post your latest hunting pix

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:46 pm

opening day morning

they had no idea i was there til i clicked this picture on my phone.....forgot to turn off the sound...and she stopped right there....
she eventually saw me.....and was very upset.....Luckily.... she and her cubs just ran off...

and when she took off she scared a deer or two behind me....
Later that afternoon...I found this hog rooting....

some more treestand views

hunted all week and not the first deer walked by......saw a bunch on the way to the stand....
I will try again this weekend....

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:55 pm

I like them bear photo's. Glad we don't have none of them hogs here in my area.

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:02 pm

Dang nice picture of the Bear
them hogs make a shooting lane for sure!

ollogger

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:15 pm

Hogs did that?

boolitshooter · Post by **boolitshooter** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:29 am

Great pics you posted.
I tried to post mine but???
I phone size is too large, then tried photobucket and couldn't get that to load.
So here is the story sans pics.
We have a Christian Misistry in our County that is a food pantry for the less fortunate amoung us. Part of this mission is called "the deer project". Last year we hunters donated 9,500 pounds of ground venison. So far this year as of last Friday we are up to 7,300 pounds of ground meat.
The pic I have is of 4 Does hanging at our camp to go to them that I couldn't post. I hope to donate more later.
By the way Safari Club International kicks in some money to to help promote this endeavor. There is no charge to the hunter for donating the deer. All processing fees are donated throughout the year.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:07 am

Nice photop, thantou.

N.

Dusty Texian · Post by **Dusty Texian** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:04 am

Thanks for a look into your hunting area. Very nice pics. of the Sow and cubs! Those hogs can do some damage . Good luck on your next hunt. DT.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:48 am

Like those bear photos. Good luck with the rest of your hunt!

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:53 pm

Here's where I started out hunting this morning.

Things were slow until these two showed up about lunch.

These were the tools that I took.

This guy came by about forty five minutes before dark down the same trail he used yesterday.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:10 am

Way to go Hondo! Congrats

I will trade you 3 bears for one decent buck!

Dusty Texian · Post by **Dusty Texian** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:35 am

Great job Hondo! Cant get better than that a well placed shot from a classic rifle ,and a clean kill. Good on Ya! ,,,DT

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:47 am

This will be a little different. I shot the world's fattest fox squirrel last weekend. When I picked her up, I thought she would have a tumor in her or something. But it was just fat.

Ignore the one on the left -that's just the skin of one I had just cleaned.

There was about 5/8" layer of fat around the belly, just under the skin. Then another huge glob of fat inside the abdominal cavity as well. Never seen anything like it. After stripping out all the excess, she was just a normal sized squirrel after all. Dinner tonight!

Dusty Texian · Post by **Dusty Texian** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:06 am

My Goodness Brent! That is unbelievable ! You got more tallow from that fox squirrel than I did from my last buck. That is one fine rifle Amigo!,,,,,,,DT

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:28 pm

Rihmfire bring the bears up. There is still a ten point on my place.

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:30 pm

Brent that is the most fat I have ever seen on a squirrel. Must mean a cold winter for you.

EdinCT · Post by **EdinCT** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:22 pm

Hondo at is a nice buck congrats ! Brent I wonder how squirrel tallow would work for bullet lube

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:30 pm

Ed,
That was the best tasting squirrel I have ever eaten. It was amazing! I wish I had saved the fat and rendered it for pie crusts or something like that. Too good for bullet lube!

I've shot many hundreds of squirrels and never seen anything like that.

Brent

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:55 pm

BRENT THAT IS A VERY NICE SHOOTER.......

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:41 pm

RIHMFIRE wrote:BRENT THAT IS A VERY NICE SHOOTER.......

Yeah, tell us about the shooter!

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:05 pm

The shooter is just another middle-aged guy with a taste for building nice rifles and eating grilled squirrels.

The rifle is a bit more interesting, but it's just another Winchester - with a few embellishments. I don't want to distract folks from this nice thread that RIHMFIRE started. We need more hunting pictures and that's all I have for rifle hunting so far. Heck we don't even have bears down here on a regular basis.

Did a little bird hunting two weekends back though
Same boring shooter, and a few of his boring friends.

The dog is pretty special though.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:41 pm

BRENT ........NOW THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN!.....ROOOOOOSTER!

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:58 pm

yes it is, RIHMFIRE. I love hunting with Gus. I'm hoping to do it again this weekend, but the weather will be a whole lot less appealing to be sure. I'll try to kill a few squirrels too if any are crazy enough to be out on the weekend.

Brent

Mike Armstrong · Post by **Mike Armstrong** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:01 pm

Love that Low Wall--that is a classy squirrel rifle!

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:17 pm

Mike, thanks for the compliments. I'll start another thread to describe it for you guys, but I'll do it in the morning. I love to yak about it and other custom rifles, but hate to do that here.

Brent

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 1:48 am

Cracking photos gents. Perfect shot on the dear.
What a fat sqiz!!

N.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:59 am

The only hunting pic I took this year. My wife and elk hunting buddy packing out his raghorn bull from Colorado second season. It was to warm for elk hunting but we got within 600 yards of another young bull the last day of season. Trouble is I am getting old and just can't get after it like I used to. I ran out of gas before we were able to close the distance.

J Buck · Post by **J Buck** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:51 pm

Nice pics guy's. Keep it coming. Gun season starts here this weekend, so, who knows. Had to scoot a big ol' bear out of the driveway yesterday so I good roll the trash can down for pick up. Neighbors don't like him, but he don't really bother anybody. City folks.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:53 pm

Winchester 25-35 takedown and a unique and uncommon Sako Finnwolf...

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:26 am

Brilliant photos gents

N.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:52 am

this is the morning hunt in ocala national forest...south end dog hunt area called "pipeline unit"
spent the morning w/ 3 merganser ducks and a very noisy pileated woodpecker...no deer

nine turkeys snuck up one me for the second time that afternoon
no deer that afternoon either.....

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:19 pm

Great photos guys, will take a camera with me next week and try to help spread the relaxation

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:42 pm

Yesterday evening !

A pair with my circa 1884 Parker Grade 2 hammer 10 gauge with my handloaded 0 Buck loads .

It was also the first day of the VA gun season !

First deer for this gun , first time I killed two with buckshot at once , also the doe is a piebald . Never gotten a piebald deer before .

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:46 pm

Old Savage wrote:Hogs did that?

I saw a lot of the same down in Arkansas in the semi flooded rice fields . Also generally has a rather pungent not so nice aroma !

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:10 pm

I'll gleefully post my favorite hunting picture from today.

You might think it should be anything but gleeful, but I drive a Ford. And no, I don't do this to rub Chevy fans' noses in the mud, but because this guy and at least 3 buddies in 3 other trucks were hunting coyotes with dogs. They had the section I was hunting pheasants surrounded with a coyote in the middle. Perhaps all fine and good but only I had permission on this property for the weekend. And while dogs may not know about property lines, truck drivers are expected too.

When I first saw this guy, he was going well over 50 miles an hour in a harvested cornfield. I doubt he was the owner of that field. Later he was barreling across another field that I doubt he owned. But for darn sure, when I saw his abandoned truck the last time, it was in the middle of the property I was on, and I KNOW he didn't have permission there.

I gotta say, I got a lot of satisfaction out if this.

Yeah, I sent photos to the landowner.

Brent

PS. I did pick up three pheasants over 2 days. Some very poor shooting on my part, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:14 pm

congrats 6pt !

hey Brent....
you should have left him a nice little note on his dirty door panel....no tresspassing

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:19 pm

Were it my property, I would have done a lot more than that. But I was a guest, albeit unescorted. The owner is following up right now.

Actually, I was thinking of sending the photos and a story to the local paper (very small town, rural Iowa). The truck is local and undoubtedly well known.

Embarrassment in public might have a lot more impact. Besides, I had nothing to write a note with or on, besides my knife and the truck's hood

Oh so tempting.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:23 pm

BrentD wrote:Were it my property, I would have done a lot more than that. But I was a guest, albeit unescorted. The owner is following up right now.

Actually, I was thinking of sending the photos and a story to the local paper (very small town, rural Iowa). The truck is local and undoubtedly well known.

Embarrassment in public might have a lot more impact. Besides, I had nothing to write a note with or on, besides my knife and the truck's hood Oh so tempting.

send it to the game warden too!
tresspassing with a firearm is a felony...i believe

plowboy 45 · Post by **plowboy 45** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:35 pm

Maybe the guy got a coyote or two
It'll save no tellin how many birds
Hey you can shootem next year, not the coyote hunters, the birds

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:38 pm

plowboy 45 wrote:Maybe the guy got a coyote or two
It'll save no tellin how many birds
Hey you can shootem next year, not the coyote hunters, the birds

Actually, not at all. Coyotes are a pheasant's best friend. Anywhere there are foxes, coons, opossums and skunks, coyotes save way more pheasants than they kill. Especially true with respect to foxes.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:21 am

this buck was taken out of my old hunt club I help start back in the 90s...10 pt
We started out with nothing but small rack and spikes buck...and with QDMA, they now have bucks like this....His teeth were all worn down....possibly 6 1/2" old buck

wish I could still afford to be a member

Dusty Texian · Post by **Dusty Texian** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:46 am

Very nice old deer. You can tell he has some yrs. on him. What part of Florida did he come from?,,,,DT

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:52 am

Dusty Texian wrote:Very nice old deer. You can tell he has some yrs. on him. What part of Florida did he come from?,,,,DT

northeast of Ocala, just west of the Oklawaha River.....Club is on an oak ridge with pine flats and a huge cypress swamp in the back...
and lots of pothole ponds....

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:52 am

Dusty Texian wrote:Very nice old deer. You can tell he has some yrs. on him. What part of Florida did he come from?,,,,DT

northeast of Ocala, just west of the Oklawaha River.....Club is on an oak ridge with pine flats and a huge cypress swamp in the back...
and lots of pothole ponds....

Larkbill · Post by **Larkbill** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:01 pm

Not mine, my youngest son, but shot with my Remington 788 .30-30. Another example of QDMA improving the hunting. He was on a friend's farm outside Jonesburg, Mo

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:42 pm

BrentD wrote:I'll gleefully post my favorite hunting picture from today.

I gotta say, I got a lot of satisfaction out if this.

I would too, and I assume you also got a photo with the license plate?
Trespassers are in the same class as poachers, in my book.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:57 pm

Haven't had the opportunity to drop the hammer on a decent buck yet, but the deer are around.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:40 am

NICE PICS GUYS....
YESTERDAY I SAW AN OTTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS....
AND NEAREST LAKE WAS ABOUT A 1/2 MILE AWAY.

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:25 am

TedH, oh yeah, I got lots of picts and they ended up with the sheriff. Someone got a "visitation."

Nice Pederoli there. I .45-70? What's your load?

old06 · Post by **old06** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:44 am

The old trapper makes meat my old eyes are just about gone for open sights my 12 year old grandson has now clamed ownership

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:48 am

BrentD wrote:TedH, oh yeah, I got lots of picts and they ended up with the sheriff. Someone got a "visitation."

Nice Pederoli there. I .45-70? What's your load?

Yes it's a 45-70. My hunting load is 68.0 gr. of Olde Eynsford with the Lyman 457125, 50/50 clip on wheel weights/stick on weights.