Outdoorsman Thread

[garddogg56]

how'd ya know wife's pet.

[jerryd6818]

How'd you get him to play dead like that? I didn't think you could train a tree rat to come home for dinner.

[johnny twoshoes]

Treefarmer, looks like a great set up to me. Bets of luck filling those tags this season, seven weeks is a long time with a lot of opportunities!!!

GD, that's some good shooting my friend.
I'm happy when I can knock them out of a tree with a 12 gauge!!!

[Mumbleypeg]

Nice shootin, dog! I use the same technique to get rid of em around here - lead poisoning! Do like squirrel stew tho, so they do have one redeeming value! Don't think I could hit one with a short barrel pistol. In fact I once missed a coyote at about 30 yards with a 9mm. And it was standing still too.

Ken

[garddogg56]

BELEIVE ME FELLOWS IT TOOK THE WHOLE MAGAZINE

[zp4ja]

BELEIVE ME FELLOWS IT TOOK THE WHOLE MAGAZINE

Funny stuff on the reply dogg as quoted. I bet it did take a mag to get that with that shortie. Good shot my friend! Jerry

[ken98k]

Here is the bear our new friend was able to tag.
Apparently this bear wasn't alone, but it was leading the way and walked within twenty yards of the hunter when he dropped her with a .257 Roberts.

IMG_2923.JPG

IMG_2917.jpg

I'll bet the other bear that it was with was it's mother.

[johnny twoshoes]

Haha could be!
Definitely an easy one to haul out of the woods that's for sure.

[jlw257]

We're over run with coyote, so my neighbor started to cleaning some out.

[Old Hunter]

Wow, that's a load of yotes- all good yotes too- nice work! OH

[garddogg56]

Them yotes look good dead nice job

[Colonel26]

We're over run with coyote, so my neighbor started to cleaning some out.

That's one of the prettiest pictures I've seen in a long time.

[Mumbleypeg]

Nice! Looks like some big uns in that hunch too.

Ken

[johnny twoshoes]

Great job thinning the ever growing heard.... Or pack I guess.
We hear them all throughout the summer nights here at the farm, we've hunted them before, but I think we need some more know how.

[zp4ja]

We're over run with coyote, so my neighbor started to cleaning some out.

That's one of the prettiest pictures I've seen in a long time.

Funny, exactly what I was thinking Wade! Great bunch. Thanks for sharing Larry.

I recently got bit by this bug of Coyote hunting. It is a game that takes skill of a different way than most hunts. I am HOOKED! There is a tournament here at the end of the month I will join if I can make the time. 50 bucks per man, up 1 to 3 man teams. Most song dogs after 3 days at end of tournament wins the pot. All sorts of side bets like most yote head shots, most bobcats, most yote shotgun kills and the list goes on.

Call them in is a rush though after 3 hunts, no yote yet. I have all the gear, just still learning the tactics as I said, it is an addicting "game" and sometimes the yotes win. I'll get there with some more time under my belt doing it. I learned a heck of a lot already, mainly what doesn't work, at this point. Really fun stuff. Looking hard for a Bobcat too (rifle, not leg trap) and will do a full taxidermy mount when I get one. I could trap but not my thing and nothing against those who do. Just thought of any animal suffering with a "caught and likely broken foot" stuck there for 3 days just is not my personal idea of humane and sportsmanship, even on a Coyote. To each his own on that.

[1967redrider]

Did a check in on my hunting hut at the farm today, temperature hovering right around 32 degrees. Recently I added some turkey feathers for decoration, not sure where the French burlap curtains came from. My story on the turkey feathers is a bobcat treed and killed it, then a black bear came along and chowed the carcass. Makes for an interesting story! Had the little propane heater rolling out the heat which made it a pleasant inside temperature for warming up. One picture has my trusted steed, another shows a white lined logging road just above the fall line which is the main access road up the mountain.

[treefarmer]

That's a fine lookin' shootin' house, 1967redrider! Puts ours to shame . Your pictures don't give a clue about how high the floor is from ground level ? My shootin' house floor is 14', I have to climb a ladder to climb into it. Wish I had built stairs to it when I was able, it would make the climb so much easier. I built my stand in 2001 and it has served me well, it's only about 150 yards from our house.
Here's a picture of the 1st deer killed from that shootin' house, I believe that was Thanksgiving Day. I was a lot younger and more agile back then .
Treefarmer

[Colonel26]

Very good pics of those shooting houses!

TF, is that your daughter in the picture with you looking at that deer?

Jerry, I'd love to get into coyote hunting. Lord knows we are over run with them here. Just aren't enough hours in the day.

[1967redrider]

Great picture and story, treefarmer!

The back of my hut is ground level but the front facing downhill is 4' off the ground. Pretty steep where the hut sits but it levels off about 100 yards below. I call the ATV trail leading up to it The Elevator because it's so steep.

Thanks for the kind words guys.

[treefarmer]

That's our oldest daughter, Wade, she's not the school teacher. Here's the school teacher and one of her nephews.
Treefarmer
sorry about the extra pic

[Paladin]

Holy Cow!! Check out this battle between Texas bucks. Be sure to watch to the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-574Lu-xEU&app=desktop

Ray

[philco]

Wow ! Like professional wrasslin' ! LOL

[treefarmer]

This is a text I got yesterday afternoon. Here's how it came about.

Got to the shootin' house a little before 4pm, it was sprinkling and about 55 degrees. The automatic feeder went off at 3:55, at 4:05 a single, small doe came out of the rough woods on the west side of the planted pines. She worked her way to the feeder and stayed around it for the next half hour.
I love for a single deer to come to a food plot or feeder. They become your eyes and ears. When they go to starring at something, it's time to use the binoculars and figure out what has the deer's attention.

I finally spotted a big doe way back in the pines and beyond her another deer that I couldn't see its head. Finally the big doe started to work her way towards the feeder and when she moved the other deer moved enough to see it was a buck.

In the meantime 3 more deer had come out of the woods on the west, a doe and 2 yearlings. They headed straight for the feeder located in the pines.

As the big doe headed toward the other deer and the feeder, the buck began his chase. He ran the doe around in the pines several laps. She would run off and he would follow with his nose to the ground. They made another lap and he finally stopped where I had a clear shot. Now you understand the text message from Miss Joy .

Our woods are so wet I knew I couldn't get the deer out on the cart and I didn't want to bog the 4X4 pickup down, so I took the 4 wheel drive tractor to retrieve the 8 point buck.
Here's a couple of pictures of the retrieval.
Treefarmer

[jlw257]

WOW TF, you got a good one

Larry

[Colonel26]

Ya got meat! Very good TF!