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    dove hunting/eating

    Here's what I do because my cousin taught me this with dove and quail. You debone each piece of meat taking the 2 boneless breast pieces of meat. Then you dip those in egg and flour them to get that breading on them. Then you fry them until the breading sets on them and turns light brown. Then...
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    Food plots & muzzleloaders

    Yea my uncle and I tilled up my plots with his Kubota and rototiller and this land had never ever been farmed and was really soddy but it cut through the sod like butter.
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    Food plots & muzzleloaders

    In Western Illinois I set up 5 different food plots ranging in sizes. The small ones work great for attracting deer to your stands but only work for nutritional purposes if you have enough of them making up a good amount of forage. I plant clover and chickory mixes mostly but have mixed in...
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    Hog Hunting w/ .50

    We had a great time! My dad got a 170 lb. sow with his .50 and maxi hunters and I tried my best to make a stalk happen with the bow but couldn't get close enough or have a clear shot due to the thicket they live in. Ended up getting one with the 30-06. Even though this was a fenced 500 acre...
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    Do you REALLY hunt??

    THANK YOU!!! People like this is why I quit spending as much time around this forum. Way too many people giving advice that hunt like 1 weekend a year. Instead I spend my time in the woods and fields, much better to learn first-hand. To be honest I wounded and never found a small doe this year's...
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    Hog Hunting w/ .50

    Well, for my senior year graduation gift we are going to Edgar Springs, MO to hunt hogs. My dad wanted to use his .50 cal great plains and he has roundball and TC Maxi hunters which both shoot great. On a 200 lb. hog will the ball pass through if hit behind the shoulder? I was planning on using...
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    Rat's Another hunting season in the books

    Our ducks got all spread out this season due to the lack of cold fronts in November. It really sucked to get up and hunt and only see 5 ducks on a hole that usually you would see 200 or better.
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    Finally Got Some Meat Hangin'

    Ehh, not really. I'll just say this. That thing was the size of a coonhound after I skinned the deer. I'd say that thing weighed 75 lb. on the hoof and once i gutted it I carried that thing with no trouble at all. Cut every little scrap of meat off the bone and scrapped up only 15 lb. of...
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    Finally Got Some Meat Hangin'

    We kill a lot of deer off that place every year, probably 8 or 9 from the whole group from bow season to late winter season but so far this year every time a gun season rolled around it was too warm, like 50s or 60s so we didn't want to hang a deer and then every time I whacked one with the bow...
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    Finally Got Some Meat Hangin'

    It's been a long process but in the last couple weeks I've went out deer hunting a few times to try and get a deer to butcher for my grandparent's who said they'd like a deer and I figure I'd best do it because it's their land I hunt on. So I went out a few times bowhunting and never had much in...
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    More Stinkin partridge

    Are you kidding me? I'd trade our deer population out here for a good wild bird population any day of the week! Deer hunting gives you a lot of meat in the freezer but if there's anything worth while it's going after upland birds behind a good bird dog. If we had more birds around here I'd...
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    Muzzleloader Mag. Article

    Yea but the bucks still give you lots of good meat and some decoration for the wall :haha:. The other night bowhunting one of our newer stands I saw 2 different shooter bucks. One 120" and a 160". I had a smaller 8 pt. come 5 yards from my stand but he was a little small so I didn't shoot. I've...
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    Muzzleloader Mag. Article

    If you read Muzzleloader Magazine check out this month's article in the "On the Game Trail" section my article on my first muzzleloader deer finally got published almost 3 years after it happened. And it's just in time for this year's deer season where I'll try and get my 4th deer with real...
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    Quacks and flint

    Yea man that's how I started. I just jump shot or pass shot woodies when they flew over. Then I bought a dozen decoys and a call then tried that which is much more satisfying.
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    Quacks and flint

    I got a lot of respect for you guys that hunt waterfowl with a muzzleloader. I got bit by the waterfowl addiction last year and started building my spread (started as a dozen shell geese and a dozen floating ducks) and I had trouble killing much last season. Mostly because my calling and decoy...
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    Blinds

    Give me a 15 foot ladder stand for deer hunting, a big fat oak to sit under for spring turkey, and for waterfowl I'll choose a layout or a hand brushed in homemade blind. Hunting out of a deer stand gives you a lot more advantages than you old timers care to admit. You fail to realize that your...
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    Ethical Dilemma?

    Now that's a slick little device! :grin: Wish I would've thought of that!
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    Fowler Possible?

    Don't do it! Those things are way to valuable anymore and are very collectible and you would be paying a lot of money to lose a ton of value on your gun. If you're dead set on getting something that'll shoot shot get a TC Renegade that has a rifle and smooth barrel with it and sell the Cherokee...
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    Ethical Dilemma?

    No I wouldn't do that and yes I'm sure it's illegal, at least it is in most states. Out west they don't just take their "favorite cuts" they cut out all the meat and pack it back in so they don't have to take the whole deer. If it's really that big of a physical issue about dragging in a deer it...
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    Baiting yes or no

    There's some new techniques that may be catching on that may be able to reclaim some of the upland habitat but it'll never be like it once was. What they're trying to get started is for people grass buffers between their fields and timber because what some guys are toying with they are finding...
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