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Post by osprey on Dec 10, 2007 8:50:39 GMT -5
Anybody else put in for this hunt, Saturday the 15th at the Refuge?? I've got a spot I want to hunt that I've been trying to get to for early Bp and shotgun but keep tagging out before I can get there (insert appropriate cussing from DaveP and Fox HERE), anxious to finally hunt it this weekend. Shot the longrifle for a few hours at a shoot yesterday, it's begging for a big black stag to aim at!!!
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 10, 2007 8:52:28 GMT -5
not me, wish i had now but i guess i will have to wait for the trip with the deerhunter if he is still heading to the shore later this month... if nothing else i know he will get one....
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Post by osprey on Dec 10, 2007 8:54:48 GMT -5
I think you should stay home and teach him a lesson Fox, without his good luck charm he won't see a thing!!
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 10, 2007 9:14:05 GMT -5
yeah he just won't get a stag, he sems to get the hinds when i stay home...... plus i cannot get one from here. or i would be trying alot harder...
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Post by osprey on Dec 10, 2007 10:13:35 GMT -5
Yeah, but you'll probably see just as many from your living room!!
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Dec 10, 2007 10:38:12 GMT -5
I've seen plenty without BIG fox...more actually. ;D
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 10, 2007 10:40:29 GMT -5
YEAH BUT YOU ONLY GET THE STAGS WHEN I AM WITH YOU.. MOJO THAT
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Dec 10, 2007 10:51:00 GMT -5
A 2, a 4, now I need a 6 or an 8! I'm feeling lucky!
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 10, 2007 10:57:36 GMT -5
well if you do and i don't you are draggin it out yourself...
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Post by davep on Dec 10, 2007 14:46:59 GMT -5
(insert appropriate cussing from DaveP and Fox HERE), Shot the longrifle for a few hours at a shoot yesterday, it's begging for a big black stag to aim at!!! C'mon now Dave! I wish you NOTHING but the best. (well, maybe leaky waders) ;D Glad you're having a great year! Besides, I HAVE killed sika in the past (sorry Fox ;D)
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 10, 2007 15:00:54 GMT -5
thanks DaveP
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Post by osprey on Dec 10, 2007 16:14:56 GMT -5
After turkey hunting with Fox this spring I think I know what the problem is. Hard to see sika when you're ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Dec 11, 2007 19:43:09 GMT -5
I'm going once more on Dec. 29th. Looking for some more sika action as well.
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Post by osprey on Dec 15, 2007 19:25:32 GMT -5
Very neat day today at Blackwater! I was 5 yards from glory... Got into where I wanted to be and set up 45 minutes before shooting time so things could settle down. Wind was wrong for where I expected deer to come from, but what can you do on a one day hunt? 7am had two does come across the marsh, slip behind me and jump and swim a small tide gut about 45 yards away. Coulda shot, but already filled the antlerless tag in October. 8am, I look to the east and see, 200 yards away, a big black head and big white antlers sticking out of the three square. Niiiiice stag. Big tall 6 pointer, very wide, had to be 15" between the tips. He was just frantic, running 20-30 yards, then stopping to look, then run some more, then look, etc. He went into some thick cordgrass 100 yards away and I was afraid he was crossing the gut, so I mewed with the call to him. He came out and headed for me. At 80 yards he was open and head on, I was on him, but said to myself just be patient, he's coming, don't rush the shot. He then turned where the does went, at 50 yards stopped again, but had a few branches in the way. Again, just be patient, he's either crossing the opening or coming into the trees with me. Well, he was 5 yards from coming into the opening for a good 45 yard broadside shot, smelled where I'd walked in, turned inside out and HAULED it back across the marsh. Stayed until 10am after that, walked and checked a few different spots, then hunted in the afternoon elsewhere and saw one at dark way out on the marsh. Did I mention he was a VERY big stag? Awesome animal to see, but never had a shot I was real comfortable with. Actuallly, he may have spooked from the noise, I think my wallet was screaming " Noooooo, not another taxidermy bill!!"
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Post by osprey on Dec 16, 2007 10:27:04 GMT -5
Dammit, that stag kept showing up in my dreams last night!!! Guess I'm going to have to go back late archery season and chase him...
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