Good shooting Dennis. I saw 2 bucks chasing a doe yesterday too. I'm thinking the 2nd rut is on too.
Very nice..! What's the hen under the goose..?
You got it.
Hunted a couple days back home after Christmas. Checked the camera and nothing much happening (that is during daylight anyway) especially no shooter bucks. Went out with my bow Sunday morning and had a group of does and a button buck come in. The big old doe that I wanted stayed up in the trees out of range and then decided to split, so I shot this one instead I am guessing 1 and 1/2 old, not a mature doe but good eating nonetheless. Field dressed at 75 lbs.
Old doe came back today and again left before in range. She doesn't wind me so my only guess is she has figured out how to spot me in my stand. O well she didn't get old by being stupid.
Old doe came back today and again left before in range. She doesn't wind me so my only guess is she has figured out how to spot me in my stand. O well she didn't get old by being stupid.
Contrats on the tasty doe!
Me and my Brother went out on the last day of the Holiday Doe Season yesterday on our Ranch and bagged these two.
We were walking down both sides of a creek when we jumped a group of does and fawns. My brother raised his Spike's Tactical/Olympic Arms .243 WSSM with Swavorski 3x9 and picked one out. I clearly heard the meat/bullet report and saw fur fly as his Winchester 95 grain Ballistic Tip .243 WSSM hit the doe at about 200 yards.
I counted 6 does run away from us over the hill and 4 more run off to our left over another hill.
We walked on up another 100 yards and I saw a doe through some trees standing on his side of the creek. I raised my rifle and put a .223 Remington 55 grain AccuTip-V right in the kill zone and she dropped like a bag of you-know-what. Kicked a couple times and expired.
We walked up to where we thought he had hit his and began looking. After a few minutes of searching I became eager and wanted to see mine. I could see her laying on his side of the creek and as I got closer I saw my Brother's doe laying no more than 25 yards from mine.
I'm not sure which was bigger as we just checked them in online and didn't bother weighing them. Both were mature does and perfect to thin the herd. We tagged them and loaded them up, took them home and dressed 'em out. Lots of meat in the freezer!
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Who said AR's aren't good enough for deer hunting???
oh, and I spotted this little guy. His days are numbered.
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We were walking down both sides of a creek when we jumped a group of does and fawns. My brother raised his Spike's Tactical/Olympic Arms .243 WSSM with Swavorski 3x9 and picked one out. I clearly heard the meat/bullet report and saw fur fly as his Winchester 95 grain Ballistic Tip .243 WSSM hit the doe at about 200 yards.
I counted 6 does run away from us over the hill and 4 more run off to our left over another hill.
We walked on up another 100 yards and I saw a doe through some trees standing on his side of the creek. I raised my rifle and put a .223 Remington 55 grain AccuTip-V right in the kill zone and she dropped like a bag of you-know-what. Kicked a couple times and expired.
We walked up to where we thought he had hit his and began looking. After a few minutes of searching I became eager and wanted to see mine. I could see her laying on his side of the creek and as I got closer I saw my Brother's doe laying no more than 25 yards from mine.
I'm not sure which was bigger as we just checked them in online and didn't bother weighing them. Both were mature does and perfect to thin the herd. We tagged them and loaded them up, took them home and dressed 'em out. Lots of meat in the freezer!
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Who said AR's aren't good enough for deer hunting???
oh, and I spotted this little guy. His days are numbered.
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Thought I posted this, shot opening morning of this year with a Howa 1500 in a 243 using 80gr Power Points
. This is my wife's first deer ever. 160lbs 8pt. shot on our friends land. She was so excited, she didn't even mind when our 13yr old son and nephew put blood stripes on her cheeks.
