TO ALL,

Last year at this time I asked what you had gotten during the season.... Time to ask again... WHAT DID YOU GET THIS YEAR?? Greenmtnboy has already gotten an Elk and Deer... So what are we getting this year...
I still think we have a higher avgerage than the Cartridge shooters. I still think we harvest more critters as a percentage than they do....

Tin-Type,
I know this is off topic, but I can't resist.
I got a trip to Juarez and back this week. Actually spent about 17 hours in the USA at El Paso. Hee, Hee!
In December I plan to get a trip to the Pacific for a few days. I want to do some swimming along with my duties over there.
Hombre del Bosque

Montana's General Season opens tomorrow, so your question is early, unless you're referring to archery hunting--I managed to get out with my long bow for maybe a day and a half. I'll manage a bit more with my flintlocks.

Dick

Right now we only have squirrel, turkey and raccoon season open. Bear and deer are a few days away and that's muzzleloading only for a week. Of course for me it will be flint only through the end of the year.

Deer season starts 31 Oct ,Youth day last Sat.Youngster harvesed a 257 lb field dressed buck Saturday.If it doesnt stop raining we will be hunting out of the canoes or tree stands if you can get to it.Cold miserable rain,wind out of the NW at 15-35 mph and swirling.Some duck hunter are starting too complain about the weather.

Our MLing deer season started Saturday and lasts only 'til this Friday. We have had close to 20" rain in the last couple weeks with several inches more coming today and through Friday. I walked into my hunting lease area [public lands are scarce here and hunted out] Saturday to find it was flooded. Did not stay long. May have to wait until late in the regular season for things to dry up a bit--of course you can use a MLer any time during the regular season, so I have not given up yet. Even our yard has been flooded twice in recent days [we live on a lake]. Wet here in Lousyanna.

Here in VA we don't start ML season until Oct.31. I was fortunate enough to take a doe with my longbow last week. Taking the flint out one afternoon this week for last minute practice then Sat. we'll see what happens. Several big bucks around but I usally shoot what gets closest to me. Can't seem to pass up tenderloin to wait for antlers!

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WHAT DID YOU GET THIS YEAR

Wet!, went out yesterday for a Grouse/deer hunt and came home heavier than I was when I left, it was a light rain, which is good, it kinda breaks ya in for the November storms.

I got one fat doe so far. She is some of the best venison I've ever had. I hope to get one with my .40 this week. I have two days off so I will live in the woods. This has been a good year for me in SC so far. I have seen deer almost every time I have been out. I love to watch them and feel my heart race even if I don't get the shot. I have counted coup on several by aiming the rifle and not pulling the trigger. I got them in my mind. Almost as good.

I was lucky and filled my cow elk tag during the muzzleloading season here in Colo. I also had a deer tag, but we didn't see a single deer in 4 days of hunting. We were hunting public land in the wintering grounds for both elk and deer, but thought there would be some resident deer that frequent hay fields on nearby private land. Evidently, the elk were resident, and the deer were strictly migratory. Obviously, have a lot more to learn about the migratory habits of both animals.


Saw some nice 6 point bulls. I prefer the more tender and tasty cows.

We got rained out on the 4th day. Too much mud to be able to get around much.

I popped a fawn that was so young during the KS Sept muzzleloader season that he still had spots on him and weighed in at around 40lbs dressed. Almost felt like a sin to shoot him with my .66 smooth bore. However; he didn't appear to suffer any. A couple of days later I learned I should have napped my flint a bit better when a small 5 pointer let me drop the hammer on him twice at about 30 feet before he figured I might actually get my stuff together and do him harm if he didn't leave me alone. I figure I got all the excitement and none of the work out of that hunt!

I'm heading out to go turkey and squirel/rabbit hunting here in a couple of weeks and I still have several deer seasons to fool with in Dec and Jan.

I got a doe with my .50 cal flinter, and a 4 point with my .40 cal flint. I hope one will walk in front of my 20ga fowler soon.

So far a little six-point with a .40 percussion, and a doe with archery tackle.

Of course a few squirrels, no birds or rabbit yet.

I'd like to take another deer with a flintlock, but have been a bit particular about it so far.

Sounds like our folks are doing well out there this year, congratulations everybody.

Spot

Lucked out this year! Bagged a three point, Oct 4th. 09 during general season here in Oregon. Shot him with my Penn. 50 cal. I hunt during general season with a smokepole. Its really funny to see other hunters drool over your kill and then explain to them it was done with "Old Thunder" my black powder smokepole!He He He
Talltree
Keep your tail high and dry.

I got a little button buck with my TVM early VA 58 cal 80 gr 2FF .570 RB 96 paces trough the spine he went down like I hit him with a sludge hammer my first deer in25 years my move back to the lower 48 is working out good

Picked up a mule deer buck today.
Opening day of South Dakota West River Prairie Season. An antlerless tag left to fill and Muzzleloader Season starts in December.

Medicine Soldier

2009_Prairie_Deer.JPG (85 KB, 34 downloads) 2009 Prairie Deer

Good sized white-tail doe.
It's firearm season in Illinois, but the muzzleloader counts as a firearm.

She saw me, ran and stopped to look back about a hundred yards out. It was along shot, but I didn't miss.

Fix

This is a different photo of my good fortune on opening day...North Carolina had a bumper crop of acorns this year and bucks had started cruising for does in daylight.

Sitting in a natural ground blind I use every year at the edge of an oak flat, I shot the 6 pointer at first gray light, and shot the 8 pointer an hour later...and what makes it even sweeter is it was the first time hunting with the new .58cal Virginia.

Roundball, those are really great bucks for any type of firearm, much more for a flintlock! I'm scoreless so far; first time this late in the season.

Squirrels, a gray fox, and an 8 point buck.

Fiddlesticks