Live from the Stand - 2024

Do you think there's a possibility that whitetailed deer are getting heavier? I've seen a lot of large bodied deer lately.
Tough to say without some serious study across several states. I will say this, when we used to hunt NC Kansas, the deer were at least 10-15% heavier than the mature deer we hunt here in SE Kansas.
 
Tough to say without some serious study across several states. I will say this, when we used to hunt NC Kansas, the deer were at least 10-15% heavier than the mature deer we hunt here in SE Kansas.
I shot a big doe yesterday evening and I couldn't lift it onto the rack on my golf cart by myself, so I dragged it up onto the floorboard in front of the seat instead and broke off the reverse handle, and blamed it on these "bigger" deer, but on retrospect, I think it's just that I'm an old man and don't want to admit it :)
 
That's interesting! It sounds very much like communism in the Soviet Union in the early years, dictating from a central location leading to starvation. Anyway, I'd love to visit the Scandinavian countries sometime. I know just enough German to understand a little bit of the languages, and I've always been intrigued by the area.
Hmmm, and I was thinking it sounds like Kalifornia or Kolorado !😉
 
I’m doing a half-hearted muzzleloader hunt this morning (too lazy to clean and load one 😊). This may be the last time I go out this year. Oddly enough, I just passed the same 135 inch eight point that I did on my first muzzleloader hunt back in October. He just worked a scrape at the edge of a food plot and then went back into the woods. Less than a minute after he left a small buck came up behind him and worked the same scrape.

Actually, more than hoping to shoot a deer, I was hoping to get a crack at another one of those coyotes.
 
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I’m doing a half-hearted muzzleloader hunt this morning (too lazy to clean and load one 😊). This may be the last time I go out this year. Oddly enough, I just passed the same 135 inch eight point that I did on my first muzzleloader hunt back in October. He just worked a scrape at the edge of a food plot and then went back into the woods. Less than a minute after he left a small buck came up behind him and worked the same scrape.

Actually, more than hoping to shoot a deer, I was hoping to get a crack at another one of those coyotes.
That must be a pretty good food plot if you are getting daylight buck action at 8 am!
 
That must be a pretty good food plot if you are getting daylight buck action at 8 am!
It is completely surrounded by cover - thick woods on one side and tall NWSGs on the other. I’m only able to see it from my high tower blind 227 yards away. It actually happened a while before I posted, but it was light enough to see the rack well before I looked through the scope.
 
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I don't understand Texas geopolitical areas very well, I thought Houston was this type of place?
All the big cities trend liberal MM, but Austin is the lawyer capitol of TX and it’s the worst. Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and El Paso aren’t far behind. We are basically Canada, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and the Eastern seaboard geopolitically speaking. The conservatives live in the country, the smaller towns, and subdivisions and the liberals live in the cities. This is a generalization of course, but it’s mostly true.

The stuff that’s happening in Aurora, CO right now with the Venezualen gangs would be short lived where I live. They would meet with much resistance.
 
Almost live.

Fun hunt in the snow this afternoon.

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That youngun looks like he had fun !

Details on the rifle ? I can see it’s a Ruger, what caliber, scope, etc. ?
 
That youngun looks like he had fun !

Details on the rifle ? I can see it’s a Ruger, what caliber, scope, etc. ?
I love those Rugers and most of them shoot excellent MOA groups
Also, most people don't realize that the Ruger 77II and the Hawkeye are both positive feed bolt action rifles, positive feed rifles that are also designed so as to allow hand feeding cartridges into the chamber without damaging the extractor when the bolt is closed, a pretty rare combination found mostly in Mauser style actions such as the pre-64 Winchesters.
(mauser means "mouse-catcher" in German, a fitting name for the 9mm mauser vs .45 auto)
 
That youngun looks like he had fun !

Details on the rifle ? I can see it’s a Ruger, what caliber, scope, etc. ?

That’s my wife’s Ruger Compact .243, it’s about 20 years old. Two years ago I put a heavier barrel on it and this year we added the can. From the factory it kicked pretty good, the new barrel solved that problem, even better with the suppressor.

Scope is a pretty basic Leupold with a duplex reticle.

He’s currently shooting 80 grain Barnes TTSX loads.


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MM, you have deeply offended me since I carry a 9mm daily. 😩 From now on, I will just have to shoot the bad guys twice to compensate !😜

weekender, that’s a great round for a kid (or anybody) to shoot. I started my youngest off with a Model 7 in .260 Rem, just a step up from the .243. It too, is a great round for kids or ladies. It was my wife’s gun before it was his. When he got big enough to hunt she “retired” and let him take over. He still has that gun although he doesn’t hunt any more.
 
Pine plantation in St Helena parish, LA. Doe in heat scent scattered from one end to the other, and we wait. IMG_3975.jpegIMG_3976.jpeg
 
Nice. I hunt East Feliciana by you as well as Union Parish. Only been in East Feliciana starting this season. So far it seems like the deer are a lot bigger down here than in Union Parish.
 
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