Author Topic: Your hunting plans: 2014 (Read 6731 times)

landon410 · « **on:** August 14, 2014, 11:09:08 AM »

Anyone got an hunting plans in the works for this coming season?

Nebraska archery opens Sept 1 this year
I hunt primarily Missouri which opens Sept 15 and season lasts through Jan 15

I'm planning on bow hunting Northwest Missouri (Nodaway County) I'll go down opening week and hunt I'd guess most weekends until I tag out which is 2 deer, and I have 15 days of PTO to use up yet this year.

attached are a couple recent pictures of deer that I'd target, I try to avoid anything under 3 years old, plus in missouri its illegal to shoot a deer that doesn't have at least 4 points on 1 side. I understand the reasoning for this but a couple years ago I found a buck that had been hit by a car and ran into our timber, when I happened upon him he was alive but couldn't get up and his rear leg was terribly infected (you could smell it 20 yards away). I shot this deer and drug him off our trail and the coyotes ate him. Anyways he was an OLD deer past his prime and was only a 6 point which would make him an illegal deer but he was HEAVY and he ended up as a euro mount and it pretty wide, also attached picture of this deer

I hunt with a Parker Blazer bow, 31 inch draw 64 lbs pull, I shoot cheap scheels arrows which are actually gold tips and Magnus stinger 4 blade 100 gr broadheads with lighted nocks.
My bow isn't very fast but it shoots straight!

What are your hunting plans?

landon410 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:12:50 AM »

pictures of coyotes eating that buck mentioned above

Waltherfan · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2014, 03:07:14 PM »

Nice pics.
I don't bow hunt but I'll be out this year with a rifle.

RobertH · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2014, 03:41:03 PM »

i am taking classes at SCC, so i doubt i will have a chance to hunt anything.

i would love to get this guy:

or just any of these:

or a Mt Lion.

on the fritz · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2014, 04:21:32 PM »

My 14 yr old son is on the fence about hunting this year.

I haven't hunted since I started taking my boys, but I see we now have speer/atlatl season.

Maybe I will consider that.

DenmanShooter · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2014, 04:53:51 PM »

shooter · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2014, 05:22:00 PM »

Quote from: on the fritz on August 14, 2014, 04:21:32 PM

My 14 yr old son is on the fence about hunting this year.

I haven't hunted since I started taking my boys, but I see we now have speer/atlatl season. Maybe I will consider that.

does that mean you can only use speer bullets?

n or were you thinking of a spear

zofoman · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2014, 09:30:09 PM »

Drawing a bow is something my shoulder complains about, so I've had to give that up. For the last 10-12 years or so, I've primarily done muzzleloader for deer. It levels the playing field somewhat - 1 shot/one kill. However, I'm taking a friend out for rifle season this year. He hasn't been deer hunting since his days in Vietnam or any hunting for that matter till this year when I took him turkey hunting in the spring. Really looking forward to getting out this November.

My hunting has always been on private land....but, its really starting to tick me off with the ballziness of people ignoring No Trespass signs and hunting in our area. We don't ever seem to meet up at the same time but, the evidence is clearly there. Hunting used to be really good and in recent years its been a bit tougher. I can't blame that on the recent disease but more on increased hunting pressure from trespassers.

newfalguy101 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2014, 09:56:08 PM »

No definitive plans as of yet.

I lost my deer hunting land last year ( the owners sold it )

I have another less desirable place I can go, but, its a whole lot further and, well, less desirable

on the fritz · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2014, 10:32:54 PM »

Quote from: shooter on August 14, 2014, 05:22:00 PM

does that mean you can only use speer bullets?

n or were you thinking of a spear

Ha! Fine,... "spear".

LOL

CitizenClark · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:34:16 PM »

Hunting doves at Yankee Hill on Sunday afternoons in September, then hunting whitetail south of Tecumseh on some private land.

pfinn · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2014, 05:41:25 PM »

Quote from: CitizenClark on August 14, 2014, 11:34:16 PM

Hunting doves at Yankee Hill on Sunday afternoons in September, then hunting whitetail south of Tecumseh on some private land.

I hunt down by Tecumseh as well, between EHD and the habitat loss down there, I'm not sure there is much left to hunt!

Been thinking about Doves at Yankee Hill as well, was out there a couple of times last (not hunting them) year and saw plenty. Good Luck.

bkoenig · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2014, 11:01:38 PM »

I'll head back to the family farm this fall for deer season. Drink a bunch of beer the night before with the guys I hunt with, get up the next morning and complain about it, sit in the stand and hopefully see something without falling asleep and missing it, in the afternoon get roped into working cattle or something similar, go sit in the deer stand that night, after it gets dark drink some more beer, repeat on Sunday, then that night take the first thing I see since I only have time for two days of hunting this year. That's how last year panned out.

I miss living on the farm and going hunting every weekend and several times during the week. These days I get only a couple days a year, maybe 3 or 4 if I'm lucky.

And while I type this I'm eating homemade venison summer sausage and wondering why I don't hunt more.

landon410 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 18, 2014, 08:25:47 AM »

BKoening, there are a lot worse things you could do with your weekend then what you just described.

it sounds like most of my fishing trips when I head up north to my grandpa's I normally end up mowing 4-5 acres, why my grandpa needs a yard that big I don't know, then normally have to help move the heavy stuff in the shed before fishing can begin, then after fishing we have whatever chores are left to do that are easier for a 31 year old than a 77 year old.

a little work to go fishing/hunting with grandpa/family is worth it

RobertH · « **Reply #14 on:** August 26, 2014, 11:10:22 AM »

Im still looking to fill my Mt Lion permit, but my daughter had some success.... We stalked this bear in our basement for awhile but she finally got a shot, so we posed for this pic.

(see pic).

landon410 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 26, 2014, 12:39:14 PM »

that rifle looks like it has a pretty big bore on it, can she manage that much recoil?

awesome picture by the way

RobertH · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2014, 01:23:27 PM »

Quote from: landon410 on August 26, 2014, 12:39:14 PM

that rifle looks like it has a pretty big bore on it, can she manage that much recoil?

awesome picture by the way

Shes my daughter, she can handle everything.

greg58 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 26, 2014, 08:18:27 PM »

I will continue hunting 22lr.

Greg58

lunchbox · « **Reply #18 on:** August 26, 2014, 09:29:11 PM »

Got permission to hunt some private land right by my house this year. Ill be out opening day for bow and hopefully a few evenings a week till I fill my tags.

tstuart34 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:39:56 PM »

I pulled a bone head move and got married on the 14th of November.... it was a Saturday and the opening day. I haven't been out in 5 years now. I would like to get out in Nov. but my stands sit on the blue river north a Fairbury and it is a heck of drive and I am not sure if the kids will let me out of the house for a full weekend