Season's almost over
Dec 19, 2010 10:41:26 GMT -5
Post by jnrbronc on Dec 19, 2010 10:41:26 GMT -5
Well, for all intensive purposes, my season is going to come to a close a half hour after sunset tonight. Today is the last day of second shotgun season and I have a tag. So what am I doing sitting in front of the computer?
Well, my farm is pretty crappy deer habitat. I have to try to catch the deer either headed back to the neighbor's timber or the other neighbor's CRP first thing in the morning or catch them coming to feed in our ag fields in the evenings. Not much to do in the middle of the day.
I do have a couple of archery tags left, but my motivation to bowhunt in the frigid cold after the deer have been shot at for three weeks with guns in pretty low.
I started a new position at work June 1, 2010, so I couldn't take my usual two weeks of vacation the first of November. Bow season opened Oct. 1 and I flew to Brazil for work for two weeks Oct. 3. Most of my archery hunting was done on weekends, an occasional afternoon here and there.
This is my statewide archery tag buck (with limited time, I didn't wait for the monster bucks to come by):
Couple days later filled my landowner archery tag with this guy:
I filled an archery antlerless tag, but forgot to take a picture of it.
Then, shotgun season opened the first Saturday in December. I can use my Savage ML10II and did. ;D This was a doe I shot the second evening of the first season. I sat over one of our corn fields and shot her at 65 yards, DRT. 42.5 grains of 4759, HBH12 sabot holding a 250 grain XTP.
Late yesterday afternoon I was sitting over another one of our cornfields. I looked up to see two deer running right at me, it's been cold and they were anxious to get to eating. They were at 60 yards and closing fast. I hadn't expected such a close shot and had the scope turned up to 9X. As I was dialing it down, the lead doe saw my movement and pulled up broadside at 25 yards. I let the Savage eat!
Skinning her, I found what was left of the XTP under the hide on the far side. Jacket separated from lead core, together they weigh 133 grains.
Well, time to walk a brushy waterway, then wait for the late afternoon sit.
Well, my farm is pretty crappy deer habitat. I have to try to catch the deer either headed back to the neighbor's timber or the other neighbor's CRP first thing in the morning or catch them coming to feed in our ag fields in the evenings. Not much to do in the middle of the day.
I do have a couple of archery tags left, but my motivation to bowhunt in the frigid cold after the deer have been shot at for three weeks with guns in pretty low.
I started a new position at work June 1, 2010, so I couldn't take my usual two weeks of vacation the first of November. Bow season opened Oct. 1 and I flew to Brazil for work for two weeks Oct. 3. Most of my archery hunting was done on weekends, an occasional afternoon here and there.
This is my statewide archery tag buck (with limited time, I didn't wait for the monster bucks to come by):
Couple days later filled my landowner archery tag with this guy:
I filled an archery antlerless tag, but forgot to take a picture of it.
Then, shotgun season opened the first Saturday in December. I can use my Savage ML10II and did. ;D This was a doe I shot the second evening of the first season. I sat over one of our corn fields and shot her at 65 yards, DRT. 42.5 grains of 4759, HBH12 sabot holding a 250 grain XTP.
Late yesterday afternoon I was sitting over another one of our cornfields. I looked up to see two deer running right at me, it's been cold and they were anxious to get to eating. They were at 60 yards and closing fast. I hadn't expected such a close shot and had the scope turned up to 9X. As I was dialing it down, the lead doe saw my movement and pulled up broadside at 25 yards. I let the Savage eat!
Skinning her, I found what was left of the XTP under the hide on the far side. Jacket separated from lead core, together they weigh 133 grains.
Well, time to walk a brushy waterway, then wait for the late afternoon sit.
