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    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    1 minute ago, JakeyBaby said:

    Slow so far, one first rack is all. Squirrels are all over on the move. Very little shooting and nothing even close. Fingers crossed for a doe, I'm hungry!

    squirrel taste like chicken just in case 

    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    9 minutes ago, justtracytrolling said:

    Once you buy your first decent piece of glass it's game changing. I have a couple Bushnell 6500s on long range set ups, but the last several I've bought were the Leupold vx5s and they simply are amazing. Good binoculars really make glassing we easy as well. The old adage of spending the same on the scope as the gun is off imo... I'll spend double on the scope minimum...you have to be able to see and you want it bulletproof. Rings and bases are also another get what you pay for item.

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    yep scope is more important than the rifle/sluggun

     

    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    9 minutes ago, Duckman1 said:

    Dan i have the same konus scope. What would be a good scope for a muzzleloader without breakin the bank

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    I've been using a Leupold VX 2  2x7 for years on mine as well as my Sluggun

    I learned years ago after going through 3 or 4 cheap scopes on my 12 ga that pay once cry once is the way to go

    Leupold in my opinion isn't what it used to be as far as their adjustments but once you get them zeroed they tend to stay put

    Customer service is the best too if you should have a problem you'll likely get a brand new scope sent out

    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    Konus is crap you are on borrowed time the Nikon prostaff isn't a great scope either

    You can find out the hard way with optic/scopes they work until they don't and it usually is at a most opportune time

    A shot gun will put a serious hurt on the internals of a scope 

    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    1 minute ago, Rich D said:

    It really sucks to see the young bucks you let go, knowing they will be real studs in a year or two get taken a week or two later. Some people really suck!!!!


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    Everyone needs to stop whining about it

    You can only control what YOU do 

    If the next guy shoots one I pass it is what it is 

    To him or her it may be the best buck they have ever killed and a trophy in their eyes

    No sense worrying about things out of your control

    Some will die some will live

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    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    1 minute ago, scobar said:

    9X DMU area southern NY at PA border. 

    A friend shoots a nice 3.5 year old and both antlers fall off before it hits the ground. That's pretty early, watch out taking a big doe, it just might have balls!

    It was probably injured or stressed to lose it's antlers this early

    Legacy- 2018 Deer Season

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    Story of day 34 and the 11pt

     

    It was very still,quiet and calm not really any wind at all.I wasn't sure I was even going to see a deer with it being so still.

    At a little after 4pm I saw 4 doe skirting through the hardwoods. Then a couple minutes later had a spike come into the field and mill around and then walk into the hardwoods and cut 70 yds in front of me. Pretty standard sit so far. 3 doe cut out of the pines and behind me all the deer thus far were traveling towards the  front of property. Next 2 buck enter the field a small spike( I call micro spike because he doesn't even have 3" spikes) and a 4 pt,these are all buck I've seen over and over again so was pretty ho hum till this point...then things got spicy. Micro spike and 4 pt  all of a sudden bolt my direction in the field and stop before the pines along the edge,they are just looking into the pines and finally walk into them.I then hear a grunt and think that doesn't sound like it came from the 4 pt? Next 3 doe fly down the ridge line behind me about 120 yds, I think "did someone on the adjacent property bump them?", but as I'm thinking that they dart back were the came from running all over the place so I know a buck is messing with them. I'm now standing up in my stand looking back and scanning with my binoculars and I see a doe 75 yds from my stand motionless staring down through the hardwoods back out in front of me. I'm watching her and trying to look back to where she is staring to see what has her attention? I see nothing as I scan,then I look back towards the field and I see a group of deer along the edge of the pines 5 of them! I turn and sit in my stand and see they are all buck,two small buck are sparing mico and 4 pt are standing watching and there is one buck hanging back just into the pines. I pull up my binoculars and could see he had some stuff going on rack wise and was a good buck,at this point I wasn't sure if it was the big guy I've been after or not but decided first opportunity at a shot I'd take it as I've rode this rodeo before thinking I'll wait till he comes all the way out only to have him lock up and turn around walking away,especially since that's where the doe were all running around.

    The rest is history he stepped forward one step and gave me a clear shot to his front shoulder at 90 yds and he went on a 60 yd death run and dropped behind some brush. Until I walked up on him I wasn't sure what he was or if he was my nemesis,unfortunately not but again I wouldn't have passed him regardless. 1 week off then the quest will continue with the muzzle loader. 

    As a side note I've never seen this buck or have a single picture of him so you really just never know what will happen or who will show up

     

    Thanks  to everyone and best of luck to all .....your season can change on a dime so stick with it!

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