Here I am in my blind watching deer just out of range, while hearing gunshots not far off. It's like this every weekend. I've got 4 nice bucks on the property that may get shot before ML season.
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So aggravating..
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double browtine
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I know what you mean. Every year on the opening morning of bow season I have heard one rifle shot. This has happened the last 3 years in a row. I think with the online check in app, someone is just shooting a deer for the freezer and checking it in as a bow kill. Probably a landowner. But maybe not even checking it in. The first year I heard the shot close by, one of my labs drug up a fresh deer hind leg in the yard a couple days after I heard the shot. Some people just poach no matter what.
I hear it every year. And yes it is beyond aggravating. It's like we get punished for following rules and doing it right.
JT262
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I hear you but it is never wrong to do right someone has too.
Yall could be jumping to conclusions. Maybe someone shot a coyote or armadilla out their back door. Checking a rifle for juvenile hunt, or sighting in a muzzleloader
I'd like to believe that, but its uncanny how many rifles get sighted in at 6:30am.
PickettSFHunter
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Most poachers here have suppressors anymore to go along with their cell cam, corn, and night vision.
JeepKuntry
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Why does everyone always assume poaching. Some people target shoot. Maybe small game hunting. If every shot that rang out was true we wouldn't have much wildlife!
True enough. I wouldn't say some of the shots aren't that. But it sure seems an awful lot of coyotes start hanging out in back yards when archery season opens.
Several days ago a truck turned into the property entrance, turned its lights off, and cruised the fields quick at 6am, then pulled out and left. I was walking to my stand. He drove within feet of me and never seemed to see me. Had a good buck been in the field, I suppose he'd have just looked at it instead of pulling a rifle. Maybe he was just looking for coyotes? He had no permission to be there, so at minimum he was trespassing and knew it. I'm all about giving folks the benefit of doubt, but sometimes trying to be reasonable is unreasonable. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck .... it's a duck.
My Buddy and I sighted in our muzzleloaders today, but it was at 10 am not 6:30. Hopefully someone was shooting coyotes.
I mean if your going to poach why wait till archery season. I would imagine most poachers just shoot them whenever they want
Where a shot comes from, the time, and the caliber/type of firearm matters. I generally don't like accusing anybody of anything. But man if it's barely light and I hear a single 30/06 size rifle in October, it's not small game hunters nor is it target shooters.
Why would you think they don't? Scumbags are scumbags all the time, not only when it's in season.
I know of some guys in Morgan county that shoot them all summer when they run out of jerky meat. They're in their corn fields and I think they wrongly feel it's ok since they're eating their crops. I know they're illegal but there aren't enough officers to catch them all.
A big rifle sounds completely different than a shotgun, completely different than a muzzleloader, completely different than a .22lr. And when a big rifle sounds off outside of daylight, it begs question.
