2008 deer hunting and general hunting adventures - POSSIBLE BLOODY PICS INSIDE!!

[kneedownnate]

  I just got my vacation extended 2 more days!!  That helps to make up for the time lost from hurting my back my last day at work!

[kneedownnate]

Well, weekend was a bust and I got tired of walking around d in the hottish, dry woods all day.  Stopped by a blm shooting spot on the way home and had 3 deer come out while I was shooting, even stayed around within 50 yards of my target while I took a few shots.  Scope is off a little, but I haven't sighted it in for a couple seasons of bouncing around in the truck so I expected that.  I'll stop by some time this week to sight it in.

Worst part was, as I was pulling in my driveway I was thinking to myself "I'll bet that big 3x4 buck is eating my garden", but instead he was hanging out at the end of my driveway!  I stopped the truck 40 feet short of him, grabbed the camera and went after him.  He had a little forkie with him and I shot a few pics and saw their antlers in the flash, but this is all I came up with.  I went inside the house to get the bow but couldn't find my box of arrow heads. 

I will find them, and if the landlord happens to find out I'll have to try and figure out a way to talk my way out of it, but this is frickin killin me, not to mention the havoc he's wreaked on my garden!!

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I have several more pics of stuff I came across while out, but I kinda dig this pic with my gun laying against the back of this old ford tub.

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If anybody has a good photo editing program I'd like to see if they could clean up the deer pic and see if the antlers will show 

[Duffil]

I screwed with it for a minute in FireWorks, and could only get the tree and the foreground to come out. Judging by the pattern that showed up, your flash didn't hit them.

[BLACKDOG]

I have several more pics of stuff I came across while out, but I kinda dig this pic with my gun laying against the back of this old ford tub.

that tub would look badass on the back of a wheeling rig

[kneedownnate]

Thanks rex, I could see the deer in the flash but there may have been too much other stuff in the shot for the camera to pick them up.  I don't doubt the pics would have come out if they were in an open field.

Jason, that tub needs to stay where it is  :nopenope:  I'm pretty sure it's been there for a looooong time, especially since I found enough evidence in the area that somebody lived there a long time ago, I'm guessing miners or hill folk.  I know you're mostly joking, but it bothers me that so many relics and pieces of history have been removed from the forests, and are still being removed or vandalized to this day.

I've seen it before cause it's about 80 yards from a pond I used to fish a few times a week when I lived there, and I was afraid they'd removed it when they logged through there a few years back but they'd just moved it a little further down the hill.  They also seem to have let it fall apart when they moved it, but that was inevitable.  I took pics of it probably 10 years ago with a film camera, but the jackasses at the photo place overlapped the last few pics on the roll so each negative had half of the next pic in it so it was ruined. 

[BLACKDOG]

Jason, that tub needs to stay where it is  :nopenope:  I'm pretty sure it's been there for a looooong time, especially since I found enough evidence in the area that somebody lived there a long time ago, I'm guessing miners or hill folk.  I know you're mostly joking, but it bothers me that so many relics and pieces of history have been removed from the forests, and are still being removed or vandalized to this day.

I've seen it before cause it's about 80 yards from a pond I used to fish a few times a week when I lived there, and I was afraid they'd removed it when they logged through there a few years back but they'd just moved it a little further down the hill.  They also seem to have let it fall apart when they moved it, but that was inevitable.  I took pics of it probably 10 years ago with a film camera, but the jackasses at the photo place overlapped the last few pics on the roll so each negative had half of the next pic in it so it was ruined. 

  You're right nate, I was mostly joking.  I'm one of those people that loves to see history in action.  When I lived in deleware, a buddy and I were wandering around in the woods behind our housing area, and found a cabin that had collapsed in the middle.  It had an old model A (or what was left of it) sitting next to it, and when we crawled in through the window, the inside looked like it had been left in the middle of a normal day, and remained like that ( dshes on the table, in the washtub under the window, etc.)  We just left it, and as far as I know, its still there. 

Part of me likes to see stuff like that brought out, and put to use again, but I believe stuff like that should remain where it is, as a memorial to the people that left it there, and to their way of life, and how it used to be.  

mabye I'm screwed up in the head, but I'm sure it makes sense to some people.

[kneedownnate]

Just had to share, but I found a couple items cheap at a local store today while trying to find the rifle slings I'd seen recently super cheap.  We have a discount store that's basically an outlet for fred meyer and some of their sister stores.  I didn't find the slings, but I did snag a set of uncle mike's quick detachable sling swivels for $2 and a hogue rubber grip for the ruger blackhawk, vaquero or super single for $2!  I'm going to start going to that place twice a week, or just remember to ask them when they restock.

[olivedrab85]

6 point my dad shot this season...

[kneedownnate]

Sweet, congrats to him 

This is the last weekend for deer in b zone, so I'll be out pounding through the mountains and disregarding the pain in hopes of finding a buck worth shooting    I'll also have the shotgun in the truck incase I see any grouse on the way to my hunting spots!

[toyotamobing]

anybody going duck hunting or pig hunting and want a partner?

[kneedownnate]

Today brought the suck.  I got up at 3:15 am  , saw a very nice, large 3 or 4 point buck with very tall tines just outside city limits  , drove to a trail in the trinity alps and hiked up super slow.  Saw this guy after an hour or so.  First pic is zoomed out on optical zoom, second is well into the digital zoom.  I'm unimpressed equally with both the quality of the pics on digital zoom and with the image stabilization.  I need a high megapixel camera with a 10X optical zoom, one with good image stabilization. 

Also saw something at the lake I've never seen before.  A -pile of ducks!  They were way too far out to tell what kind, but it kinda looked like some mallards and some wood ducks.  There had to be between 40 and 60 total!  Max I've seen at any of these high country lakes was a half dozen or so.

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Crap, I messed up.  That first pic was from a little earlier on the trail and there's no deer 

[Ramrod]

could be hooded mergansers they'll pile into little lakes like those

[kneedownnate]

There could have been a few mixed in, but what I heard sounded like mallards 

[porkchop]

opening day last year 

[brainlessfool]

the two I could make out were Baffle heads.

[porkchop]

Baffle heads sure would like to see one of them.....could not resist man sorry

[eddyb]

What zone is she in   

Anybody know much about late 70s or early 80s winchester model 70 rifles?  I was talking to our old parts guy today and he has one in .300 win mag that he bought, put a box of shells through and never shot again.  He said he probably would only want $300 or so, but I bet I could get him down a bit.  I've been wanting a .300 win mag for a little while as my big gun and would dethfinately like to have a clean older one like that, but every test I've seen of a late model (last 10-15 years) winchester model 70 showed them shooting horrible groups, like 2" + at 100 yards 

It's iron sight, blued and has the rich brown stock with the little black piece at the front of the stock.

I have a Model 70 that was built in the '70s.  It shoots pretty well and has killed a few deer.  Tell the guy you want to shoot it first.  If there's nothing wrong with it he should have no problem letting you shoot it first

[eddyb]

what caliber does everyone use on deer...? Ill start .270 in CA .338 win mag outta state.

Sporterized Springfield 03-A3 w/ Redfield tracker 3-9 built in 1944, backup rifle
Winchester M70 w/ Simmons 3.8-12x50
Both in .30-06

[kneedownnate]

Thanks man.  Yea, I already told him I'd like to go shoot it when I get the money together and he said that'd be fine.  He's also somebody I know well enough to trust, so I know he's not going to try and screw me.  He's not even asking that much money for it either.

I like sporterized war rifles!  My friend has what I believe to be some kind of springfield that's been converted to 25-06.  I also have a super clean sporterized mauser m96 in 6.5x55mm.  I've only put maybe 6 rounds through it since I bought it about 3 years ago, and can't bring myself to take it out in the woods. 

[Joey88RUNR]

I leave for idaho the 2nd for a week....should be getting into pheasant and some chukar....then coming down through northern nevada for some quail ill try to take some pics

[kneedownnate]

Please do get some pics!  Only time I've seen a chukar in person was while signing in at thunderhill raceway.  They had one that kept haning around outside their office, but none of them even knew what it was.  I've never even got into pheasant either    Quail... I get into plenty of them, just usually not when I have my shotgun with me though.

[joey0712]

Sporterized Springfield 03-A3 w/ Redfield tracker 3-9 built in 1944, backup rifleWinchester M70 w/ Simmons 3.8-12x50Both in .30-06

The back up is a m 70!!!! Dude those a tack drivers. Ide use the 70 all the time. Is it a pre 64?

[Joey88RUNR]

Chukar are pretty hard to get to....they hang out in that red rocky stuff on the very tops of the mountains...i forget what they call it...damn dogs usually scare them off before you get there...you almost have to ground sluice them but anyways chuckar look kinda funny

[BLACKDOG]

Nate, here are those pics forgot I had a webcam 

If anyone can help me out with more information on this shotgun, I'd be great.  It was given to me the other day, and I've found very little info on it.  Here's what I have found.

Winchester 1911 S.L.  12 guage shotgun.  According to the serial #, it was manufactured in 1911 or 1912 (most likely 1912)
The shell is chambered by sliding the barrel, which is why the barrel has a knurled section near the end.  This gun received the nickname "widowmaker" due to the fact that when wet, the barrel was difficult to pull back, and people were using body parts over the end of the barrel to push it down to chamber a shell.

Other than that, thats all I've got.  It isn't in very good shape, it came to me in 3 pieces, and I'm hoping its worth putting back together to shoot.  It appears that its just worn out, but I'm going to take it to a local gunsmith and have him take a gander, and see what he thinks.

[Ramrod]

last time i hunted chukar there were 300 planted in probably a 20 acre grass field me and 7 others got 287 in a couple hours it was a bloodbath

[BLACKDOG]

last time i hunted chukar there were 300 planted in probably a 20 acre grass field me and 7 others got 287 in a couple hours it was a bloodbath

Haven't gone, but that seems to be the general consensus in my area.   Several guys from my academy class hunt chukar, and they always come back with quite a few birds

[kneedownnate]

Interesting, that gun's not bad looking, save for the cracked stock! 

We might have chukar within a couple hour drive.  I'd have to check the area out, but I'll hopefully be scouting the area for pronghorn antelope anyway