Appalachiannative
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See I don't feel like they are all that abundant and yet my state recently changed the season bag limit. It used to be 30 now there is no limit
2022 Hunting Picture Thread.
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Maybe...this might break my "bad hunting luck" streak!?
I spent the early hours in my new blind . About 8am a wandered out to a white oak treetop and got comfortable. An hour and a half later this nine point came in to sixty yards broadside. I couldn't pass it up. He isn't the biggest buck that I have been seeing here....but he was a shooter. I am happy with him as my 2022 trophy. He is big, probably close to 200# if not more.
Opening day buck means a relaxing rest of the season to fill my doe tags, and stay in the cabin on the nasty days.
I spent the early hours in my new blind . About 8am a wandered out to a white oak treetop and got comfortable. An hour and a half later this nine point came in to sixty yards broadside. I couldn't pass it up. He isn't the biggest buck that I have been seeing here....but he was a shooter. I am happy with him as my 2022 trophy. He is big, probably close to 200# if not more.
Opening day buck means a relaxing rest of the season to fill my doe tags, and stay in the cabin on the nasty days.
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Kind of an oddball, some sort of prior injury. Kind of a twist in the skull, it won’t sit flat. Taxidermist though an injury from a previous year based on the regrowth around the antler base. No sign of a hard hit like a car, but poor guy just goes to show how tough and resilient these animals can be
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This feral boar fell victim to my .50 Encore:
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I shot this one last Monday 3rd day Of Mo Rifle season about 80 yards .350 legend he went 15 yards and crashed last pic is what’s left of his heart I wish he wasn’t so broke up but that’s life
Appalachiannative
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Man around here #200 is massive. They seldom make it over #150 before some yahoo shoots out of the back yard or on the side of the road. You using slugs?
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Yep. This was my 12 ga H&R with BRI Winchester slugs
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you can see his bulk in this pic.Shanghai McCoy
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Good shootin' AF. 
Congratulations on breaking your slump.
Congratulations on breaking your slump.
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Managed to fill both my antlered tags before the rifle opener - got one last Saturday, and the second on Tuesday, both with a TC .50 muzzleloader. Used a 300 grain Hornady sabot (.452 flex tip) on the first, and it dropped DRT. The second I used a 420 grain pure lead Lee slug, got full entry and exit and it traveled about 20 yards before piling up. I have long drags (2+ miles for the first one, a little over a mile for the second) by myself, so a 4 to 6 pointer is my target size. Anything bigger and I’d have to phone a friend.
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I got 1 like that last year to close out my season.
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Third and final deer for this year. No tags left. Got this one 11/11
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Son #3 filled his buck tag this morning 11/19/22.
A nice ,big bodied , 13pt.
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Savage 220 20ga accu-tip slugs.
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Beautiful!
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#1 son got his buck this evening with a 70 yd shot with his lefty Savage 220 20ga shooting accu-tips. The buck is a mainframe 8pt but he has some stickers and junk that might count as a point.
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Cold opening day of rifle season in Wisconsin.
I think the feels like temp of -2 was generous.
Carried my Weatherby MarkV 7rm. And tried out a new knife from the Favorite hunting knife thread.
I was wanting to just tag a legal buck as I didn't spend much time hunting while living in SC the last three years. Small 8 point this afternoon.
I think the feels like temp of -2 was generous.
Carried my Weatherby MarkV 7rm. And tried out a new knife from the Favorite hunting knife thread.
I was wanting to just tag a legal buck as I didn't spend much time hunting while living in SC the last three years. Small 8 point this afternoon.
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Last 4 minutes of light, last day of our regular archery season, got some meat for the freezer. Micro Mag 340. 33 yards, double lung.
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Opening day of rifle season here in middle Tennessee. Shot another one of these strange deer.
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Nice bucks you and your sons put in the ground. Stands to reason though. Good farm land not only produces good crops but also good wildlife
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We have always noted a correspondence between a good farming year and a good wild game year.
We have had two or three in a row....bucks are abundant. Quail, turkeys, rabbits, and 'coons. And with that comes eagles. Coyotes and bobcats.....
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I'm jealous. I've been out 4 times since our archery season started a month ago (ends today). I've seen shootable does every time I went out including yesterday, but they were all of the "out of range" subspecies. That's OK though- next weekend we go to the guns and I got a 243 sighted in and ready to rock.
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Well, today made up for a couple of the days I got skunked this year. Not the big boy I saw yesterday, but him and his gal are filling the freezer and baptized my new American Predator .308.
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