was slightly quartering too, but the shot was near perfection.  I usually stop my deer, I don't like to shoot them walking, but I didn't want to spook this one .   The deer spun around, and took off back towards where he came from.  I watched him him bounding and then doing turns before I lost sight of him in the thick swamp.   I eventually thought I heard him crash.  It was about 15 minutes till sunset and I could see my arrow, so I decided to check it.  When I got to the arrow, there was 1/3 of it there with no blood on it, or the ground.  My stomach sank, but I replayed it all in my mind and still felt confident. I decided to follow his track in the swamp mud, till I got to the high spot before the other swamp and see if I could see him down, hear him bump of find some blood. I got to the high spot, no  blood, no deer, and he hadn't bumped so I backed out to get some help.  I got my friends grandson Bruno, and another friend  Tim was coming from Cambridge where he was working.   Bruno and I got after it, in the pitch black, we got upto the last spot there were tracks and started looking for blood, as we got into the thick swamp we lost his track, and still hadn't found any blood.  We were doing small circles in the dark and after about 45 minutes, I suggested we back out and I would go in the am.  While we  were in there we used my OnX to get us back to the stand, and we went over a dry hump , down into calf deep water, over the next dry hump and into knee deep water and came up on another hump.  I was looking at the OnX when Bruno remarked I was standing in a shitload of blood, and I certainly was.   We saw the blood going toward the stand, so we turned around to follow it, but we looked first with the lantern, and sure enough he was piled up tangled in some swamp trees.    10 point and 170lb dressed.   The neighbor up the street also owns a farm 1 1/2  miles away and they had this guy on camera back around October 22nd, I shot him on the 10th of November.  The reason the arrow snapped off was the deer was walking and he pinched it, preventing a complete pass through, the broached was poking through the other side but not enough to get a good blood trail. 

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2021 by specialist