The crisp clean fall air has finally arrived. That means that white tail deer season is opening soon (or has already). I was just wondering how many of TV's other member would be joining me in this yearly tradition and what weapon they would be using?

As for me with the new "Earn a Buck" rules back home upping he arsenal is a must. Where I would usually be content with my Remington 700 series 30/06 I'm also bringing along my Russian .308 sniper rifle (I dont know who makes it its in Russian), and a Remington 12 gauge 3 1/2" shotgun (Medium, Long, and Close Range guns respectively).


BTW from the way a read the "Earn a Buck" rules I'm gonna gain an extra couple of tags this year (which mean I have to go to Home Depot and by a bigger freezer)

The crisping of fall air stirs the hunter in many of us.
I'm sad to say I don't hunt anymore really. (Some Turkey or Goose only now.)

My favorite and most accurate white tail weapon is my Win Model 70 (pre '63) in .270 cal.
(It's always been an honest 400 yard scoped weapon.)
I have/had many others in various cals. I guess I just was tuned a bit better to the .270 cal

My younger brother had a Win 70 from ?65 in .358 Win cal. He needed a brown bear weapon.
It was passed down to his son just a couple of years ago. The nephew doesn't hunt, but treasures his Dad's weapon.

This isn't - honestly isn't!! - a crump against hunting. Just honestly curious - do either of you ever hunt using a bow and arrow? And if so, what pound pull?

I used to use a bow but now that would require an extra week off of work to meet my bag limit. While I still have one it never gets used. Its a 70lb pull compound bow (i hate recurved bows). I also used to use a muzzle loader (.50 cal, also a Remington) but that also requires me to miss excess work time.

BTW:Meat and skin never go to waste around here. Trust me Ive got 60+ relatives back home who love to take spare meat that wont fit in the cooler home (lol). As for the Skins, well some people like bearskin rugs I like deerskin. Also makes a nice work jacket. (Also note I have a deer hoof hat rack some where, it scares Steph so I put it up)

One more thing: Whats a Crump?? (lol)

Laughing - a crump is sort of a combined 'grumping and bitching' about something. (I know, I know - it should be 'brump' - laugh!).

So proud of you for not using the deer hoof hat rack - no wonder Steph is scared of it - yuck, pooey!

Glad to hear the meat nor skin ever goes to waste. Few things make me wish nasties on people as those who 'hunt' only to get the rack and leave everything else behind. Good hunting!

(I'm impressed - a 70 pound pull - wow!!!)

I Love Recurves! I started off using a compound , but got tired of it from a "keeping up with the Jones" point of view (this was in the mid to late 80's) not to mention the weight (mass not draw) had several PSE's, Martins, a Hoyt, and a Jennings. all in the 60-70lb draw weight with 45-50% let off (one of the PSE topped out at 74lbs(or there abouts) and the Citation was 30% let off ,my favorite) got me a used Howatt "Coronado" at 64 lbs @28in. and normally drew back to 29 inches (I was a lot younger back then) shot it for 7-8 years and still have it, Then got a Bear take down (55lbs) that I used up till the last few years before I stopped shooting regularly. To each there own

I like to kid about using a Barrett M107 which really is cool if you like blowing things apart, but as I wrote previously this is more for squirrel hunting as the muzzle concussion knocks them out of the tree and the fall kills them.

With the hilly and heavily forested area where I hunt I like my Marlin model 336 30-30 with peep site, it's seldom that I find myself with a long shot. I also like to go for a head shot, no loss of meat and if I miss I don't have to chase it down.

My absolute favorite is my ruger single six 44 cal. I even hunt up north with it where rifles are legal.
It allows me to get right down in the middle of the swamp where other hunters won't go.
Out of the thirty plus deer I have taken as an adult all but one has been with this pistol, and I have never had to shoot more than fifty feet.
My all around rifle, and I do mean all around is my savage in 270 cal.
I took a nice elk at 175 up north with one very well placed shot. Got an antlelope out in wyoming about twelve years ago.
It was a fourhundred yard shot that the guide and I paced off. Again one shot and no tracking cause we watched it drop.
When I was a kid (under 13) I shot and killed seven deer with nothing more than a winchester model 52 in 22 long rifle cal. Six were does, and one was a nice eight point.They changed the laws so that's not legal anymore.
I tired pulling back a long bow once; it belonged to Mr. Fred Bear and he was down here at Cook's sporting goods. It was the one he personally used to killed a full grown bull elephant.
The man was two inches shorter than me and I out weighed him by at least forty pounds, but I could not pull that string back to full draw. (it had a draw weight of 150lbs.)