2024 Deer Season

[HankBuck]

Hankbuck, could you not have pulled the trigger, pulled the hammer back while still holding the trigger in, then let the trigger out, thus silently cocking the rifle?

@steve white - YES YES I “could have” but did NOT….a painful lesson because that was the only Bear I saw on a 6 day hunt. The following year, I went back to the same Outfitter, had a bear come in on the first evening “cocked hammer WHILE holding trigger in”etc.. and shot my Bear.

 

[HankBuck]

I find hunting with a suppressor that if there are a bank of trees behind the animals they may run towards you after the first shot. They definitely seem to get more confused in my experience. That’s fallow, roe & red deer. If there’s been little hunting pressure you can usually get in a second shot. Just never store your rifle with the suppressor attached it will rot your barrel out faster hot pee through snowView attachment 653394
Here’s a few pics of when I’ve had deer come straight at me after the first shot View attachment 653395
Just never store your rifle with the suppressor attached it will rot your barrel out faster hot pee through snow

Really, never heard that and there is no warning from Banish suppressors and also none fro the rifle manufacture —- is this is a consistent problem with ALL rifle/suppressors?

 

[Green Chile]

I took this 12 point on Friday hunting on Craig Boddington's KS farm. It was the first 12 point to be taken there. It was kind of interesting as I was in a blind and I looked to the left and then back to the right, only to see he was halfway across the meadow running. I bleated at him and he stopped at about 125 yards. I had my Blaser R8 in 300 win mag and shot him on the shoulder. He took 2 steps and acted as if he wasn't hit. I quickly shot again and he fell in 10 yards with 2 holes almost side by side. What you see here are the exits from the 1st and 2nd shots. The first shot is on his shoulder with the blood...the 2nd one is a bit further back and higher up without blood on the exit, which was a quartering angle. He was dead on the first shot but I'm glad I put a 2nd one on him. He had never been seen before on this property. One of those totally random deer and if I hadn't looked back, I would have never seen him run across. You have to wonder how often that happens and you totally miss seeing it.

 

[HankBuck]

I took this 12 point on Friday hunting on Craig Boddington's KS farm. It was the first 12 point to be taken there. It was kind of interesting as I was in a blind and I looked to the left and then back to the right, only to see he was halfway across the meadow running. I bleated at him and he stopped at about 125 yards. I had my Blaser R8 in 300 win mag and shot him on the shoulder. He took 2 steps and acted as if he wasn't hit. I quickly shot again and he fell in 10 yards with 2 holes almost side by side. What you see here are the exits from the 1st and 2nd shots. The first shot is on his shoulder with the blood...the 2nd one is a bit further back and higher up without blood on the exit, which was a quartering angle. He was dead on the first shot but I'm glad I put a 2nd one on him. He had never been seen before on this property. One of those totally random deer and if I hadn't looked back, I would have never seen him run across. You have to wonder how often that happens and you totally miss seeing it.

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@Green Chile - that deer has great genetics and looks young - 3 years old?

 

[Green Chile]

Good eye! Craig and I believe that buck is 3.5 or at most 4 years old. When we hung him next to the other bucks, he was about 20% smaller in body size but by far the biggest rack even though there were some 5 year old bucks taken. He was not with another deer when he crossed the meadow and he was running so I didn't have much time to decide and nothing to contrast him with. Turns out he was the only decent buck I saw in 5 days. Weather was warm and a big moon wasn't helping. Kind of an interesting deer that we wished we had more info on. Never seen before.