Doe control 2020

Got my trusty 6mm rem BDL that I have owned for 43 years out for some crop damage tag filling today. Just 3 more left of the 12 tags issued.

You must have deer processing down to a science! LOL WTG

Oh but these two ladies were lucky I hadn't killed my buck yet.


Yes that me sitting in the background !!!

... you ought not have done that to them deers ... they might have had some fun sometime

They will be good eating

Oh they had fun all summer. They destroyed acres of soybeans . It was unreal at the damage. Only ag within 15 miles and on a river bottom . Sitting in the stand above during Oct muzzle loading season I had 29 does in the beans in front of me at one time. Just look at the beans were the two are standing! NO beans for 40 yards out in the field !!!

Good job. Looks like great eating. What bullet are you shooting?

... aight den... reckon you could make me a biscuit... I like mustard on mine mmmhmm

I’ve been looking for a 6mm like that.

Congratulations
Nice rifle

87 gr spritzer pushed by 46 gr of 4831. That load and that rifle has killed well over 1,500 ground hogs and close to 50 white tail. When I first bought that rifle we would ride around every Sunday after noon and shoot ground hogs. The first year I had it I reached 131 confirmed kills. (Pick up the carcass and remove it from the field) . You may ask how can I remember something that happened over 40 years ago? Got a reloading and shooting journal that I kept back then..

Still got the K-6 weaver on it I put on it when it was new. Paid 204 dollars tax and all NIB !!!

6mm is hard to beat

This was from last year . Yea seems 3 is all I want to fool with in one day .

Nice work. Good eats. I also shoot a 6mm Rem in a Ruger M77 tang safety. I shoot 90 grain Accubonds over 45 grains of H414. Lights out on Deer. The wife just shot her 8pt with it and it went about 20 feet.

I usually neck shoot does but it was so foggy this morning it was hard to see them. They would come out in standing beans and I could here them walking before spotting them. Right behind the shoulder, 2 went 10 feet. The biggest one made it about 20 yards before piling up.

Congrats

Congrats !!!
You done good

You hunt low.

Depending on your perspective. We shoot a lot from the from the ground but most of our stands are 18' + depending on conditions we may hunt 10'.

Regardless appears to be working very well for him.

I'll buy it from you. DOUBLE what you paid

Congrats on the Deer

Nice. I got that rifle in a 222. Fun to shoot

Great job,
My pet loads are 39.5 grains of 4350, pushing a 85 grain Serria.
Rem.700,with a timney trigger and Berneger barrel

Your shooting 12 does/yr?
I'll bet it doesn't effect the population much.

You gotta step up those numbers!!!

you will have to buy another freezer , with 12 deer , good shooting ,

That stand is around 12 ft high.
I used to climb 20- 30 ft with climbers but after a severe spine injury my climbing stand days are over. I have used ladder stands for about 15 years tho altogether. As you can see that height seems to be ok!! I normally hunt thickets and if you get too high it is harder to see. Buddy of mine goes 20 ft regardless of area. Last 2 years hunting a giant in thickets he hasn't even seen a deer he could shoot. Just gets a glimpse of the legs. So high is not better. Plus lower platforms are easier to put up, easier to transport, PLUS safer getting up and down from. ALL my stands are 10-15 ft depending on location.
Hey got tons of extra ladder sections for sale cheap !!!

That's just crop tags! Got another six on my state tags.
NO I keep 3 for myself and give the others to needy families. In the past I would take them to the local donation site but this year I am paying the processing bill and working with a local church to deliver the meat to families here in my community. I guess I want to SEE where my donation is going.

Oh yea I do have 3 freezers . One for meat , one for veggies and ice cream ect, One for fur. But the one for fur has been lonely here lately ....

I have had this lease for 3 years now. The contract I have states I MUST shoot min 10 deer a year from this 220 acre farm. Last 2 years we have killed 12 and 14 deer respectively . But the carnage they are doing to the beans is still unreal. As I stated no agri within 15 miles just pasture and timber and it lays along the east fork of the little barren river. It's in soy beans this year so deer spent the summer on it. Last year with corn the numbers were even higher after it was shelled. New Years day as we where pulling our stands we counted over 40 deer standing in the 2 big fields that make up the majority of this farm.

45.0 gr of 4831 w. a 85 gr. Nosler SPBT here in a .243 Rem. 700, about the same load as yours in the 6mm... deer/groundhog universal load.

On behalf of the automobile insurance companies, thank you for your service . Well done !

You can just sit out in the open 12 ft up and the deer don’t care?
Deff not in Wisconsin lol

Ne not really out in the open . You can't tell it but I'm tucked back into the tree line. The cam was put there because of the corn and a giant scrap under the cedar tree on the right of the pic.
Have you ever tried? People grow up deer hunting thinking they have to be 30 ft in the air so deer wouldn't see them.
Roger Raglin got started as the best "ground " hunter on TV . Not until Muddy and other co's started giving him stands and raised blinds did he hunt off the ground. In his early vids he would look for a deadfall , root wad, or just a pile of grass and sit down in the middle of it. Killed tons of deer and never even got 10 or 12 foot off the ground. As someone mentioned lot of deer are killed from little or no elevation. Bet more youth kill from the ground than in a stand !!!

I own the exact same rifle. I have killed deer with three other rifles, from 30-30 to 7mm mag. I have more deer just drop in their tracks, with the 6mm than any of the others. My feeling is that all the energy in the bullet stays in the deer, rarely had a pass-thru, and shocks the critter and drops it. I have a Redfield Widefield 3x9 on it. Favorite bullet was 100 gr. Sierra semi-point. Can't find it any more though. Now it's Nosler 100 gr. ballistic tip. I has accounted for several long distance antelope too.

A Great Lope Gun for sure!

True. A smaller caliber bullet with high velocity, esp w/hollow point, will not exit & all energy will be delivered inside deer. Envision those balistic gell tests & how they expand. Same thing inside that deer & they drop. Bullets that pass through still have all that energy traveling with that bullet.

I love my 6mm! Tikka m595 with a custom barrel-shoots lights out! Killed a pile of caribou and deer with it-awesome rifle and caliber.great eating right there! Shoot 100 grain partitions most of the time but have been shooting barnes TSX lately and it likes them a lot as well.

Yea I bought it when I was 14 . Trapped grey foxes and coon hunted with dogs to pay for it. Had a sweet little blue tick female and a black and tan male that I would leave the house walking and didn't come home until I treed one. In those days coon weren't as plentiful and deer where non-existent !! BUT man those were the days !!!!!!!

Jello salad is what I call it when I cut open the chest cavity to field dress one !!LOL

My 2 most productive "stands" they're actually platforms, are only 8 feet off the ground. Just enough to see above brush and lower limbs. Playing wind is most important.

Get high enough and you take the wind out of the equation. Generally about 25ft up and I can have deer 360 degrees around and even under me with no issues.

Yea do that in a cedar thicket and you can have 100 deer 360 degrees around you and unless they are underneath you it doesn't do any good because you can't see them Plus 50 ft high won't always take the wind out of the equation depends on the thermals. When looking at the wind stand placement is what I look at not how high it is.
Ok heres a question. Who will see more deer someone sitting 25 ft up every where he sits or someone that only goes 10-12 ft high. I'll go with 10 -12 every set and any place.

But the best scenario is what ever works for you . Based on pics and mounts 10-12 ft is working out just fine for me !!!!!!

Does not matter how many you see, its how many you can get a shot at.

I rather sit on the ground in thick cover. I see fewer deer but everyone is in close range and "shootable".

After opening morning the deer aren't standing around in open fields, unless the fields are off limits to hunting.
They are in the thick cover hiding from hunting pressure.

Where you hunt maybe different.