anyone gearing up for deer season?

[farmbif]

now that summer heat is breaking I'm thinking of working up new loads for 30-30 with bullets from a new to me vintage Lyman 311041 and got a bunch of Hornady eld-x 143 grainers for the 6.5 Creedmoor and a couple pounds of staball 6.5 and a big batch of Hornady 180grain SST's for the 308 and 30-06. not sure which I will try to hunt with but thinking by the time November 22 rolls around there is no reason I shouldn't have all 4 loads and guns dialed in.
I've got lots of deer activity in my lower pasture right now, hope they keep coming around because here hunting off a feeder is outlawed

[chuckbuster]

I guess does having the feeder running again, cameras active and doing some work on the blind today count?

[oldleadhead]

Will be heading out back soon to clear the fallen debris from around the spot I sit and spruce up the camo netting a little. I have a "cull" permit so I can take a doe. I have seen a nice buck walking around, looks to be an 8 pt. with a fairly wide rack. Hope I get to see him.

I just hope it isn't so darn cold and windy... If it is I may end up hunting from the bedroom window... When I was a younger man I could take the cold, not so much anymore. Or maybe it is because I don't want to take it...

Once it gets a little cooler I'll take 2 rifles to the range to foul the barrels and check zero. One is a Rem 600 in cal. .243 RCBS with a Hart barrel and the other is a M70 Classic FWT in .308 win. Both shoot where I point them...

Good luck men !

[Pereira]

Feeders are illegal here also.
I haven't turned any of the cameras on yet, I did move one last week, but have yet to put a card in it and turn it back on.
I was going to do one food plot this year, but that hasn't happened either.
The farm next door that I hunt has a good deer population, so I really don't stress over it.
I do have a new 444 that is ready and I want to knock something down with it, then the rest I will leave to the #2 grandson.
He'll be 10 just a few days before the reg. gun season begins. Last year was his first and he got 3, 2 does and one buck.

RP

[Barry54]

now that summer heat is breaking I'm thinking of working up new loads for 30-30 with bullets from a new to me vintage Lyman 311041 and got a bunch of Hornady eld-x 143 grainers for the 6.5 Creedmoor and a couple pounds of staball 6.5 and a big batch of Hornady 180grain SST's for the 308 and 30-06. not sure which I will try to hunt with but thinking by the time November 22 rolls around there is no reason I shouldn't have all 4 loads and guns dialed in.
I've got lots of deer activity in my lower pasture right now, hope they keep coming around because here hunting off a feeder is outlawed

Aren’t you in Tennessee?
Feeders will be legal next year. $100 the state gets to collect per hunter…

[Pereira]

Aren’t you in Tennessee?
Feeders will be legal next year. $100 the state gets to collect per hunter…

Yes sir, I am, but I won't be participating in that endeavor. At the moment the GW can't just come on your land and look around, but if you buy the permit and bait. Then they have the right to come onto your land anytime they please. Ah, no thanks.

RP

[Rhys79]

I’ve been scouting for spots to setup on the state property I have access to. Have rounds loaded for my .270win to use for rifle season, and access to a crossbow for archery season. Working on getting proper clothes and a blind or tree stand now. Will be my first season, should be fun!

[dverna]

Going to work up a deer load for the new .300 BO.

[Shopdog]

Well,if this one particular little '23 model, 4 pointer don't stop coming on my deck eating the plants,it could be "deer season" any day now?

Herd of deer in the back yard. And it's not like there isn't HUNDREDS of acres of woods back there for'm to entertain themselves. Nope,come on our deck,take naps in the ivy,and stand there stomping and snorting just to get the dog to chase them. It was yesterday,me and the dog are sitting on the back porch.... she's got a rawhide bone in her mouth. That 4 pointer comes to within 50 yards or so and Coco gets up to give chase,gets 1/2 way there,stops with the bone still hanging out like a cigar... turns around and comes back to me. I could've sworn we heard him giggling?

[Shawlerbrook]

Yes, camera out, shooting my bow for the Oct. 1 openers and loaded some 30 30 125 grs sierra bullets for mid November gun season. Now just trying to stay healthy as missed much of last season due to various injuries.

[waksupi]

I've got my big picture window clean, so I can spot them easy, and have time to stick the rifle barrel out the door.

[lightman]

Already been to camp for one work day. Mowing roads, cleaning out fallen limbs and trees, getting feeders up and running. And having a drink or two sitting on the porch!

[Shopdog]

Mowing here has all but ceased as the weather's turned dry.... not complaining,we had a VG wet summer.

Yesterday took mower down in the woods to groom trails. Deer are perking up.

[ascast]

Got my tags yesterday - two doe and two bucks -regular and muzzle loader. So -camp is out -slow tiny roof leak has turned into a beam tenon rotted ( eaten) off so 2nd floor collapsed. Can't get up there as beavers keep flooding the crossing.
I have seen three bucks in the meadow stuffing themselves with clover many nights. A 8pt, 6pt and large spike. I saw the 8 and 6 sparing the other day. Not really fighting -I have never seen that in real life before.
The 30-06 match gun makes the 300 yd shot easy. I need to work on the ML.
and I need to clean out the freezer and learn to can meat.