Recent content by 9x56MS

The last few years here in the southern tier of NY have been hard on our Ashe trees. The emarald Ashe borers have decimated 90% of the Ashe trees on my property. We were up clearing the trails and cut up over 2 cord of wood just from the trees that fell across the trails. We even had a couple of...

That looks like a well fed deer. I am no expert on aging deer. My best guess would be between 2 1/2 to 3 1/2. At 4 1/2 with a deer that well fed I would think you would be seeing the sagging belly and back. The other side of the coin is, being that well fed it should be exhibiting better antler...

I have had mixed succes over the years but enough success to keep using it. My favorite is the wafers. I have see a buck actually licking it one time. It’s not magic just anther tool in the bag when used during the right time.

I have found Jarheads to generally be my kind of people. Welcome aboard. Sounds like you are already doing things right. Hope we can help or at least point you in the right direction.

Lots of guys love them and I can only give my experience with them. In my 2 guns I tried them in a ruger77 RSI in 250 savage and a custom Mauser 98 in 7x57. The accuracy was not as good as my cup and core handloads (I hand loaded the Barnes copper solids also). Not terrible but not as good. The...

That’s a lot of bloodshot meat.

Hell my Ithica 20 gauge Deerslayer smoothbore made in the 60’s would shoot sub 2” groups at 50 yards with pumpkin ball slugs. Killed a lot of deer with that shotgun.

Sounds like he has you patterned quite well. 😁

Was in the stand at 6 too dark to see anything when I heard footsteps. All I could see was a white rack as it walked between the tree and the ladder right under my stand. Only other deer I saw was a nice chocolate racked 8 point out in the neighbors pasture across the stone wall about 200 yards...

Find some oaks that are dropping acorns.

Keep us posted on your hunts. It seems service for crossbows has not caught up to service on compounds yet.

have you gotten your parts yet?

A turkey in hand is worth many deer out of range.

Was up to my cabin Monday and mowed all the trails and my clover plot. I had finished mowing the clover and mowed out one trail that looped around and re- entered the clover from another direction I was back to clover in about 10 minutes and there were already 3 deer in there already eating the...