Hunting stories

Pack Rat

Pack Rat

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Hi folks. Am sitting in a deer stand doing this on
An iPhone.
No deer kills yet but two fox two coon and three hogs.
My hunting daughter shot the hogs. Gonna
Have to run her out of that stand.

Seeing lots of deer. Just nothing we want to shoot
Or cull as yet.

Y'all post your current hunting stories.

More later
 
A guy on my lease shot a buck Saturday that scored 194". Monster buck!

Good luck to you. Where are you hunting, roughly?
 
Kind of a hunting story. Daughter was toting a bag of some sort to her stand.
Mentioned that moms backpack was in the rv so she dug it out

Some cool treasure in there since it hadn't been used in number of years
Couple of china knives, but the treasure was an unused condition in an unused sheath, Buck Idaho 112

While cleaning green off bolsters, it clicked that it is an old style frame
Not radiused.

Must be one I had sent back to Buck for some reason, probably in 2005

Now I gotta figure out how to reclaim it before it gets full of deer stuff
 
Waiting anxiously for the Monday after Thanksgiving. The question is what knives to carry. I have committed to the new style ecolite 110 and hope to give it a work out. Also gonna carry another, Paclite skinner, Folding ergohunter pro or Rosie Alpha hunter folder again, is the question. Even thinking of my new 119 cocobola but that is unlikely.

Good luck Ratty, hope something shootable walks by:thumbup:

Its dark here already:grumpy:
 
I've shot many bucks that scored over 194", but I always wake up before I get them in hand. Fritz, just pick one and go with it. I always have a hard time deciding, but I usually resort to my bg42 koa 110. Maybe g10/bg42 tomorrow.
I had a nice hunt yesterday taking a doe and letting a few little bucks go on their way. About an hour before dark I watched a coyote pop out of the woods into a harvested corn field about two hundred yards from me. About a minute later a small buck walked out behind the coyote. I'm sure they had been bedded in the same thicket. I watched (with binos) that buck and coytoe pal around till dark. It was a really cool to watch the interaction between the two. The interaction strongly resembled the way a buck and doe dance/chase around prior to mating! I saw them sniffing (noses) each other at one point. I wish I'd had a video camera. I'm not sure what they did after they reached a small wood patch, and maybe I don't want to know. Nature is strange sometimes...
The firearms season starts this weekend. Me and my ten year old with have our muzzleloaders ready. Good luck to all!
 
3 dot 112 my Dad gave me a long time ago. It's been through a few deer.[/QUOTE]

To each his own but ---I cannot figure out why guys use a small 3" blade to gut a deer (whitetail) ? I did use a 107 for years on whitetail deer which has a small 3.5" blade . But once I moved up to the 110 I realized this was a better move . I told my then 13 year old girl about me using that small knife to field dress and elk . Where upon she replied, dad its not that you did an elk with this knife, its how well did the knife do the elk ? Truth from the mouth of a child ! . DM
 
David Martin said:
To each his own but ---I cannot figure out why guys use a small 3" blade to gut a deer (whitetail) ? I did use a 107 for years on whitetail deer which has a small 3.5" blade . But once I moved up to the 110 I realized this was a better move . I told my then 13 year old girl about me using that small knife to field dress and elk . Where upon she replied, dad its not that you did an elk with this knife, its how well did the knife do the elk ? Truth from the mouth of a child ! . DM
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Well, I just didn't have a metro in my knife bag! :D

I've never known anything different, honestly, and can't recall the task being any tougher. Maybe I'll jump tradition this year and try something else to see what I've been missing!
 
My best buck scored 162 and was a typical 10 pointer,almost perfect side to side ,very little deductions.I shot this buck at noontime during the rut ,2001 ,he was chasing a doe.He weighed 174 feild dressed,i would guess he weighed close to 200 before the rut.The antlers were stolen from the camp ,along with many other racks that belonged to friends that shot them and left them nailed to the camp.I have never seen a set of antlers so perfectly matched comme from the area since,maybe he was one of a kind,LOL,Thats the name the otheer hunters gave him,lol
 
Razor sorry to hear about the rack being stolen. Casey I have heard of stockman knives being used, with out a problem. After all look what was used befor the 110 came out. If it gets the job done, and is all you have used, think of the money that was saved, in not looking for that better knife. Then again it does not hurt to try one or two out every now and then. At least that is my story and I'am sticking to it, for now at least. :eek: :D :D HL
 
Damn, shame can't leave racks anywhere anymore or their going to get stolen. Pitiful that deer hunting has gone that way but you thank all the horn porn, theft, black market, selling, etc to the trophy buck mentality propaganda being pushed by The QDMA. Get mad and post what you want but go back to the times before QDMA came along and the stuff that is prevalent now across all areas of North Amercia was virtually non-existent.

I've seen eight (8) and ten (10) year old children disrespect, ridicule, and mock adults in hunting camps across 4 states for shooting a buck that scored less than 130. I mean some heavy duty crap talking from children. I thought we were hunting to enjoy ourselves, but I guess I"m wrong were all in competition to see who can control the most land, plant the most food plots while driving the most expensive tractor with our newest camo pattern on with our scent control silver exp secret fall monster blend covere scent and killing (errr, I mean harvest because its pc and were now deer farmers not hunters) the biggest buck in the tri county area.

Thanks QDMA and all those who are helping ruin hunting for others by turning deer hunting into trophy buck farming.
 
RAZORBLADES said:
My best buck scored 162 and was a typical 10 pointer,almost perfect side to side ,very little deductions.I shot this buck at noontime during the rut ,2001 ,he was chasing a doe.He weighed 174 feild dressed,i would guess he weighed close to 200 before the rut.The antlers were stolen from the camp ,along with many other racks that belonged to friends that shot them and left them nailed to the camp.I have never seen a set of antlers so perfectly matched comme from the area since,maybe he was one of a kind,LOL,Thats the name the otheer hunters gave him,lol
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The antlers from my first buck suffered the same fate about 20 years ago. It was a nice looking nine point. Someone broke into our camp and stole all of the antlers and about everything else that had any value. The years following, break-ins became a regular thing. So, we couldn't keep anything there. That property was sold in the late 90's so all that's left are some great memories and a few pictures.
 
That sucks 2tonyb,i'm going through the same thing,they got all of the old racks dad killed over the years,all the old fashioned oil lamps,the old crank phone that was in the old farmhouse,and lots of other things .I have 600 plus acres or forest land that has not hardly been cut over,people stealing wood all the time as i'm 2 hours away and its easy picking.We caught a guy on camera stealing at our camp last fall,he isn't stealing anything nowadays .
 
I hope I get a story to tell. Firearm deer season starts Monday here. I'll be taking a Vanguard, a Vantage Avid and a 143 Paklite. Hopefully the Buck's bring me a Buck. :)
 
Oh perfect timing :) So today was youth hunt day, me and my uncle got in the 2 man tree stand as it was getting light, I had his .243, we were in the stand for about an hour and a small doe walks up 20-30 yards away, my uncle told me I could shoot it if I wanted, I was about to when it got spooked, we had been hearing deer since we got in the stand so we sat and waited. An hour or so after the first deer we see one deer walking down the ridge to our right but didn't come closer, so we had to wait a bit longer, maybe 10-20 minutes after that, my uncle hears 2 deer start running, hes telling me to get the gun up but I didn't know that when they were running like that I don't have to try to take it slow, so 1 doe and 1 buck are running towards our stand, the doe runs around the buck comes right up to us, sees me moving and slides 2 feet from the bottem of the ladder and then runs around and I can't get a shot. I know it wasn't 10 minutes after that I see a doe running down the hill towards us, she gets within 35 yards and I get a shot right in the lung, she ran for about 50 yards and died. Right after I shot her I looked over and another deer was running away. After this, me and my uncle walked up to my deer to find out it was a spike. :) So my second deer (both deer I'v gotten have been on youth hunt) I got a buck. :) It was a fun day.
 
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