RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
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RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
Opening morning with my Dad and I sitting in his favorite deer stand!
Dad is 85, I'm 60, 50 years of hunting together! It has been very slow, not even any shots off in the distance. Could not be a better way to start a day though!
Dad is hunting with "my" Glenfield 30GT and me with my Rio Grande chambered in 38-55 Win.
Dad is 85, I'm 60, 50 years of hunting together! It has been very slow, not even any shots off in the distance. Could not be a better way to start a day though!
Dad is hunting with "my" Glenfield 30GT and me with my Rio Grande chambered in 38-55 Win.
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Re: RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
I miss hunting with my Dad. We mat get into a goose hunt over Christmas. At 75 he doesn't hunt mulies unless he drives us up and picks us up at the bottom something about steel knees and 8000 foot tree lines.
Cherish every moment. I know somewhere in the stuff there are pi from a Baja fishing trip with my Grandfather, Dad myself and my boys. That was an amazing trip, and 1 that will live for as long as the pix and my boys anyway.
Cherish every moment. I know somewhere in the stuff there are pi from a Baja fishing trip with my Grandfather, Dad myself and my boys. That was an amazing trip, and 1 that will live for as long as the pix and my boys anyway.
Just a Red neck,White boy, Blue blood American.....
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Re: RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
Very true time goes so fast.RBHarter wrote:I miss hunting with my Dad. We mat get into a goose hunt over Christmas. At 75 he doesn't hunt mulies unless he drives us up and picks us up at the bottom something about steel knees and 8000 foot tree lines.
Cherish every moment. I know somewhere in the stuff there are pi from a Baja fishing trip with my Grandfather, Dad myself and my boys. That was an amazing trip, and 1 that will live for as long as the pix and my boys anyway.
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Re: RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
My dad will go to church with mom this evening so I will probably take my 4 year old grandson out with me.
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Well heck, my dad missed a heck of a buck yesterday afternoon at 5:00 pm. Three does walked past us at 70 yards and a large 10 point was following them, the deer in the high 150's to low 160's BC range. I waited until he was abeam us and stopped him. At the shot, I thought my dad had a good hit as the deer got really low as it ran but then it stopped and walked into the deep brush. I could see it's eye back in the brush checking everything out for about two minutes and then I could tell it walked away. I was worried about a gut shot.
I took my dad's rifle, I didn't have one, and took off to my north fence line as I figured he was heading that way. While I covered some ground I texted Joe who was hunting about 500 yards away but in the direction we shot. I asked him "hit or miss" and he texted back a "miss". I selected a spot where I thought the deer would appear and after about 7 minutes I heard a grunt. Slowly, I turned and could see him coming 20 yards away in the thick brush and he came out on the cleared fence line about 30 yards away. I was looking on the bullet exit side of the deer and from the visual and his behavior I could tell he was not hit. He stopped at the fence so I got a real good look at him through the Bushnell and I let him jump it. He cleared it by 8' and trotted off, no way a it was a gut shot.
I took my dad's rifle, I didn't have one, and took off to my north fence line as I figured he was heading that way. While I covered some ground I texted Joe who was hunting about 500 yards away but in the direction we shot. I asked him "hit or miss" and he texted back a "miss". I selected a spot where I thought the deer would appear and after about 7 minutes I heard a grunt. Slowly, I turned and could see him coming 20 yards away in the thick brush and he came out on the cleared fence line about 30 yards away. I was looking on the bullet exit side of the deer and from the visual and his behavior I could tell he was not hit. He stopped at the fence so I got a real good look at him through the Bushnell and I let him jump it. He cleared it by 8' and trotted off, no way a it was a gut shot.
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Re: RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
My young whitetail hunter, JB, took his 6th whitetail this morning. 70-yard shot with his Marlin 336Y shooting my TLC311-165-RF bullet with Varget. JB is 11! The deer was 3 1/2 years old, a very righteous shoot!
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Agreed started young keeping traditions alive. Love it.62chevy wrote:6 deer at age 11, just can't get any better than that.
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Re: RD'S Deer Blind ~ 2014
Added three boar hogs to the list over the last 10 days... all weighing in at 155 to 160 pounds. Here are two "first hogs" for two young hunters. Both were DRT dhots.
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