Author Topic: 26 days untill Opening Day (Read 1970 times)

jumpsteady · « **on:** November 06, 2009, 06:18:38 AM »

26 days until opening day of rifle season. I can't wait. This is the time of the year that I love the most. I get to spend much needed time in the woods either by myself or with friends and family. I don't have to worry about work, side projects, or working on the race car. All I have to do is crawl out of bed at 3:30am and get on the road. I am also hoping to help my wife get her first deer ever this year. My daughter was only 8 months old last season and the wife was pregnent the season before so she hasn't been out in the woods for a couple of year. And she is acting really excited about going, so I'm hoping that I can help her get something this year. Plus I hope that the weather is a little better than it was last time we went out together. She fairly cold blooded so I hope it is a little warmer than 10 degrees. Hope everybody has a good, safe, and successful year.

DavidKansas · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2009, 07:42:15 AM »

Which unit are you and the wife going to hunt? I do wish the both of you the best of a season. For me it is does only during rifle seson,but who cares it is still lots of fun being in the woods hunting.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2009, 09:55:27 AM »

I just hope it cools down a bunch.74 degrees today and the same for the weekend.Saw a dew big deer up and about the last few days.Scrapes are being worked and the tearing the hell out of the rub lines.Rut should be kicking off next week.Wish I could still bow hunt.Just picked up my tags today.Going to a buddies house tomorrow to get sighted in.Always a fine time for me too.Love the deer hunting.I'll be hunting in unit 15 mostly.Have two places close to home.One about ten minutes and the other maybe thirty away.May be making a trip up to Glenn Elder too????Oldest son has a place to go up there.Also have a buddy that lives in Ashland.Has a small farm west and south of town that holds some big deer.Lots of places this year to go.My twin sons are going out to Quinter to a buddy of theirs farm.We should be go to go.If I'm counting right we can tag about 20 deer between us.Lots a meat for the freezer and to help out the needy too.I'll put part of one in the freezer and donate the rest.If these dang turkeys don't stay out of the wife's flowers,I may have to go get a turkey permit.Good luck to all and be safe.remember the upland season opens next weekend,I think.Slow

jumpsteady · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2009, 10:00:13 AM »

We hunt on family land just southwest of Alma in unit 14. My rule is that if I am going to shoot something on opening day it had better have antlers. After opening day if it has four legs, two ears, and a white tail it is fair game. She won't be going out opening day as she does not get vacation time at work so she won't be going until the first saturday. But I agree I also hope it cools down quite a bit. About 35 - 40 degrees and snow would be ideal for me.

DavidKansas · « **Reply #4 on:** November 06, 2009, 01:51:37 PM »

jumpsteady you and I are in the same neck of the woods, I hunt two farms near Bushong and live in Emporia. This area of the state is great for deer not that other areas arn't. I do hope you and your wife have a great season.

jumpsteady · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2009, 04:08:30 PM »

16 days. Starting to get excited.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2009, 04:37:03 PM »

Me too.Was out driving around the last few days.Bucks are running hard.This cold snap has them up and chasing the does hard.I saw three different shooters today.One was on the west side of Wichita in the city limits.Locked down with a doe.The other two were with in two miles of the house and trailing.Looks good.The secondary rut should be hitting by the 2nd.Slow

jumpsteady · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2009, 08:07:03 AM »

7 days!!!!!!!

Big Nasty · « **Reply #8 on:** November 26, 2009, 05:39:18 PM »

Kansas changed the law at the last minute, you have to use a bow no rifles. Everyone believes me right.

jumpsteady · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2009, 02:20:16 AM »

Nope sure don't. since I just talked to the Director of Law Enforcement for Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks about the rules and regulations about handgun hunting. They came up with some new rules that they haven't even posted on their website. Here they are,

The current regulation, KAR 115-4-4 (C) (3) defines the legal caliber for big game as follows:

"centerfire rifles and handguns that are not fully automatic, that fire a bullet larger than .23 inches in diameter, and that use a cartridge case that is 1.280 inches or more in length, while using only hard-cast solid lead, soft point, hollow point, or other expanding bullets, except for the hunting of elk, which shall require a bullet larger than .25 inches in diameter and a cartridge case that is 1.75 inches or more in length;"

The problem that I have is that if you reload and you trim your brass to the length you are told to in your reloading manual then you won't be able to shoot the .357 mag, .41 mag, .44 mag, or .45 long colt because they would be to short.

jumpsteady · « **Reply #10 on:** November 27, 2009, 02:22:09 AM »

oh yeah, 5 DAYS!!!

Big Nasty · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:28:32 PM »

See I told ya they changed the rules. He just forgot to mention the no gun laws stick and string only.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #12 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:46:45 AM »

Well I've checked all my stuff and have the van loaded.All my sons are hunting else where this year.Kind of a bummer,but opening day is upon us.Ready to head to the diner in the morning for breakfast and coffee.Then the long,fifteen minute drive to my stand.Sounds like the weather is not going to be too nice tomorrow.Rain mixed with snow and 20-30 mph North winds.Had to move the blind today.Going to hunt on the south side of a small hill over looking a cut bean field.Looking into the woods instead of facing N/NW facing in to the wind.Hopefully the guys on the other side of the fence will get the deer moving when they go into the trees along the river.Good luck to all and have fun.Above all be safe.Slow

jumpsteady · « **Reply #13 on:** December 01, 2009, 12:02:05 PM »

I'm stoked, its almost time to go. A north wind kinda helps me. Where I sit the deer almost always travel north to south. I have this sweet little stop that I sit in. A decent size rock sticking out of the ground at about a 60 degree angle between 2 cedars. I can lean back agaist the rock and see in about 220 degrees around me. The last two deer I shot were from this spot. Both were within about 85 yards and neither one every saw me. The last one caught me off guard, as I was getting up to head back to the truck. I was starting to stand up and placing things back into my backpack. I just turned around and there he was. Just wish that the Contender wouldn't have been about 2 and a half feet away or I would have score with a handgun.

Big Nasty · « **Reply #14 on:** December 01, 2009, 03:36:54 PM »

Good luck to all of you, and remember I do except any and all deer meat that you think you can't eat.

jumpsteady · « **Reply #15 on:** December 01, 2009, 04:02:21 PM »

Quote from: Big Nasty on December 01, 2009, 03:36:54 PM

Good luck to all of you, and remember I do except any and all deer meat that you think you can't eat.

Sorry bro, but I can't do that. I try to help out my friends that are having trouble making ends meat.

Big Nasty · « **Reply #16 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:00:20 PM »

I don't blame ya, I am thinking very seriously about doing the HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGARY THIS YEAR. Even though I have been layed off since September 21st I still make more on unemployment than most do working for two weeks. I got layed off one day before the companies buy out bonus, we got bought out and 364 days later NO JOB. 7 years somewhere and then nothing. My wife told me that since deer season started the day before my layoff that I should take the entire deer season off, and guess what I agreed. I don't really want to argue with the wife that would be bad, in this case she is right and that's my story and I am sticking to it.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #17 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:47:54 PM »

Good luck guys.Wind is howlin',but at least no rain or snow.Headed to breakfast.Slow

DavidKansas · « **Reply #18 on:** December 02, 2009, 05:05:09 AM »

Just my luck all I saw this mourning were bucks and guess what --All I have are doe tags left. I would love to get two does before it gets so cold this old man wants to stay home next to the fire. Did anyone see any thing they could shoot today or was the wind too much. I was worryed that the wind was too much until the first buck came out and feed up to 20 yds from me and then got my scent and walked off the same way he came in. He never did see me and I was sitting out in the open on the side of a field. I do wish we could get more than one buck again. Good luck to everyone and safe hunting.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #19 on:** December 02, 2009, 12:31:03 PM »

Well this morning was bust for me too.Did see six.Five does and a small forky.Was in my blind by 6:30.Just getting good shooting light and had two trucks of hunter drive right past me into the other end of the property.The idiots drove all the way around the edges and then parked off to my right about three hundred yards to the south.Wind was bad enough but i could hear them banging doors and tailgates.One went to the west and the other two went east back into the timber.They did run the does out,but was way to far in the 30-35 MPH cross wind.Left there about 9:15 and went to coffee.Was jsy getting ready to head back out about 1:00 when my phone rang and had to go fix a ladies well pump.Didn't get it done until around 4:30.Said the H#^^ with it and came home.Hope the wind dies down for in the morning.Going to be in the upper teens.How'd every one else do?Slow

jumpsteady · « **Reply #20 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:25:38 PM »

I was late getting up, leaving the house, meeting my dad to drive out, and late getting on top of the hill to my spot. Finally got there, set down, got everything where I could reach it. Legal sunrise at my spot was 7:27am. At 7:34am a big, bodied but small 6 point buck stood up from where he was bedded 80 yards in front of me. I started to let him walk away, but being a guy that hunts for meat not trophies, he fell over dead 84 yards away after being hit by my 180 accubond out of my .338 Federal. Great way to start and finish my deer season. Bring on the coyotes over the gut pile in the morning. Jumpsteady.

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #21 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:59:36 PM »

Congrats on the deer.I'll be back out in the morning.The wind layed down awhile ago.Hope it stays that way.Off to bed.Slow

Slowhanddd · « **Reply #22 on:** December 02, 2009, 11:33:00 PM »

Day 2-At least the wind isn't blowing 900 this morning.22 degrees.Headed to breakfast.Good luck today.Slow

jumpsteady · « **Reply #23 on:** December 03, 2009, 12:07:29 AM »

I also am headed back out today. But not for deer. I am going to try and jap a coyote or two over my gut pile. Then maybe I will start walking and trying to push a deer or two around to my Dad or Grandfather. Have fun all, and best wishes.

DavidKansas · « **Reply #24 on:** December 03, 2009, 07:47:17 AM »

This fat OLD guy just stayed in bed this am. Will try again tomorrow. I am glade some of us are getting the deer.

jumpsteady · « **Reply #25 on:** December 03, 2009, 07:50:45 AM »

Just got back into town. As I was sitting this morning, watching for a coyote to run bye, I heard the crack of my dads 25-06, at 8:00am, in the close distance. As I started to collect my things, the damn coyote I was waiting for run bye, leaving me no shot. Anyways, I went over to dad to see what was going on. He said that he had shot a buck with a silimar body to the one I shot yesterday, and maybe a little bit larger rack, but he thought that he might have pulled the shot, and gut shot the deer. So I stayed up at his spot watching for anything to run out, while he headed across the draw and up the other side to where he had last seen the deer. He yells over that he found it, and it was bigger than what he thought. So I made my way over to him to find the he had actually shot a very nice 13 point buck that made mine from yesterday look small. I don't totally understand how they score deer. I am calling it a 13 point as that are the amount of points he would have had had he not broke 3 of them off. But it was a big deer none the less. So now I guess that we are both just going to finish up our vacation time this week and weekend doing a little predetor hunting. Also looks like I won't be buying any meat fromthe grocery store again this year, since dad is going to give me all the meat from it as well. Now I hope that the rest of you guys have some better luck than it seems that you have been so far. Jumpsteady

jumpsteady · « **Reply #26 on:** December 03, 2009, 08:04:01 AM »

Quote from: Big Nasty on December 01, 2009, 05:00:20 PM

I don't blame ya, I am thinking very seriously about doing the HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGARY THIS YEAR. Even though I have been layed off since September 21st I still make more on unemployment than most do working for two weeks. I got layed off one day before the companies buy out bonus, we got bought out and 364 days later NO JOB. 7 years somewhere and then nothing. My wife told me that since deer season started the day before my layoff that I should take the entire deer season off, and guess what I agreed. I don't really want to argue with the wife that would be bad, in this case she is right and that's my story and I am sticking to it.

Hunters for the Hungary is a great deal. And I have no problem with giving to them. I just like to make sure that everybody I know has something to eat before I go giving it away for someone else to decide who gets it. Like I friend of mine that did 2 tours in Iraq, came home, was best man at my wedding, got a job doing construction, met a girl, had a daughter born 3 weeks to the day after my own daughter was born, and then he messes his knee up at home and had been off work for 5 and a half months. He just recently got back to work and I know that he was having trouble making ends meat. Jesse always helped me out when I needed something, so one day I loaded up the saddlebag on my Sportster, and delivered 25 lbs. of deer to him. He almost started crying, because he does not ask for help even when he knows that he needs it. That is the reason that I choose not to donate my meat to places like Hunters for the Hungary. But for people that don't have the space to hold all of that meat donating it is the most unselfish thing that you can do. You have my upmost respect.

Big Nasty · « **Reply #27 on:** December 03, 2009, 04:18:25 PM »

jumpsteady you sound like a guy I would really like to meet, it's hard to find true friends these days. MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU, and if you would tell Jesse for me thank you for his service to this great nation...

jumpsteady · « **Reply #28 on:** December 03, 2009, 11:59:20 PM »

Will do Brother. Have fun and be safe.