Is this a trend in hunting?
Turns out this is a thing: bow hunting for ducks.
So, you practice with your bow all the time? I thought I was pretty good with my bow. Then I watched Tim Wells video below.
Duck hunting with a bow is a huge challenge. Shooting well with a bow like Tim, takes a lot of practice. Its amazing to see him take out several birds while they were flying. Being able to shoot a bow well makes you appreciate having a shotgun.
I know people who have a hard time leading a duck with a shotgun; not to mention, one of those birds was hit perfectly in the head. The beautiful slow-motion footage just rubs salt in the wound.
Let’s face it: this is some amazing footage and even better shooting. Now, watch the video again and keep an eye on his bow. That’s right; he doesn’t use sight pins. Awesome! How many of you have tried duck hunting with a bow?
This hunter nailed an 875-yard elk killer shot with a rifle chambered in .308 Winchester on day two of their hunt.
These hunters noticed a herd of elk feeding on a hillside two canyons away. After observing the herd for a little bit, the hunter selected a yearling cow out of the herd to shoot. He passed on the larger cows because he knew they would have a heck of a hike to get the meat out of the woods afterwards. In any case, they settled in, and he squeezed off his shot, which resulted in an 875-yard elk kill.
Check out the video and see what you think of the whole deal.
You can skip ahead to the shot at the 3-minute mark to see them take the shot.
Taking a shot at that range is far beyond my skill as a shooter, so I have the utmost respect for his shooting abilities.
The hunter was using a custom Remington Model 700 chambered in .308 Winchester using 168gr Berger VLD bullets, which is a great combination for long range shooting.
The rifle was topped with a Vortex Viper PST 4-16x50mm scope. He was also using a Leupold Rx-1000i Rangefinder, which is one of the best rangefinders out there. Clearly, he was using top-notch equipment, and he really looked like he knew what he was doing.
While the elk immediately dropped at the shot, that sort of reaction from the animal indicates a hit to the brain or spine. If you look closely, it looks like his shot hits really high on the elk’s shoulder, likely hitting the top of the lungs and the spine. Something tells me that’s not where he was aiming.
What do you think about the shot? Would you have taken it?
And you need a gun that can meet all your hunting needs? A pump shotgun may be what you are looking for.
If you’re on a budget, or you are the kind of hunter who likes to keep it simple with survival in mind, consider getting one gun that will cover all your small and big game hunting needs.
This video is definitely food for thought when you want to get one gun that will serve you well in marsh, forest and field. A pump shotgun, like the Mossberg 500, is a great American-made choice. With a wide variety of smooth and rifled barrels, at a very reasonable cost, you will have one gun that can do it all. What other guns do you use for hunting if you’re on a budget?
This guy can be the next American Sniper, no not likely.
Ok maybe he’s just having a bad day. A very bad day. Maybe he’s experimenting a bent barrel, or using a lighter grain ammo.
Amazingly, the buck barely moves in between misses. The range is unknown, but it must be a long shot. You are also able to see the bullet’s vapor trail on the video.
One would think after several rounds of misses, the hunter would make some adjustments or kentucky wind it. Goes to show how difficult precision long-range shooting can be, with many factors to account for such as swirling winds and the inconsistencies in ammunition.
Watch as a trespassing hunter encounters an improvised booby trap.
The video below displays a creative way of fending off a trespassing hunter. The property owner rigged up a tripwire attached to a paint bomb. Once triggered the paint sprays all over the trespasser.
The uploader commented that it was a video captured by her mother’s boyfriend, which tells us it was likely a legitimate trespassing situation. Anyone who was allowed to hunt the property would have known about the tripwire, we presume.
Be warned: the clip includes some graphic language. Youd probably swear too if you realized you’d just been busted.
The trespassing hunter spoke out in an interview with Deer and Deer Hunting.
Details about the incident were made clear, and thanks to the article and investigative work from Deer and Deer Hunting’s editor Dan Schmidt, we now know that it occurred in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania during the 2013 deer season.
Leroy Ogin, 73, told Deer and Deer Hunting that he had traveled that same path for over 60+ years to his hunting spot, which was an old logging road. He did not intend on hunting on the property.
He claimed to have never had an issue with the landowner, and was never asked to refrain from traveling through what he acknowledged was private property.
Ogin also explained that the device that blasted him with paint was connected to an airbag mechanism, which triggered a switch tied to a suspended wire.
“I thought I was shot with a gun,” Ogin told D&DH. He also said the paint, which was red, ruined his hunting apparel, hat and gun.
Trespassing charges for Ogin have been documented by the state, and will most likely be dismissed after a six month holding period with no further incidents.
The landowner, 53-year-old Michael Condoluci, was also contacted by D&DH, and via email contradicted Ogin’s claim. “Just have to say he was warned about trespassing before,” he told D&DH.
Interestingly enough, Condoluci was also infracted for criminal mischief and criminal harassment, according to D&DH and the district court office in Luzerne County. His charges will also be dropped after six months, as long as no other charges are given.
What do you think? Is this an effective method in thwarting folks from coming onto private property, or is it out of line?
Here’s some of the conversation taking place about this video:
by Eric Pickartz
Source: Felicia Marie Youtube, Deer and Deer Hunting
Freeing locked-up bucks is always risky, generally locked-up bucks are usually dead. Antler entanglement is the norm, while fighting can lead to the demise of some whitetail. The video below highlights our upstanding heroes untangling the two gladiators. Unfortunately, one buck has succumbed to exhaustion or injury and had a portion of his hind quarters eaten by a predator. The other is trying to rid himself of his adversary.
There were a few tense moments in the clip, and luckily, these guys brought extra tools in order to finish the job. Hunters like these are the truest of sportsmen. They have respect and the utmost compassion for the quarry they chase.
Ever Wonder what happens to that gut pile? Camera Trail record shows
You’ve heard it before: you should never gut a deer near your treestand. At least, that is a popular theory. As the saying goes, if you gut a deer near your stand, it will scare all the deer that frequent the area away. However, are there any facts to back up this claim, or debunks it?
Well, yes. Here’s what was found.
After quite a bit of research into this topic, I was able to find this study done by Dr. James C. Kroll, who replicated gut piles all over the woods and placed trail cams right on top of the piles. Two kinds of animals were always the first to show up to the pile within hours of its placement: shockingly, deer and crows. Some deer even licked the gut piles, but at the very least, they were heavily investigated. Deer did not respond negatively at all.
Watch this video below to see this exact evidence. Deer and crows are right there to check it out.
So what do you think? The next time you gut a deer, will you stop dragging it a half mile away from your stand?
For a guy like me, that sounds like a winner of an idea, especially if it has no impact on the hunting area at all.
When it comes time to field dress your deer, I hope you handle it better than these folks.
I don’t want to rag on these hunters. Trust me, that is not the purpose of this post. However, I am sure we all have friends that get a little queasy when it comes time to field dress a kill. Yes, those people are out there, and sometimes the camera is rolling when it happens!
Watch these hunters do everything they can to not vomit while cutting into this deer. Their reactions are classic! This video was shared by Kyle Krajewski on Facebook and has taken off like a wildfire.
Well, folks, this is a great example of why you try to avoid a gut shot at all costs.
Now, I know nobody loves the smell, but at some point, you got to get used to it, or at least be able to anticipate what’s ahead of you.
Like I said at the beginning, I am not trying to rag on these guys, but it is certainly funny watching their reactions as they struggle through the good stuff.
Video Transcription
Man 1: You lose your gun (?)
Man 2: [something about a gun]
Person off-camera: [indistinguishable]
Man 1: Pull the legs away from me! Jesus Christ!
[laughing off-camera] [off-camera muttering]
Man 1: [grunting] Oh Jesus Christ. [loud retching] [grunting as he cuts open deer] [more loud retching]
Man off-camera: [laughing]
Man 1: I don’t think I’m gonna do it! [grunting] [more retching, more laughter off-camera]
Man 2: Lookit that, it’s all green and purple!
Man 1: [More loud retching]
Man 2: You didn’t even get it open yet!
Man 1: I can’t do it!
Man 2: I can’t do it, I’m not gonna do all that.
Man 1: Somebody’s gotta do it!
Man 2: I can’t-! [more laughter]
Man 1: Son of a BITCH.
Man off-camera: [indistinguishable] Stealthy.
Man 2: [indistinguishable]
Man 1: [more loud retching] I can’t do it.
Man 2: I can’t, I can’t. I’m not touching it.
Man 1: [sighs] How the fuck are we gonna do it?!
[more off-camera laughter]
Man 1: Son of a BITCH.
Man 2: [indistinguishable]
Man 1: Oh Jesus. [retching] Motherfucker!
Monster buck explodes off feet and flips onto his back in one of the most unique harvest videos you will ever see.
Popular outdoor television and Youtube hunting videos highlights many whitetail while expiring. Generally, when you shoot a deer, you expect them to jump, maybe flop, some drop where they stand, some run off and leave a trail of blood you have to track (it happens). Generally, you don’t expect something like this.
When a friend of Garrett Sing took down -his- buck over the weekend, the deer didn’t flop, but it certainly had a spectacular jump!
With his last breath, the buck sky rockets up like a spaceship and flips directly on his back. You couldn’t have placed it better on its rack if you tried.
My suspicion is that the impact damaged something in the deer’s spine, as it doesn’t appear to move its back after impact, and even its head remains stock-still. The jury is still out, though! Do you have any theories about how the deer ended up topsy-turvy?
Don’t like dealing with the guts on your deer? Try this method out.
Let’s face it: gutting a deer is probably the worst part of hunting. Maybe your harvest has fallen in a location you won’t be able to drag it out of. Try this alternative to the traditional field dress and see if it works for you.
Seems pretty quick and easy. If you process your own deer, this will probably save you time as well. One takeaway, if you are going to try this method, is to make sure you have a game bag or a quarter bag!
Video Transcription
Alright, so I got the deer down, now it’s time to do the fun work.
I’m back in here a long ways, not a long ways from my truck, it’s just gonna be a freakin’ insane climb outta here. So, I’m gonna have to cut him up. Luckily, where I killed him, it’s down in this valley, the sun shouldn’t hit it for a couple hours, so I’ll have plenty of time to get him cut up, and get him cooled down, then I’ll pack him out to the truck.
So basically what I’m gonna do, is I’m gonna skin him, both sides, I’m gonna cut the quarters off, cut the backstraps off, cut some of the neck meat off, get the tenderloins inside, and that’ll be all the meat, I won’t even have to gut him. So, that’ll be nice. This is the gutless method.
So all I do is, try to lay him on his stomach, and I just make an incision all the way down his back, right on his spine, then I’ll skin one side all the way down, lay him down, skin down to his legs, quarter him off, do the other side, and uh, pretty slick. So, especially if you don’t like dealing with the guts, which I don’t. So let’s go!
You just wanna follow right down the spine. You can always tell because it’s usually the darkest right there. You can tell where the spine is.
Man, you think this deer’s been living a good life? Look at that fat that’s on its back, you guys can see that. That is a layer of fat. This deer’s gonna taste good. He’s probably just been lounging in this lake bed all year long, just feeding on this high-protein food and not really getting bothered. Look at that, that’s a good sign. He’s putting a lot of fat on before the rut.
So now you have most of this side skinned. Depending on what you’re gonna do with the head, if you’re gonna mount it, a full-head mount, or just do a european mount, or just cut the horns off. What I do, I haven’t really decided what I’m gonna do. He’s an awesome buck, I don’t know if Kaylee will let me put him on the wall or not, but she’s pretty good about it. So I’m gonna– if you’re gonna do a head mount, what you do is, about halfway down the body, you wanna make a cut horizontally around the whole body, then you skin everything up that way, and that’s what the taxidermist will use. You know, you wanna use more hide than less hide, because if you don’t give them enough, they can’t use it, so. I usually do about halfway down the body, go down, and then that’s plenty, because really, it’s just a shoulder mount, behind the shoulders, but you wanna give ’em plenty to work with, so. I’m gonna do that now, and just try to make as straight a cut as possible.
Then what you do is just skin. Make a line from the back from the front leg, go straight up the back of the leg, all the way to the incison that you just made around, then you can just skin this leg right off. No problem.
Alright, so now we’re ready to cut the front quarter off, all you do, the front’s pretty easy, you just pick him up, you cut right through that armpit right there, make sure you cut plenty wide. See that bone right there? We’re gonna go up -don’t wanna ruin your backstraps, though- Just like this. See that? Then we cut around that, just like that. I’ll usually try to maybe just cut a little bit of that neck meat while I’m doing it. There we go, front quarter, done.
Then what I do after I cut the quarters off, a deer is not like an elk. You can get one quarter of an elk in a game bag. I can probably get all four quarters in this game bag. I’m gonna try it. Try to put it on my back and go up that mountain. Dunno. I bet I can. I’m pretty tough.
The reason for the game bags is to keep the flies off it [from getting] dirty. Keep the flies off it and keep it from getting dirty. So I put one in there, it’s not heavy. Probably twenty pounds.
Now the rear quarter. This is a little bit more difficult. This thing has like, sticker weeds in ’em. Alright, look how much fat this thing has! It’s gonna be a good-tasting deer, man. That’s good to see, it means the deer’s getting a lot of protein, bucks are getting ready for the rut. So you just want to cut– dang that is the fattest deer I’ve ever seen- cut up here. Cut just like that through the armpit. Be very careful you don’t cut into the guts. You just kinda want to make a nice, perfect cut right up- right up on the butt cheek. You gotta find– don’t cut the pee sack. Alright, so, what you wanna do, is find that back hip bone. Oop, I cut into the guts a little bit. They’re not popped or anything but they’re kinda poking out. Ok. See, there’s the ball socket right there. You guys see that ball, right there? You just wanna go right through that. Keep this off the dirt. Now I’ve worked through the bone, pretty much just meet from here. So you just wanna keep cutting, cut the tendons through the bone. See that? There you go. Rear quarter. It’s a lot heavier than the front quarter, probably thirty-five pounds, maybe.
Alright, so we’ve got front quarters off, took a little bit of the neck meat, I’m gonna take a little more. Once I have that done, I’m– what I’m gonna do is get the backstraps. And, uh, by far, I think the tastiest meat on an animal, on a deer or an elk, or an antelope, or anything basically. And what they are is, just like the name sounds, backstrap. There’s one on each side of the spine, so the spine runs just like this, they start up here, about his neck, and they come just like this all the way down, and stop just about right there. So what I like to do is just find the spine, and cut all the way ’till you hit the ribs, basically. You’ll feel the ribs with your knife. I like to make two or three passes through there, just to make sure and get all the meat, all the way down to the rib. I’ll go up this way, just follow that rib, ends about right there, a couple of times. See that? Then you can almost see, see that right there here where almost like the guts bulge, that line, that’s the backstrap. It’s gonna go all the way down. So, you can find that –you can feel it, too, it’s like hard muscle– with the rib. So this is cut ’till you feel that rib. Here we go. That’s the meat right there man. The backstraps. I can’t believe how much fat’s on this thing. See I missed a little bit here, I’ll come and cut that off. Little bit here, I’ll come and cut that off. Cut the rest of this neck meat off. Gonna go put that in the game bag. [exaggerated eating noises]
So I’m just gonna trim some of this neck meat, some of this I’m not gonna take because of these little blunt shot there, but uh. Neck meat’s kinda like, good for burger, some people like it in steaks, jerky’s good. There’s a lot of tendons and stuff in there, but I cut it off like this, just kinda in chunks. It’s almost in layers. Kinda just coming off like that. I’ll lay it up here so it doesn’t get dirty. Summer sausage, breakfast sausage, all that stuff the neck meat works good for. The brisket meat -which is under here- which I’ll take.
Alright, so, uh, we got the back straps off, I’m gonna get the rest of this neck meat off, my camera died when I was trying to take the sirloins out, but all you do– the sirloins sit right inside the ribcage, on the other side of the ribcage are the backstraps. Backstraps are here. And to get to them a lot of people say ‘well how do you get to the sirloins and tenderloins out if you don’t gut ’em’, well all you do is you make a little incision behind their last rib, which is right here, and I just make a little incision right along the spine, or right along the ribcage, and you can just reach in there. They sit right there and you can just reach in there and pull ’em out like cutter, and that’s how- that’s it right there. So.
This is the gutless method, this is how I like to do it. I don’t like to mess around with the guts, it’s just as fast -if not faster and easier- yeah, if your truck’s right there and you can just throw the deer in it and go hang it up and skin it and do all that, great, but if not, like I am, I’ve got to pack this thing out, so, this is what I’m going to use. But I’m gonna hurry and do the other side, I’m gonna do the other side just like I did this side, once all the meat’s off this side, all you do is roll it over, do the same thing to the other side. But you can see the sun’s catching us, so I wanna get this thing taken care of before it’s in the sun and get him out of here. So. Thanks for watching, guys!
