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Topic: ever been run over by cattle
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20t-n-t
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posted January 29, 2003 10:59 AM
This day just went south in a hurry. Was to meet a friend here at my home to go huntin this morning. He was late. Now I'm late and kinda pithy, if ya know what I mean, Two things you just ain't late for and thats huntin and church. So things are already not going my way before we even left the drive.
Get to the ranch that I wanted to hunt just before sunup, scramble to get where I wanted to Be at daylight, get set up and start the first secquence and 2 min later 190 - 200 head of cows come barreling over the hill at my back, oooosh!@#
Stampeeeeeeeeeeeeed !! after a mad dash up under some rocks to get out of the way I see the rancher. Hi Dic he says,kinda chucklin, movin the cows down to the lower pasture to calf, are ya seein anything? lol...
NOP! I said with a sigh. Now is where things realy go south. I walked back down to where we were sitting to find my decoy heart reduced to rubbish and I have lost my Truck keys. after a hour I finaly found my keys and called it a day. Get to the house and remember that I don't have my rifle. S#$!@#@#%$@$# -!@@#@#$$# then was when I regained my sight and composure. I drove back out there and got my rifle and came home, sat down and called cabelas to order a new decoy heart and have it shiped overnight so I'll have it for the weekend. The whole time my wife is snickering and pokeing fun at me whitch ain't makin it better. About this time another friend calls and wants to go huntin this evening.................You gotta be kiddin me.
I just want to start this damn day over or forget it. I'm not ready to laugh about it yet but my wife's having a good time with it.
Shoulda stayed in bed
Not so Slydog
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Lone Howl
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posted January 29, 2003 11:23 AM
Dang sly, and I thought I was having a sorry day!Forgot your rifle? You must have been pissed.I hate calling around pastures in my area, cattle around here come right up to ya and try to get a lick or two in. Lots of dogs around cattle country though.
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Leonard
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posted January 29, 2003 12:50 PM
Two things.
First, I have never left a gun behind, hope I never do, especially a tricked out specialty caliber. I did lose one for about thirty minutes or so.....
Second, I'm dying to know how you managed to bend your barrel, but had not the nerve to ask. I can see propping it up against a tire, and driving over it, but beyond that, I can't imagine?
But, you have my sympathy. In my experience, I usually don't think twice about calling around cattle. They just stare, most of the time. The other ten percent is equally divided between leaving the area, and coming a little closer. It's mustangs you have to be careful with. They get agressive, sometimes.
Good hunting. LB
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Bud
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posted January 29, 2003 05:49 PM
I had cattle respond twice to deer bleats. Both times they came on the run. I haven't a clue what they thought they were after. Perhaps protecting a calf?
Maybe someone can answer a question for me.
It's Jan 2 with a couple inches of snow on the ground. I'm set up with an electric caller w/Burnham Brothers jackrabbit tape going. A jackrabbit comes in, then another, and another. This goes on til there about a dozen hopping around my speaker and decoy. No coyotes this setup, just rabbits.
What is up with this? Anyone else have this happen? I've only seen it the one time but once was wierd enough.
Bud
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Greenside
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posted January 29, 2003 06:35 PM
Usually I pay little attention to cattle when using the distress calls. I avoid using a howler when I'm within a hundred or a couple hundred yards of a cow herd. Never know what their going to do, especially if there's young calves with them. Bulls can also be real unpredictable to close howling. I usually give them the benefit of the doubt.
Dennis
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20t-n-t
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posted January 29, 2003 08:02 PM
(1) Leonard, to tell you the truth, it was a fluke thing. was after a coyote on my old 600 grizzly, in a pasture with the rancher who was on his ATV, both of us going like hell side by side when his front left tire blue out. I was on his left side and a little dehind him. At the speed we were going I could only watch the reck happen and try to keep it on all 4, Did'nt happen, ended up on my ass and watching my 600 do a flip and land on its side. You guessed it, the side that my gun was on. After we stood it up I got my gun out and looked it over real good. It looked fine till I checked it for zero. At first I thought it was the scope but after further inspection we determined that it was the barrel and BLA BLA BLA you know the rest of the story. At my age I know better. ever do anything dumb?, It happened to me. LOL
As for this morning The rancher was pushing the cattle down to another pasture and you know how 1st calf heffers are. Kinda spooky, Don't know if it was me on the call or just them damn cows being cows but all hell broke loose.
I wonder if the Decoy heart company will replace it if I send them all the pieces??? LOL
Later all
Slydog
P.S. I know you all think I'm a dumb ass for chaseing coyotes on a ATV. looking back it was quite a hoot. Don't know if I would do it again, though.
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Maineiac
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posted January 31, 2003 01:49 AM
There is a email going around titled "If you think you are haveing a bad day" it goes like this.
You have a twin brother. The two of you are siamese twins, you are joined at the torso. Your brother is gay and you are not. Your gay brother has a date tonight. You share one butt.
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Lone Howl
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posted January 31, 2003 04:04 PM
Hey Bud, stirring up jackrabbits on stand is a regular for my area. Sometimes thier so big you can mistake em for a far off coyote.I dont know what it is about a distress call but they either come on in or haul a$$.
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Cdog911
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posted February 01, 2003 07:06 PM
Been there, done that - twice. The first time was scary as all hell. Sitting there tootin' and squealin' when I feel the ground beneath my butt vibrating. Any other time, I'd have just sat there and enjoyed it, but I got suspicious. Moments later, a hundred or so cattle came over yon hill with young calves in tow. I was surrounded by them as they snorted, wheezed and stomped the ground around me. The only time I can honestly say I've been scared of a cow.
This year, one of my spots has about a hundred-fifty head of longhorn cows - not just cows with long horns... honest to God, wiley, snaggle-toothed, ill-tempered Texas longhorns - that have been calving over the past few weeks. The pasture I call has one old white cow with her calf still in it. She's got about a 40-inch spread atop her noggin. The c'boys that work there haven't been able to herd or wrangle her into the big corrals yet. Anyway, I'm heading in there with another guy and I decide to have some fun with him. I point to the old girl standing under a distant tree as we're sneaking by and tell him to keep his eye on her while I'm calling since she has a nasty habit of charging in on me when the screams start. I then relate to him a less than truthful story about how last time I was in there, I got her all pi$$ed off and the setup consisted of screaming for thirty seconds, run like hell, scream for thirty seconds, run like hell. And every once in a while, try to even use one of my calls. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) He finally figured out I was funnin' him.
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Terry Hunter
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posted February 02, 2003 10:55 AM
Most of my calling is near cattle.Which makes shooting tough.Sometimes the cattle come to the call and I cannot see past the cattle.Several times mad bulls have caused me to climb a fence when I howled.
Thats part of the game since the coyotes are always near the cattle.
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Leonard
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posted February 02, 2003 11:45 AM
Up until now, I have been thinking of range cattle. I hardly ever call from a pasture, maybe there is a Territorial Imperative at work?
I have never had cattle act aggressively, the most disruptive being when they run off, spooked. I have noticed a number of times where coyotes and bobcats pay attention to that, almost always deciding that they don't want any part of a situation where a cow is leaving the area at anything more than a snail's pace. I don't mind them coming in for a look around, but mostly, they are respectful rubberneckers.
Good hunting. LB
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20t-n-t
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posted February 04, 2003 10:46 PM
Today was a good day, my son called at about 9am and said he got off early and wanted to know if I wanted to go huntin. By the time he got to the house I was sittin in my truck drinking coffee and rubbin my Tact20 (by the way its back) I had spent most of yesterday breaking it in and talking on the phone. Anyway Aaron told me that he could only hunt till around 4pm and he would have to head home. I told him to follow me because I was going to hunt till dark.
We get to the ranch and opened the gate to pull in and Aaron said: To bad I dont have my 300 ultra. I said: why. Because there is a coyote sitting in the road down at the curve. I looked and sure as hell....... I got out the Lecia 1200 and ranged that yote at 398 yards. He just sat there lookin around like we was'nt there I told Aaron I wanted him to spot for me. he Said OK and I got my gun out of the truck, racked a shell into the chamber and leaned over my front grill guard and got a solid rest. The coyote was still sittin in the dirt road faceing us now. I put the crosshairs right where his chest and neck meet at the v and set the trigger and touched it off. I watched it hit him and just roled him over backwards. he never knew what hit him. I had hit him 2 1/2" below the v in the top of the chest. we made one stand and saw nothing, moved about 2 miles and made another stand and called in a fox that Aaron shot at 140 yards with my .223 and It was 2:20pm Aaron says lets call it today and go skin these critters so I'm not late. I said ok.
I'm sure glad that I have my rifle back and the damn thing shoots as good as before if not better. I don't know if there is a flatter shooting, harder hitting cartridge out there in the .22 cal and smaller. At 500 yards it still has over 350ft/lbs energy and will still be traveling at over 2200 fps. Thats a 33 grain v-max
running around 4320fps at 12' from the muzzle.
This little cartridge never ceases to thrill me every time I shoot it. I have yet to have an exit shooting the 33 grain v-max from 10 yards to todays 398 yard shot. I can't say that shooting the 36 grain berger. they blow holes as big as my foot in them.
I have found some new bullets and I'm going to try them asap 40 grainers. thats all for now .
Later
Dic
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Maineiac
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posted February 04, 2003 11:21 PM
t-n-t that Tact20 of yours what is the original round? Sounds like you have a heck of a shooter. Good luck with the new barrel. Sounds like you had a good hunt. Congrats on that song dog shot
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20t-n-t
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posted February 05, 2003 10:26 PM
Maineac, the parent case for the Tact20 is a .223 necked down w/30* sholder to 20 caliber.
I call it the "land lazer" and it is.
I did have a good hunt with my son and I'm happy with the shot also. Thanks!
Hunt smarter and Smote the Yote
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posted February 07, 2003 05:11 PM
pup and i had about 600 hd of calves stampede past us at 100yds up into the woods make full circle and hd right to us.
when all was done i looked at pup and said "I'm ready when you are i don't think there comin. There's just to much wind(none) or it's just to hot(i've ice hangin from my tail) or maybe they just can't here us(for all the calves stampeding us).
cows(steak and yote bait)
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