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I hunted our Clinton County lease on Tuesday. Scraping action is good right now, but it was a windy day, so I saw little deer movement. The wind laid down 15 minutes before quitting time though, and a mature buck walked into the plot five minutes after that.
Hit him just behind where I intended on a hard quartering angle, so had to let him lay up overnight. Tough track, as the arrow stayed in him, so he wouldn't stay in a bed long, but found him just before the rain got serious on Wednesday morning. This lease is well back in the mountains, more than five miles from the closest agriculture, so he is a typical mature buck for the area. He has had a broken ear for several years, so is easy to identify (although I didn't know it was he when I shot him).This is Broken Ear in 2015. I hunted our Clinton County lease on Tuesday. Scraping action is good right now, but it was a windy day, so I saw little deer movement.
The wind laid down 15 minutes before quitting time though, and a mature buck walked into the plot five minutes after that. Hit him just behind where I intended on a hard quartering angle, so had to let him lay up overnight. Tough track, as the arrow stayed in him, so he wouldn't stay in a bed long, but found him just before the rain got serious on Wednesday morning.
This lease is well back in the mountains, more than five miles from the closest agriculture, so he is a typical mature buck for the area. He has had a broken ear for several years, so is easy to identify (although I didn't know it was he when I shot him).This is Broken Ear in 2015. Do you think the rut is later this year? I had a 4 pointer chasing a doe pass me Friday evening. She circled behind me and then he just went on down the trail. She wasn't ready and it seemed it's a little later around there but I might be wrong.I counted 22 does going out to the field Saturday afternoon. I was blessed with a 100 yard shot at one of the does Saturday evening with my Ravin crossbow.
She went about 75 or 100 yards and it was an easy find.I love this bow and there's a better chance of getting something and helping the farmers with their crop damage.
Hello to all forum members. I don't post on here but have bin a member for years always enjoy reading the reviews and the ongoing debates written by some very good writers. I am starting this post with a little bit of back story on me because possibly some may have ran into me in the field or I may have helped some in the woods as well. I started the long range pursuit in 1998 in the mountains of Potter and Tioga County PA.
My hero was a man by the name of Lowell Amand. I watched him for many years and learned from him through his stories of the field told in a place called Hotel Manor, Slate Run PA. He inspired me into the game and molded my direction into gun building, wildcatting, optics, and hunting. So I became what is known as a Pine Creek Shooter, A Big Gun, Mountain To Mountain Man, a Canyon Shooter. These terms mean something to the people of the endless mountains of the northern tier and I hope there are others on here that can identify themselves as my bothers of the ridges.
Over the years I have seen guys disappear from there spots and I always regret never really even learning there names but somehow feel i knew them. Now after returning from two weeks of glassing from bear season to buck season, I wonder if any of them are on this forum. Love to hear the reports and the stories of the season. I don't do any of the social networking stuff so this is the only way I know to reach out is this forum. I hope my personal story will connect with some members of the forum and if you guys are still up in the valley of the pines I will be returning to my rock Saturday morning to glass the distant sidehills. Joel i will try to meet up once i hear from engineering for my work schedule.
I know where your at. My cabin is off big dam hollow road. Im sure we have glassed the same mountains together without knowing each other. This was what i was hoping for when i made the post. Try to connect the guys together that hunt in the birthplace of longrange. Between bear and buck season i counted 10 big guns, not including myself, throughout the mountains of lee fire tower quad.
Seemed like most guys left after tuesday. Good luck shooters going up next week and watch out for the log trucks on cedar mountain. Joel i will try to meet up once i hear from engineering for my work schedule. I know where your at.
My cabin is off big dam hollow road. Im sure we have glassed the same mountains together without knowing each other. This was what i was hoping for when i made the post. Try to connect the guys together that hunt in the birthplace of longrange. Between bear and buck season i counted 10 big guns, not including myself, throughout the mountains of lee fire tower quad. Seemed like most guys left after tuesday.
Good luck shooters going up next week and watch out for the log trucks on cedar mountain. Joe, once i figure out how to post photos i will. I use a tripod for my gun which is a mbr weighted stock 338 improved LM, 32 inch barrel. I then setup two sets of optic tripods. A 20x60x85 spotter next to the gun and 20x80 set of big eyes on the other side. Usually i will hang a rangefinder from the big eyes and a weather station from the spotter.
Before the season i will place surveyors tape somewhere out in the distance to see wind movements. Most of my shots are predetermined before the season, ranged, and logged. The range i shoot mountain to mountain is 450 to 1250 on average. Pipeline shots can go to 1500 yards max factoring elevation changes where im at. I keep drop charts and dope values logged that where shot under field conditions and hold zero at 1000 yards.
I only take shots where i can retrive them also. One thing i never see metioned much in the forums in the ability to recover game. Many times its not the distance of the shot and the kill of the animal but how one will get it out.
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