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I like to keep it to about 35 lbs of boned-out meat for distances longer than 2 miles. Saves the knees and back. I would never consider horses--totally unnecessary and a waste of time, imo...
If you're only going a mile or 2 from the vehicle, I'd use a daypack with the essentials, throw an Alice frame in the car, and if you get lucky and get something, bone it out, go get the Alice, and haul it to the car. No reason to carry an expensive and heavy pack for day hunts.
Can't shoot does here, no elk to speak of to hunt in my area any more (wiped out by predators) so that leaves bucks. If I get one that looks nice on the wall, so much the better. But venison always trumps antlers. Always.
Yup, and they wonder why they fail every year if they're hunting public land. I've had more deer in the back of my Honda Civic than lots of guys have had in the back of their pickups lol.
Private land is a whole other thing of course. 100 lbs overweight and you can still be successful...
.30/06 is the limit for recoil I can handle. If they open up a grizzly season down here and I ever get to hunt them, I would use my .308 with a good bullet and call it good.
Yes.
Peanut butter, granola.
Exactly. The public land I hunted this year was roughly 1% success ratio. :( Keep putting enough miles and effort in during the rut, and eventually you will blunder into something. (Or a deer will blunder into you.)
1. I would hunt the path, but that's just me.
2. Deer are creatures of habit--they'll be back.
3. Look away from the deer for a few seconds, and either let your mind empty, or make a quick plan of action (depending on your personality)
4. 1st day of first year hunting in the...
The dumbest "hunting" story I've ever heard was from a guy who claimed to have hit a huge bull elk with a .17 HMR at 600 yards through a truck window. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Weirdest woods story for me was when I was a kid, chasing a flock of turkeys on foot being led by a...
#1. I hunt in thicker terrain than many do out here in the mountains.
#2. I'm not 70 years old yet. My 2 eyes work just fine for spotting game. If I miss something once in awhile, so be it. I don't catch every fish in the river when I go fishing either.
#3. Glassing sounds as fun as...
Never bought into the "adrenaline" or "bad processing" theories about why venison tastes "gamey". I instantly dropped a forkhorn one year that tasted terrible. On the flipside, I've seen old deer that have run a ways after being hit, and then processed in less-than-ideal circumstances, and...
Meh, never carried binos. I hunt the backcountry where seeing another hunter is exceedingly rare. So I scope anything that looks promising without a second thought during general rifle season. If you're not wearing visible blaze orange like the law requires, you deserve to get scoped. Period.
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