Finally figured it out!!!

[Steve Foss]

I haven't connected on a deer this season because I'm carrying around 13 shells! Three in the slug gun, and a box of 5 in each side pocket of my coat. What a doofus I am!

Glad I figured that out just before the last day of the season. I threw another shell in the coat to make it 14. A buck tomorrow in the fresh snow is a sure thing now!

[reinhard1]

my reason is a little different. i have used open sights since i was a kid. last year i missed a deer which i thought i could not miss. this year i missed a buck with a shot i thought i would never miss and the bullet hit a small tree so that could have been an excuse. but later the same buck came back after it circled around and faced me fifty yards away leaving me only with a neck shot. i missed again. the 30-30 i was using was sighted in. my brother came back the next day and gave me his 7mm with a SCOPE. i took a couple of shots with it and the two bullets were a half inch apart in the bullseye. so next year for me. from now on its that rifle and that SCOPE. good luck.

[Gordie]

the trick Steve is to get rid of the 11 shells in your pockets there just weighing you down besides 1 slug 1 deer heck your good for 3 if your gun is loaded

GOOD LUCK FOSS MAN

[Steve Foss]

Thanks, man. There's a young 4-point buck with a nice big body eating sunflower seeds and corn in the dark out of my back yard bird feeders even as I type this.

Sigh.

[Arctic]

Give him a couple of years and he'll be a nice buck!

[Steve Foss]

Goofy antlers. Very symmetrical, but they go straight up for about 8 inches with almost no outward bend, and then fork narrowly, with each fork tine about 4 inches long and also pointing almost straight up. In a trophy management plan, he'd be culled before passing on those genetics.

Tasty, those fat cull bucks.

[HNTNBUX]

Steve make sure you bring thirteen rods or thirteen lures next time we go fishing so those trout will come by our lures. I just hope you don't need all those shells. 56 days and counting.

[Steve Foss]

Steve make sure you bring thirteen rods or thirteen lures next time we go fishing so those trout will come by our lures. I just hope you don't need all those shells. 56 days and counting.

Ahem. I HAVE put 13 rods on the truck before, but I've NEVER gone after lakers with only 13 lures. Might be a cool thing to try, though. Most seasons, 90 percent of our lakers come on 1 percent of the lures.

[Gordie]

The hard part is finding out what 1 percent of lures to use

[Steve Foss]

The hard part is finding out what 1 percent of lures to use

Not really.

[bobbymalone]

hey foss-man, did you do some PS tricks to that avatar pic to make it look like it was taken in 50s? I dunno something about it looks strange and it's not just the hat not a bad strange, just a strange strange.

care to post a bigger version for us to marvel at?

did i ask you that last year? I seem to remember the same picture and thinking the same thing... and with your reports from this year I'm guessing that isn't a recent harvest

[Surface Tension]

Since you don't hunt waterfowl take out the plug and your pocket will be 2 shells lighter.

[Steve Foss]

Since you don't hunt waterfowl take out the plug and your pocket will be 2 shells lighter.

Frank, it's a bolt-action slug gun with a 2-bullet clip. One in the throat and 2 in the clip. I believe, however, they do make an aftermarket clip for the Mossy 695 that holds 4. Gotta get me one of them.

BM, when I posted it last year someone said it reminded them of a young Burl Ives. Mighta been the Stormy Kromer.

Here it is again. Since I struck out this year, figured I'd give last year's 9-pointed another hurrah. It's a side shot because the slug went low down on the neck, ranged all the way up through the neck and blasted out through the skull right between the buck's eyes.

[Gordie]

last years or this years pic that is a awsome photo and a deer to remember.

One question for you why a slug gun I mean your in the north woods right.

I have nothing against them as I favor a slug gun also. but I do like a good rifle,

Its hard to find guys that truely like slug guns I have shot alot of deer with my grandads 870 slugger even in rifle zone.

[Steve Foss]

This gun is accurate, and those bullets hit HARD! Honestly, it's rare that I have a shot over 100 yards up here in the woods, and with a good rest I'd take a 200 yard shot at a stationary deer with these Barnes Expander sabots I'm using. I got 2 inch groups at 100 yards sighting it in with the new scope this year, and probably can do better.

Maybe those guys you know who don't really like their slug guns aren't shooting dedicated slug/sabot guns. This one kicks like a mule, of course, on the range, but out in the field when there's a deer in the crosshairs you don't feel the kick at all. The sabot turned the insides of the neck on that deer in the pic into jelly before exiting out the head.

[bobbymalone]

Great pic, Foss-Man. I think it's the lighting on that kinda frosted looking fleece that makes it look like it was taken on vintage film stock.

It's a side shot because the slug went low down on the neck, ranged all the way up through the neck and blasted out through the skull right between the buck's eyes.

Thinking you didn't have to put the tracking skills to test on that one

[Steve Foss]

Thinking you didn't have to put the tracking skills to test on that one

Just one reason I like neck shots. And rifled shotguns.

[Gordie]

Thats what I tell those guys that when you hit a deer with a chunck of lead the size of a pumpkin its going down. Neck shot happens to be my favorite shot also they ussally dont even take a step but they just move straight down..

I have yet to use the barnes expander yet but thru my smooth boore I've dropped deer at 135yrds with brennikies and I will be buying a cantilever barrel for my mossberg 835 ulti mag