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Post by deadeer on Oct 23, 2015 22:20:56 GMT -5
We have a local nature preserve draw hunt up here in the NW corner of IN. I was drawn as the alternate hunter, which usually means sorry, try again next year. Well how's this for a change? A guy dropped out and I got the call to duty that I am in! Yeah baby!!! Antlerless only, no bucks. I have hunted it twice in three years, killing 7 total. My best friend will be there again, he killed 5 in one hunt. Another friend is in again, he killed one. Two friends did not get picked this time, and they got a total of five deer in one hunt each. So the deer are there. I even got the same zone I hunted the first time, where I believe I counted 32 deer, but I am sure that some doubled back after the shooting started and got recounted. Oh man, I can't wait!!!
Jay
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Post by mrbuck on Oct 24, 2015 6:30:27 GMT -5
Best of luck !
Chris
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Post by edge on Oct 24, 2015 8:03:48 GMT -5
You can't beat luck  Sounds like you should have meat in the freezer after that hunt! edge. |
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How lucky.
Oct 24, 2015 15:09:39 GMT -5
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Post by deadeer on Oct 24, 2015 15:09:39 GMT -5
Whack em and stack em Indiana style, lets hope! Lol. The county got reduced from 8 to 4 does this year, but three of us have lifetime licenses where tags are "free" anymore. Havent decided what I will shoot with. I have used 243 pistol. 357max rifle, RemPac 45, and 12ga. May use 260 pistol and SavPac 45 this time around to keep it mixed up.
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Post by edge on Oct 24, 2015 17:19:57 GMT -5
Can you party hunt or is this one man one gun?
edge.
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Post by deadeer on Oct 24, 2015 18:28:51 GMT -5
Any quantity of legal caliber guns is allowed during the gun season only. This will be the opening weekend of gun season. Party hunting is illegal in IN. Be that as it may, these hunts have their own rule booklet issued. So I cannot say for sure, but this is a controlled deer reduction hunt, and that is the whole idea, so if each hunter can now take 4 deer, and there are 5 hunters total, would it matter how the 20 total quota is reached? It shouldn't IMO. But, we have never resorted to that as of yet, because it has been unnecesary. Some guys do stop at 1 or 2 deer and are content. We want them ALL. Lol.
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Post by deadeer on Nov 7, 2015 20:16:22 GMT -5
Set some cams at this park. My zone is about 80% crp like grass, and 20% rolling woods with small ravines. Lots of sign back there only. One weeks worth of pics, 7 or 8 different bucks, (antlerless only hunt) approx 20some does. First batch coming thru at same time as my first hunt and friends hunt, 8:20am. Right on schedule! Lol. Next group at 10:30am, 12:30, then rest at hour before dark. Amazing there schedule is that consistent. Next weekend!
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Post by deadeer on Nov 15, 2015 21:04:47 GMT -5
Game over. Got 3 does Saturday morning. Buddy got a big doe Saturday and 3 dinks Sunday. Another guy got 4 deer, 2 guys scratched. 5 total hunters, so 3 guys got 11 deer for the weekend. Hit them with my 357maximum Encore rifle. Furthest went 50yd all chest shots. So much brush it was terrible. Really threaded the needle. Guy that helped me drag said I should be a sniper. Lol. Said there was NO way I should of got those deer. Beginners luck I told him.  Taken with 357maximum Encore rifle, 3 bullet weights, 150, 180, 200gr, all same zero. |
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Post by schunter on Nov 17, 2015 9:08:21 GMT -5
Congrats sounds like a fun hunt...
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Post by smokepolehall on Nov 26, 2015 21:18:29 GMT -5
Looking good on all of them, big congrats to you
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