How is everyone's Hunting going?

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Good here. Arrowed 2 does the first saturday of archery, and have had good squirrel stew 3 times (figure 4 squirrels per kettle)

Landowner rifle doesn't start til November 1st, so I'll wait until then to look for a buck, if no luck i'll take one more doe.

Birds not so well, one pheasant over my buddys German SH on opening day, nada since. My setter pup is only 7 months, so she's not on the game yet, but i get her in the brush when i can after work for real world practice.

Weather has been unseasonably warm, so the fur is probably odds on crap. I'll wait til a good cold snap to let the hounds go for coon.
 
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I have a police officer buddy who works in Uttica, Ohio and he had to put down a 10 pointer this past Friday night.

Funny part is, it jumped through a window of a department store.

Good times!
 
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We killed 8 geese during early goose season (in September)

I killed a big doe and accidentally killed the button buck standing behind it (the bullet went through and hit the button buck in the hind quarters) two weekends ago during Georgia's opening day of muzzleloader down there.

Waiting on rifle to open the weekend before Thanksgiving.
 
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The family has about 85 acres here, which is nice, as i can hunt Rifle from November 1st to December 31st...4 archery tags and 2 Landowner tags are plenty. 3 hangers is ideal, as i don't need to hunt muzzleloader if i don't want.

Here it's 1 tag for state shotgun, 1 for muzzleloader, but the coastal towns have replenishable tags for does. Keep shooting does, keep getting tags. But private is 2, but really, unless you own the land, you aren't going to hunt it in my part of the state, as theres alot more family hunters, and friends of the family, than there is space.

We can do crop damage with rifle late august/early september, but i didn't ask any of my buddies to come this year, as you can harvest 3 deer on a weekend. I needed to justify my $900 Mathews to the old lady by using it to fill the freezer.
 
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I really can't stand waterfowl, don't like the taste at all. We used to hunt Canada's, and give them to Hunters for the Hungry, and the shelter would do them up. Now you have to process and bag any game you bring in in 16oz bags, and have it pre frozen. So i just don't hunt what i won't eat.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
The family has about 85 acres here, which is nice, as i can hunt Rifle from November 1st to December 31st...4 archery tags and 2 Landowner tags are plenty. 3 hangers is ideal, as i don't need to hunt muzzleloader if i don't want.

Here it's 1 tag for state shotgun, 1 for muzzleloader, but the coastal towns have replenishable tags for does. Keep shooting does, keep getting tags. But private is 2, but really, unless you own the land, you aren't going to hunt it in my part of the state, as theres alot more family hunters, and friends of the family, than there is space.

We can do crop damage with rifle late august/early september, but i didn't ask any of my buddies to come this year, as you can harvest 3 deer on a weekend. I needed to justify my $900 Mathews to the old lady by using it to fill the freezer.
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JTrainDavis said:
Here it's 1 tag for state shotgun, 1 for muzzleloader, but the coastal towns have replenishable tags for does. Keep shooting does, keep getting tags. But private is 2, but really, unless you own the land, you aren't going to hunt it in my part of the state, as theres alot more family hunters, and friends of the family, than there is space.

We can do crop damage with rifle late august/early september, but i didn't ask any of my buddies to come this year, as you can harvest 3 deer on a weekend. I needed to justify my $900 Mathews to the old lady by using it to fill the freezer.
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Here in Tennessee, you just buy the Sportsman's license and a duck stamp and you have everything you need. The limit is 3 antlered deer a season. I know for a fact that you can kill 3 does a day during the second rifle season and I believe that holds true for muzzleloader here.

And I have to kill a lot of ducks and deer this year to justify my buying a 10 gauge and a new .30-06 to my girlfriend
 
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justingroves said:
Here in Tennessee, you just buy the Sportsman's license and a duck stamp and you have everything you need. The limit is 3 antlered deer a season. I know for a fact that you can kill 3 does a day during the second rifle season and I believe that holds true for muzzleloader here.
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Must be nice, a state without huge overpopulation problems allowing unlimited does. thats the only way to keep the Population down. Look at it as people, OE himself can breed 5 unattractive does in one night, if you let him.

a new .30-06 to my girlfriend
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Whatcha get? My 30-06 is a Marlin MR-7, i'm pretty sure they're discontinued, bought it in 1996 or 1997. Good shooter, though.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
Must be nice, a state without huge overpopulation problems allowing unlimited does. thats the only way to keep the Population down. Look at it as people, OE himself can breed 5 unattractive does in one night, if you let him.

Whatcha get? My 30-06 is a Marlin MR-7, i'm pretty sure they're discontinued, bought it in 1996 or 1997. Good shooter, though.
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:eek:lol:

Remington Bolt Action. I bought it from a guy going through a divorce. It's been shot 3 times while it was getting sighted in. I'm about to break it in come November
 
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JTrainDavis said:
i have freezer space for 3 deer., we normally get a hereford in the late spring and divy it up. Model 700, i assume? Only way to go.
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Yes I completely left out the model. :crazy:

I'm fortunate that my dad loves to fish and hunt. We have 4 freezers and they always stay full of crappie, deer, ducks, geese etc.

My girlfriend's dad loves deer and turkey hunting as well. He's got me into the turkey hunting and I like it. He also has 4 leases in Alabama and Georgia he lets me hunt
 
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Not much of a Turkey Hunter, the meat is great, but unless it's a target of opportunity in the fall hunting Grouse and Woodcock i don't bother.

We don't eat much fish, unless i hook a trout really bad, to where i figure it'll die, than we'll have it for breakfast.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
Not much of a Turkey Hunter, the meat is great, but unless it's a target of opportunity in the fall hunting Grouse and Woodcock i don't bother.

We don't eat much fish, unless i hook a trout really bad, to where i figure it'll die, than we'll have it for breakfast.
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Only fish we eat are crappie and sauger and the occasional catfish we catch while crappie or sauger fishing. But we slay the crappie come springtme.

Turkey hunting is just different, that's why I like it so much. And the meat is excellent.
 
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justingroves said:
Only fish we eat are crappie and sauger and the occasional catfish we catch while crappie or sauger fishing. But we slay the crappie come springtme.

Turkey hunting is just different, that's why I like it so much. And the meat is excellent.
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no wild trout down there? I'm an elitist in that sense, i don't eat fish that grew up eating hatchery dog food
 
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JTrainDavis said:
no wild trout down there? I'm an elitist in that sense, i don't eat fish that grew up eating hatchery dog food
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Few and far between. There are some Brook trout up here in Eastern TN with Rainbows mixed in hatchery style.

I'm not a big trout fisherman, actually I know nothing about them. I've caught two in my entire lifetime.

I would like to take up flyfishing thought just because
 
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Different world. Here, there are only a few good sized rivers with wild brookies and a few wild Atlantic Salmon thrown in. So i take the fly setup to trickles, and waste a day. 10" is a good sized brookie on small water, 5 or 6 over 8" is a damn good day.
 
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I've done terrible but only got out once this year for turkey and deer. Been fishing a couple times down in Hatteras but looking to go opening day of rifle in TN.

My dad just got back from an elk hunt in Montana and got a very nice one with a bow.(at least I'll get some of the meat :)) Here's a pic just cause
 

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