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Post up pictures and stories of deer hunting and your Winchester.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:00 am
I'll be gettin home on the 23rd...With a lil luck either my son or myself will accomplish something I can share here.

I hunted for 2 weeks straight last month and only got one deer...but I did get it with a Winchester. Thing is it wasn't my rifle, we had just gotten there (runnin a bit late) and were getting our stuff together when I spotted the buck chasing a doe across the power line cut...I grabbed the first rifle I could get my hands on, LOL. Turns out it was my buddy's rifle (7mm WSM)...but it did the trick.

He was about 200 yards away and moving pretty fast....I led him a tad too much (used to my 308) and instead of busting his shoulder I hit him in the neck, he was dead before he hit the ground.

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I haven't been out, down here they have like a lottery system. With moving and my computers mother board going down i missed the dead line i do have a chance on some private land for some hunting time :D
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:31 pm
ROOKIE MISTAKE........

So over my thanksgiving break I went hunting at a friends house about 3 1/2 hrs upstate from in NY. Even though i am a huge fan of hunting and shooting, i haven't done much hunting. This was probably my 5th time hunting and have not shot a deer on any previous hunts. So me and my dad and about 5 other guys get up before dawn get into the woods sit alllllll day and see nothing. the next day we do the same thing, get up, go out to the woods, i get into my stand around 5:45. the property owner the night before goes tomorrow, watch the tree line every morning i have photos of this little buck that comes daily. so im sitting there an hr goes by (nothing), another half hr goes by(nothing) so its around 7:15-7:30 and what do you know the exact buck that i saw pictures of come trotting along. About 45-50 yards from me I pick up my Marlin 336 30-30 and take aim, im thinking yes this buck is mine. I zoom in to about 5x on my scope, everything is perfect hes standing in a great spot so i put my crosshairs right by his shoulders and i pull the trigger. IT WAS A HIT, he ran about 10 feet stopped and i hit him again but it was more of a gut shot. I was all jacked up, adrenalin was pumping hands were shaking. NOW HERES THE ROOKIE MISTAKE, i was so excited i just climbed out of my stand and immediately went to go look for the deer. well that turned out to be the worst thing i could have done because the deer heard me and took off before i could see where he took off to. so i started to follow the blood trail went about 20 feet found where he initial bedded down then followed it from there about 100 ft to a pond where i lost the trail :(.... the hunting party and i looked for 3 hrs for the deer but had no luck

LESSON WELL LEARNED- wait at least 45min to look for the deer.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:38 pm
i got that doe and this 8 pointer in the same day

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they were my first deer :D im a very happy guy
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Congratulations!

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:58 pm
Nice deer, guys!
stags 30, what's that white stuff on the ground? Sure glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.
If some is good and more is better, then too much must be just enough.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:21 pm
stags30 wrote: about 100 ft to a pond where i lost the trail :(.... the hunting party and i looked for 3 hrs for the deer but had no luck



Thats a lil trick deer use to stop the bleeding (mud)...you're not the first to lose a trail because of it and won't be the last.

I try to hit them with a high shoulder shot...it takes out the use of their front legs and gets the lungs too. They don't get very far very fast when their front legs don't work, but I also know what it feels like to get "buck fever" and get all shaky and excited...thats the thrill of the hunt, just don't get too far ahead of yourself, LOL.

You learned from it and did your best, thats all that can be expected...
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Cooperdisciple wrote:Nice deer, guys!
stags 30, what's that white stuff on the ground? Sure glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.



It was -5 out, i was freezing.

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I have been hunting with a Winchester, my entire life. I wish I had pictures of all the deer I have shot with a Winchester...

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:19 am
Those are some nice bucks you got there with your Winchester!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:37 pm
nice looking bucks, what type of deer is the 4th pic down ?

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Odd looking deer isn't it.

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Think that just might be one them famous Elkalopes that Montana is famous for!!
Sort of like the Wyoming Jackalope:)
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:35 am
Looks like a muley doe....
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Heres a video that i put together of my hunting trip.

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Well...I didn't see any deer, sooooo....

:D Target of opportunity :D
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Model 70 deer... a 257 Roberts and a 270...


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Awesome! What are those Model 70 scoped, topped of with.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:08 am
They both have Zeiss Diavari 3-9X36 scopes now. When I shot the deer with the .270, it had a Leupold 6X on it. I am trying to keep smaller, more traditional sized scopes on these guns, but straight powers, just don't work for me...

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Thanks i wish i could afford a Zeiss, But ill use my Nikon till then!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:36 am
Me coming back empty handed during a trip to Vermont, not a very good shot of the rifle. :)

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Here's a chunky little Tennessee 8 pnt I took with my pre '64 F/W in .270 on the first morning it was ever in the woods (the rifle, not the deer!) ;)
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