Who's huntin?
 

I've got the countdown clock running. 9 days 13 hous 25 minutes and counting.

We're going out just as the rut is kicking into high gear, there'll be no nighttime moon and it's been raining in my hunting grounds for the last week. This is going to be awesome. In Kalifornia we never get to hunt the rut so this is a first. The cool summer and early fall cool-off has caused them to start rutting almost 2 months early.

I'll be hittin' the timber for about 7 days. Hoping to come back with this year's supply of meat. Last years kill was just finished off about a week or 2 ago. Man I hate store bought meat.

I'm gunna use my M1 carbine this year. Sick of heavy ass guns. I don't need a scope. I need more bullets. hehehehe .

Now, tell us your hunting plans.

Need a smaller gun...Otherwise id love to. Only real rifle i have is a 7mm Mag, and it most likely is overkill.

My hunting plans don't start untill mid October. I will be scouting the woods we have behind the house untill the season starts in November.

I bought a new rifle with the money I got for my birthday. It's a Marlin XL7 in 30-06, in case you were wondering. It's a great shooting gun, I sighted it in at 100 yards in five shots. I hope to find more time to practice shooting with it.

7-mag is fine. Shoot em in the neck or really low on the body and you won't mess up a lot of meat. I know what it does at close range and if you smack it in the shoulder... bad things (my first deer was 35 feet away broadside 3/4 down angle and I hit him smack through the heart... wrecked a lot of meat). If you just open up the chest cavity and their heart and lungs fall out or break their head off though it's usually a pretty quick drop.

My 2nd deer with the same gun, shot just behind the leg a bit low on the ribs from 65 yards and it split that chest open like an overfilled balloon. Lungs destroyed, heart bruised badly, both hanging out of the chest. Good blood trail for about 50ft then he collapsed and died.

There's no such thing as too much gun if you aim somewhere appropriate. If you hit it with that 7 mag almost anywhere but an extremity it's going to go down. The damage is tremendous. So just pick a spot like the neck, throat or low on the middle rib cage.

Bow season begins mid-October. I go here and there during bow season. Muzzle comes in mid- November but thats not for me. Rifle comes in the weekend after Thanksgiving. I have a spot in the woods where I use a 12 guage shotty. Its scoped and also has a rifled barrel that shoots 3-inch slugs. I have several fields to hunt. I use the trusty Remington 270 bolt action for her. Mornings im usually in the woods, evenings ill move to the field. Happy huntin' everyone.

Dad and I went..there was this fucking camp..of asian people...or w/e the hell they are...

Like...a shit ton of them..apparently theres a word for them, they get into this huge ass group..and ruin everyone elses hunting trip.

Needless to say. We're here at home now.

I hear asians taste like "chicken|"

Man I would love to go hunting, I have never been.

yeah, assholes. That's what we call them. They'll get a group of 10-20 guys and go out and scare the shit out of all the game, shoot a tiny ass pitiful tick ridden buck and act like it was anything but a barely legal shit buck. They leave a crap ton of trash strewn about and worst of all... they cook that ass smelling dog shit full of dried fish in the field. The last thing you want in the field is strong smelling food. They never do a diet flush to clear their skin of the smell of their food so if you see em, hunt somewhere else cuz' the game knows they're there and they leave.

What I will give them credit for is they usually try and get in pretty far. I have learned to find places full of road hunters and then get in a mile or so. Plenty of game there.
get a hunter safety cert in your state, come on out. I'll take ya.

Pretty much. Opening day I was posted ...right about the time the sun comes up...I hear one of these fuck nuts romping around in the bushes behind me... I don't know where the hell he came from...but I thought about shooting him....

Say i were to use the 7mag on a deer. What would be the best place to shoot one if it didnt have a trophy rack or anything, while ruining only the least amount of meat? Also whats it take to be certified? The thing that i dont like about that 7mag is yea, the damage really is tremendous. Had to shoot a rabbid dog with it once, was nothing but gore.

7mm mag produces nasty results, if you don't want it mounted then shoot it in the neck, throat or lower rib cage where the isn't much meat like r3d said earlier.

To get certified you have to take a hunter safety education course. Look up or call your wildlife resource agency in your state and find out when and where these courses take place. Usually they are held over a weekend and are free or a very small fee, but worth it.

Exactomundo.

For those that don't understand: velocity creating kinetic energy for penetration is only a small part of how high powered rifle (those exceeding 2000fps) bullets work. When the bullet hits the bow shock causes the tissue to spread away from the bullet (only the front of it really ever touches much, the sides are partially spared the contact). This causes a temporary hole that can easily (with a 7mag) be 2 feet across. It's like putting the bullet into the critter in the middle, and then inflating it to 2 feet across for a split second and then deflating it again. Damage is done. The permanent cavity is all the tissue that was actually crushed by the frontal aspect of the bullet and is a much smaller hole. You usually see the effect of the temporary cavity on the exit wounds. They can be several times the expanded diameter of the bullet. Just depends on how fast it was moving when it exited.

So, when I use a 7mag any more (rare... my shoulder hates that gun) I aim for the middle neck. If it hits anywhere on their neck it'll fukkin near blow their head clean off. My first deer at 35 feet with that gun and a broadside shot blew up the whole right side of the thing. Bloodshot meat for 2 feet from the entrance wound. That's why the neck is so great... not much volume of tissue for the shock wave to propagate down. Usually just breaks the neck and blows up the big arteries in the neck. They go down pretty fast.

Haha, would love to see that in slow motion.

Bullet impact on ballistic gel with shockwave propagation visible and exit wound exacerbation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvrr9s_M-4

Bow shock build approaching mach 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wCt...eature=related


Notice in the 2nd one how the wave gets wider and wider the closer you get to mach 3... Mach 1 is about 1150fps. 7mm Remington Magnum makes 2900-3400fps.


Here's a deer shot in the neck. Notice the speed of death. A very humane way to harvest das critter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0CrWCImd88

This one you can see the head and neck become 2 objects only held together by skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avqLk09CQo

We don't start til November... I use my trusty Remington 870 20ga. Slug zone rocks! I may go for some pheasant in october if I can find time to get away from school

OKay now heres another question, do i need any type of liscense to hunt on my own property? We own 138 acres of land, and its pretty avid with deer. What do i need to hunt on it, same thing?

My first deer that I shot was with a .50 muzzleloader with 150g of black powder and I think a 180 or 200 grain bullet, I hit it in the exact middle of the neck and needless to say that sucker dropped like a sack of potatoes.
You need to check with your wildlife resource agency, here in TN you have to register for a landowners agreement, basically saying that close relatives of the landowner can hunt on the property without having a fishing/hunting license(not hunters safety course license) or having to tag the deer.

i miss hunting, i use to go when my grandparents had some land but now i have no place near. my stepbrother always asks me if i want to go with him but his lease is far and he usually takes off days in the middle of the week to go. i have an old british 303 that was my grandfather's. that is what i use to hunt with. that beast hasn't been fired for years

in most states you need some sort of paperwork. In Kommiefornia in general you may not take or pursue any large game, small game, fur bearing animal, bird, or fish without a license and when they're in season. The definitions of each of those types of critter are fucking idiotic and long. Very few critters fall outside one of those definitions, more over only specific critters which have been labeled varmints or pests (and a couple invasive species) are able to be hunted even on private property without a license. Reptiles are mostly not included. Any that they're worried about are protected species and can't even be approached (like you'd want to).

Even invasive species require a license. Hunting or fishing of course as appropriate.

That's the ticket. Make sure you get or have taken in the past a hunter safety course though anyway. They refresh the courses at the local level periodically and may let you in on local law that you didn't know about. Trust me, you don't want a fish and game ticket in any state. They'll spank your pee pee and take away your birthday. Game laws are vigorously enforced.

Go with him. This is good bonding time. Your sister will thank you. Who cares if it's far away. He's invited you. Take a vacation, plan it out a year in advance so nothing is left to chance. Take your opportunity to enjoy being in our wild places and killing our wild things while you still can. Clean your rifle and start practicing. .303 is a solid killing machine and any gun that fires it was made for warfare and should be suitable to casual fauna slaughter. There's nothing on the continent I would feel under-gunned against with a .303 in my hands.

Wildlife management is no joke here either. I wouldn't want to be caught doing anything illegal because they fine your ass big time.

In kommiefornia they can do alot more then fine you.

Like...take your truck, your gear, and your weapon..and then throw you in jail. And then fine you.

and ban you from hunting for 5 years or more.

Same here.

I'm from Kommiefornia.;)

escaped huh... lucky.

Just barely. I miss the beach, Santa Monica and Laguna FTMFW.

So any update of what i would need to hunt on my property? Also, for say a mid-large sized deer, my main options for rounds are between 145-160grain rounds. Should i buy any certain type of rounds? Or just stick with something simple such as these?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shoot...Tz_stype%3DGNU

any bullet from a high power rifle is more than enough.

call your state department of fish and game for what you'll need.

K cool, will do.