Got this buck yesterday about 4pm. Decent 8 pt rack but probably my biggest bodied NC deer. Didn’t have a scale but he felt plenty big enough getting him out of a creek bottom to where I could drive my atv.
I was lucky enough to be in the right place in the right time at daylight Sat. morning when these two bucks were facing off on a power line right of way. I saw the 1st buck come out of the woods on the right side at about 150 yds. with his ears laid back looking like he was about to kick butt...
I inherited my Dad's first hunting rifle, a sporterized 1917 Enfield he bought used around 1950. In the early 1960s when the 300 Win. Magnum was introduced he had it rechambered for this round and afterwards killed several elk with it. I was planning on taking it as a backup rife on a Wyo elk...
I got a Cabelas shooting sports catalog a few days ago an it included a Cabelas brand 10x50 rangefinder binocular. I had never seen this before and I can't find it on their website.
I'm going to upgrade from my 25 yr. old basic daypack in the very near future and I have seen where some current models can use a hydration bladder. I can see where this would handy and a potential improvement from my nalgene liter bottles stuffed inside the pack. Has anyone experiences any...
Went out again yesterday afternoon even though a cold front was blowing through and the wind was really up. Where I hunt is a mixture of ag fields and woods. I thought turkeys might be hanging out on the field edges along the down wind side of the woods. Right off saw a hen and then about a 1/2...
Knew generally where some would be roosting last night and got this one to gobble off the corner of a field right after fly down about 200 yds away. After calling a few more times over about 10 min I got he and a buddy to work on in to my decoys. Spurs are about 1.5”, beard is about 10.5” and...
This buck came up out of a swamp and was cruising the edge of soybean field right a sunrise. He's sure not as good as a lot of other bucks on here but he's probably my best whitetail so far. Now both my buck tags are filled and the freezer is full. Pretty much done for the fall. Never had...
He's nothing spectacular but a pretty solid 8 pointer of here in NC. I thought he had picked me out but after what seemed like a loooong stare down at 50 yds he settled down and started eating soybeans giving a good broadside shot.
Thought I'd share some of my late Dad's old photos of deer hunting in the Blue Ridge mountains of western NC. Back then you had to draw a deer lic. that was only good for 3 days.
This is a 9 pointer he killed in 1951.
In this pic my Dad is on the left with a non-typical buck he killed in...
Killed a second gobbler last Sunday morning but it wasn't much of a hunt. After seeing a gobbler acting strange in a winter wheat field Sat. evening I ended up basically walking up on him the next morning in the same field. When I went to pick him up I saw he had growths/scabs/tumors all over...