This year I'm going to try to hang the deer in my garage for 3 days to age the meat. I doubt if I can do it if I get one of the huge bucks that are around here. I barely got the small doe up off the floor. If you age the meat before cutting it up into steaks or burger meat it's supposed to be more tender.
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This year I'm going to try to hang the deer in my garage for 3 days to age the meat. I doubt if I can do it if I get one of the huge bucks that are around here. I barely got the small doe up off the floor. If you age the meat before cutting it up into steaks or burger meat it's supposed to be more tender.
Headed to Patuxent for 1-3 days of hunting. I see rains in the forecast for Friday. But Saturday is going to be busier. So I dunno. I might hunt there Thursday and Friday and if I strike out hunt my woods Saturday with a bow. Or maybe Thursday and Saturday in the park, Friday in the woods (so I can hunt morning and evening and take a lunch nap inside). I plan to pull my game camera pictures Thursday evening. That’ll probably help determine what I do. I’ve only had the one camera in the woods near the creek at a major confluence of deer trails for 3 days now. Was really late in getting it up.
Checked zero on my ML about 2 weeks ago. Two tubes of BH209 I measured out last season followed by a “fresh” load of BH209 from the bottle using my powder measure. All 3 holes overlapping at 50yds with the 2nd shot dead center of the bullseye...
Good enough. My Wolf really likes 300gr .430 XTP with 105gr by volume of BH209. My shoulder not as much.
Checked zero on my ML about 2 weeks ago. Two tubes of BH209 I measured out last season followed by a “fresh” load of BH209 from the bottle using my powder measure. All 3 holes overlapping at 50yds with the 2nd shot dead center of the bullseye...
Good enough. My Wolf really likes 300gr .430 XTP with 105gr by volume of BH209. My shoulder not as much.
Great story. Congrats on the harvest.
Awesome story and thanks for the information about aging venison
Thanks, I can't believe the damage that 270 round did at 200 yards to that deer. Decimated is probably that apt word to describe what it did to the deer's lungs. They were really shredded. It went clear through the deer and left a huge exit hole.
Tonight I sat at the same spot to see if a big buck would come out at dusk. The wind was out of the south and my legs got cold. From now on I'm bringing my cold weather pants. I might use my portable ground blind to block the wind too. Nothing came out of the woods but something was walking behind me as I could hear it walking on the leaves. I thought it might be someone being nosy so I waited for them to get close. After the noise stopped I looked around and there was noone there. I think a deer was walking behind me. LOL!
There were a couple of shots from the fields on the other side of the road behind me so the deer were around but not where I was at.
Tonight I sat at the same spot to see if a big buck would come out at dusk. The wind was out of the south and my legs got cold. From now on I'm bringing my cold weather pants. I might use my portable ground blind to block the wind too. Nothing came out of the woods but something was walking behind me as I could hear it walking on the leaves. I thought it might be someone being nosy so I waited for them to get close. After the noise stopped I looked around and there was noone there. I think a deer was walking behind me. LOL!
There were a couple of shots from the fields on the other side of the road behind me so the deer were around but not where I was at.
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
I shot a box of SST is 30.06 and went back to Core-Lokt as the ballistic tiped bullets were ruining meat if they got into one of the shoulders.
They shoot good, flatter and kill better, but I can't justify the meat loss I had self butchering when I saw it.
They shoot good, flatter and kill better, but I can't justify the meat loss I had self butchering when I saw it.
remrug
Ultimate Member
This is the reason I switched to mono's.Cutting out all the bloodshot is really tedious work.
kstone803
Official Meat Getter
Every rifle deer I've ever killed has been with Core-Lokt. They may be old tech but they kill deer just fine.
I'd bet there have been more deer killed by Core-Lokt than most other bullets over the years. They fly like crap, but open very well. Most people don't shoot a deer past 120 yards around this area at least.
kstone803
Official Meat Getter
I get 1-1.5 MOA out of em so yeah in no way are they tack drivers but plenty for my shots.
Core Lockt is all I've ever used since 1998. They shoot well out of my 30-30 when I first started hunting and later upgraded to a .270. I've shot deer from 25 yds to 212 yds.
As far as I could tell there was no real meat loss on my shot. I hit the deer perfectly. I even got the heart out and could've taken the liver but forgot to cut it out. The lungs were in tatters.
I'll keep using the SSTs.
I sit on a small portable stool and use a bipod shooting stick. I zero the rifle the same way as I hunt. I won't take an "iffy" shot and try to only shoot a broadside shot. No quartering shots for me. I might post a pic of the deer tomorrow cause I'm probably going to butcher it.
I may hold out for a bigger doe for meat. The are some monster does around here. I've seen some that are almost as big as my Ford Ranger. They're as hard to get as the monster bucks though.
Tonight there were four does running across a field about 400 yards to my left. They were headed to the plowed cornfields across the road behind where I've been sitting. I walked over there just as the light was fading and spooked them. I could've shot the biggest doe but passed. I'd rather get her with light left and will sit in the other patch of woods next time.
Next week I'm gonna hunt the timber and do a lot of rattling for the pre-rut.
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kstone803
Official Meat Getter
Let us know how the rattling goes. I've never tried it in MD.
I'm switching to SSTs, only because hornady loads these hot in their super performance line, and I'll take the extra 250fps over core lokt. Will report back if I have a successful rifle season. It's mainly in WVa, where I do have the opportunity at very long shots if I choose to take them.
I had a first last week. I was set up sitting in front of a tree, on a corner of a field where deer typically walk across, crossbow hunting. Three deer walked by, 10 yards behind me, and headed on the road to the farm house. I waited til they were barely out of sight, turned around and used my grunt call. All three deer raced back in to check out the noise, and I shot the biggest doe.
That was cool. My first time successfully calling deer.
I had a first last week. I was set up sitting in front of a tree, on a corner of a field where deer typically walk across, crossbow hunting. Three deer walked by, 10 yards behind me, and headed on the road to the farm house. I waited til they were barely out of sight, turned around and used my grunt call. All three deer raced back in to check out the noise, and I shot the biggest doe.
That was cool. My first time successfully calling deer.
I'll post the load I'm using with the 270.
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
I have one deer the SST hit the front leg exiting and WOW it wasted some meat. Drop your deer at the processor and you'll know why you're a few pound short. I'll agree is superb in ballistics but I want to eat what i am shooting and want a round that kills without excess damage.
Here is one that hit the heart on a doe, in and out pics.
Here is one that hit the heart on a doe, in and out pics.
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Man I think maybe someone is target shooting a muzzleloader by/in Patuxent. I heard three shots a minute apart behind me (deer I think I pushed through some thick stuff towards a guy in a stand about 200yds away I could barely see).
5 minutes later as I got back to my car (where I was headed) and filled up my canteens a shot real close. Like maybe 100yds away in the woods or on the first property/house next to the parking area (Brown’s Church). Started heading back in to the woods in that general direction. Three more shots about 2 minutes apart. Saw a hunter sitting just inside the woods off a trail. Not him he says and he hasn’t seen anything come running by. Since then (20 minutes ago) I’ve heard probably 20 shots, a bit more than half from the same general direction, though I am about half a mile away now.
Does not sound like a center fire. Last I checked target shooting even on private property in this part of MoCo was a no-no. Am I mistaken in that?
5 minutes later as I got back to my car (where I was headed) and filled up my canteens a shot real close. Like maybe 100yds away in the woods or on the first property/house next to the parking area (Brown’s Church). Started heading back in to the woods in that general direction. Three more shots about 2 minutes apart. Saw a hunter sitting just inside the woods off a trail. Not him he says and he hasn’t seen anything come running by. Since then (20 minutes ago) I’ve heard probably 20 shots, a bit more than half from the same general direction, though I am about half a mile away now.
Does not sound like a center fire. Last I checked target shooting even on private property in this part of MoCo was a no-no. Am I mistaken in that?
