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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 09:17:53 AM

Title: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 09:17:53 AM: Here is the scenario. Choose your weapon.

You have a rifle and are at 75 yards.
You have a bow and are at 35 yards.
You have a muzzelloader (legal for wa)and are at 45 yards.

The wind is in your face. He obviosuly knows somehting is up. You have been standing there and he has fed into this position. This is a general tag for your weapon choice, day 3 of a 5 day hunt.

Lets hear some of you scenarios or what you would do........
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Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: actionshooter on March 30, 2008, 09:21:35 AM: :mgun:
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 09:24:08 AM: now now, he's not a wolf
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: actionshooter on March 30, 2008, 09:24:26 AM: Just kidding, had to do it.

He doesn't look like a real big buck, still 2 days left.
Obviously not a good shot, I'd just freeze and see where he goes.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Ray on March 30, 2008, 09:24:54 AM: Gosh that's a lot of brush. I suppose since this is the deer hunting forum it's a deer because otherwise I might mistake it for a sasquatch.

I don't think my arrow would fly through that stuff very well and I would worry about killing sasquatch.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: mossback91 on March 30, 2008, 09:27:12 AM: Not a very clean shot.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Ray on March 30, 2008, 09:33:34 AM: It's a bad shot even if the brush wasn't there though. The tree is covering him up too much and is a frontal shot. I just found the deer in the photo. I couldn't even make it out earlier. :chuckle: You didn't say if we knew he was legal or not...
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Bofire on March 30, 2008, 09:38:56 AM: Wait, patience is a virtue, they say.

Me? I jus wanna kill sumthin!! >:( LOL

Carl
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 09:42:22 AM: Thats part of the scenario. Can't tell in that picture, or at least I couldn't.

For those of you that held still, good job. The deer approached. He is now at 25 yards, all weapon types, he has continued his milling up the hill and has now entered a small opening and is now starting to move away from you....now you can see his points.
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the wind is still in your face, and the animal is aware of something but not upset.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 09:43:18 AM: oops sorry.
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Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: robodad on March 30, 2008, 10:09:31 AM: I would have to say, it all depends on how much gas money I have left !! It is deffenitly not a big buck but is legal. I guess you have to first decide if you are on a meat hunt or a horn hunt.(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10689/3.gif)
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: kramman on March 30, 2008, 10:18:24 AM: had that same scenario happen to me in the 1st pic. on a whitey a few years back i could only see antler and ear deer turned and bonded away forever.the second and third pics being amuzzle hunter and having to eat tag soup the last 2 years thats a dead deer
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Coasthunterjay on March 30, 2008, 10:20:39 AM: Well first of all i have noticed that about 80% of the time that when you have been seen but not winded that if you crouch down towards the ground as close as you can you will just disapear and the deer will go back to what it was doing and foraging for food...

Also the first picture at 75 yards through open brush is not that bad of a shot as long as he had taken a few more steps from being behind the big tree. Thick crazy olympic Penninsula brush, no way in hell, i would never take a shot through big brush....LOL......you could easily take a shot through a small opening with a rifle or a muzzleloader with the distances that were given...Bow, deffinantly not....I would not take a shot with a bow if there was one branch in my way....Jim Shokely has a video where he teaches you to make key Shots through difficult situations and growth and finding that little gap is all you have to do.......Thats comming from a very responsable and world renouned hunter and sportsman.....

But i wouldnt have taken the shot because even in the first picture you can see that he is not a big buck....Ultimately things do not line up in the first picture and a shot wouldnt have ever been thought of...Now if he had a nice rack or i could see mass then i might wait further....Ide let him walk a few more steps before i would think of taking a shot but if he didnt come out of the brush, then i would wait for a gap to shoot through. even a small gap(if i could see he was a bigger deer, but he isnt)....at that distance i am more than confidant with my abilities to shoot through a small hole and make it succesfully with a rifle!

But i am not the type of person to take a shot unless i 100% think that i make it or if i think it is a good animal....I am a very mathotical shooter and take my hunting very seriously....And before i shoot i always count points outloud so that my friends and people im hunting with can here me counting them.......That way you dont walk up onto a deer praying to good that it has a third point.....

Just remember like most have said already, most times more than not....If you wait a shot will present its self to you......It may not be a big deer, but it will keep you from questioning your self and shooting something that you didnt really want.....

Two more days is plenty of time.

:twocents:
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Red Dawg on March 30, 2008, 10:50:30 AM: I would stand very still and wait to see how big he was. Once he came out of the brush and noticed that he was a young 3x2 with some potential later on I would not pull the trigger.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: WildBear on March 30, 2008, 12:41:11 PM: Sounds a lot like my first opportunity years back. I made one move and it was gone! Never found out for sure what it really was. Given the circumstances here, with the brush. I have my 30-30.... 2x3 with what looks to be a healthy body, I'd blast him! Meat in the freezer! If its general season, plenty of time for another bear...
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 12:48:09 PM: For those of you who let him walk, good for you, this nice looking 2.5 year old will live to be bigger next year to temp your socks off.

For those of you that waited and the animal moved out and you got the shot and you now have a freezer full of perfect venison.

For those of you that tried to needle a bullet lengthwise through the brush on a deer you weren't even sure was legal. :nono:

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Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Red Dawg on March 30, 2008, 05:54:12 PM: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: saylean on March 30, 2008, 06:00:17 PM: I got in on this too late....would have waited..(brush shot?..nope)...after it was clearly visible and legal....BOOM! No question...but thats just me.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: PolarBear on March 30, 2008, 06:12:43 PM: I'm kinda late too but I would have let him walk even after I got a good look at him. He's just a baaaayby! Give him 3 or 4 years.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: saylean on March 30, 2008, 06:21:11 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on March 30, 2008, 06:12:43 PM
I'm kinda late too but I would have let him walk even after I got a good look at him. He's just a baaaayby! Give him 3 or 4 years.

No...these are just babies....MUAHAHAHAHAHHA

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Perhaps next year, I will wait for a 2X1 black tail.... ;)

Sorry..not trying to take over the thread...just making fun of myself...

And in my own defense..it was my first bear in the pic above...I thought it was bigger than a black lab when I first saw it...I thought it was at least a great dane...lol
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 30, 2008, 06:52:52 PM: You're doing a good job. ;)

Thats ok, Longtat posts pics of smaller animals than that everyday, and he is keeping the local taxidermist in business and thats OK too.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: andrew_12gauge on March 30, 2008, 07:35:05 PM: i kinda missed the boat on this one but im lettin him walk, if im gonna kill a little buck,it aint gonna be a muley, there is always northeast late whitetail and i can at least get a spike up there most every year
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: LongTatLaw on March 30, 2008, 07:54:56 PM: saylean,

bones is right!!!
urs are just small

mine are SUCKLINGS.....lol
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: mossback91 on March 30, 2008, 08:06:02 PM: Quote from: LongTatLaw on March 30, 2008, 07:54:56 PM
saylean,

bones is right!!!
urs are just small

mine are SUCKLINGS.....lol
lol
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: Dman on March 30, 2008, 08:24:54 PM: 3rd picture only, kaboom in the neck. No pride here, that's a year's worth of meals for us. Yum. Gives you a day and a half to kick back anyways.
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: WArookie on March 31, 2008, 09:35:47 PM: Since I have never killed a muley before, I would kill him. No, I would not shoot at him thru the brush since I could barely even tell he was a buck.

Brett
Title: Re: What would you do?
Post by: boneaddict on March 31, 2008, 09:53:55 PM: Glas you know I was harassing you long. Like I said, he would definately eat good. No shame in a legal buck....AT ALL