Quality shootin' and quality trackin'

[EXTREME]

Being color blind is a cruel joke made by my maker!! As far as seeing stop lights....this may sound weird, but the green light looks kind of white or gray to me, and is an obvious difference than the red light. Looking at blood on the ground is difficult. I look for wetness more than anything, but it usually requires help if the deer runs out of sight. One time I shot a small buck with my bow right through the liver. I walked up there and found a couple of spots of blood and not much more...went and got my buddy and he could speed walk all the way to the deer there was so much blood!! But we manage. I usually notice movement better than the average person that can see color...but only in the fall. When the deer are red in the summer....good luck, can't see em'worth beans!!

[Steve Foss]

BLACKJACK:

You mean there's someone out there that can take a smoothbore 12 bird shotgun with a bead sight and put a group of slugs in a pie plate at 150 yards? Sheesh, I'd like to meet that fella.

But you are right, it's what you're confident with. I love the knockdown power on those slugs.

And, for myself, I've never taken a bow shot longer than 30 yards. Just don't feel confident enough past that range.

can it be luck?: I'm working on it, buddy. Think I'll round up a cantilever rifled slug barrel for the mossy for next year, then I'll be set for normal-length shots.

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[BLACKJACK]

st, I didn't say there were guys out there that could shoot 150 yards with slugs, just guys that THINK that they can shoot 150 with slugs I suppose it you practice at that range and know how much the slugs drop, its possible. Or if you have a rifled slug barrel with a scope and shoot sabots... I personally can't see spending that kind of money on slugs.

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[Steve Foss]

Blackjack:

Gotcha.

Most of my rellies in Wisconsin who shoot through rifled slug barrels don't lay out the bucks for sabots either. They just buy the regular lead 1 oz slugs in 2 3/4 inch size and go with those, and throw nice tight groups at 150 yards shooting with Red Dot and standard scopes.

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Steve Foss
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[don62]

I dont know if I'm alone out there but I love the tracking part of it,, in fact I'm disappointed if I find the deer right away. I've been deer hunting in southern Il. where we never have snow to hunt in for about 15 years and have never lost one, and hope I never do..

[Steve Foss]

I get off on tracking, too, but there's always that little panic in the back of my mind that this time I won't find the deer.

I don't like that feeling. I like it better when I see the animal go down, wait 15 minutes and walk over to find a kill.

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Steve Foss
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[Mark Christianson]

I witnessed a terrible scene today at 1:50 pm.
Another example of Quality shootin'(not) and maybe quality trackin'(not).
Driving north of Becker, MN with my wife today, we see a deer standing in the middle of a cornfield about 75 to 100 yds from the road. "hey, check out the deer. Cool!!!".

NOT!!!!!!!!
It tried to start running towards the road. I stress "It tried".
The back end of the deer was obviously in bad shape. My first thought was it was victim of a car/deer accident.
I pulled over as it came towards the road to see what was going to happen. It struggled up the ditch and onto the road. To my horror, it had a back leg that appeared to be shot off below the knee. Otherwise, the deer looked good, but VERY weak. Darn, I wish I had my muzzleloader with me. I had just gotten home 30 minutes prior to that, and unloaded my gear. Its one of situations, that almost seems worth "stretching" some rules to help put an animal out of its obvious misery.
Man, what a sad sight.
MN will have a record harvest this year, but what about a record number of deer wounded as well?
I know deer will be lost, but I just hate seeing it right in front of my nose.

[Fisher Dave]

Biglakebass...

Your post has me thinking although the deer was likely to be a victom of a bad shot.

Last night on the way to Cloquet with my fiance and 3 year old we were cruising along (60 mph+/-).. To make a long story short .. there was quite a bit of traffic and 3 deer decided then was the time to cross the road... We missed the 1st 2 deer, and clipped the 3rd on the rear right leg. It sounded like someone hit the front of the car with a sledge hammer as I watched the deer's back side come toward the windshield.. luckily the deer had enough foreward momentum to barely miss the windshield and crashed into the ditch.

By the time the car came to a stop, and we backed up 50 feet to the point of impact, the deer was on its feet heading into the woods at the top of the hill.

It would surprise me to learn that deer still had a leg attatched below the knee on that side.. I'm sure I wouldnt if it were me in front of the car.

FYI ... next time she wants to go shopping after nightfall... I'm driving.

[can it be luck?]

feverpetal, I just seen your post. I was bird hunting in N. Dakota since Wednesday. About color blindness. Traffic lights can be a real pain in the a$$. Flashing lights being the worse. One thing I always do is look for the location of the lights. Yellow is always in the middle, I think. Single flashing lights takes a little guessing. Hopefully someone in the car will be able to tell me. If not, as I slowly approach them, I look to see what others drivers do. Otherwise, I'll make a "reasonable guess". I then usually proceed with caution! I've always seen colors, just not as many as a normal visioned person would.... I guess. Browns, reds, greens, and shades of purples and blues look a lot a like. Unless those colors are solid primarys, without shades mixed in, I couldn't tell you what they are. I never really felt handicapped by this, and I don't miss what I never had. An electrician I'll never be. As far as hunting goes, tracking is the only major problem. I'm very good at seeing and picking out game and movement. Most animals are naturaly camoflauged, so I look for shapes, eyes, ears, legs, etc. Duck identification can be a hassle, so I try for greenheads and geese. This weeks past hunt, I missed some chances on birds while trying to identify roosters, hens, or sharptails. Thankfully the sharptails "clucked", had no tail, and were lighter in color than the hen pheasaants. As for pheasants, I limited my shots to "cornered" roosters that held tight makeing for an easier shot and ID. Things worked out well in the end, I shot 1 more bird than my "color seeing" friend did. I've never felt disadvantaged other than tracking. The frustration of not being able to execute a thorough search due to not being able to see crucial signs always will leave you feeling as though you could've done more.

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[barebackjack]

I was hunting with some friends over in Wisconsin yesterday, last day of the season, and we were hunting on what he had thought to be his friends land, apparently the friends had sold it and noone really knew about the sale of this land. long story short, I shot a nice doe on this new owners land which ran over to an area close to this new landowners home, when we asked him permission to retrieve the doe the guy simply told us that he had bought the land and yeah go ahead and go get the deer, no questions asked. Made a good end to the season.