Pretty dead in here

[Rainman]

Guess in the US these days, a truck is an acceptable method of harvest. I got a 10 pt buck a few years back with my Mountaineer. Didn't realize this was going in the huntin direction, or I would have posted pictures sooner...



That's my modified Remington 870 with a 20" rifled barrel and a scope that lets me zoom in till there's only deer in the reticle. The picture is only a button buck, but it was a nice look at my shotgun. This little guy dropped like a sack of potatoes with a spine shot from about 80 meters. 3" magnum copper solid sabot. SWEET!

Rainman

[sherwan_88]

That is One clean kill! I'm amazed how you did that with a shotgun!
One damn fine weapon too, love the sights!

[rickf]

Dang Rainman! You need to at least let them get to one year old! A scope on a shotgun, where is the sport in that? I have an Ithaca featherweight that I used for all of my hunting. Deer, small game, Goose and duck. One sight on the end of the barrel, thats it. Now that is sport. I gave up hunting after I got shot! Not enough room in NJ for hunting safely.

Rick

[Rainman]

Thanks Sherwan, I like to see em drop in their tracks. Well Rick ,the story about this little guy goes like this... The day before I had 2 deer come in together a big one and a small one. I'm hunting a family farm that has it's share of crop damage, so as the story goes, "if it's brown, it's down". Dropped the doe the morning before, nearly in her tracks, she went maybe 10 meters. Got her back to the barn, sliced into her and milk started coming out, mixing with the drainage on my tarp. No that's a bad feeling there. A nursing doe in early December? The next day, this little guy came in sniffing the ground, following the trail taken by the 2 deer the day before. I assume this is the little one, looking for momma. Don't know if he would have made it through the winter since he wasn't weened yet, but I resolved the question. He was as close to veal as you could get!

Agree or not, that's my story, I'm sticken to it.

Rainman

[moose53]

Got another kill today with my F-150.... this time it was a fish! lol

apparently an eagle or hawk snagged it, dropped it, and My truck was underneath cause it flopped around on the cab roof hehehe...

My ford really does stand for Found On the Road Dead!


Jim

[sherwan_88]

Found On the Road Dead!

That is funny Jim!

Jim if you are a FORD fan, then you gotta see this! http://www.fordvehicles.com/f150raptor/
This is one mean big truck.

Sherwan

[rickf]

I did all of my hunting with an Ithaca 29 with the plain jane red dot on the end of the barrel. No rear sight and definitely no scope! I used it for deer, small game, geese and ducks. Plus I use it for trap and skeet shooting. I don't hunt anymore after getting shot! Not enough room in NJ for hunting.


Rick

[Rainman]

Hey Moose,

pictures?

Rainman

[moose53]

naw, no pics didn't have a cam with me... it was just a little fish anyway, maybe 3" or so....

Jim

[moose53]

I did all of my hunting with an Ithaca 29 with the plain jane red dot on the end of the barrel. No rear sight and definitely no scope! I used it for deer, small game, geese and ducks. Plus I use it for trap and skeet shooting. I don't hunt anymore after getting shot! Not enough room in NJ for hunting.


Rick

The first day of deer season we all stay home cause we're over-run with city people from NJ LOL... It sounds like a viet nam firefight while they light off about 8-10 rounds each every time a bush moves.... after they shoot each other, a few cows, horses and goats (whatta ya mean that ain't a deer? hehehe) and run outta ammo then its safe for us locals to hunt Some of the farmers up here actually take spray paint and label their animals ( cow, horse etc) in hopes their critters survive hehehe

Jim

[sherwan_88]

I did all of my hunting with an Ithaca 29 with the plain jane red dot on the end of the barrel. No rear sight and definitely no scope! I used it for deer, small game, geese and ducks. Plus I use it for trap and skeet shooting. I don't hunt anymore after getting shot! Not enough room in NJ for hunting.


Rick

shot! How?

[rickf]

A guy took a shot at a moving deer without leaving both eyes open and did not see that the deer ran between him and me. I was lucky because the deer and brush got most of the pellets. I got a few in my leg. I also had another incident where a guy almost shot me out of my tree stand, 30 feet up!!!! I watched this guy for a half hour just walking in circles looking for anything that moved I guess. Next thing I know he swung around and blasted the tree right under my feet. I blasted three holes in the ground right next to him making he drop his gun and piss himself at the same time. I climbed down, took his gun and ripped his license from his jacket and took them to the ranger station. The head ranger who knew me well asked if I had shot the guy, I told him no I didn't but I should have. They found him still standing in the same spot that I had left him. He told them he saw a deer and shot at it. The ranger pointed out to him that deer do not climb trees and off to court he went.
That was the last time I hunted in NJ. That was in Wharton forest Jim, I am sure you remember that area well.


Rick

[SEABEE62]

OK....I can't let this pass. Are these Army or Marine dudes killing our "Missouri" squirrels. CB

[MUTT Vet]

Dang Rick, you're one lucky guy. My brothers best friend was killed by a very similar incident.

Brothers friend had the orange on and another hunter tracked a deer through high grass and just started shooting when he lost sight, hit my brothers friend instead.


I have a story on a lighter note.

I could have died on this one, but i guess God takes pity on idiots!

I was 16 and had just got through watching a film in school on native americans.

I was particularly interested in the part where they went out to hunt bear by themselves to prove their manhood.

I wasn't quite ballsy enough to tackle a bear but i did lay down next to a deer trail and i waited until a deer came by and i tried to jump on it with a knife.

BIG mistake, it was a small doe, and a got a hold of one leg and it kicked me in the head! I still have a scar on the left side of my head where the hair won't grow.

I got my a$$ handed to me by a girl!

To top it all off, my dad finished the job that the deer started once he found out; and the price of the doctors visit came out of my allowance!

Never did that again!

You'd think they would teach in hunters safety courses that you should never engage in hand to hand combat with a deer...it will win!

[raymond]

but i guess God takes pity on idiots!

If that were not true, I would have been dead many times over. As an interesting historical take on this, before the U.S. entered WW2, Winston Churchill is reported to have said, "God takes care of drunks, fools, and the United States of America."