Anyone else hit the deer stands this weekend? Pic related, Brenneke slug recovered from my spike buck
>>64506850>zero expansion
>>64506850Do you process the deer yourself or do you drive a spotless pickup truck out to a lot of private land with a thousand dollar tree stand and coat yourself in $50 deer piss scent and take vacation days from your cozy job to wait for a deer to walk into your LOS and then shoot it and pay a real man money to process the meat for you?
>>64506866>says all this then buys chicken at the grocery store
>>64506850Slug hunting bead sight on an 1100 for the challenge this year. Found some Brenneke 16ga 2.5” shells. We’ll see what happens.
>>64506873Youd have a point if i slammed the chicken on the table and acted like i did more than nothing for it
>>64506856Found the noguns city slicker
>>64506866What possible sense of pride and accomplishment do you get from sitting down and taking pot shots at animals? I understand a dude taking an animal with a bow or spear he made himself; stalking animals through the brush. I understand farmers who consider deer a pest species and shoot them with 22LR pumps or whatever else they happen to have lying around. I just don't get the camo hipster homosexuals who dump thousands of dollars on gear just to sit on their ass, shoot animals for fun, and call it "hunting." Go do pest control with a rifle or something. >oh I'm off hunting. gettin' back to naturehe says as he drives a golf cart up to his deer stand and sits there like giant marsh mellow covered in leaves and dirt waiting for an animal to get close enough to shit on himnot against eating meat, guns, or hunting. I think a lot of people who call themselves hunters are gay retards.
>>64506850Went out today. Saw a raccoon waddling right in front of my stand. Think I’m gonna take some marshmallows tomorrow and try to make friends with him.
>>64506856He died less than 50 yards from where he was hit. And the last buck I shot with an identical slug dropped dead where he was hit.Don't underestimate a heavy fat ass hunk of lead flying at 1300fps
>>64506866Hey, tell your single mother I won't be over tonight. But no, I skinned and butchered him on my own.
>>64506954>kike cosmopolitan city slicker view of the worldPlease stay in the city and never fire a gun
>>64506966Hell yeah, no harm to it, he won't scare anything off but fun to watch. That's why I like red squirrels so much even though they sometimes fool me that there's something important around
>>64506874You know, I don't have the best eyesight in the world, but at 40 yards my bead shot pretty much to point of aim. It's not as bad or imprecise as some might imply
>>64506850No, but I shot a bird and ate it on Saturday. Chicken taste as usual, was good with some barbecue sauce
>>64506999Yeah, I’ve seen him once before. I’m not sure if he just doesn’t see me or maybe he does and doesn’t care.It’s interesting what you see in the edge of the woods if you’re quiet. I saw a couple of squirrels chasing each other up a tree, and every day like clockwork around 5:20, this bird comes and lands on a specific fence post and chirps for a minute or 2 then flies back to his tree.
>>64507110That's one of my favorite things about being up in the tree is seeing how the world changes through the day; different animals or birds being out ect.
>>64507089What kind of bird? A grouse?
>>64507142Some kind of quail if I'm not mistaken, picrel is another bird of the same kind, but the one from this week was a bit bigger than the one in picrel
>>64506856Anon, it's a solid slug.
>>64507149Looks like a California quail to me.
>>64507172>Looks like a California quail Well it's a quail, and it's in California
>>64506954Ask me how I know you have never hunted or even been within ear/noseshot of any animal bigger than your cat
>>64507067Yeah I got pretty good groups at 60 yards. Fingers crossed.
>>64506954>Peace and fucking quiet>Excuse to shoot guns>Potential to put meat in the freezer for a $25 license and $40 tagAre you really too retarded to understand how this is based?
>>64506850Gun season for us doesn’t open until December. I’ve been chasing quail with the dog.
>>64506966Didn't someone once do something like that and he ended up eventually with their own coon army as they kept bringing new friends each time they were fed?
>>64508200Mama coons will roll around with 3-4 sub adults in deer season and they’ll mob you if they think they can get away with it. I used to smoke a bandito every year when I was bow hunting.
Good luck guys. I have to sit this year out. It was still hot and wild out during archery this year here.
>>64508140We have a few kikes itt, probably never left their cities.
>>64506954>not against eating meat, guns, or hunting.Yes you are.
>>64506954Damn, sounds like someone got skunked this season.
>>64508200That sounds so funny. lol I think I vaguely remember a story like that.>>64508268>they’ll mob you if they think they can get away with it. I used to smoke a bandito every year when I was bow hunting.Are they dangerous?
>>64508676rent free
>>64506966Raccoons really love marshmallows for some reason. I've also heard strawberry (?) jello or IIRC also kool-aid powder is something they like, which was a tip from a trapper IIRC. Not sure if it's the gelatin or what. Seems them being (loosely?) related to bears might have something to do with the love of sweet junkfood; the way people bait bears is by using doughnuts whereas you use marshmallows for raccoons lol.
>>64509068IDK about anon's situation and they don't normally attack people for no reason but they're little fat bears and they know it. If you've ever been up close to one they'll scrunch up like a cat hunching its back, step back kinda like a skunk warning you, put their head low, chitter, give you this snore-growl warning, and give this weird bark-growl sort of thing especially when they jump forward. They can be pretty feisty little things. ~20 pounds of an animal fat enough to jiggle when it walks but very muscular underneath. They climb trees like it's nothing, remember.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7x0FrgCLsIhttps://youtu.be/W_AgCuANaU4?t=39They can also be pretty friendly. Roll of the dice weighted with how threatened/cornered they feel.
>>64506866We process our own around here
OP here again, that slug was found last night when my dad started butchering ahead of me coming to do it today...ended up travelling all the way from his lower neck all the way to his rear quarter. I'm fucking impressed it went that far
>>64509068>Are they dangerousThey aren’t going to kill you but>>64509933>Theyre little bears and they know itIs factually correct. Get some curious/retarded teenager coon that doesn’t know better x3 and then mama coon sees them squaring up with an adult human she’s gonna come in spittin’ pissed. I’ve seen a big old boar coon whip a labrador three times>>64509933 its size. If they get bold and habituated to people and think they can bully you into dropping a trash bag or defensive of a deer feeder they can get nasty. The trick is to kill one in front of its siblings and hang up its skin wherever you don’t want them. It’s all about sending a message.
>>64506850>>64510188 (checked)Funny enough I was actually considering making a hunting thread a day or two ago AND including a pic of a bullet I recovered but didn't end up doing so. Since you shared yours, I'll share mine. 40gr hollowpoint CCI 1050FPS, lead bullet, not plated. Raccoon (med-large, probably 16-18lbs?) under 25yds. Hit probably 1.5-2" behind the arm low on the ribs and went forwards and up through lungs, maybe heart, and stopped somewhere between the shoulder blade and spine just below the skin. Extremely rare for me to recover anything so I thought it was pretty wild; I usually use 1200FPS HPs, though, which tends to shed small slivers of lead a lot.PS: I'd say you're looking at only recovering 22LR in large raccoons or coyotes. Sometimes larger groundhogs, maybe rarely foxes. Most of the animals mentioned above that I hunt, I do it mainly for fur for taxidermy. I say it all the time; fur prices are in the shitter but trappers and hunters still think they have gold and price it as such, otherwise I'd just mooch off someone else doing it. Think I'll try to get on a farm this year as they want a lot of these animals gone anyways.
>>64511037Hell yeah man, nice. Recovered bullets are so cool
Going hunting for the first time next month. My friend is taking us chukar hunting.
>>64507089Hunting is hunting, glad you got lucky too
>>64511257That sounds awesome. Game birds taste so much better than chicken, like primo super deluxe chicken. I hope you have success out there man. First hunt is always special
>>64509413At this point it's an umbrella term for people who resemble certain criteria closely enough; and every retard city dweller I've ever heard express their views on hunting, it's invariably a copy/paste of what he said.
>>64509811Thanks for all that information; I had no idea they were related to bears haha I bought a few bags of marshmallows today. If the thread dies, I’ll keep you guys updated. I didn’t go hunting today cause I’ve been running around having to get other stuff done today.>>64509933>>64510383They sound both adorable and scary at the same time.>It’s all about sending a message.If the marshmallow plan goes south, I’ll shoot them with my 45. Thanks for that piece of advice anon.
>>64511262If it doesn't work out, he says we're gonna go for coyotes. But idk, my coty slicker brain thinks they're friends.
>>64511281Coyotes are not our friends. They are overpopulated, which means fox population is down because of them, which causes small vermin to overpopulate. They also kill pets that people let outside. Coyotes obviously belong in the ecosystem and serve a niche, but there's way too many of them
>>64511358nta but how do you hunt coyotes? Can you kill them any time of the year? I live in the south and I’m sure they’re out here but at night I don’t hear anything out here.
>>64511277 (checked)I remember hearing the related to bears thing years ago. I'm not totally sure how close they are but I double checked to make sure I wasn't totally wrong. Not the same family, so not extremely close but still possibly related. Just quickly skimming, the Raccoon wiki page says molecular analysis says they're closer to bears than weasels (citing a 2002 paper), meanwhile the Procyonidae wiki page says they're closer related to mustelids than bears (citing a 2005 paper). Maybe I'm not right; I think I'd have to dig into those papers and do way more research than I really care to lol. I can ABSOLUTELY see the similarities to bears, though, if they are. Body type/shape, proportions, posture, the amount of fat, the paws, their claws, food preferences. As for how they act, I think they bluff a lot of the time. I've walked up on them in traps and they snarl and jump at you but really don't attack that I've ever found. I got DAMN close once though not realizing I was in the circle and got jumped at lol. If they get to realize you just feed them I doubt they'll be that mean. They do like to attack the shit out of each other though; just watch some guys on YouTube that feed them. Just as jealous and quick to lash out as the squirrels when another one grabs a peanut in view of another squirrel even if there's more food around.>>64511391NTA but in my state they're open year-round. One of the very few that are; the others which also fall into that category are mostly invasive like starlings.
>>64511281Fug, forgot to reply to you. In my state we have a decent amount of fox and likely a lot of coyote that I don't get to see (but do hear about from others). We have just about zero rabbits anywhere but the fucking suburbs. It drives me nuts when I want to hunt them and I've just about given up on it. I've seen a total of two rabbits on public land in the past ~4 years. Note that I tend to be out there more than half the week so I see a lot of game.
>>64511247Genuinely surprised me as I really never get to recover anything. At most on small game I get fragments. "Varmints", maybe a 1 in 8 at the very best. I am using slower ammo now like I said but the thing that stood out to me the most was that I don't think this one hit bone at all. Maybe glanced off a rib at most, I'd really have to check. Usually I get to recover a bullet only because it hit a thick bone or the spine which deformed the bullet and slowed it down a lot. Maybe CCI lead is just a lot softer. I wasn't so sure about the tiny HP but damn.
>>64511257>ChukarBird hunting autist here. The first time will be for fun. Every time after that will be for revenge. This is a test. They are throwing you in the deep end to see if you can hang. Chukar love steep arid terrain like the badlands. The kind of shit that feels like climbing stairs or controlling your fall the entire time. Hope you have your boots broken in newfag.
>>64511391>How do you hunt coyotes?Like all things it varies by region and investment. When I was a kid we’d just drive around until we found a dead cow or deer and post up on the carcass all night. You can get a lure that looks like a fuzzy ball and an electronic call for sub $100 which is more effective and generally considered the basic starter kit these days. Out west where they’re bigger and tend to roll in packs they tend to me more aggressive towards dogs so guys have been using decoy dogs that are trained to lure them into shooting position. Back east you’ll see plenty of July hounds running the yellow eyed bastards down. They’re known for fighting coon dogs on a tree so some guys literally use them as a QRF if they have to staple up their hounds. Where Night Vision hunting is legal coyote and hogs are usually both on the hit list.
>>64506856Unlike your ass hole
>>64506850Don't hunt but Sunday night a gutshot doe ran right up to our pond and died. Gutted and hung her that night, called the game warden he said have at it as long as nobody claims her, nobody did so cut and packed it yesterday.Kind of a pain in the ass honestly, I had other plans.
>>64506866This is the most insecure post on the citadel
>>64512112NTA but fuuuuuck I want a coyote this year. I don't know what it is but I've seen less than a handful in person. I've gotten one on trailcam in the past two years (IIRC I have around 7 cams depending on how many SD cards, functioning cameras, and batteries I have charged). Maybe it's similar to how people feel hunting bear; I get glimpses of them very rarely so they feel like they barely exist around here (despite knowing there's likely quite a lot here). I almost ran into the one I got on my trailcam; I checked my cam within the half hour window of when it recorded him coming through. But to actually see one up close and make a taxidermy mount out of it would be something.
Deerfuckers ww@
>>64511407I’m in the stand today anons. I did in fact bring marshmallows.
>>64513663Hell yeah anon, good luck out there today
>>64513577Post up at crepuscular hours with a lure and call for half an hour. Scan the wood line and there’s a good chance you’ll see one scoping out the lure even if they don’t come out. If you don’t get a hit after 30-45 minutes move a quarter mile or so and try again. They’re clever critters so keep 100 yards back from the lure at least. If you’re out west where it’s wide open try to use a fence post or something to break up your outline and stay flat. Bring a blanket or something cause the ground is cold as shit.
>>64513674I think I need scent blocker. The deer didn’t get close, and didn’t see my coon pals. :( But I did hear them chattering in the woods next to my stand.
>>64506866If you must know, I shot my first deer today wearing zero camo or blaze orange, from an all metal treestand put up by idk in idk what year for who knows what money , with my PSA AR10, while it was rooting through some cracked corn we put out two days ago. We used my girl's Hyundai Kona to schlep lil guy over to her bro's trailer where we skinned, gutted, and sectioned it while strung up in a cedar tree via a dog leash and an old shower curtain rod. Dumped head/carcass/ect in the woods, put the meat in this big igloo? cooler and drove home. Finished processing in our kitchen. Made a couple steaks, stew meat, and a bunch of ground. Scraps went to our cat, dog, and chickens. Am I a real hunter to you? From the bottom of my heart, I do not care. No picture because I only took one and it's over 4 MB and I can't be arsed to resize something for an anon of your caliber. Here's a pic of a dead growout from earlier this year instead. Post country shit faggot lol
>>64513906I have two farms in mind I really need to ask permission at. Averaging about 200 acres each from my estimations which is quite a lot in this area unless I want to drive out something like 20-40 min in good weather in the daytime (ie. at speed limit with few or no slowdowns). Just one of those things I have to find the time to sit down and figure out how to best go about asking in a letter giving them the info they'd need and assure them I'm not a total newbie retard who leaves gates open and destroys shit. They have the right mix of livestock and fields that I think would make it easy to call in the animals I know are already attracted to their farm AND clear areas to shoot safely in. Everyone always says "go knock on the door" but some of these farms don't have houses immediately in the area, the houses are far back on the property, they're always working, and/or there's a ton of people working on the farm going in and out constantly (good luck figuring out who the owner is, if any of them) so writing a letter is best practice IMO. My worry is a letter makes it too easy to just put it on the "to do" list and they never get back, though.
>>64506995I would prefer they remove themselves from the species and their disgustingly poisoned corpse stay rotting in their city spreading fatal diseases to the other urban morons around them.
Lost interest after a boomer almost killed me last 4 times in a row
>>64508269I'm in central Texas and we used to have a bunch of those here. I'm just south of Killeen. Used to see little clusters of their babies running fast on the ground to cover, their mothers doing the fake wounds thing to draw attention away from them. I neither heard or saw even one of them since the late 1990's until about a year ago. Then to my shock I saw one running and giving that distinct call across my limestone road and into a short grass field my sheep had grazed down to stubble. I've not seen or heard any more since. A lot of things I've not seen awhile came roaring back: Horny toads, tarantula hawks, bumble bees, monarch butterflies, foxes both grey and red. Never saw porcupines until about 6 years ago and now they're fairly common. Bobcats were rare, now common.. Red tailed hawks just appeared in large numbers today. The hawks are very late this year. By about a month.
>>64514971Door knocking is hard. A bottle of whiskey or cookies can go a long way.
I’ve never had a deer go further than 10 yards using the Remington 12g accutip slugs. Most just drop exactly where they were shot. It usually leaves a 3 inch or bigger hole on the backside of the rib cage. I can’t imagine it stopping inside a deer.
>>64506966>>64511277I look forward to hearing more about this. Please let us know and post pics if you can.
>>64507089>was good with some barbecue sauceMost things are.
>>64517176My slug travelled almost the entire length of his body (frontal shot upper chest) I'd say that's pretty fucking good penetration.
>>64515184Yep, we'll see how it goes.
>>64510188Are these hard cast lead or something? Seems to be zero damage to the thing minus a small nick on the one fin and some deer tissue stuck in the fins. You seem to have the opposite luck of me where I tend to hit every single damn bone possible and obliterate the bullet lol. I had a streak on small game where I was just wrecking arms with single 22 bullets. Pissed me off because I was wasting a ton of meat. Also, checked.
>>64522903nta but had a similar streak as you, my sympathies. pissed me off enough I ended up switching to copper monos for awhile, seem to do the job fine and stayed together plus no lead to worry about cutting out. more expensive tho but a single bullet per kill isn't an issue on bigger game
Compound, 35 yards.
>>64506850bump for the start of regular deer season today here
>Waterfowl season went great>Got skunked at faĺl turkey>Getting excited for durr seasonNothing but 'yotes and cottontails on the trail cam so far. Spending my first day in the stand this week.
>>64524317>Getting excited for durr season>Nothing but 'yotes and cottontails on the trail cam so far.Meanwhile as a small/med game hunter all I get on my trailcams is FUCKING DEER. I'd love to see rabbits, fox, and coyote on my cams as rabbits are very uncommon around here and I'm just about driving myself nuts trying to find the other two.
>>64524384Where are you at anon?
>>64524490Eastern PA. I almost never see rabbits outside of suburbs. Coyotes are pretty secretive and I see a couple foxes here and there but I think they're easiest to get on farmland.
>>64524496Damn, I would've that that'd be prime territory for critters like that. What's a good season like for you then?
>>64525385Not being a night hunter, that hurts a lot. Not having any night vision/thermal makes it a lot harder as coyotes mainly come out at night around here; day, I've seen maybe a handful at most but I've ran into some people who walk in the area who say around sunset you can hear them out not too far away. Fox, I run into them but it's always a quick enough encounter in an overgrown enough spot that I can't get a shot off (I considered shotguns heavily because of this). Most of my encounters involve the fox being in a somewhat popular area so that doesn't make it easy; that's why this current year is dedicated to finding new spots. I've been finding more and more fox activity as the years go on and I get more experience, but I moved to trapping rather than calling or stalking. Last year, I think I started out with one dogproof (raccoon trap) and about three no 2s. This was more or less my first year trapping. As the season went on I went and bought a second DP and eventually I believe ended the season with six no 2 traps. I ended up with nearly 10 raccoons, some opossums, and a fox, but that season also contained a relocation of my traps to a different area entirely and I believe a somewhat late start (though this year was much later). This year I've replaced some traps due to not liking the style of some and finally figuring out what I think is the best style of pan, spring, jaws, etc. That leaves me with probably about 10 no 2s give or take a few, plus some others I tried and didn't like. There's a lot to learn in trapping but I think it's somehow easier than hunting. I make my own waxed dirt/sand as well. It's a lot of effort but it takes up a lot less time as I can go out, check a line, and come home within 2-3 hours rather than being out there 5 and not see anything. I'm not saying I'm crazy about trapping; I certainly don't like getting out there late knowing I might have had something in the trap from 9PM to 9AM but...(cont.)
>>64525385 (cont'd)...it saves a lot of time and gets me more game. The reason I need as many pelts as I'm going for is that I'm trying to hone my skills in taxidermy. I don't really have any sources for fur; the few I do don't offer taxidermy ready pelts (nor do they have measurements for the form for which you need the carcass) and they're pretty pricey. No local hunters seem to offer the pelts either; kinda on my own. No big deal, though; it gets me outdoors, gets me exercise, and I get the game I wanted anyways while letting me have the time in my day to process hides and work on what I need to at home. Mostly win/win. The biggest cost is the damn forms, frankly. Heavily overpriced, always out of stock, 2 part urethane foam is what it is. If the sculptors aren't making a killing, the suppliers that sell the forms certainly are.My lack of game is really mainly my fault; I know I could get game quicker, it's just not having the experience that screws me over. For example, I went after a fox for a good couple weeks last season but just couldn't get him interested in my traps despite having him on game cam knowing his route. I can get a squirrel in minutes but foxes, coyotes, and raccoons still somewhat elusive. Raccoons I almost have down but fox/coyote is something else. I also think the coyote population may have something to do with the lack of rabbits. We have lots of foxes (hell I can hear them when trying to sleep at the right time of year) and likely quite a lot of coyotes as well. Just finding the right time and methods to get them is what I need to work on. I think I said it earlier but squirrel, I know well enough I could likely get at least two a day up to Winter (wind=no activity). I think I burnt myself out on them a little bit as the wall I come up against started to more be how much I wanted to skin, gut, process, dry pelt, clean, and cook a squirrel a week than anything. I stopped counting how many squirrel pelts I had dried out long ago.
>>64525713>>64525733Just wanted to say thanks for sharing anon, awesome you've thought this through so thoroughly and are learning your area, actively finding new spots etc. That was a big breakthrough for me, just spending a lot of summers & winters roaming the woods around getting a real feel for where wildlife go. Winter in particular up here (northern NE) can be helpful since you can see all the paw prints. Best of luck to you.>I also think the coyote population may have something to do with the lack of rabbitsYeah there definitely seem to be cyclical aspects to a lot of this. One observation I've had (though not enough decades to be really sure) is that sometimes you get a noticeable increase maybe 3-4 years after a mast year or two for acorns and such. I'm guessing that in turn causes a boom in prey, and then in turn more predators. But how environments are maintained or grow in and shift around over the years clearly is an impact as well.
>>64525809TY anon. Winter is my favorite time to explore because it seems no one out here goes out but me. Sometimes I throw on my really nice snow jacket and pants when it's really cold. When it's windy, I grab a cheapie heated vest or jacket and/or gloves on as the wind is just unforgiving in this area. Best time of year to go out and look for tracks. Once tracked a fox for a good ~1000 yds or so only to run RIGHT up to him, LOL. Absolutely didn't expect him to be out at that time in the (late?) morning. Much better than spring or summer where the heat and humidity are a killer, not to mention the overgrown brush, the gnats, the mosquitoes, and the ticks. God, the ticks. Even in the late fall I'm in the habit of go hunt -> come home -> immediate shower. That bad. Summer can be good when the ground gets muddy, though, as you get to see a lot of tracks in certain areas, especially around water (though streams are good spots to find any game).>mast year/prey numbersMaybe we've had one of those in the past few years. Hard to say but it seems like we have a lot of squirrels now compared to, I don't know, 15 years ago. Then again I move hunting and walking/hiking spots enough that I can't say that for sure. I certainly walk a lot quieter these days as well.Also, another thing I do, especially if there are reasonably well-traveled roads nearby, is that I both take routes back from hunting or shopping that bring me past hunting spots I'm considering in the future to see if I spot any game from the car and keep some mental notes. Other times, I take routes past areas I want to hunt in the future somewhat often to see what kind of roadkill is in the area. Odd tactic but if you start seeing a lot of raccoons hit in an area, you know there's a surplus. If you see fox or coyote every couple weeks or months, that means there's a surplus. Or the road is very dangerous, one of the two, lol.
>>64506866>>64506954Cidiot or brown?>>64525713>>64525733I have a few books on taxidermy and tried my hand at it a bit but with limited success. Trapping seems interesting. Good luck out there anon.
>>64526870Taxidermy is fun but is at times a pain to learn as it's filled with fuddlore, (IMO) confusing/backward terms, (IMO) companies getting far too big for comfort (*see note), and old guys hoarding their "secrets" (basic/intermediate information). You can get some information through the internet but it's scattered so much it's a nightmare at times. It helps to have previous experience in art (pencil/shading/painting/pastels as well as sculpting) to get the best results as well as an eye for composition to both plan out scenes and the posing and viewing angle of the animal but it isn't totally necessary. Knowing how to go light on touch-ups and having a steady hand helps a lot. Knowing how to sew and tie knots also helps a lot. Having some knowledge scattered from modelmaking (ie. model railroads) also helps. Having experience with Bondo helps (fuck fitting ear liners when a can of Bondo can make any custom ears you'll ever need in 10 minutes!). If you ever had any experience in applying makeup (regular use, costume, or otherwise), I think that helps a lot to bring the color back to the skin. Ditto airbrushing. It requires a lot of skills but it also teaches you a lot as well. On a somewhat strange note, (nope!) Chuck Testa has a youtube channel with a lot of decent information. Not sure who else remembers that meme.*McKenzie runs: McKenzie Taxidermy Supply, Van Dyke's Taxidermy Supply, Payer Eyes, and THE taxidermy forum (taxidermy.net). They may run more than this but I can't say for sure; they have warehouses in PA, NC, TX, UT, and WI at the very least. Interestingly McKenzie may also run a faux (foam) wood beam company as their Texas location has a business also making those in the same building according to google maps. Any site that has the same phone number or has a Caldwell Texas address listed is them. A lot of other companies/sites I find end up either specializing in single parts or only offer deer forms which are pretty useless to me.
>>64527508>picHuh, I have no idea how I missed it before, but Chuck is wearing a very interesting hat in that video.
>>64526870Even all said, I'd still highly recommend it. There's just a few places where I wish things were cheaper (foam forms) and there was some more variety in choice (form poses+form sizes for furbearers, quality eyes) but I work with what I have and forms can always be modified. Knowing your way around whatever the only remaining "real" craft stores are (Hobby Lobby?) as well as knowing national and local materials suppliers (ie. Smooth-On) also helps a lot. On trapping, it certainly is interesting and a whole skillset of its own. It seems simple but before you know it you're trying to figure out why some people have 4 spring traps over 2, why some mill a gap in their jaws ("offset"), why some double up the thickness of the jaws ("laminated"), what (rubber) padding on the jaws does for your trap, figuring out what shock absorbers do on the line, whether you want to use cable or chain, the length of your trap chain, how many swivels you want, how to use an S hook tool and learn to trust a hook you closed with a stamped sheetmetal hand tool to hold up to easily 100-200 pounds of tugging, trusting your ground anchors to hold a 40lb animal with a whole 12" of dirt above on a 1.5"x3" piece of metal on a cable, researching or using drags (alternative trap "anchor"), figuring out how to make a "set" (dirt hole, etc), trying to understand baiting/attractant use, trying to understand scent control, trying to understand what the fuck a trap cover does and why you should use a leaf/fiberglass screen/polyfil/insulation/coffee filters, using and/or making waxed dirt or waxed sand, and a lot lot more. By the time I got done learning all that (still am learning as well), I don't know if it was really more efficient than just learning calling or buying the hides still on the carcass from a local hunter lol. Not to mention all that shit is very heavy so you now need to figure out how to get all that junk out there in the first place! Transporting game gets heavy quick too!
This pic is a couple years old but this is the entry wound from a 150 grain (if i recall correctly) 30-06 my son shot at about 40 yards.....pulverized both lungs. No exit wound
>>64527617fucking thing looks like roadkill, holy shit!
>>64527515Yeah I noticed that a couple years back and did a double-take. Guess I never noticed it when I was watching that on a CRT. He now wears something that looks more like a USGI knit beanie with a brim. Also still blows my mind that his last upload was 6 years ago because it feels like just yesterday I was waiting for his new videos. He has a video where, IIRC in a video about pickling/treating hides in a turpentine mix, he grabs a skunk pelt he's working on and rubs and drips its tail on a letter from the IRS before putting it back in the envelope to send back, LOL.
>>64527617>no exit woundWhat bullet?
>>64506866i tie it to the hood of my camry and take it to the deer processor who is also both my cousin and brother in law who will overlook the fact that it is a buttonhead and i have never taken a hunter safety course
>>64529020It was a 30-06 (150 grain, i think) ...probs something simple (i forget) like cor-lok out of a Remington woods master 742
>>64529044NTA but a lot of the older guys I talk to don't even know hunter's ed is a requirement now. What that means is most of the guys over, I don't know, 40-something, have never taken hunter's ed (they probably buy licenses at the store rather than online where you have to check a box saying you took hunter's ed, which no one could prove otherwise considering that would've been in-person 30-some years ago or more) and plenty of them seem to not know basic hunting laws (orange requirements, flagging where you're sitting on stand so you don't get shot, some of the more retarded regs I tend to have issues with, that kind of thing). Bit of a scary thought when you're walking around public land, lol.
Pic from this weekend. Nothing but tweety birds :/ at least the weather is nice.
>>64529179I think a lot of the laws are basically down to the fact that more and more people are loners and thus aren't essentially "mentoring" where someone experienced (their father in the old days) is taking them out the first few years. Hunter's education class stuff is a substitute for loss of hunting culture on some level.And objectively speaking in terms of stats yes, accidents do happen every season, but hunting is genuinely pretty darn safe on a statistical level. You face more risk of injury/death driving in a car to or by public lands then walking on them. Doesn't mean wearing bright colors and general safety practice isn't a good idea of course.
>>64531237Is this real?? How did you train your dog to do that???
>>64523142Man, nice one anon!>>64517202Will do anon. I’ve been depressed and in my room basically 2 days now. Going outside today, praise God.
>>64531345To point? It’s genetic. To be upside down? Drugs.
>>64531256I'll just keep my reply short but I'll say while younger hunters aren't encountered often, it wasn't a younger hunter I've been looked at through a scope by. Same with someone else I know. There's not knowing the regs, then there's being fucking retarded.
>>64531256>>64534202While talking to other hunters >people openly admit to poaching big game>brag about going over bag and possession limits>not buying licenses>ignoring seasons Always some boomer with as-long-as-I-got-mine type entitlement. Also the only time I was ever close to being shot was some old fucker trying to hit a pheasant that flew right over my head. When I started yelling at him he just turned and waddled away.
>>64534587>only time I was ever close to being shot was some old fucker trying to hit a pheasantThis nigga out here, just yelling at Dick Chaney.
>>64506866Im glad you were able to piss off all the basedbois well done.
>>64527617I'd write Remington a congratulations email on making a grenade of a deer bullet.I've done that kind of thing before
>>64525852>God, the ticks. Even in the late fall I'm in the habit of go hunt -> come home -> immediate shower.Yeap same. I'll even leave those clothes outside til I wash them. I guess they don't survive a cycle in the dryer
>>64523142Jesus, never saw someone shoot the face before
>>64522903OP here. Yep, Brenneke slugs are designed for penetration combined with muh stoppin powah. Foster style slugs are meant to expand.I'm very committed to the Brenneke slugs since they've taken two deer for me: one dropped like a ragdoll, the other from a week and a half ago got his lungs pulverized and dropped about 25 yards later; humongous blood trail
>>64517176I realized I was being belligerent for no reason
>>64506850Pulled this ball out of the buck I shot
>>64506866Are you always a colossal faggot or just occasionally?
>>64509413No, my taxes pay for kikes. Not free at all
>>64538390The deer in question
>>64506850Ain't seen shit yet in KY>>64538390>>64538406Nice.
>>64538264I just have a big hunting clothes pile and it gets washed once a week or so. A few years ago I hunted in a spot I had been before with zero issues and suddenly without fail every time I went in that little section I'd get covered in them and the fun was over. Between that and the fur I handle, I always keep a big bottle of permethrin from the horse section of Tractor Supply around as well as a bunch of spray bottles of pre-diluted stuff scattered around the house and car. Treats clothes so you don't have to spray before going out, or spray your clothes right before going out, spray furbearers before even putting them in the car, or even treat your fur or taxidermy at home to prevent bug infestations. Great stuff as long as you don't use it around cats. Great if you pick up junk, too, as it can treat both things you bring home and your car to prevent also picking up silverfish, carpet beetle, ant, etc. infestations.Also I think the soap should kill them but then again I've washed fur with soap and warm water and seen ticks and fleas survive. Anymore, for game I intend to eat, I really suds up the fur and let it sit in a gallon bag or appropriately sized bucket depending on game. Furbearers get permethrin spray, though I will one day get adventurous enough to try some of them.
>>64538438Based moist hunter
>>64538390>>64538406That's fucking cool man, and nice buck as well
>>64538438What year Mosin you toting?
>>64506850Kinda hunting related; thought I'd drop this video because despite trying to learn skinning, processing, tanning, and taxidermy for many years, I think this is the absolute CLEAREST I've ever seen tanning explained, especially bark tanning. There's basically no questions or steps left unexplained; every step is explained very well. I don't know if I'd taste-test for the tannins in used tanning solution like he does if I were tanning anything but farm raised rabbits, though, lol. Either way I've struggled with some aspects of tanning and he explains it well enough my dumb ass could follow it if I had a source of bark.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKlhZEkrzk>>64538390>found this ball in a buckDid you find the other two?
>>64506850I really want to buy a house with enough land to hunt and do /k/ shit on but real estate prices are insane. I try public land but all the big city faggots drive their king ranch f150s an hour or two to wear sitka camo and keep the WMAs cleaned out. What do? Feeder in the backyard?
>>64534605Pointing out flags are at half mast until internment (today).
>>64540193Bucks only have 2 balls, in spite of your wishful thinking.
>>64520041I picked what I use cause I have to hunt with a shotgun and have a 24” rifled slug barrel so the sabots are the only real option that I have. I have seen videos of them grouping well at 200 yards. I’ll never really have to worry about it cause longest shot I’ve made was 80 yards. Would definitely recommend them though.
>>64540301Find the less desirable hunting spots, anon. Less trails, no lakes with docks, no huge parking lots, rockier, more mountainous, harder on gas mileage-type areas. Scout your state's public land maps (usually available through an ARCGIS page or something) and compare it with google earth. Find public land with parking lots available on the most back-road who-the-fuck-actually-takes-this-route type spots. Basically the harder it is to get there/hike in, the less are likely to go there. Though I abandoned a great spot I had for furbearer because checking daily meant I was filling up my car more than once a week just for hunting ALONE (not including running to the store, etc.). However I have also found plenty of these spots already have two trucks in the parking lot because there's a guy and his friend who have been hunting it for years. Wouldn't normally suck but these odd spots often only have one trail up meaning you have to go by their stand. If you find a less commonly traveled spot, with people or not, I'd highly recommend downloading the ARCGIS "Field Maps" app, pulling up your state's fish&game public land map, and using it to find where you can walk back in the woods off trail to an area no one will go. Downside, it will be miserable to get the deer back. Downside x2, a lot of these places are rocky and slippery in the rain and you will eat shit and fall hard. Upside, no competition. Just have to find a happy medium. I would've started setting out trail cams easily months ago, though. One trail cam can do 60% of what you could if you took every morning off and just sat in the woods in various spots. Two will outdo your work. Two or more in a spot will easily get you almost full coverage but you'll never get deer in the distance to trigger it. El-cheapo Walmart (Tasco) cams + El-cheapo Walmart Onn 32gb SD cards (cams won't accept bigger) + rechargeable AAs = you basically never have additional costs unless one dies or gets stolen.
>>64506850Snagged this old boy this morning
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It’s a good thing I didn’t load this round today. Somehow I got a split casing and hand pulled the bullet.
>>64540930That's worthy of going on the wall definitely
>>64540595That makes sense then. Yeah, slug guns don't get enough credit for what they can do at range. Look up the Tar-Hunt slug guns for the ultimate iteration of slug hunting
>>64506866I just run up and fuck 'em... coyotes love the corpses after I do.
>>64541155as long as it keeps the gas seal you'd been finegood catch tho
>>645391571928 Tula. Love the 'ole girl
>>64543826Hell yeah. That also looks a lot like the young buck I got this year
