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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: chrish483 on November 25, 2007, 02:57:07 AM
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Anyone into deer hunting? I am, with a muzzle loader 50 cal, no multi shots with this or full auto, fire as fast as you can reload,, just wondering as an off topic to the main game here and a life out side of the game.
anyone have any deer mounts to show, ive got a 17 point buck mounted on the wall. :D
(http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8444/deervz4.th.jpg) (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deervz4.jpg)
and an 8 pointer
(http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7252/deer2mf2.th.jpg) (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deer2mf2.jpg)
i do my own taxidermy on all mounts.
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Looks like good work, how long you been doing it?
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Went and got a breach load .243 since my 30.06 Springfield was stolen and called a buddy of mine asked him to join me in getting a place to hunt. So we called around and the cheapest place we could find was $500 a rifle this year. Deer hunting cost more than Golf now??? so I'm probably going to get rid of my rifle and stick to working.
We used to have a lot of land in the family but now a person moved onto the land and claimed part of it for his own he has paid no tax's or anything like that in over 15yrs but the courts ruled in his favor and called it his land. The arshhole moved in and yanked 280 acre out from under us.
My cousin went to go hunting on it last year and is now spending 3yrs in prison for poaching off that guys land. I hate Titus County Texas. :mad: :furious
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Co-worker bagged his deer last week, a 110 pound doe.
He'd been all week long, hadnt seen a thing. Figured he'd try an old spot but his truck had starter issues. Wife told him to use her new Camry. Sure enough, he got his deer and had to call a friend for a few tarps :) Wifey wouldn't be happy with a blood stained trunk!
We teased him about the small deer, but he commented how for once, he could drag the deer out with one hand while holding his rifle in the other.
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Uh, 50 cal for a deer?
Why not just drive an old Buick through Pennsylvania?
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Originally posted by Scherf
Uh, 50 cal for a deer?
Why not just drive an old Buick through Pennsylvania?
Yes, 50 caliber for a blackpowder muzzleloader. For any number of reasons, not the least of which is 50 caliber was very common among the original blackpowder rifles150 years ago, as well as the fact those are low velocity weapons and the bullet doesn't expand, so it needs to start out big.
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A 50 cal muzzle loader inst as big as your thinking. Now I think the round of the muzzle loader inst as big or it docent have as much powder as a .50cal cased bullet. But I'm not sure Ive only fired a .50cal a couple of times.
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Originally posted by red26
A 50 cal muzzle loader inst as big as your thinking. Now I think the round of the muzzle loader inst as big or it docent have as much powder as a .50cal cased bullet. But I'm not sure Ive only fired a .50cal a couple of times.
Deer hunters are common. Home taxidermy… now that’s impressive! How long does it take you to do a mount? How much do you spend on materials and how much would a comparable pro mount cost?
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I believe that .44 is the lowest you can go in a muzzle loader, .50 is the common varient. My Dad has hunted for the past 25 years or so with a .50 muzzle loader and killed quite a few deer with, but you have to be pretty close!
Sighted in my usual sweet baby (Remington .270 bolt) yesterday. As usual, 1 shot, bullseye @ 100 yard. Put the gun back on the gun rack until tomorrow :) Taking 2 of my kids with me tomorrow, my little brother is coming up today with his son, and we're all hunting with my father on his land. Can't wait.
I'd love to do some taxidermy! How hard is that to learn?
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what i have now is the latest Triditions inline a persut XLT
(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8531/93416757tb1.th.jpg) (http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=93416757tb1.jpg)
with a Sabot thats a 45 cal in size, shoots great at 100 yds if i could just get the deer to stop and stay at that distance:D and not run, its like ranging a tank at 1k and moving need more shots.
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Deer hunters are common. Home taxidermy… now that’s impressive! How long does it take you to do a mount? How much do you spend on materials and how much would a comparable pro mount cost?)
well i dont know where to begen on that, it doesnt take that long to cut the hide off, (within an hour) then to wash the hide , then to remove all the fat layer off the skin around the eyes an hour or so then tan the hide, but after that its not to much, as for the mounting get the ones with the eyes already in and mounting a deer head isnt hard at all and the cost is probly around $100 maby less, you can get kits for less $80-90 maby less i havent checked on latest prices but i could get them for you.
mounting your own deer head isnt that hard at all but it does take alittle time to do but once youve done one its easy.
so far ive done a few dozen heads for family members at a a cost of $100 or less for each head, and those are shoulder mounts too.
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oh if you have it done by another person, here in IOWA your looking at $300-400
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Originally posted by LePaul
Wife told him to use her new Camry.
haha!!! I hauled a good sized Mulie out of the Belt mtns (MT) strapped on top of a Ford Festiva once :) Pretty sure it was bigger than the car.
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Real men bowhunt
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Originally posted by Scherf
Uh, 50 cal for a deer?
Its not .50 cal BMG. He's not straffing them in a Hellcat.
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Or is he?
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Bow hunters.....not real men.
Real men use an Atlatl (http://www.worldatlatl.org/WhatisAtlatl.html)!!!!
That is one of the hardest things I have ever tried to use so I went back to my bow.
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real men wait in a tree until one walks under it then jump on it and kill it with your bare hands
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on a serious note i did shoot a doe of the front porch a week or so ago 12 gauge slug did the trick
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Originally posted by JimBeam
real men wait in a tree until one walks under it then jump on it and kill it with your bare hands
Tree. Pffft.
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I'm big into hunting. I bagged an 11 pointer just last Friday (18" spread). It was nearly dark out so I started to head back to the house. I was walking with my head down because there was no way to see more than fifty yards or so and still be able to make anything out. Anyways, I looked up and sure enough, he's standing there looking at me no more than 30 yards away. I dropped to a knee and took the shot.
Taken with a cell phone camera, so its very small.
(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1716/deer1ri6.jpg)
I've been using a Remington model 788 .243 for the last several years. It is quite possibly the most accurate firing weapon I have ever used. I've got a Mauser K98 (not sure what year, not WWII era) that I want to start using, but it needs a very good cleaning and to be sighted in.
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good shooting there United, here in IOWA we cant use high power rifles, just shotguns,muzzleloaders or bows. but when i was alot younger are group hunted on this farmers land i got to use a .223 Rem (same as a M-16) and put down a big doe.
heres the kills from last year my dad and i got a 4 and an 8 point buck
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1835/deer2gt0.th.jpg) (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deer2gt0.jpg)
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7016/deer1rv8.th.jpg) (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deer1rv8.jpg)
we hunt this weekend but they say theres going to be some ice storms so we might go 2nd season dont know just yet.
i also bow hunt see on the right side of the pic is a crossbow.
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1305/deer1fk3.th.jpg) (http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deer1fk3.jpg)
a crossbow is no more aftective the anyother bow tho, i can still miss a deer at 15 yrds as any other person:-)