Question for experienced hunters only. (No posers please)

I have a creek that runs through the place, there being no other water for about 5 miles each side of it. When it freezes, I have the only springs that run and do not freeze for miles.

One of the fellers from New Mexico with 3 mediocre beta bucks. There were 3 guys hunting. You can see the creek in the background and the terrain that we hunt.
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That's strange-I just started to add this pic to the above post and it reposted it. Didnt want to hijack the thread, but these 3 were shot at ranges from 60 to 200 yards and were all neck shots.
 
can someone explain to me the practice of hunting with bright orange colors
as i see so many usa hunters hunt with on espn shows. i think this is due to regulations/safety, no?. in africa you will be asked to get other clothes or go away.
 
can someone explain to me the practice of hunting with bright orange colors
as i see so many usa hunters hunt with on espn shows. i think this is due to regulations/safety, no?. in africa you will be asked to get other clothes or go away

Its a safety requirement in many jurisdictions for hunting certain types of game (usually deer). Deer and elk are color blind. They see orange as a shade of grey so it doesn't handicap the hunter to wear them.
 
can someone explain to me the practice of hunting with bright orange colors
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On the opening day 650,000 Nimrods(self proclaimed) take to the woods/bush/field, and for many the game plan is "If It's Brown, Its Down" Now what would you like to wear.
If every hunter used common sense there wouldn't be as much a need. Some states have no requirements for Blaze orange.

Deer and elk are color blind. They see orange as a shade of grey so it doesn't handicap the hunter to wear them.
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One Co-worker has a feeder in his front yard, 30 ft. from the window. Feeding deer pay no attention to people in the house, Then when a Blaze orange hunting jacket is worn in the house, Deer take flight. (thats his claim)

My neck of the "woods" i see/jump, on average 3 deer a season with 60-90 hours hunting. 1/2 may be in a stand. the rest is mooching.
So when the Grandsons are in their stand, and see noth'n 3-4 days a-hunt'n they start to get a little bored. Noth'n like watch'n the tube, and see'n them by the doz'n.
 
The fish and game nazis require that you have not only an orange covering on your head, but something like 200 square inches of orange both front and back on your body.

You can be fined more for not being orange than you can for breaking other of their humbling rules. It is not about safety, it is about control. Just another nail in your coffin.

We only hunt on our own land, but that does not matter either. It is all a part of the great socialist movement to take away peoples "rights", take away their property, and let the government take care of them like it is supposed to happen.
 
i thought as much. 650 000 that is a lot of hunters!!!. i will not wear something orange i will be orange. over here the colourblind story is also told and there is a popular believe that cammo with a dark blue background is the best.
 
I only take Heart/Lung shots.

The kill zone is at least as big as a pie plate which is much more forgiving if you are off -VS- a Head or Neck shot.....Also the land where I hunt in Texas my shots are usually 250 yards and even though I have hunted for about 32 years, I am quite honestly not a good enough shot at that distance to be comfortable with a head/neck shot.

Now if a Huuuge Buck passed within 50-75 yards, and I had only a head /neck shot due to heavy brush etc, I might try the Head/Neck shot, but that situation has never presented itself to me in my terrain. I guess its all about the circumstances. I am lucky enough, that I can usually pass on Iffy shots....there are plenty more Deer where that one came from.
 
The advent of regulations requiring hunters to wear blaze orange led to a notable decline in accidental shootings. This was particularly true on public lands.

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i like shoulder shots on almost everything. the lungs and heart for almost all game is behind the shoulder and when a bullet goes through the shoulder bone fragments help in creating collateral damage.
 
Most every deer I've killed was a shoulder shot, all but two dropped within a few seconds. One I grazed his chest and saw him again a few days later, dropped him with a shoulder shot and noticed the wound to his chest. Another one I was never able to track down. The first deer I ever killed when I was still on a youth lisence, I was nervous and shaking around all over the place. Aimed for the heart, cliped her spine and dropped her right where she stood..that was the best luck I've ever had
 
hammered

Every deer or Antelope I ever shot through the lungs with an '06 using 180gr bullets... they went down like they'd been hit with a hammer. Sometimes a little running, but just a little.
 
I will take a high neck shot on a whitetail if it is close, calm, and is a doe or buck I am not going to shoulder mount. The only reason I do it is it makes the cleaning job a little more pleasent w/o bloody trauma in the chest cavity.
 
I am competent enough with a rifle to consistently hit prairie dogs at 500+ yds, but I stick with the heart/lung shots because I will not risk wounding the animal I am shooting at. I guide a lot of hunters for mule deer and antelope and tell them when they book the hunt I do not allow head/neck shots. I was once guiding a guy and he took the jaw off a deer at about 60 yds, I had to track the deer 6 miles before I was able to bring the deer down, I am not saying I have never had to track a gut shot deer or anything but a core shot has less likelyhood of only wounding an animal. I have seen too many animals without jaws or with holes in their necks that didn't hit the spine or airway to go for shots like that. I am confident in my abilities with a rifle to make the shot, I just won't do it. But that's just my humble opinion.
 
With all due respect, if you hang the deer by his back legs or put him up on the tailgate of the truck all the gore just falls out into your garbage can or wash tub when you open the chest. My opinion is that it is much better to have all the blood in the deer's chest where you can wash it out than to have it congealed in the meat so that you have to soak every roast and steak before you can stand to cook it. :barf:
 
I always go for the vitals. Missing by a half inch on a head shot can mean letting a deer with no bottom jaw go running into the woods to die of starvation. I have seen the remnants of one and it is not pretty. Depending on caliber, neck shots are also not always fatal.

That being said, I have only ever seen two deer die where they stood and both shots were taken with sabot slugs at medium range to the vitals. When I say to the vitals I mean through both lungs and the heart completly destroyed.
 
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