Deer Season Over What To Doooo???

Ill play but ill have to use my 795, dont own a 10/22 anymore.
not sure when i can shoot it tho.

Turkey season in March. Small game until Feb 28 here. I'll do some "squirrel hunting" while scouting for turkey season for a couple of weeks.

I have a five shot group from early January when I upgraded to a 20 MOA rail for my 10/22. NRL22 match tomorrow!


5-shots @ 50 yards

I very old and occasionally modified 10/22, not much is still original at this point.

I actually have 3 doe tags left to fill (private land permits) and I should be in a deer blind right now but don't feel like cleaning any more deer this year! ha, ha.

Filling 5 doe tags has made hunting does more of a chore every year than I ever would have imagined.

Deer season over - make jerky

tan the hides
stabilize the antlers
extract minerals
grind bone and mix for case-hardening

Just please..... OH PLEASE.... do NOT make deer-foot rifle racks!

Todd.

Newtosavage said:

I actually have 3 doe tags left to fill (private land permits) and I should be in a deer blind right now but don't feel like cleaning any more deer this year! ha, ha.

Filling 5 doe tags has made hunting does more of a chore every year than I ever would have imagined.

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That used to be every other weekend for me lol.

Now i usually shoot 4 or 5 deer a year, any time i double or triple on stuff now it always feels like work taking them apart.

Now that it is finally about zero a trip to the range soon is in order. I do have a decent 10/22. Not my best rifle but I like it.

Keyfer 55 said:

Rained so much my hunting club is flooded.
It's all bottom land close to the flint river.

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Both the Flint and Ocklockonee are REALLY high in my area of N. FL.

Now that the deer season is over:

Now:
Coyotes
Squirrels
Pig hunt next weekend
Habitat Improvement (great way to make deer season last 365 days)
Indoor IDPA matches

Soon:
Turkey in APR
Before you know it 3Gun season will be here
I've just been invited to hunt a large farm with a friend of mine, so building a bridge and blind construction.

Wolf season for us is mid sept - mid march

Need to find a load for my new Vanguard 223, sight-in a laser on a Colt 1911/22 because the factory sights aren't even close, try to find some bullets for 4 different calibers, and get the turkey gear squared away. Need to bring all my blinds, climbers and ladder stands home and talk to the land owner about putting in a couple of food plots.

Keyfer 55 said:

2021 Ruger10/22 time. Post best 10 shot group @50 yards. ASAP!!! Give you something to do. Summer time when everyone got there rifle tuned in. Do a post @100 yrds. Old school no metric.

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Deer season over means coyote time.

Shoot some hogs

Don't have a 10/22, but 2 m 60's, a glenfield, and a Marlin, as well as a lakefield 64b. I'll try and get out this weekend.

4-5 does a year? Man I need to take some trips out east. Finally got another buck tag this year in western CO and got the covid and barely made the hour drive out to my spot. Fell asleep layin in a clump of sagebrush. Spring time will consist of prairie dog mitigation and striper fishin at powell.

It’s hog season year round on private land in GA. Some public land too if you know where to find it.

LoonWulf said:

That used to be every other weekend for me lol.

Now i usually shoot 4 or 5 deer a year, any time i double or triple on stuff now it always feels like work taking them apart.

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Yea, the problem with me procrastinating is that it increases the odds I'll shoot two in one trip, which my back never thanks me for anymore...

Oh, and deer season over here means white bass runs up the creeks followed by spring largemouth fishing, followed by summer trips to the coast for redfish, specks and flounder. It's a rough life, but someone's gotta do it.

Lion season is open now in Montana.
I got actually got a shot yesterday but I was just a bit too slow and missed it.

Every year i shoot about 5,000 rounds of centerfire ammo and a couple thousand rounds of .22. Don't hunt turkeys because we don't eat them: No one wants a turkey. Spend a lot of time shooting and trapping wild hogs. Will purchase a better predator caller and spend more time killing coyotes.

Are scoped 10/22's allowed, or iron sights only? Either way, I'll play. Be the weekend before I can, though.

There's lots to do after deer season. Small game is still in here. And there's always crow hunting if you enjoy it (I do). Before long, it'll be mushroom season (quite possibly my favorite time to be in the woods), spring turkey, and best of all, groundhogs will start moving again. I sure do love to shoot them! About the first of next month, the crappie will start biting well, and the big brown trout are biting now. That's assuming of course you like to fish as well. Spring is also a good time to work up new hunting loads for next season; I have a couple loads for my .222 and 30-06 that I'm wanting to try out. Perhaps the best part of all, the ground is starting to thaw out and dry out, so that means I get to get back in the field and get stuff in the ground!

alsaqr said:

No one wants a turkey.

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But I do!! I actually like turkey hunting; in AR it's shotgun only, but my understanding is that you can use a rifle in OK?

Mac

I haven't been successful calling Maine coyotes, but caught several in the blueberry fields, both out back and near our house, dispatching them with either .223 or .17HMR cal. rifles, though don't seek them out, armed with only a .17 HMR rifle. The .223 has dispatched coyotes with one-shot at ranges out to 200 yards and is the rifle I carry often to dispatch several kinds of varmints, even out to 250+ yards. However, if I see a varmint beyond that distance, especially behind the house, I'd probably pick a .243 for the shot. I really like 85-90 grain bullets in .243 Win. handloads. They're very accurate!