Live from the Stand - 2025

Sad news in PA today, 26 year old Floyd Wengerd died in a hunting related shooting accident 😢
Not someone I know, but I hunted in that area many times. It was on the Amish hotline this morning, so he must've been Amish.

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When I was younger, I hunted in that general area, near Huntington. On the drive from State College, I would pass through the small Amish town of Belleville. It seemed every mailbox had the name Yoder or Peachy. Sorry to hear about the hunting incident.
 
I was hunting just a few miles down the same ridge at the time but knew nothing of it until last evening. Awesome still-hunting conditions at that time yesterday morning, but visibility was pretty compromised with the snow coming down. I didn't know the young man, but am sure I know some of his family and definitely a bunch of those in his community. I feel badly for his family, even worse for whomever fired that shot that they'll forever wish that they could take back.
 
What do deer eat in the woods when it looks bare in the winter? This button buck came right under my stand today, and stuffs his nose right into the snow under a 5 inch scarlet oak, and immediately is chowing down acorns with a loud crunching noise. Why do deer refuse to leave thick cover? Around here there's an abundance of scarlet oaks in that thick cover. I never knew a 5 inch oak would give a lot of acorns, but here's the picture to prove it.

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Every now and then even a blind squirrel gets a nut.I got this buck right at the last minute of shooting time tonight. I shot him at a hundred yards quartering to with a 300 WSM, 180 grain Federal Powershok, knocked him off his feet, he instantly jumped back up and ran eighty to a hundred yards, good blood trail, but I could not figure out why I had no exit hole until I went to field dress him and pretty much just dumped everything out.

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I took part in a mid day deer drive once in Kansas on a guided hunt. That’s an experience I never want to participate in again. I’m surprised more accidents don’t happen. I feel sorry for both families and the friends.
 
Mennoniteman said:
Every now and then even a blind squirrel gets a nut.I got this buck right at the last minute of shooting time tonight. I shot him at a hundred yards quartering to with a 300 WSM, 180 grain Federal Powershok, knocked him off his feet, he instantly jumped back up and ran eighty to a hundred yards, good blood trail, but I could not figure out why I had no exit hole until I went to field dress him and pretty much just dumped everything out.

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Very nice deer. Congratulations.
 
Mennoniteman said:
Every now and then even a blind squirrel gets a nut.I got this buck right at the last minute of shooting time tonight. I shot him at a hundred yards quartering to with a 300 WSM, 180 grain Federal Powershok, knocked him off his feet, he instantly jumped back up and ran eighty to a hundred yards, good blood trail, but I could not figure out why I had no exit hole until I went to field dress him and pretty much just dumped everything out.

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Well done, congrats!
 
Mennoniteman said:
Every now and then even a blind squirrel gets a nut.I got this buck right at the last minute of shooting time tonight. I shot him at a hundred yards quartering to with a 300 WSM, 180 grain Federal Powershok, knocked him off his feet, he instantly jumped back up and ran eighty to a hundred yards, good blood trail, but I could not figure out why I had no exit hole until I went to field dress him and pretty much just dumped everything out.

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Congrats!!


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After shooting a deer comes the hard work handling it, and two guys can have a struggle loading one. And of course the back of the pickup always seems to get blood on it.
With this oversize Pelican 60 icefishing sled, two guys can lift a deer and move it like nobody's business, or like I did, lift it with my loader and skid it onto my truck bed, and it keeps blood off the floor and the truck bed.

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