Elbert Co, Ga
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whiskeybent
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Saturday afternoon we had 6 does in front of us but she just couldn't get on one. She shoots good off a bench, but out of a stand at a deer was a whole lot different to her. Maybe next time.
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And congrats on the Lil gage's deer!
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Pretty much. Will be for the next 6 weeks, anyhow.
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Come on. Be glad to have you.
Triple C
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Congrats on a stud of a buck! That buck and a whole bunch more gotta love all that corn and beans you grew this summer. My farm and forum time has been few and far between this season. I've been in the stand 1 time since archery season opened. Living vicariously thru pics n txts from the boys on our place and when I find the time to check in on here.
whiskeybent
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About 3 or 4 weeks ago I broadcast oats into my standing beans and they've actually done better than any I've ever planted by traditional tillage methods. The germination was amazing. The deer are liking having a choice of foods in one spot. They'll eat beans for a while, then eat oats for a while.
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I've seen tons of deer this year, just none I wanted to shoot since the one on opening weekend. This has been a great season for me on my new place. The corn and beans I planted this past spring has been a deer magnet. I'll have to give the edge to the corn. I've seen 40 in one day eating corn, it's been amazing. The beans have been no slouch either, but nothing like the corn, especially the past few weeks.
My daughter has a 223 but honestly wasn't too fond of the recoil so I haven't pushed her to shoot it. For Christmas she asked for a gun..lol..7 year old girl wanting a gun. So Santa gladly put her a new Ruger 10/22 with scope under the tree Christmas morning. This child fell in love with it. Probably shot a brick in the first few days she had it and was honestly a pretty good shot.
Forward on to this past weekend she and I was sitting in a stand over the cornfield Saturday afternoon when a doe and a small buck walked out. She asked why I didn't bring her gun so she could shoot it, I told her it wasn't big enough to hunt with, then she asked could she shoot my gun and kill the doe? I didn't know what to say, the kid was skittish of a 223 and was wanting to shoot my 308, and she's a little girl. I thought about it for a second or two and thought it could go good, or go horribly wrong and she'd never pick up a gun again. I sat her in my lap and let her look through the scope and she said "dad, I can do it", I said it's up to you. The butt of the gun was hanging a few inches below her shoulder so I put my hand on it to hold back some of the recoil and told her to aim for where we talked about and squeeze the trigger. A few seconds later she squeezed the trigger and sent one right through both lungs. She said she never even felt the gun kick and this girl started shaking like a leaf.
We climbed down and walked to where she was standing and immediately found blood. I let her track it into the woods where it lay dead less that 100 yards from the shot. I wish I could post a video on here, her excitement was hilarious. She was on cloud 9.
The next day we slept in and she was ready to get back in the stand at lunchtime to "get her a buck". This time we went to one of the bean fields. She got a little antsy after her tablet went dead around 3, but we toughed it on out til about an hour before dark when 8 does came out. About 10 minutes before dark I looked up and a buck was walking out of the woods on front of us. I got her back into my lap like the day before and she was already shaking like a leaf, it reminded me of how I used to get.
I told her just to calm down and don't pull the trigger until it was right where it was supposed to be. After a few attempts she finally settled down and said she was ready and pulled the trigger. This time a perfect shot right through the heart. He ran maybe 75 yards and lay dead just inside the woods.
To say this girl and I had a great weekend would be an understatement. She hasn't stopped talking about it to anyone who'll listen.
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My daughter has a 223 but honestly wasn't too fond of the recoil so I haven't pushed her to shoot it. For Christmas she asked for a gun..lol..7 year old girl wanting a gun. So Santa gladly put her a new Ruger 10/22 with scope under the tree Christmas morning. This child fell in love with it. Probably shot a brick in the first few days she had it and was honestly a pretty good shot.
Forward on to this past weekend she and I was sitting in a stand over the cornfield Saturday afternoon when a doe and a small buck walked out. She asked why I didn't bring her gun so she could shoot it, I told her it wasn't big enough to hunt with, then she asked could she shoot my gun and kill the doe? I didn't know what to say, the kid was skittish of a 223 and was wanting to shoot my 308, and she's a little girl. I thought about it for a second or two and thought it could go good, or go horribly wrong and she'd never pick up a gun again. I sat her in my lap and let her look through the scope and she said "dad, I can do it", I said it's up to you. The butt of the gun was hanging a few inches below her shoulder so I put my hand on it to hold back some of the recoil and told her to aim for where we talked about and squeeze the trigger. A few seconds later she squeezed the trigger and sent one right through both lungs. She said she never even felt the gun kick and this girl started shaking like a leaf.
We climbed down and walked to where she was standing and immediately found blood. I let her track it into the woods where it lay dead less that 100 yards from the shot. I wish I could post a video on here, her excitement was hilarious. She was on cloud 9.
The next day we slept in and she was ready to get back in the stand at lunchtime to "get her a buck". This time we went to one of the bean fields. She got a little antsy after her tablet went dead around 3, but we toughed it on out til about an hour before dark when 8 does came out. About 10 minutes before dark I looked up and a buck was walking out of the woods on front of us. I got her back into my lap like the day before and she was already shaking like a leaf, it reminded me of how I used to get.
I told her just to calm down and don't pull the trigger until it was right where it was supposed to be. After a few attempts she finally settled down and said she was ready and pulled the trigger. This time a perfect shot right through the heart. He ran maybe 75 yards and lay dead just inside the woods.
To say this girl and I had a great weekend would be an understatement. She hasn't stopped talking about it to anyone who'll listen.
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whiskeybent
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Beans and corn is back in the ground for the second year. The field I had the corn in last year has been a mess with volunteer corn. I disked it 4 times between early March and Memorial Day hoping to get it all germinated and turned under, but that didn't get anywhere near all of it.
Since planting the field in beans I've had probably 8" of rain and couldn't get back in the field to spray they corn with clethodim until this past weekend. I finally had to put my small sprayer in my Ranger and spray, the ground just wouldn't hold the tractor. But, it's all smooth sailing from here if I can just get a few more rains over the next few months.
I'm ready for cooler weather and deer season.
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Since planting the field in beans I've had probably 8" of rain and couldn't get back in the field to spray they corn with clethodim until this past weekend. I finally had to put my small sprayer in my Ranger and spray, the ground just wouldn't hold the tractor. But, it's all smooth sailing from here if I can just get a few more rains over the next few months.
I'm ready for cooler weather and deer season.
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One more pic of last year's corn field before the hurricane came through and took it down. I thought it was a cool pic.
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The rows are actually planted up and down the page, not sure why it looks diagonal like that when zoomed out.
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