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- Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:04 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32417
Re: Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
What was your bullet and powder weight/ choice? About ten years ago I started using the 250gr Hornady FTX .452 bullet in a Harvester Crushed-Rib sabot over ~100gr of Blackhorn 209. I converted the 100gr volume to weight so I'm running 72.5 grains of powder measured by weight to maximize the consist...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:05 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: The Old Man of the Woods
- Replies: 16
- Views: 41561
Re: The Old Man of the Woods
Congrats on closing the chapter in a fine way with a sweet looking bow. Some deer have more significance to us than others.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32417
Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
This morning's hunt was one of those when something good was bound to happen, because everything was going against me. I got up a few minutes early and I was even able to breeze right through the construction zone on the way to the hunting area. All signs pointed to getting settled in the stand a li...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32417
Updated: Muzzleloader bucks, #1 goes down
This year I returned to my old pattern of taking off work a lot of November. With no shots fired the opening weekend of the muzzleloader season, I was amped up for a run through the normal peak activity of 9-13 November. On 9 Nov, my son was in the killing tree and I was higher up on the top ridge b...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: First hunt with new micro 340
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18470
Re: First hunt with new micro 340
That's a pretty buck. Congrats.
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Muzzleloader buck
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33704
Re: Muzzleloader buck
Is that a bolt on the rifle? I'm perfectly OK with people using them, but it seems wrong to call a bolt action rifle (if that is what it is) a muzzle loader. I guess I'm just ignorant. Yep, it's a bolt but with a different function. Savage, Remington and a few others have designed muzzleloaders tha...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Muzzleloader buck
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33704
Re: Muzzleloader buck
Nice buck. Congrats.
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Smart old bucks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3904
Smart old bucks
I'm still not seeing a lot of daytime buck movement in Northern Virginia where I hunt. Sure, there is the occasional small buck but the big boys still seem to be mostly nocturnal. I've seen a couple nice 2.5 year old right after sunset, but the older mature bucks are still nocturnal. I'm hoping that...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Lame year for harvests
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21467
Re: Lame year for harvests
150y is a long poke for a smoke pole, albeit smokeless in this case. Great shooting!
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:37 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Punched my last tag today
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14882
Re: Punched my last tag today
Congrats on the buck. 117 is a lot of successful arrows. Impressive number.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: 340 Mag Crab claw buck harvest PICTURES ADDED
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21475
Re: 340 Mag Crab claw buck harvest
Congrats on the nice buck! A wobble in sight is a indeed beautiful thing.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Lame year for harvests
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21467
Re: Lame year for harvests
Anyone lose a beard?
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 4:39 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Lame year for harvests
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21467
Re: Lame year for harvests
I've been spending time enjoying the new found youth in my shoulder. I'm shooting a compound bow better now that I ever did in my younger years. A couple weeks ago, this young doe was giving me fits by hanging out behind my tree for almost an hour. https://onedrive.live.com/embed?resid=DE60831E6602D...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:13 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Best part isn't the deer!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15427
Re: Best part isn't the deer!
Man I love a short hunt. Congrats on the tender vittles.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:07 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Another fun night in the industrial park
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5492
Re: Another fun night in the industrial park
That looks like one heck of a drag uphill! I agree. Success would require some serious effort. My hunting area is just the opposite. Getting to my stand(s) is a sweat inducing climb, but most of the sled drag to the truck is a piece of cake provided you don't get run over by a runaway carcass. I've...