Brad6639

Well I guess were going to be the lung bustas, that seems to be the preference so far of those who had voted. How do we get that added to our main name?

Yup, the old 30-06 is responsible for plenty of elk deaths, I have an aunt who thiinks you have to have a .40 cal to kill a deer THAT alone an elk, but she dont hunt, all she does is read balistic tables. I figure at a reasonable range, a 30-06 should be more than enough for even the biggest elk. Shot placement is way more important than the speed behind it.

Whoooohoooo! I guessed right, I saved all my vacation for this time. I have the 26th (saturday through the 16th off. (26 total days, counting the weekends) Its my first complete year of working for the state of Wi and I have 3 weeks of paid vacation coming up for the entire rut, how lucky can a guy get!! Im hoping my Fred Bear instinct will get to play a tune!

No the car was groaning at how everyone thinks they need to have an import to have a good car anymore. Gm is the only way I roll.

You might have a bent spindle, it could make noise if you were turning and its bent, that or your brake rotor could also be bent, sometimes its not so noticable when going straight.

I have wanted a hunter safety system for a long time now, but I have always thought they are twice as much as they should be. I finally said screw it and dropped 110 bucks for one and Im glad I did, but I still think they are extremely overpriced. I realise you cant put a price on safety, and I wouldnt, but there are a lot cheaper harnesses out there that would work too, and I think they would sell a lot more of these if they lowered the price a lot. I was very dissapointed that they didnt even include a linemans belt, apparently thats seperate and 30 dollars more on top of the already overpriced harness. Oh well I guess the conveniance will be worth the price and it has a built in deer drag which is nice. I opted for the one that is realtree and blaze orange version. Im very pleased with the qaulity, but I think they should be more econimically priced so more people would use them and be safer.

I used to have these on my old bows, but Im not sure they are still out there. Nap used to make them and distrbute them, they were little stickers that said "stay calm, pick a spot" and then ussualy a thunderhead logo or spitfire etc. I was just curious if anyone had one they would part with or sell? I always liked them because it is a little reminder to calm down for a few seconds and seal the deal, and I honestly think they worked well for me in crunch ime. If anyone had one, I would be very very grateful as I dont know if they are still available anymore.

On my longest rattling session I maybe do 30 seconds, and thats for a full blown fight. Right now if I rattled at all, it would be tickling and nothing more until the weekend before halloween. Anything more than that might scare them this early, but light sparring is going on now Im sure.

I always start thinking rut the weekend before halloween. I dont get too carried away until I see bucks on the prowl or does being chased.

Shining is legal in Wisconsin guys......

I used to reload and when I did, you could buy 25 pounds of shot for 12 bucks, a friend of mine told me that its now up to nearly $50.00! I think its the cost of lead thats making it so expensive. I bought 30-06 shells (165 grain core loks) but it was the same price for 150 and 180 grains, for 11 and change a box, and Remington is offering $5 back per box by mail in rebate. I dont know why thats so cheap but thats the cheapest Ive ever seen it!

I thought I would post an experiance I just had with summit treestands. Back in 2001 I bought a viper xls and got many great hunts out of it. I went to use it this year and noticed a weld had come undone and the bottom platform was not safe unless it was rewelded. So I figured Id call up Summit and see what they would charge to reweld it. I figured it would be 30 or 40 bucks by the time shipping was figured in. What I never expected was the nice lady said whats your address and I told her and she said allright, youll get a box with a new platform in it and then just take everything off yours and just send us the broken platform. I figured that was well above and beyond, and thats not the best of it , they took care of the shipping both ways, AND, when I got the platform, it was a brand spanking new one ( I thought I would get a remanufactered one, which would have been more than fair even that way). I also got a brand new pack of summit backpack straps for it, and they even tossed in some of the stirups. Thats reallly great when you figure my original one didnt even come with the stirups. I cant say enough about their service, its simply the best I have ever found, and they didnt even ask why it broke, or how, they just said send us the broken one. They have the best customer service I have ever seen, in any form, and you can bet, the only treestands youll ever see me buying are summits. Its so nice to know that some companies still care about their customers. (P.s. The box that it came in said 5 year warranty, and mine was a 2001 and they still warrantied it no questions asked!) You cant beat that kind of service!

I have three weeks of vacation coming up on the 26th so I had several items that I wanted to pick up for my rut hunt. I went into gander mountain expecting to just get a scent lok tote, but ended up leaving with the tote, a new truefire bow release, a nikon rangefinder tether, some montec practice broadheads (now I dont have to shoot my good ones anymore and I can be even more confident with my set up), some boot pads for laying down scent, and a mad buck growl call. I am so totally pumped, I cant wait for vacation to get here! Now I just need to get soem estrous scent and a new dripper and Im all set!

Oh and by the way, welcome to the forumns!!

Well what I have found is unless you have a very easy access to a stand for a morning hunt, they often times dont pay off (im talkign about walking in when its still dark). In the early season I seldom ever hunt the mornings unless its a spot where I can literallly walk in as quiet as a mouse and be on a travel corrider between feeding and a bedding area. Otherwise you spook more deer then you will see in the mornings hunt. I would avoid walking through the fields at all costs, and woudlnt go in the thick stuff unless you have a real easy trail to sneak in on without brush rubbing up against you. Now during the rut, Ill go in as its just breaking light and then get in the stand, that way you dont make a tons of noise getting in because you can see without the aid of a flashlight that shows you whats 10 feet in front of you. During the rut you want to sit all day if you can, so im willing to give up hunting the first few minutes so I can sneak in real easy and maybe set up a decoy and put up some scent. Anything like that helps, and its easier to get things right when you can see what you are doing and what your about to step on, and that way you can see where to put the scent so it lines up with a shooting lane. This is what I do, and it has paid off very well for me over the years.

I clean my optima with a wet brush saturated with sabot shooter, then ill take it off and run a dry patch through it to get the loose stuff, then a few wet ones and then back to dry until its clean. Then when Im done, I take some bore butter and load a patch up with it and then run that down the barrel, then I oil up the rest fo the metal. I cant imagin not oiling my ml barrel, it seems to me that was your problem right there. Before shooting it the next time i run a clean patch down it to get the butter out and then load her up. Ive never had this gun not go off, even in the rain and even after the gun had been loaded for two weeks with powder and pellets and hunted with during rain and even snow.

I saw one of these the other day at Gander Mountain, and I like the idea of it. Im sick of playing the scent free bag thing and never having enough room, and Im also tired of the cheap rubbermaid totes that break and let scent in very easily. Has anyone tried one of these, they look like a great idea.

I m a firm Believer that shot placement is way more critical than the bullet or caliber. Id rather shoot a deer good with a .223 rather than bad with a .300. Shes going to be using the gun because its what we have, and it is legal, so like I said earlier Im not interested in hearing its light because I already know that. I just wanted to hear what others have found. I guess the true test will be on a deer, but I figure a compound bow generates less than a 100 fot pounds of energy and kills very efficiaently, granted thats with a broadhead but a bullet hits harder and should expand to soemthing similar to an arrow hole.

I had a renzo doe decoy out a couple weeks ago and had a doe come in to it. She was very skittish by its prescense I think. I would think a doe decoy shoudlnt effect them either way, more of a confidence type decoy. It might be a few weeks to early for the buck decoy to work well though.

They must be handing them out to just anyone now, Im still awaiting mine. Maybe next year is my year.

My sis is going to hunt with me and my dad this weekend during the t zone hunt, and all I have that wouldnt kick her to the ground is a rossi .223. I bought some of the 55 grain remington core loks based on a gunsmiths recomendation, and Im going to make sure she keeps the shots within 50 yards max. What I want to know is what foot pounds will this load generate at 50 yards. I couldnt find it anywhere but my gunsmith said line up to milk jugs and if you get penetration past the second one its enough to bring down a deer. I personally use a 30-06 so Ive never had to worry about this problem. I know its light so I really dont care to hear the "its too small for a deer" type posts, just some info on this load before she shoots it tonight. Also, anyone else ever shoot a deer with a .223 or know anyone that has? Im wondering how much damage was done and if the bullet went all the way through. Im also limiting her to a broadside shot behind the shoulder and she has the patiance to wait for the shot.

I would think any rifle scope would work on any muzzleloader. I know ussually the bigger problem than recoil is the parrallax (sp?) setting. a lot of rifle scopes are set at 100 yards, most small rimfire scopes are set for 25, and most mls are probly somewhere in between. I do know that a pistol scope needs to be built the strongest due to the extremely high recoil. Im just using a 30 dollar tasco 3x9x40 , and its on my ml and Ive shot deer out to 226 yards with it, and its been on there for 4 years now. I have an identical scope on a deer rifle, and Ive yet to have a problem with either of them.

I just wish Wi would do something diffrent. They have used to same teqnique for 5 years and it has been proven that its not working at all. We have followed their rules that are intended to lower the numbers or "Eradicate" them as they call it. We have played along with thier dumb rules and earn a bucks and all of that, and whats the result, the biggest deer herd We have ever had, and they were the ones that admitted that! We have spent millions of dollars on this, and as a result we have more deer now then what we started with, Id say its time for a change. ..............

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Im not trying to start an argument either, thats the last thing I want, all Im saying is I was super concerned about CWD for two years, and then when I saw what it does and all the money that we have wasted and been ridiculed in every major outdoor magazine, it made me less concerned. It doesnt spread like our biologists thought. I think in 5 years like 146 or so have tested positive. We havest around 400,000 deer per year. When you multiply 400,000 times 5 (5 years), and you come up with 146 confirmed cases, its so minute that it isnt worth talking about. More deer probly get hit by lightning each year then die from cwd. Like i said, Im right in the heart of this entire thing, I have seen what it has become, and to me it isnt worth spending billions of dollars a year to have a handful test positive each year for cwd. I heard that the tests cost 60 bucks per deer, and we have tested millions of them. You do the math on that one, but it is just a pain in Wisconsin's side that the DNR wont drop. The funny thing was back in 2000, there was a brocure that the DNR had out saying how we needed to find a way to reduce the antlerless deer herd, and then the next year CWd comes out and suddenly tons of antlerless deer are getting shot, which we did need, but we didnt need to shoot them and heap them up to be burned and wasted. It is a discrage in Wi and Im against it because nothing is changing and we keep having new laws made every year making it even harder to shoot deer. There basically is no bowseason anymore, they went and let everyone start rifle hunting in the middle of the rut which totally snubs their noses at bowhunters. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and debate is great, all Im saying is Ive lived this for 5 years and seen nothing happening except millions of dollars being wasted and the deer are as healthy as they ever were.