Spike Camp
Weatherby Nation => Around the Campfire (General Discussion) => Topic started by: terminator on September 05, 2018, 09:00:05 PM
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What are your plans?
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Same as before: the tall grass and low areas with trees north of Dodge City for deer and the milo fields and grass fields in the same area for pheasants.
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Creede Colorado the end of October for a Rifle Cow Elk hunt, using my new 340 Weatherby Arroyo.
Minnesota Rifle Deer season the first Saturday in November and then
Wisconsin Rifle Deer season Thanksgiving week.
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No vacation left. Weekends northern Michigan only.
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Archery deer in October, rifle hunt lthe first week of rifle after thanksgiving and coyote hunt January thru March in northeastern Pa.
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Black bear mid Sept (Burks Falls)
Calf moose Mid Oct (Burks Falls)
Whitetail first week on Nov (Burks Falls)
Cow moose mid Nov (Thunder Bay)
Terry
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Some friends and I are heading to Maine for Eiders and later on to the Outer Banks of NC for a mix of divers and puddlers. In the meantime I'll be hunting in my backyard for deer and if I happen to see a bear he may be added to the pot as well. So far this week my old retriever and I have been putting my Orion through the ringer shooting doves. Good times! ;D
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Fill my my mulie draw tag first up, then if i see enough bone on the head maybe whitetail all November. Until then gonna put some ruffies and spruce grouse in the freezer. Mid October probably go after some greenheads because like grain fed ducks more than ones that taste like slough. Seen a 6x6 or 12 point here the other day coming bask from the range just hope he stays put.
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Archery elk in Idaho, very shortly. Looking forward to the 34 hour drive :'(. Planning on hunting ten days, three of us going, wall tent, DIY, public ground. The Dodge will be stretching it's legs again.
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Currently dove.Will be hunting pigs and deer on my owned places.Shooting pigs on leased places to protect crops.
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Likewise, Tom. I'll be after deer and hogs this season.
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I'll be hunting for deer & hogs locally, here in GA. Not traveling anywhere this season. I've been traveling too much this year due to a death of my best friend's mom, a new grandchild, and my step son's wedding in Oregon.
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Starting the year with Pheasant hunt end of September, to bow hunting Deer, starts the 1st of October, then Rifle season Deer opens on November 17 , all in the finger lakes area.
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Sounds like some good hunts. If all works out I will deer hunt at home in Arkansas for a week ML in October and a week gun on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Going upland bird hunting for 10 days starting the 15th of this month.
Then the early bow season for deer (and bow season for fall turkey) starts October the 1st - usually get out 3 or 4 times a week until the tags run out.
It's getting more rare that I'm still hunting deer once the gun season (early Nov for two weeks) rolls around - normally out of tags by then.
No moose tag this year and haven't decided about black bear or not - normally hunt them while moose hunting.
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Thought I was going to get to chase some pigs but that fell through. We are fishing instead down in Texas. All my hunting will be in Indiana this year. Testing out the crossbow and 140 grain SP’s in my 6.5-300.
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Birds in mid Sept
Moose in Oct
Deer in Nov
Got to start checking them zero's
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October has my full attention on a bull moose hunt with the 340 in northern Ontario
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Dove a time or two in between now end of Oct.
Bow deer starting Sept. 29/ Gun deer starting Nov. 4 till mid Jan.
Pigs mixed in as I get a chance
Javelina in Feb. (really looking forward to this hunt. first time chasing that animal and first time hunting anything in that part of the state)
Maybe mix in a duck hunt, pheasant hunt, and sandhill crane hunt as well.
All in Texas, although different parts of the state. Writing it down makes me realize I have a busy season ahead!
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Muzzleloader mule deer Colorado September
Black Bear Colorado September
Elk Colorado October
Black Bear Colorado October
Antelope Wyoming October- November
Upland birds Nebraska and Kansas November-January
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I just bought my 4th preference point for Wyoming Pronghorn. My season will be 2 legged untagged dear till probably early next year when I get a chance at 4 legged hogs. No limit on either! :)
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Bad, you'd better beware of those 2 legged untagged dear, they'll jump ya. Then again that's probably what you're hoping. :P
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Bad, you'd better beware of those 2 legged untagged dear, they'll jump ya. Then again that's probably what you're hoping. :P
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Bad, you'd better beware of those 2 legged untagged dear, they'll jump ya. Then again that's probably what you're hoping. :P
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I thought you and Rambo would be cougar hunting. 8) :-*
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Bad, you'd better beware of those 2 legged untagged dear, they'll jump ya. Then again that's probably what you're hoping. :P
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I thought you and Rambo would be cougar hunting. 8) :-*
That is exactly what he hunts in the off season. LOL. ;D ;D
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whitetails in south eastern Ohio and central Pa. crossbow, shotgun and rifle. October through January.
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Whitetail, Muzzleloader/Rifle in southern Middle Tennessee. Nov-Jan
Got kill happy with my 257Wby last year,
dropped a lot of does (usually happens when I get a new rifle).
Gonna try to resist that temptation this year and do some buck hunting... First few weeks anyway
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Northern Arizona Deer . I have the early hunt and my wife has the late rut hunt. Our area is a transition area where the deer move north off the Kaibab in winter, and south off the Paunsaugunt in Utah meeting in the winter grounds on the border. We scouted over Labor day for 4 days and saw no deer at all, and that was to be expected we really weren't to serious about actually seeing deer but rather looking for water, terrain, honey hole's, roads, access, etc. Lots of sage brush to the north and really deep canyons to the south and west.
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Beautiful country Zonie!
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Zonie hope you have good optics's looking at the pictures
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Man Zonie! You need a howitzer hunting out there!
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Thanks it's actually stunning country how beautiful parts of it can be. We do have pretty decent optics, Zeiss, Steiner, Minox and Kowa, along with Leica and Vortex randefinders. I will be using a 300 wby with Vortex 6.5x20 and my wife will be using a vanguard 6.5 creed moor with Nikon scope. I actually might use the 6.5 creed moor as well. One issue in keeping with game & fish recommendations is the use of lead free bullets in the Condor area hunt units. G & F sent out a free voucher for one box each for lead free ammo or lead free bullets which my wife's 6.5 bullets came in yesterday. Loaded them up last night for us to test later this week, The reason up in Kaibab and the Strip is a Condor release area and they don't want the Condor's eating lead filled gut piles, it's not mandatory as of yet and in the past G & F has given us lead free ammo when drawn and hunting the Kaibab so why not. I went ahead and bought an extra 5 boxes of Barnes 6.5, 127 gr LRX ammo just to be on the safe side for her rifle. Most of this stuff where we will be hunting is sage brush and some is pretty tall so glassing is the order of the day.
CptnAwesome, you are right we could run into some really long shots, my wife is a little worried about muffing a shot and I can't blame her. There are some other areas on both the south and the east side which have way more vegetation, just depends on where the deer are I guess. I've got her shooting 5 " groups @ 600 yds with the creed moor. she has one of those Caldwell field pods which holds the rifle front and back while sitting, pretty steady actually , but whether she can see over the sage brush while sitting with the field pod or not is another story. The good part is our son is going up with us to help spot deer, I can't see them worth a darn unless they are moving whereas both of them have great eyes.
I'm glad we took the quads up , one particular road we wanted to get on was not passible by our vehicle washed out in multiple places, the quads , side by side's, and really really high clearance 4x4's would no doubt make it thru as long as it didn't rain when you got in there then you might have a problem getting out. next year we may up grade to a side by side, but I'm having second thoughts as to being out there alone with no cell phone coverage and broke down and stuck ( getting older ) at least with 2 or more quads and I've broke down out there and had to be towed back to camp more than once by my wife or friends and their quads, and it's no fun.
I'm kind of a map freak , I don't think you can have enough hunting maps, and unfortunately none of them are perfect, I picked up a couple new maps, Rugged maps are cloth maps very tuff , the Nat Geo maps are probably the most accurate unless you get very current Forest service maps, BLM maps are pretty good also and not too expensive. Yes I use GPS topo maps, but I still like breaking out a piece of paper and looking it over.
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Looks like an awesome place to hunt Zonie. Hope you have a fantastic time. 8)