First kill of 2013 Fall season- post em up!

[aht_six]

I did some game farm pheasant hunting with a few of my coworkers last Friday. We had 25 birds planted, we got 23 of them.

[smurfman]

Even a LEO usually has to wait for DNR officer since firing his weapon involves paperwork. Once sat around a hurt deer with a LEO for over an hour trying to calm the deer down as we waited for a DNR officer.

That sounds more like someone who does not want to kill another living creature or, unlikely, the department policy is pretty dang onerous. The reports I've seen of this were no more than adding, "fired x number of rounds from which ever weapon dispatching a deer (or whatever animal)" to the accident report. We would call in to dispatch to notify them that we were going to fire a shot as doing such would result in several "shots fired" calls in that suburban community.

I would not shoot a deer if in city limits as that would likely result in irking the cops in several ways. Same on the freeway or major highways as troopers seem to be even less tolerant. One could very well end up with some expensive paper doing so. Even in a rural area I would be hesitant as some deputies are a bit gung ho in enforcement. Whether being young or trying to make a name for themselves doesn't matter, either way you will be inconvenienced. Being helpful without being asked or at least offering is not well thought of by many officers.

[Minnesota55434]

Park Rapids last weekend

[fishdude]

Nice. I am 0 for 3 for seeing deer so far.

[rtwills]

Nice deer

[FJ540]

Still too hot for me to even think about hunting bambi. Nice buck though!

[Minnesota55434]

It got down to high 30°s overnight so 7am the flowing dawn it was 1gal. Zippy bags getting stuffed then to the freezers.

I dont hunt hard unless overnight lows are below 45°

[Slayer_MN1]

Just got back from Wyoming doing a little antelope hunting, I filled my two doe tags on opening day.

Took this one with the 6SLR at 520yds



Always a fun trip and don't listen to the fools that say they don't taste good, they are better than whitetails as far as i'm concerned.

[crbutler]

Well if out of state counts. Shot this in their fall.

17 yards.

[Nougat]

what is that thing?!

[crbutler]

Bull Elephant.

[bensdad]

Which one are you?

Well if out of state counts. Shot this in their fall.

17 yards.

[tullibee]

eliminated a couple of the little red buggers for a friend yesterday. should have had a couple more... made one impressive shot pretty far up in a tree, but missed another shot pretty close and missed a couple from pretty long range, so it turned me from smug to humble in a hurry (using an old Ruger Mark I and I only had half a mag worth of ammo, so I was trying to be careful) it was too bad I didn't have a Taurus Judge loaded with 410 at one point - two of them chased each other right towards me - might have been able to score a double, but not a chance with what I had in hand!

[Dakotared]

Well if out of state counts. Shot this in their fall.

17 yards.

What do you do with all the meat with that thing? I am sure there is more then enough meat to cook a meal or two.

[JJ]

Not my first blood of my season, but a first for me. Sandhill cranes from last weekend.