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knockemdown
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posted November 02, 2015 05:32 AM
Man alive, my homeys in God's country spoiled me rotten the last couple days!
Had a SUPER muzzleloader hunt for deer, got to shoot some steel to 800yds with a new plinker rifle, then whacked a pig with it the next day!
To top it off, snuck in three stands yesterday AM before flying home, and went 3 for 3 with the same little rifle. Man, I live in the wrong friggin' state...
Buck with the smokepole:
Sow with the 6x45AI:
One of the coyotes, 6x45AI, and buddy's little coyote tail stripper:
That little dog is a friggin' pisser to have along on stand!!!
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trapper2
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posted November 02, 2015 05:43 AM
been telling you to move down here, glad you had a good hunt.
wondered if you had got to come down and hunt, glad you got a deer, jr killed a mulie during the youth season couple of weeks ago
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DAA
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posted November 02, 2015 06:03 AM
Looks like too much fun Fred!
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Kokopelli
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posted November 02, 2015 12:25 PM
It'll be tough to pull one off like that ever again.
Awesome !!!!!
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Lone Howl
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posted November 02, 2015 12:45 PM
Nicely done Fred!
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Dave Allen
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posted November 02, 2015 09:10 PM
Very nice Fred !!
Okieland sure looks like Gods country from where I'm sittin'... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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knockemdown
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posted November 03, 2015 04:40 AM
Thanks, gents!
Ryan, the guys sure liked the heck outta those little goodies you made. Tell Bridger congrats on his muley!!! Did he use his rifle, or yours?
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trapper2
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posted November 03, 2015 01:44 PM
glad they liked them fred. he used mine, he had been practicing off the sticks out to 400 with it, I figure I will end up just building him one in the next year or so, then he will have it from now on. he wont even shoot his now, ha
wasn't that big but he wanted a mulie and this is the one we found, and for okla it is ok for a 8 year old
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posted November 04, 2015 04:28 AM
HECK YEAH!
Got something for you to show to Bridger...
My buddy sent me a text while I was deer huntin'. They were SE of Montauk, cod fishing, and had quite a little encounter. His son was cranking in a keeper cod (~15 lbs.) when a 450-500 lb. mako decided to steal their dinner off the line!
Turned out, they got a hook into the mako & managed to battle it for 30minutes...on a cod rod, no less!!! They actually fought it to the boat & released it @ boatside.
Ant sent me these three still shots from the video, said that sucker jumped right next to the boat several times!!!
That should get Bridger's heart thumping!!!
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posted November 04, 2015 08:12 AM
Fred,
You just need to move to the heartland!!!
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Great stories and pics!
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Paul Melching
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posted November 04, 2015 11:24 AM
What a hunt Fred , it will be hard to top that. I love shooting pigs fun to hunt good to eat.
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posted November 04, 2015 06:33 PM
I will show him, he reminds me every so often that you invited him up there to fish, if we can ever work it out maybe we can get up there. he has the jaw you sent him hanging on the wall in his room
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posted November 05, 2015 05:54 AM
Gods country holds a box of chocolates, one never knows what flavor he'll get and if ya stick around long enough you'll get one of each.
Way to go Fred.
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posted November 06, 2015 07:10 AM
So Fred, I know nothing about Makos, not even sure if we have them here on the left coast? I mean, other than a stray, here and there. Mako's reputation as a game fish is well known, I'm wondering about how they taste, since a lot of people release them?
I think we have more Blue Sharks in coastal waters, southern California to Baja, than anything else, and they aren't very good eating. In fact, I never heard of anybody eating Blues?
Also, what do they hit, Zukkers, live bait, or what?
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted November 06, 2015 10:53 AM
Thanks TR!
Leonard, you've got makos galore off the Cali coast! The area from LA, south to San Diego, & out to Catalina Island is a well known for BIG makos. Alot of them are released because that is said to be a nursery area, and most of the 500+ lb'ers are usually females...
Our coastal fishing occasionally see makos that big, but most of the ones we catch are 50-350 lbs. The bigger ones simply don't come inshore, as their main prey lurks the deeper shelf waters. Big makos will eat everything from swordfish & marlin, to porpoises, tunas, and even other sharks!
We mainly fish for makos by drifting & "chumming" them into a baited offering, but they can & will hit trolled lures. Live bait works great, but I prefer to use fresh fillets to increase the odds for getting a good hook set. Its cool to see a 150 lb. mako make mincemeat of a bridled 10 lb. bluefish, but I'd rather feed it a filet and get on with the fight!!!
A hooked mako can be one heckuva riot to handle! They will run away from the boat, at the boat, INTO the boat...jump, cartwheel, pirouette, tailwalk...you name it!
You're right about blue dogs, I wouldn't eat one if someone paid me! But mako is EXCELLENT table fare. Very closely resembles swordfish in texture & flavor. We usually only kill one-2 per year, and release the rest. The are friggin' cool as heck to see cruise past the transon, that's fo' sho!!!
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