Thursday, December 24, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Deer Hunting Notes for File 2020
Early antlerless - MEA. Yearling at new farm. Had to work pretty hard to net 20 lbs; almost zero meat waste. Exceedingly tender. |
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November rolled out pretty well. Some bucks harvested by our party; lot of bloody clothing, dragging down gullies and building gut piles. |
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Who knew a guy could shoot two one-antlered bucks in the span of seven years. |
Tracked a friend's deer; found this on the blood trail. |
Buddy shot this big one. |
In the orchard at new farm; spent a lot of time watching deer at this trail intersection. |
The six pointer (three pointer) yielded just over 40 lbs. |
Tend to cut the roast pieces into steaks after defrosting. Rub with Lawry's, salt, pepper, olive oil; set in fridge for a few days; then grill. 4-5 minutes first side; 3 minutes on the flip. |
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Have dragged quite a few deer down this gully over time; this one was the monster shot by friend. |
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Squeezed a lot of these out of my arms and hands. Broke-off bramble thorns. |
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Getting good vibe for next year - I think it'll be the season for both my sons to get deer. Will continue to work and study this new farm; was fun watching them frequent this pond. |
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Ballistics 2020
Can't buy ammo anywhere. I visited or called: Scheels, Fleet Farm, Gander Outdoors, Cabelas. Coyote Creek, independent shop in Morristown, another in Albert Lea; checked websites. You can't find that slow Winchester sabot anywhere. 1350 fps. Those shoot pretty well out of my gun/barrel. The higher powered stuff doesn't do as well, the trials would confirm. Fleet Farm told me that whenever they get shipments, guys come in and buy everything on the shelves. Some form of paranoia/etc. lingering it seems. Unfortunately this is impacting the common man deer hunter.
As such, I bought the slowest sabot I could find (at Coyote Creek - they are the only folks limiting the number of boxes per person, per day (1)): these Remington coppers at 1450 fps. I had ten of the Winchesters on hand from last year. Being they are apparently scarce, I decided to just shoot two of them; keep eight for the season. Then I shot three of the coppers - they mixed in really well at 50 yards. I had some of the Hornady from previous fall trials but those at 2000 fps shoot 8-12 high at 50 yards; I could adjust my red dot to that group if needed, but for now I have a few boxes of slow sabots that will work.
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Sunday, September 06, 2020
Fishing The Kid II
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In summer the cows help a guy navigate the streams; make the corridor navigable via grazing. |
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Got his share using soft hackle swing. |
Quarantine Fishing Continues
Fished my brother few weeks ago. Got a few eats on soft hackle but water very low and air temps pretty high; it was most efficient to sit on the deep water refuges and pry them out. Angler was efficient, hooking thirteen and landing twelve BNT.
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Great spots on BNT; never gets old. |
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Took great care in nymphing: careful approach and appropriate level of bird-dogging indicator. |