All Things Deer

[bbowman]

Just got a fresh shipment of 12 gauge Accu-Tips...I've tried every sabot style slug on the market,except these.
Tha reason for the 20 ga vs. 12 ga...?
Felt recoil is number one...like Rick said. I just happened to have had a Rem 1100 in 12 ga when I started shooting sabot slugs,but I am looking for a fully-rifled slug barrel for my 20 ga 1187...cost wise,I can buy a new single shot H&R for around the same money.
I just like to get maximum use out of all weapons.
I've taken deer,duck,dove,turkey,crow and coyote with a simple choke or barrel change on my 1100!
Love that wore out shotgun!

 

[aaytay]

Interesting thoughts on the 20ga. I've never had an issue with the recoil of a 12ga, but I could see where less is always better, especially in a non-autoloader.

Jason-
A slug gun with accu-trigger? Here ya go!

Savage Slug Gun

 

[wshytle]

Back when my firearms were "liberated" in 1984 I immediately went out and bought a 12 ga single shot just so I'd have a gun. Now talk about recoil...like my grandfather would say, that gun will knock you down and stomp you. It's a Pardner SBI made by New England Firearms and it's also chambered for 3" but I wouldn't dare. You really do have to be careful because it has edges that are rather sharp and not rounded around the action and it will hurt you.

 

[jcarlton]

Lol, Wayne we were shooting one of those once with 3" # 4 turkeyloads....we didn't shoot long...wear a guy out!

 

[jcarlton]

Been seeing lots of smaller bucks. This guy has good potential long main beams and tines, only 6 points at year and a half.

 

[vthomley]

Here's my latest version of the Bag Toss games I make. I figured it was a bit deer related.

 

[aaytay]

Vince-
Those game toss bags are...Brilliant!

 

[kshultz]

A couple of pics from July. Same deer.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Shultzie, very nice!

Here's a couple photos of a nice one that's been hanging hanging around my area.

 

[cmcleod]

Shultzie and Kraig, GREAT Pics of the deer

Cathy

 

[mgwin]

Looks delicious guys!!!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Here's a couple of a different deer than the one I posted yesterday.

 

[kshultz]

Kraig,
Nice!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Shultzie, thanks. I'd like to see some more photos of the deer you have around your place, but from the front, his antlers look crazy wide.

 

[rkelm]

All, the deer in the pictures look good. It has got my enthusiasm up. Also, this weekend my son and I are headed to Colorado to bow hunt Mule Deer - I have been going up there for the last 15 or so years - have come back with a deer every year but one and that was my fault - I missed. We hunt where mostly locals go and there is not many. Off the road for 7 miles and then another 6 on 4 wheelers - back where there is not many people and access is very limited - up two mountains at about a 30 degree angle, the area closes end of September due to the rough access. Be glad to get away and have fun.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Rodney, sounds like a great trip! Good luck and be safe. I've been to Colorado elk hunting three times. Last time was in 2001. Never tried for Mule Deer.

 

[rkelm]

Kraig, Thanks we will be safe, we hunt in an over the counter elk area and we haven't decided on the elk tag just yet. We have seen quite a few in the area and last year I saw about 15 turkey just walking by - that really surprised me - I was at about 8500 ft.

 

[kshultz]

Those two pictures is all I have of him. I think he's camera shy. But I'll keep trying.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Rodney, the first two times I hunted in Colorado it was out in the White River National Forest (aka "Flat top" country) near Meeker. That was in 1982 and 1993. I got a nice 5x5 in 1993.

We hunted up around 10000 feet, got there on horseback and with pack horses. The last time was somewhere south west of Denver which I didn't care for as much. I'd love to go back some day and hunt by Meeker again...

Shultzie, I bet he shows up again.

 

[rkelm]

Kraig, small world, My father-in-law hunted around Meeker the only time he went. He always wanted to go back there but we just never made it and he had health problems later and couldn't. I hunt in area 35-36 just northeast of Eagle, I can also hunt in 45 and 361, this choice has quite a few areas you can go to. I got my first muley a 3x3 at Natureta close to Montrose in the Uncompahgre forest. The largest I have gotten was a 5X6, usually a 2x2 or 3x3 and does. Usually a 14-16 hour drive (one way) but it is worth it.