morning visitor

This guy was watching me when I went out this morning. Walked up within 20 yards of him. Then he just walked away. I'll be looking for him after Thanksgiving.

Call Larry and get him to send TURNIPS

Good luck!

Don't like turnips.

The deer like turnips.

Not if i see him first . Got the sights dialed in and set for 200 yds , And IF that big one thinks that he is going to tease all of us this year like he has in the past he has a rude awakening coming this year . Each year we see him and each year he knows where we all are and he walks between us out about 250 yards to three hundred yds. If i see him this year i will try a shot out that far as i have nailed two sofar at 278 paces and one at 262 paces. This big one comes out of the swamp in late afternoon between four and a quarter to five and heads east . The first year he walked out just fifty yds behind my buddy and despite me flapping my arms jumping up and down and pointing my buddy did not see me or the buck till he was out past him by a couple hundred yds . at the time i figured he was to far out for me to take a shot and so did the other eight guys all along the woods . And we thought we had all the routes covered . Never ever thought that he would just walk out in the open of a big bean field . That makes two big ones that i just figure there wa no way to get them. NOT NOW Ya just got to love them Hornady sst's

Not here, tractor vet. This is Ohio. Shotguns with slug buckshot, .357 or .44, or rifle with straight-sided cartridge. None of that long-range stuff, makes it too easy.

But deer LOVE turnips.

I use the Sierra 150 gr SPBT in my 06. At an honest 3,000 fps on the chronograph. 3 inches high at 100, 2 inches low at 300, and 15 inches low at 400 yards. We use the SST in one of my sons 06's with very similar results. If the nut behind the trigger is screwed down tight, (and that's not always a given. Lol!) the loads will do the job. Those loads cross the point of aim at 25-30 yards.

YEa i know it is OHIO , where do you think i live N. E Buckeye Col. county . And yes a Rifled barrel shot gun with the Hornady'SST will reach out . Balistic's are better then on a 45-70 . At 150 yds you are dead on and at 200 Yds you have just about 7 inches of drop . And if one is out past that just hold about two three inches over there back and if on a dead run out that far hold about the edge of chest . we hunt in a group of anywhere between six and ten guys . Three of us shot the SST's in rifled barrel the rest are shooting smooth bore . I am the OLD guy in the group so i am the one setting not driving . I have done a lot of LONG range shooting and i can figure out real fast on how to put a round on target after i get the feel of the weapon and the round i am shooting . I may need glasses for up close work now a days but i still can see way out there . yep i have missed the close shots when i first started shooting this shot gun due to my eyes not being able to focus on the ft. sight and the rear at the same time so to solve that problem i added a Bee Square mount and a holographic sight . The green dot is better then the red and works good in all light cond. it took ten rounds to dial it in at the first for 100 yds with the old sabots . The one day i was buying ammo and these SST's were on sale for 4 bucks So i bought six boxes and found out on the vary first shot that my sights were off WAY off as i was now shooting way high . So instead of changing the sights we started to see just where we were hitting at that set up we kept moving the target out . At the old set i was hitting dead on FOR a Shot gun at 160 yards . Now i know i have to hold low on the close in shots . Two days later we all went out and we were going to drive two farms . I was to walk down the well drive back in about 3/4 of a mile and stand by a small patch of trees . Everybody went and set up best we could trying to cover close to 600 acres with 10 guys ( that leaves a lot of HOLES ) Myself and three of the younger guys would start the drive more or less as the young guys all in there late twentys to early thirty's and the OLD fart ME would walk north . The young guys would do the woods and i would walk the well drive . everybody else was way north of us . I was about half way back to my place to set when four deer broke out of the woods WAY out there and were headed west at about a warp factor five . We had nobody to the west . So i tryed to get them to trun north by putting a round down at them , sometimes this works . There was snow on the ground and i saw where my round hit just under the lead Doe i had a sight on her in the kill zone when i fired and shot just under her . The second doe came into the sight picture and i did a quick calulation and made the adjustment in the sight picture and fired . I heald up just above her back and to the ft. of her chest and fired she dropped dead in her tracks . Josh was the closest to me to the east came running out of the wood while the old guy just walked down . When the rest of the guys got up there my buddy Eugene said i saw them break and i saw the snow fly on your first shot then i saw that Doe just drop then i heard your second shot , where were you standing when you shot . I told him east of the tank battery and maybe thirty yards to the north , NOWAY yep that is where i shot from So he had to walk back there and he found the two shell casing next to where i was standing and he paced it off The next year at his brother farm like always i was standing and took another long shot and down the Buck as i had time to dial it in in my head . And besides at the price of these rounds they cost more then a 50 BMG so ya got to make them count , Not like the rest of the guys . If we did not have the three shot limit they all would have 8 round tubes on there gun and empty them on each deer . One guy has the speed loading down to a sience as he loads three into his shot gun and holds two more rounds in his left hand fingers he will get off five shots .

Don i wish we could use a real rifle around here , but the best we can do with rifle is straight wall cal. and since i am retired sort of the War Dept will not allow me to by any new toys but one When she says i can and this year she is COOKING on my me gun. I am at the time shooting my one buddy's shotgun that he does not like and he told me if i can make it work i can use it , Well i fixed it and it works OK just not like he likes . It is a 5500 Mossberg I switched from what he said was the ONLY round that would somewhat shot in it to the Hornady SST . He told me that it would not shoot a 2 3/4 shell only three inch Well it shoots the 2 3/4 better . Like i said i am the OLD guy and i can not do the walking anymore to to lung problems and cold weather so i am the one that gets to go stand someplace . Not vary often do i get a close shot . I can watch and see everything that is going one and if i am going to try and get a deer it will be on a long shot . There are to places that we hunt that we could use a rifle if allowed that depending on where you were you could make shots as far as 2000 yds. yes 2000 yds . And yep that is where the big ones are way back in and in a swamp . we can not cover all that ground and plug all the holes . There is one huge monster that dwells back there and he teases us each year comes out somewhere around four to a quarter to five and just walks far enough out of range and everybody gets to watch him stroll past on a slow walk . As to your 06 i HAD a custom built that with the help of and OLD local gunsmith was and outstanding rifle , but due to my stupidity of not cleaning it after having it out doing some long range shoot with some ammo that a guy gave me and letting it set the ammo was crossive and it ate the barrel . And once i was married for the most part my shooting every weekend stopped . From the days of up to a thousand rounds on the high end now we are lucky to get a couple hundred a year as the War Dept keeps Screaming do you know how much that costs . Just like with the one week of Deer hunting , A couple weeks ago they had the SSt's on sale for 9.99 a box , i bought four boxes twenty rounds . Took her four days to get off her Broom about what i spent. Then yesterday i bought my license with two deer tags added on it was thirtyfour bucks and she was back on her Broom . Good thing now at my age they were half price. Or she would be flyen her broom at 70000 feet instead of just fifteen thousand .

Thats a pretty one from the looks of his neck the rut must be in in your area. Wish they would get racks like that down here in North Carolina.