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

[joey0712]

Where was that? Musta been awhile ago with the velvet still on

[kneedownnate [OP]]

yosemote

Werd, that's it.  I'd if I saw one like that in the woods!

[THK Matt]

Hahaha you have the face of a total jerk in that second pic!

Nice bucks tho...

Haha I know I wasn't ready at all, I was still trying to pick it up for a picture.

Thanks buddy

[toyoder]

one i got from this season 3x2

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Nice one vin  Where'd you get it?

Do you ever get them walking through your property?  I think the fires kicked them up and got them moving.  I'd only seen one at my place in almost 2 years, then during or just after the fires I saw 4 different bucks in one week at my place!

[toyoder]

i got this one up above French gulch but i could have filled my tag a dozen times from all the deer in back of my property this year

[kneedownnate [OP]]

And why didn't you?  The only reason I didn't shoot any of the ones at my place was because my landlord wouldn't let me, but if he woulda given the ok I would have snuck out in the early morning hours and popped the big 4 point.

[toyoder]

because i have neighbor's all around me who would freak out  i guess they would rather nail them going down placer rd  at 60mph in there new bmw 

[Ramrod]

you guys need to use a bow and take advantage of these neighborhood deer.  you would be amazed where some of my buddies hunt in sonoma

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Seriously!  I live on a narrow, long 37 acres chunk, but only a few or so are accessable.  My landlord has been talking about cutting more trails around the property for a couple years, and when he does I'm really hoping he'll allow me to hunt off the upper end of the property!  He's afraid if I shoot one with a bow right now it'll run the 80-100 feet to a neighbor's yard and die, but if he clears it all the way up to the upper end of the property I should be well away from anybody else and could even legally shoot one with a rifle if he'd let me 

[Ramrod]

why do you need a trail, get in that

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Me and poison oak do NOT along, I get it super bad very easily, not to mention the whole property is so overgrown you can't see a deer standing 10-15 feet inside the cover.  If he cuts the trails and lets me, I'll go in and thin it out so I can move freely, I'll just have to have him do the clearing in spots with poison oak cause he doesn't get it.

[Ramrod]

you sound like my grandma

[kneedownnate [OP]]

  naw man, she's probably less of a ninny than me    I didn't used to have poison oak issues, but I started getting it again in my early 20s and get it super easy now, super bad.  It sucks cause I can't just plow through the woods like I used to.

[Ramrod]

i would hate that, i used to get it bad but i think i build up an ammunity to it now i just get little spots and i plow it hard

[kneedownnate [OP]]

The fucked up part is I HAD an immunity built up through highschool, it just went away when I stopped being able to go out so much.

[46&2]

I have never gotten poison oak in my life (knock on wood) but my girlfriend has gotten it really bad 3 or 4 times since we have been together and even sleeping in the same bed and what not I never even got it a little.

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Lucky!  I may try and rub it on my legs or something every few days starting next spring, just to try and build up an immunity.  It'll suck anus to have it, but if I can keep it just on my legs I'll be able to resist scratching it.  I also should try getting the shots too.

[Ramrod]

ya cant you just get a shot of cortizone on be good for the whole summer pretty much?

[kneedownnate [OP]]

I've been told that, just never investigated.

[kneedownnate [OP]]

A little question here.  Since the day a couple weeks ago when the coyotes woke me up at 3am and kept me awake (I guess barking and chirping within 50ft of my house is fun for them) I've decided I need to get a .22 rifle that will shoot shorts.  I have a marlin model 60 that shoots longs just fine, so I bought some cci sub sonics and they were nearly as loud as my federals.  Got some cci short sub sonics and they're quiet enough to shoot by the house in the wee morning hours without waking the neighbors, but there's not enough charge to cycle my action.

My question is about 2 specific bolt action rifles.  I narrowed it down to either a remington 504 or a marlin model 981t.  Either rifle has it's benefit on paper, the remington being very very accurate, while the marlin has a tubular magazine under the barrel, which I like much more than the typicall awful and awkward looking removable magazines on most .22 rifles.  Who has shot or owned either of these 2 models, and what were your opinions of them?

[Stocker]

Not mine, but I just ran across this & thought some of ya might find it interesting. 
If it's a repost, I'll apologize now and delete the post.

Mike Smith of Clay Center thought he had shot the buck of a lifetime when he walked up on this 27-pointer on Dec. 3.
He found out it was an antlered doe.  http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/626780.html

[kneedownnate [OP]]

That's pretty crazy!  I know it's probably just a genetic mutation, but I kinda wonder if it's possibly the result of inbreeding 

[THK Matt]

That's pretty crazy!  I know it's probably just a genetic mutation, but I kinda wonder if it's possibly the result of inbreeding 

True....

[brandon95]

you guys need to use a bow and take advantage of these neighborhood deer.  you would be amazed where some of my buddies hunt in sonoma

you want to talk about neighborhood deer about 3 monthes ago we where doing a job in PG(pacific Grove) its by montery, and the was a doe and 2 fawns using a damm cross walk, they are so damn protected by all the tree huggers over there that you can almost walk up to them.

not about deer huntin but last weekend me, my dad, and his frend went hog huntin on a really big cattle ranch in holister i think the name of the ranch is the Gablin ranch or somthin like that. But the owner of that ranch is the guy who donated the land that is holister hills OHV (where top truck challenge is held) never got to meet the owner but i met his grand son conner he was a cool guy. that ranch was full of history from a road carved in a hillside by chinese imagrant workers, to the remains of a fort wall from when califronia was taken from mexico.

i got a decent sized sal. shot her arrowned noon. she probably weighed 120 pounds skinned out. it was a mest up shot we where stalkin her and she seen us b4 we seen her she started to turn and run so i took a knee and drew up and shot and it went threw the heart and out the right shoulder/fore arm bone, it looked like she was movin slower, but my dad over to the left of me and have a better veiw as they where runnin and said they where movin fine, there was also no blood where he said that they had gon threw so we all just figured i missed. when we where walking back to the truck we seen a couple of leafswith a good amout of blood on them probably about 10-15 yards away from where they went threw at, so we tracked that and about 30 yards from where i shot her there she was. she rolled down a really steep hill and he forgot the remote for the winch so it was a long day. ill try get one of my frends that knows what he is doing with computers to put some pics up for me. oh and i hunt with a browning 30-06. and i carry a S&W .375 security six revalver just in case i need to go in the brushes after a wonded hog.

How do you guys like the copper bullets that we are required by law to use when hunting now? i have heard people complain about them but i think they just use it as an excusse cause the suck at shooting.i didnt notice a diferece when i shot them? Any one else notice any thing?

[Stocker]

was a doe and 2 fawns using a damm cross walk

We always have deer in town, usually including a handful of bucks.  Several years ago I saw a buck standing at a crosswalk and looking both ways.  When the traffic cleared, he walked across just like he knew what he was doing.   

[kneedownnate [OP]]

How do you guys like the copper bullets that we are required by law to use when hunting now?

Speak for yourself    Only a handful of areas around the state are required to use non-lead bullets, not necessarily copper.  It will get better as more companies put some time into making some good bullets, but I believe barnes has some exceptional bullets available, and as usual federal is loading them in some very nice rounds.  Federal does a great job of making ammo that's incredibly accurate, and from what I've read, their offerings for the california legal ammo are top shelf. 

[brandon95]

oh i had heard it was the entire state of CA that banned lead bullets, my gun was sighted in using 165grain Nosler portition rounds, and my dad bought some 165grain copper rounds (forgot the brand) and they seen to shoot about the same, but i think they cost like $2 a bullet or somthin like that

[46&2]

oh i had heard it was the entire state of CA that banned lead bullets, my gun was sighted in using 165grain Nosler portition rounds, and my dad bought some 165grain copper rounds (forgot the brand) and they seen to shoot about the same, but i think they cost like $2 a bullet or somthin like that

I mentioned this at the begining of the thread, its not all of CA only certain areas mostly in So Cal.

I am not a hunter myself but ironically I work for a company that sells and manufactures ammo, heh. Just wanted to make sure everyone knew about the Condor hunting restrictions that were enacted last December in regards to hunting in Condor habitat zones using lead ammo.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/condor/

The gist of it is that in those zones designated as Condor habitat you can and will be searched to make sure you do not even have any kind of lead ammo with you, regardless of wether or not you are going to use it. They are really serious about this so don't risk it. If you check out that link you can find a map of the zones and more information on it, as well as a list of "safe" ammo.

The company I work for (Miwall Corp) sells almost all of the lead free ammo listed so if you find us at a gun show you should be able to find plenty of variety in lead free ammo.

[joey0712]

Here a few pics from Mendota last week.