2023-24 edition animal harvest pic thread.

Teodoro said:
After a couple close calls and a lot of work, finally got it done on the game land December 30th. My biggest buck ever, and my first with the 6.5 Grendel.

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That's a nice buck anywhere in NC. Doing that on the game lands is even more special. You must've put in a lot of work. Congratulations!
 
thrillhill said:
That's a nice buck anywhere in NC. Doing that on the game lands is even more special. You must've put in a lot of work. Congratulations!
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Thank you for the compliment. To be honest, while I did work hard, I was back there looking for a group of does I'd seen. Him walking out was dumb luck.
 
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Well I thought for sure I would have a dead deer pic for y'all today but it did not happen. I know this is a pic thread but I have to post this somewhere and I don't think it's worthy of it's own thread.

New Years Day is the last day of deer season where I am. I decided to hunt the last day there had been a lot deer activity in the morning for the last 5 or 6 days and I felt pretty confident I would kill one. I have a 2 hour drive to my family's farm around Pactolus in-between Greenville and Little Washington so I get up about 3 am, get dressed, and load the rest of my stuff in my truck and hit the road. I need some diesel and was waiting for the first of the month so I could use my Harris Teeter fuel points I had enough for $1 off/gallon. I pull up to the pump and put my CC in the machine and its declined. I try it again and its declined. I didn't have my big checkbook wallet with me that has my other cards in it all I had was my wallet that sticks to my phone with one CC, DL, and CCW. I check my card balance and there's no problem there but I had an alert that the card was expired. No problem I thought I have a couple hundred in cash hidden in my truck. I learned that just about all gas stations refuse to except $100 bills. I stop at a Circle K as my last resort before I go home and wake up my gf at 3:45 in the morning looking for my other wallet. The clerk at the Circle K would take my cash as long as I didn't need more than $40 back in change. No problem I fill up and hit the road.

I get to the farm about 20 minutes later than I had planned due to not being able to get fuel. The beans had just been picked in the past few days so the field was easy to walk though and there was enough light I slid in with no need for a flashlight. I'll add it seems to me deer are more active and move around more in the morning when the moon and stars are real bright. I think the deer know they could possibly be seen when there is a bright night sky and don't feed at night but that's just my opinion. I get up in my box stand and the computer chair isn't in there like the guy who we let hunt out there told me it was. I set up my tripod and get still and wait. Shooting time was 6:50am and at 6:47 I get the worst stomach I have go poop right now pains that I have had in a while. I hold it together until about 7:00 and then I really had no choice but to get down and take care of business. I can't walk very far but I walk down the hedgerow as far as I can and do what I have to do. I get back in the stand and sit until about 9 o'clock and don't see anything figuring I had blown my spot up taking a dump. I head to Bojangles and get a biscuit and head back to the farm to figure out game plan for the day. I had already driven 2 hours I was going try to hang around and shoot one. Around 9:45-10:00 I was sitting in my truck had just got done eating my breakfast and was looking at OnX on the nav screen in my truck (OnX with CarPlay is great btw) and 8 deer walk up to me tops 20 yards away. As soon as I opened the door I spooked them and I decide too try to stalk them through the woods and try to shoot one with my G40. I has two different opportunities to shoot a yearling but didn't trying to get on one of the bigger does. They crossed a creek and went onto the neighboring property and I retreated back to my truck. I decide to go check on another piece of property that had pines planted on it couple years ago just to kill some time.

I get back in the stand about 1 o'clock and by 2 I'm fighting to stay awake it had already been a long day at that point. Right at 2:30 a group of deer (I'm 90% sure it was the same deer I saw earlier) walk out from the hedgerow to my left right where I dropped a deuce a few hours before. They stop about 90 yards from me and I pick out the biggest one and squeeze one off. Clean head shot miss and they all run off. I'm sitting there in the stand wondering how I missed this deer so close shooting off a tripod, at 80 yards, with a rifle that I know is dead nuts. I walk out in the field about 100 yards, drop my orange hat, go back to the stand, break my rifle apart and get my scope right on the bill of my orange hat and look through the barrel and its off. Looks to me it's off a foot at 100 yards. I just shot this gun two weeks ago it was fine out to 300 I'm puzzled. I look down at my windage turret and its dialed to L2.5. Well that would do it. I was showing this gun to my brother in law over Christmas explaining how the turrets on this scope work and we were both turning the turrets and I thought I zeroed them out but it would appear I did not. It is a good thing I aimed for the head and didn't wound her shooting her in the tail end. I zero my turret feeling defeated and wait out the end of the season. A couple deer came out 2 minutes after shooting time but I didn't see anything else after I whiffed that doe. It was just not meant to be for me yesterday.

A couple off topic pics from yesterday since this is a pic tnread E27A3118-DCA3-4AC0-AC1D-B70F866DB8D6.jpegB645C489-7BE0-40B8-9863-E45DF7B0AE14.jpegE9DFB4BB-838F-426F-B58B-8B03AED4D354.jpeg
 
bondjamesbond said:
What is the pigsticker you have in your hand?
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Bear and Son Bowie. 7.5 inch blade, overall length is right at 12 inches. I am short, so about as long a knife as I can carry in my hip boots and still kneel down. Friend carries a 9" blade, but I find it to be a little too much knife.
 
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Duck season is over, but a quick goose hunt before we went after quail. My buddy knocked down two and one was banded! I would have bet they were resident birds due to the size, but it was banded in Northern Canada in 2014. His first banded bird so a great morning.

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Remshooter said:
To finish off the afternoon, another quail hunt with the Parker.
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Nice! Looks like a grand time.
We've got a pile of wild quail at the club. Nobody hunts them and they seem to have figured out how to prosper amongst the predators.
I shot a couple from a covey I jumped one time years ago and spent the next hour finding them. Won't do that again.
They also seem to have developed a keen sense of the occasion someone comes with a "quail dog" and make themselves scarce.
'Course that might just be the coupla dogs that showed t'wernt up to snuff. šŸ§ šŸ˜
 
kcult said:
@Chdamn

This could be yours for the cost of a bullet.

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For the cost of a bullet? You, sir, are a very funny guy. Maybe that's what you tell your wife.

I went hunting. Deer hunting. Late season, I had a hog suddenly run in front of me. Boom! Hog down.

There are many processors local. Few do hogs. This being a Sunday, I finally found one open 75 miles away.

Cost? Let's start adding.
License - $50
Two 150 mile round trips - $60 gasoline
Processors bill - $112
Total - $222 (Dressed weight 119 lbs., yield 29 lbs. of sausage, several small pork chops and one small ham.)

Driving back, almost home, passing Ingles I see the sign. Special - Pork Chops $1.98/lb.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. šŸ¤”
 
Howland said:
For the cost of a bullet? You, sir, are a very funny guy. Maybe that's what you tell your wife.

I went hunting. Deer hunting. Late season, I had a hog suddenly run in front of me. Boom! Hog down.

There are many processors local. Few do hogs. This being a Sunday, I finally found one open 75 miles away.

Cost? Let's start adding.
License - $50
Two 150 mile round trips - $60 gasoline
Processors bill - $112
Total - $222 (Dressed weight 119 lbs., yield 29 lbs. of sausage, several small pork chops and one small ham.)

Driving back, almost home, passing Ingles I see the sign. Special - Pork Chops $1.98/lb.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. šŸ¤”
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My son in law shot this one last night.

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Here's a pic of him letting his son try his hand at cleaning one.

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Here's what I just finished snacking on.

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