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vinemaplebows:

--- Quote from: sleek on November 25, 2019, 10:14:02 pm ---With archery, blood tracking is a big part of recovery,  and hunting in the rain is a terrible idea for most. But what about gun hunting? I ask because it's supposed to rain my entire Thanksgiving break and I havent got a deer yet. I'm in thick woods, 100 yards is a long shot and using a .44 mag lever and scope. I have taken only one deer with a gun before,  and she dropped inside of 20 yards, no tracking needed. Yall more experienced types have any reservations about gun hunting in weather?

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If you ever hunt blacktail deer, and your guide is saying it should be a "hot" day and it's not raining, you best get another guide. I just about exclusively hunt during the rain, most hunters in the know do the same here. Always found it weird when I first started seeing whitetail hunters throwing in the towel (on TV) in the rain.

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on November 26, 2019, 05:32:02 pm ---I have never been able to figure it out, I can drop one deer in its tracks and hit the next one in the same place and off it goes. I think it is the adrenaline thing, a calm der is more likely to go down than one that is one alert.

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I am a lucky so-n-so because I have never had to learn much about blood trailing. Most all of the deer I have shot have been with a .50 cal flintlock with a 70 grain load of 2F powder. My buddy is one of those "biggerer betterer bestest" sorta guys and shoots a .54 with 120 grains of powder and every deer he shoots runs into the adjoining county, no matter how well he hits it. I wish I knew the magic answer on this one. Maybe because I have no faith in my shooting ability and I wait for easy-peasy standing shots where the deer has no idea I even got out of bed that day...

Good luck to you, Sleek. I know you have too much respect for the game to risk bad shots or losing an animal.

sleek:

--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 30, 2019, 04:29:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on November 26, 2019, 05:32:02 pm ---I have never been able to figure it out, I can drop one deer in its tracks and hit the next one in the same place and off it goes. I think it is the adrenaline thing, a calm der is more likely to go down than one that is one alert.

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I am a lucky so-n-so because I have never had to learn much about blood trailing. Most all of the deer I have shot have been with a .50 cal flintlock with a 70 grain load of 2F powder. My buddy is one of those "biggerer betterer bestest" sorta guys and shoots a .54 with 120 grains of powder and every deer he shoots runs into the adjoining county, no matter how well he hits it. I wish I knew the magic answer on this one. Maybe because I have no faith in my shooting ability and I wait for easy-peasy standing shots where the deer has no idea I even got out of bed that day...

Good luck to you, Sleek. I know you have too much respect for the game to risk bad shots or losing an animal.

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Thanks JW. That's exactly why I'm asking these fact finding questions.  Unfortunately, yesterday I found how how efficient a pack of coyotes are against a downed doe inside of 30 minutes. And today, I went to gather my skin from my buck I shot a few days ago. It was sitting outside drying, not a speck of meat on it and not a knife nick either. Pristine white skin. Left it sit in the sun and came back and it's gone. I need a night vision scope and a 223. Gonna eliminate some varmints.

All the good shooting and tracking skills in the world dont mean jack when darn yotes beat you to dinner. Around here, the sound of gunshot is their come to dinner bell.

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