Hell no. I have complete control of the Man room.

She said she liked it.


I'll be hanging a tree stand in my yard tomorrow and throwing some arrows.

Bwana...bring your ass to Iowania...and there will be some in the fridge.....and probably a jar or two of apple pie.
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I'll tell you what, sooner or later I will. With this new gig, I end up all over the country. I'm in Arizona next week. :-) Just keep a space on the bass pond for me and a cold beer partner. :-)
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Is there any way a deer could actually win?
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They can get mean during rut and evidently with little oriental kids. :-)
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Several years ago I was hunting with a friend and he gave me one of those artificial doe in heat wafers. He told me to go ahead and use it, but to bring it back after we hunted.
I had this damn thing in my pocket, walking back to the truck, in the dark. I could see a bunch of deer out in the field I was walking next to and one came running towards me. Turns out it was a buck wanting to get a little. It got about 15 feet from me and I was scared shitless. All I could see was basically an outline of the deer jumping back and forth grunting and stamping it's feet.
I was hunting with a bow and there's no way I could have hit it, so I started yelling and jumping around myself. It worked, the buck eventually ran away. But, you'll never catch me walking around in the dark with doe-in-heat in my pocket again.
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Yeah, that could have been a very bad night. :-) I have never tried any of those things and after reading this, I may have to take a pass in the future.
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They won yesterday and stayed alive.
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Bow season is in full swing in Iowania...I've only been out once..and saw "the buck" my clan has been after for now 3 years....300 yards from the stand as I was walking in. 10 point monster.

My brother found a rack today, of a buck we both saw on another farm last year and hunted for the last 2....guess we won't get him.

obviously the coyotes and Mice have had at him a little. these Idaho deer are sure big...head west young men.
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Of course you have a little kid holding the head so it looks bigger.

My pappy just got back from trying to fill his bull elk tag out in Custer county, SD. He didn't see a single elk due to the heat wave but he found a nice skull and rack that is in pretty good shape. I will miss that great pickled elk meat that we had for the last few years though.
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I'd like to go hunting some day. I just don't know anyone around these parts that do it, plus I don't have any of the equipment to do so. Nor a license. Heh.
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Hunting is a huge business up here in SD. If you want to hunt pheasants there are many outfitters and guides that can get you set up for a fee.. if you are really interested. It'd be like hunting tame birds in most cases, but it's still fun for someone who has never done it before. Otherwise, get a gun, get a license and troll the ditches for birds.
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I'm going out tomorrow to take Jr after his first deer. I didn't want him shooting my 300 Ultramag so I invested in a Sako 7MM-08 and hung a Leupold 3x10x50 on it. It is my gun, but he can use it. :-)

Two days after I bought it, I was talking to a guy and he said, "you should have called me first, I had a deal for you." He had a .270 with a scope he was willing to let go for $200 that had had less than a box of shells through it. Needless to say, I went over to his house yesterday and handed him two one hundred dollar bills. He claimed it "shot like shit and couldn't hit anything."

When I took everything out in the boonies yesterday to site in, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you this, the Ruger .270 had the factory 8 pound pull on the trigger which sucks like a shop vac. I installed a Timney trigger on my 300 Ultramag a few years ago and I have it set and one and a half pounds. Try going from a 1 1/2 trigger to an eight pound. I shot my laser finder out 100 yards, set up some targets and grabbed the .270 with the POS Simmons 3x9 scope. (Why the hell would ANYONE hang a Simmons on a 270?) I would rather have a POS gun and a nice scope than the other way around. At least you are going to hit something. Anyhow, I line it up, BOOM! check spotting scope.........nothing....WTF? BOOM..........nothing on the paper yet again. :-) I ended up having to lay the thing across my jeep, taking aim and lifting my head to see where it was going. Two feet high and a foot to the right. No wonder this poor bastard couldn't hit a deer with it. :-) (Who sited this in, Stevie fuggen Wonder?) It took me damn near two boxes of shells to get it two inches high, dead center at a hundred yards. (Dead nuts at 300 yards) Next the 7MM-08, hey, at least it was hitting paper. 12 shots and it was 2 inches high at 100 yards. Next the 300, now by this time my shoulder felt like hamburger. BOOM! wince, shit that hurt! Two inches high at 100. Boom! same thing, Boom! same thing. You could cover the three shots with a dime. Note to self, bore site new guns owned by Helen Keller before heading to the hills next time.

So that's my story, anyone killing anything?
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Wow Bwana $200 for a Ruger 270? That's a deal - even if you had to take the simmons with it.


FWIW, I always start off at 25 yards on a new gun or when I've had a scope off. Get it zeroed then move to 100 yds.

Also, here's a neat tip from Jim Carmicheal on 2 shot site-ins. Put the gun in a good rest, aim at the bullseye, and shoot. Put it back in the rest and hold. Hold the crosshairs on the bullseye again and have a buddy adjust the scope until the crosshairs are on the previous bullet hole. Shoot again and you should be dead on.
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They are not killing, they are hunting...:-)
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