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Waiting....

To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Visiting Alex?
- George Orwell
Yes Yes so are We.
Man..... sunrise sun set must get confusing.
on a long shot.....don't forget about bullet rise.
Say hi to Orchidman
You go to New Zealand or somewhere.
Finally another pic I can look at without picking up my laptop and holding it upside down.
I dont care what the others say about you bullsi, you are ok in my book.
Yeah He's OK, but he can sure turn my world upside down sometimes.
He upsets my chronic vertigo.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Uh oh. Bad news for santa
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
How much do you have to lead them when they are in the air?
My blind (first, upside down pic) was a bust because the feeder battery died. No idea how long it was out, but it was a couple days since NOTHING came in. Including squirrels. So, After swapping out to a new battery and installing a solar charger - in the cold, driving rain - I switched to another blind that we knew had some trash bucks and axis coming in.
Saturday evening, I was in this blind and watching 3 yearling spike and button bucks screw around under the feeder. Finally, a bunch more whitetail came in, and there was a 2 year old fork horn in the mix. It was getting close to 5 (sundown in 5:30ish these days), so I was just about decided on the fork when an Axis doe came in. She was smallish, and obviously pregnant, so I really did not want to shoot her. So I got back on the 4 point, and was actually starting a trigger pull when the 5 (2x3) point strolled through. He was obviously at least 3 years old, and at least 6 inches taller in the shoulder than any of the other 8-9 deer in sight.
Immediately, plans changed, and then it became a game of trying to get a shot lined up that would not hit one of the other deer on passthorugh. Finally, I had him lined up and shot him through the top of the neck and dropped him on the spot. As he hit the ground, a doe stopped pretty much in my sight picture. I would have hit her as well, but my empty casing on the DPMS LR-308 had bounced off the blind wall and right back into the action, jamming the gun. One in a million shot, looked like a 'stovepipe,' but had the case head sticking out instead of the case mouth. It took a couple of seconds to get that cleared up, and in the meantime, the rest of the deer decided to be somewhere on the other side of the property.
He was a good sized buck, and netted a total of about 47 pounds of meat (minus backstraps and tenderloins) after quartering and deboning that will be turned into a bunch of sausage and stew meat. All it all, a great, muddy, cold, wet hunt.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Aim for the nose, hit the lungs.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Hornady factory load with a 168 gr AMAX. I only have 4 of them left from the box before I need to sight in again
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
https://www.amazon.com/Morakniv-Companion-Outdoor-Stainless-4-1-Inch/dp/B00BTJKB00/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513700529&sr=8-1&keywords=mora%2Bstainless%2Bcompanion&th=1
this season, and right out of the box started using it. I made it through skinning and quartering 3 whitetail and half an Axis deer before it became noticeably dull in use. I just spent 2 minutes on a leather strop and brought it back to shaving sharp.
If you don't have 2-3 of these in your hunting kit, you are missing one of the better deals in field blades.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov