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bkoenig:
I'll start off.  Didn't see much this year, which is weird because I know the deer population where I hunt is really high.  Not sure if it was the warm weather or what.  I ended up taking this little buck on opening morning and I'm glad I did because I didn't get another shot all weekend.  I shot him once through the lungs and he acted like nothing happened, even though I could see blood gushing out of the hole.  So, I shot him a second time in the same spot, and he kind of just trotted off and laid down.



Here's a view from the stand where I shot him.  He was just below the horizon at the top of the hill on the upper right part of the picture.  Another 10 yards further and I wouldn't have been able to take a shot safely.  It was about 75 yards from my stand.



Another view from my stand, facing down the draw that I sat in.  There's not much cover, but the deer use this area like a highway to travel back and forth between feeding areas and cover.  It has really steep sides, so I was about as dead as my deer after I drug him all the way up from the bottom.



A picture of my rifle.  It's a 12.5" SBR in 6.8 SPC.  Hunting with an SBR was great, I highly recommend it.  It's a lot easier to lug around than a full size deer rifle.  Due to the lack of mags and hard to find brass I'm planning on changing this over to .300 BLK.  I had a weird malfunction when I tried to shoot my deer.  The first two rounds I tried to fire just went "click" and the primers weren't even dented.  When I tore it down later I found a piece of brass had lodged in the firing pin channel.

Oh, and by the way, the mag is blocked off to only hold 5 rounds.  C Products used to make 5 round 6.8 mags but they went out of business, so now you have to improvise.



I always get a chuckle out of driving around with legs sticking out the back of my pickup.  I guess it's the redneck in me.

gsd:
you're right.  WildGoose's Granddaughter did get a bigger buck:)

I might see what i can get next weekend, i have land to hunt with sole permissions.  (it's more about just getting away from people for me, but if something pops up and says shoot me, i'm gonna)

sparky:
I was hunting about 8 miles south of Clearwater and about all I saw was bucks about like your Brian.  I know they are in the area but must have gone nocturnal.  Oh well, we'll give it another shot this weekend.  Brian, are you hunting north or south of Clearwater?

Mudinyeri:
I hunted our land about 60 miles south of Yankton this past weekend.  On Saturday morning I saw nine deer (some of them might have been repeat sightings) and took the buck in the picture below.  He had some interesting non-typical stuff on the left side of his antlers. 

Pretty much everything was moving at a liesurely pace.  I don't think the rut has started up at our place yet.  A buddy of mine who hunted down in Otoe county said that it looked like the rut was just getting started down there.

Saturday afternoon, my son and I went out but didn't see anything.  Our place isn't all that big (160 acres) and I think all the activity on Saturday morning had the deer pretty well hunkered down.  I went out again Sunday morning and saw one doe.  She was near the top of a rise with a neighbor's house on the other side of it.  It was a make-able shot but I was at the bottom of the rise and didn't want to shoot uphill in the direction of a house.  I tried to move around behind her as she headed down the hill.  I had almost no cover so she spotted me and took off before I could get in position for another shot.

Hopefully, next weekend the rut will be in full swing.   :D

bkoenig:

--- Quote from: sparky on November 15, 2011, 07:53:05 AM ---I was hunting about 8 miles south of Clearwater and about all I saw was bucks about like your Brian.  I know they are in the area but must have gone nocturnal.  Oh well, we'll give it another shot this weekend.  Brian, are you hunting north or south of Clearwater?

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I was northeast of Clearwater, probably about 8 miles as the crow flies.  If you take the Royal road north from 275 you go right past my family's place.  I think the rut is just getting started - my sister shot a nice 5x5 that had a swollen up neck, but mine didn't appear to be rutting.  I'm wondering if the unseasonably warm weather delayed it?  I don't know if that has an effect, but the deer were definitely not moving.  None of the guys I hunt with saw much.

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