Hunting Season TNG

WildRose · 2018-09-29T10:02:32.514Z

Physics_Hunter:

My early season looks to be all about the kids, hunting needs a future.

Personally, I have been working on consistent 3" arrow groups at 30 yards.

I would be surprised if the high energy cartridges that you are working up do not throw off flyers. The Physics of what happens at the end of the rifle barrel have always interested me.

Fliers in my hundred yard groups tend to run less than .5:". We’re not talking cheap stove pipes flinging .50c bullets.

Too bad you and the kids can’t come down, I’m literally overrun with pigs right now and need to have a major thinning soon. I’ve killed 168 since the first of Oct 2017 and I haen’t even caught up with the new production.

My place over by the river can be shot clean and two weeks later will have two or three new herds bedding on it.

We had a pretty severe drought here most of the summer and having both great cover and a my own spring feeding 1,100 yards of creek ensures no matter what I’m never out of pigs for more than a few days at most.

calirepub · 2018-09-29T10:56:20.036Z

Physics_Hunter:

I had to add “TNG” to meet some 15 char limit…

TNG means one thing only.

I was hoping this thread would be about hunting Wesley.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-09-30T05:36:44.761Z

Wow. Pigs are such a pain. I have not hunted them, and they are not threat here.

I am most likely to encounter them back east on a hunt as they are working thier way north.

BTW: What do you do with all the meat, and are they any good to eat? I have heard wildly varying opinions of their edibility.

I appreciate the invitation!

Physics_Hunter · 2018-09-30T05:42:28.473Z

Nah, Weasel Boy, while being a double face palm on Trek, suffers sufficiently from being the worst Star Trek character since Harvey Mudd.

I added TNG to meet a Thread title limit, but it also connotes that I had a well attended Hunting Season thread on the old Hannity site.

WildRose · 2018-09-30T18:09:33.210Z

Physics_Hunter:

Wow. Pigs are such a pain. I have not hunted them, and they are not threat here.

I am most likely to encounter them back east on a hunt as they are working thier way north.

BTW: What do you do with all the meat, and are they any good to eat? I have heard wildly varying opinions of their edibility.

I appreciate the invitation!

Unfortunately a lot of them just end up being coyote bait. I simply don’t have the time or money to process them all.

Whatever I have leftover from that get’s donated to a group in Wichita that feeds the homeless and distributes donated food to needy families, two local churches and of course about 500lbs of smoked sausage and ham will go to the VFD for their annual fundraising barbecue.

About the only store bought meat we’ll use at all is we buy cheap hamburger when it’s on sale to mix with the venison just to give it enough fat to stick together and make a decent patty.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-01T04:48:12.623Z

Well if it brings in money for the VFD, it must be pretty good!

WildRose · 2018-10-01T05:41:52.953Z

Physics_Hunter:

Well if it brings in money for the VFD, it must be pretty good!

Lots of free beer helps.

I like to just fix a big pot of beans, steam up the sausage, slice it up and eat it with the beans, or just take a whole ham and throw it in and cook it with the beans.

Smyrna · 2018-10-01T10:31:12.609Z

The Suburban now has over 175,000 on it, ran perfect and wow…what a fantastic trip. In only the second time in my life, I saw a wolf. This one was close and was trying to hide. When we pulled up, it ran out from behind some cover and was only 25 yards away. Instead of spending the day hunting, my brother put us all to work clearing roads, fixing leaks and repairing odds and ends. It was an excellent, excellent trip.

Thank you Lord.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-02T03:51:16.031Z

Glad that you had fun but brush clearing and road repair sounds a little like bait and switch!

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-05T06:04:19.564Z

Scent-free washing hunting clothes tonight.

Scouting tomorrow.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-06T04:26:08.556Z

Archery hunting camp tonight.

Brought some Venison to make chili, and some hotdogs to make it interesting. Venison chilidogs, it’s a pre-hunt ritual.

I repacked the hunting/survival pack for the year (short some jerky for backwoods food).

Last thing is sharpening knife and broadhead edges. I enjoy the detail work prep.

Safiel · 2018-10-10T18:45:02.511Z

Vaguely hunting related.

The installation of electric/phone/cable lines (underground) is complete. They are now up there tapping the springs, which will be a dual spring setup and setting up the water supply system

There is a temporary electric panel setup, so when I go down in December to go hunting, I will actually have electricity and fresh water available on site. Looking at mid-December for the trip.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-11T05:02:22.229Z

I did something similar 20 years ago. I tried it with a travel trailer parked on the land. I was too young, too distracted, too well employed to actually figure out all the details.
I hunted a couple days and went back to work.
The mice eventually took over.

I don’t see your efforts as vaguely related to hunting. Hunting is a life process. It is a willful movement toward a primal drive to live off and with the land and the flora and fauna.

Good hunting.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-12T05:30:56.274Z

I am hoping to get one of the kids to take a deer early, so that I can hunt more old-school with a self-bow.

Some opportunity this weekend. We shall see.

Smyrna · 2018-10-21T11:38:20.771Z

Wednesday morning I’m leaving for Pelee Island to go pheasant hunting. Pelee is the southern most inhabited spot in all of Canada. I’ll meet brothers and friends there who will come from all over. This will be our 20th year. My bird dog is about to turn 3 and should be very mature this year. I’m really looking forward to this. It’ll be over two weekends and we’ll leave the island in between to go duck hunting in Saginaw, Michigan on Lake Huron. Bam…it’s good to be me.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-22T03:27:10.323Z

I am the only remaining hunter in my extended, and mostly disconnected family.

You are quite the lucky man. Enjoy, and your 3yr old dog should be coming into his/her prime. That should be a joy, but they are not perfect until they are 5.

The other day I wasn’t hunting, but a deer stepped out in the yard before the sun crested the ridge. I drew and locked on her with the compound, I aimed so that both the 20 and 35 yard pins would score lethal hits. She only ran about 40 yards into the woods. For once I eyeball ranged it perfectly, double lung and heart hit.

This is the part that you will like. I took the new family designer-hypoallergenic pup out to track down the kill. She sniffed the arrow and licked it. Except for 9 month old puppy lack of attention, she had no trouble following the blood trail right to the deer. If she takes to tracking wounded deer, she is going to become my best buddy!

This was one of those lucky watershed moments in dog training that you simply can’t stage.

Smyrna · 2018-10-22T22:03:26.589Z

Physics_Hunter:

I am the only remaining hunter in my extended, and mostly disconnected family.

You are quite the lucky man. Enjoy, and your 3yr old dog should be coming into his/her prime. That should be a joy, but they are not perfect until they are 5.

The other day I wasn’t hunting, but a deer stepped out in the yard before the sun crested the ridge. I drew and locked on her with the compound, I aimed so that both the 20 and 35 yard pins would score lethal hits. She only ran about 40 yards into the woods. For once I eyeball ranged it perfectly, double lung and heart hit.

This is the part that you will like. I took the new family designer-hypoallergenic pup out to track down the kill. She sniffed the arrow and licked it. Except for 9 month old puppy lack of attention, she had no trouble following the blood trail right to the deer. If she takes to tracking wounded deer, she is going to become my best buddy!

This was one of those lucky watershed moments in dog training that you simply can’t stage.

What breed is your new family, hypo-allergenic dog? I have always loved dogs since I was very, very young and today…nothing has changed.

You’re right about the next few years. I expect him to continue improving till he peaks at 5. I’ve been very fortunate and blessed with my dogs I’ve had. If you remember, a year and a half ago, I lost my dog of many years and it was very painful. Then I considered that the pain is the result of how much I loved that dog. I then contemplated which is worse, to have never loved and then never felt the pain or…felt the many years of love and companionship along with a much shorter time of pain? The answer is…I have a new dog and…we are going pheasant hunting.

My compliments on the excellent shot.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-23T03:36:29.443Z

It’s a downsized 'doodle, but the web feet are the give-away that this thing comes from retriever waterdogs on both sides of the family.

I figure that with retriever instincts, this thing should be an awesome blood tracker.

PocketAces · 2018-10-26T18:29:16.833Z

If the Democrats win the mid-term elections and retake the either the house or the Senate,
they’ll try and destroy or put restrictions on peoples 2nd Amendment gun rights.

Physics_Hunter · 2018-10-27T03:07:47.128Z

Wrong forum PocketA.

We have ample space in Politics for that.

This is a place to rest from that and talk about our traditions, excursions, and results going afield.