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2017 will be my first time hunting in over 35 years
Title says it all.
Last year I purchased a Keltec RFB (.308 Win Bullpup) along with a scope and other accessories. For Christmas/Birthday this year I got my Virginia lifetime hunting license (still need to purchase Deer, Turkey, and Bear permits). A friend of mine purchased property(60 acres) a few years back to backs up to State/National forest. He doesn't hunt. They are having deer issues and several visiting Black bears. He and I got to chatting last week and things fell into place.
So for the first time in 35 years I'll be hunting. When I was growing up in WV, we hunted for meat because we couldn't always afford groceries (especially for strikes and shutdowns). We would go out early, sit down in the hollow behind the house, harvest a deer, gut it, drag it back up, wash up and get on the bus for school.
I'm going to make use of the time until hunting session to practice and re-learn what I've forgotten. Also acquiring gear this year as well. I ned to get back out to his property and learn what the deer & bear are doing. So if you have any tips and tricks, I'm all ears.
I'm kinda excited to go deer hunting again. Actually nervous about hunting Black bear because I've never done that before. I need to learn and understand bears better.
Last year I purchased a Keltec RFB (.308 Win Bullpup) along with a scope and other accessories. For Christmas/Birthday this year I got my Virginia lifetime hunting license (still need to purchase Deer, Turkey, and Bear permits). A friend of mine purchased property(60 acres) a few years back to backs up to State/National forest. He doesn't hunt. They are having deer issues and several visiting Black bears. He and I got to chatting last week and things fell into place.
So for the first time in 35 years I'll be hunting. When I was growing up in WV, we hunted for meat because we couldn't always afford groceries (especially for strikes and shutdowns). We would go out early, sit down in the hollow behind the house, harvest a deer, gut it, drag it back up, wash up and get on the bus for school.
I'm going to make use of the time until hunting session to practice and re-learn what I've forgotten. Also acquiring gear this year as well. I ned to get back out to his property and learn what the deer & bear are doing. So if you have any tips and tricks, I'm all ears.
I'm kinda excited to go deer hunting again. Actually nervous about hunting Black bear because I've never done that before. I need to learn and understand bears better.
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-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Take care of your feet. Keep them dry, warm, and well supported in good boots.
Be careful field dressing and recovering larger type game. Cuts and or other injuries can have bad consequences. Take your time.
Enjoy the woods, and good luck.
JAY
Get out and chart the area by grid and find your game trails. Walk 5 acres or 10 acres at a time and work in a methodical fashion, and if you can have a map mark what you find and where. Your phone likely has a GPS system, so use it. Take Geo-location pictures, and associate them with your grid.
After a survey, find the best five spots or so and put out some food and a camera, sequentially and see who shows up. Select three and setup your blinds or stands. If you can afford three cameras, buy three cameras. You will see your game gong and coming through these spots and at what times the move. Want to get more into it? Chart it. Some of the newer cameras can be queried remotely, so keep a graph of the number of pictures or game that come by.
Deer move a lot , but they have a territory like any animal and they will stake out food, water and their territory as will all game.
Herd management. This means knowing your herd, and that means observation over time.
D
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Did that on a property I hunted for years.
It was 65 acres, with over half tillable and the owners residence.
Look forward to the pictures.
Peace is firing my guns or 60 feet below the surface of the water.
I don't know if it's allowed there but I would start a feeding place for deer in your friend's plot. Plant some oats for the summer and when then fall/winter arrives I would feed them with grain. That would be the best place to wait for them and then shoot them. But as I said I don't know if it's ok there. It's a traditional Scandinavian way to get deer to the pot.
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
I've talked with the owners a few times now. I can visit them and theirproperty whenever I want. I have a good friend at USGS. So the topo maps are on their way.
I'll take and post pictures. I'll look into the game cameras.
At one point I had considered a .35 Whelen, a .357magnum Carbine, and a matching .357magnum revolver. But I was trying to stay married and alive at the time. I can at least say now that I've had that black rifle, or pistol, for years and be truthful about it. Could not say that about the firearms with wood furniture. She knows I have only 2 of those. Caleb got the only other one I had.
Which time?
If the wife hadnt let the BIL "fix" the old PC I would still have pics