http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2397722&Proper-Ammunition-Storage= You always remember to take care of your deer hunting rifle, make sure you also take care of what you put in it as well.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Favorite Deer Hunting Knives Are Small
http://www.versus.com/blogs/around-the-campfire-with-bill/favorite-deer-hunti... Another good thing to add to your load along with your deer hunting rifle.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
eHow.com | How to Shoot a Black Powder Rifle
http://www.ehow.com/i/#article_7332746 Good overview of using blackpowder deer hunting rifles.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Deer & Deer Hunting Shot Simulator-This looks kinda cool
Want to see how the shot from your deer hunting rifle has affected the deer you just shot. This software can help. Of course you have to have a mighty long extension cord to make it work on the deer stand though.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Six Secrets for the Bargain Hunter
After shelling out a ton of money on a deer hunting rifle and decent scope, these tips will make your remaining money go a little farther. I don't know about refrigerating the deer urine though.
Monday, October 11, 2010
How To Gut A Deer In The Field – Skinning | The world of deer hunting
Good advice after you've bagged one with your deer hunting rifle. Now the question is what kind of knife should you bring to do all of this with?
Sunday, October 10, 2010
The AR-15 Platform As A Hunting Rifle
I've always heard that the AR-15 has too small of a caliber to be good as a deer hunting rifle. This article makes some good points against that viewpoint.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Long range rifle suggestions - TheFiringLine Forums
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Good discussion you can use when shooting long distances with your deer hunting rifle.
Monday, October 4, 2010
How to Hunt Deer : When to Take the Shot in Deer Hunting
via youtube.com
Another good video about deer hunting. I wish he'd explained more about how your deer hunting rifle affects the shot though.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
How to Hunt Deer : Deer Hunter Checklist Video
via youtube.com
And most importantly don't forget your deer hunting rifle. It's a long embarassing, ride back to the house without it.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Deer hunters in Texas are getting ready for what could be one of the best seasons in years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39451026/ I wish I was down there next week with my deer hunting rifle.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
1st Time Deer Hunting Rifle for a woman
http://forum.pafoa.org/hunting-23/112816-1st-time-deer-hunting-rifle-woman.html Good advice for selecting the right deer hunting rifle for ladies.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Hunting whitetail deer..One arm No legs No problem Nick Santonastasso | Whitetail Hunting Trips
What a great kid! That deer hunting rifle rig is some nice engineering.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Taking Kids Deer Hunting Is What He Loves
Inspirational story! I can't wait to take my kids hunting. Fortunately, I have several years to pick out the right deer hunting rifles.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
How to Hunt With a Shotgun : Matching Game to Shotgun Caliber
Hunting Equipment Today
Interesting options when hunting with a deer hunting rifle.
Weird Deer | Outdoor Life-Flying squirrel attack!
http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/09/weird-deer?photo=19 That squirrel needs a deer hunting rifle to take that one down.
Weird Deer | Outdoor Life-Lined up like dominoes
http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/09/weird-deer?photo=16 How many do you think you could get from one shot from your deer hunting rifle.
Weird Deer | Outdoor Life - the cat is thinking "I could take him on"
http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/09/weird-deer?photo=4
Collin Condray Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos.
Collin Condray Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Most Scrapes Aren't Worth a Sit
Great deer hunting tips for getting a buck when you're out there with your trusty deer hunting rifle.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Common Gunsense: Happy hunting season everyone and stay safe out there...
Good advice. Make sure that you keep your deer hunting rifles pointed in the right direction.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Richard Pryor - Hunting a deer (NSFW, bad language)
Remember when you go deer hunting in the bear woods make sure everyone has a deer hunting rifle.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Hunting dilemma - Interesting discussion about hunting with an AR
http://www.xdtalk.com/forums/ar-talk/158977-hunting-dilemma.html I've thought about using an AR as a deer hunting rifle but was always told .223 is too small. It interesting to hear that others bag a deer with them all the time.
Interesting Remington model 742, .30-06 disucssion - Deer Hunting Forums
Remington model 742, .30-06
Sounds like it shoots fine for a deer hunting rifle but can take some maintenance to stay in good shooting condition.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Dok's Doe
via youtube.com
Shoots a doe with a deer hunting rifle chambered in the .270 caliber round.
Jim Shockey: Grasshopper Learns a Lesson - A forest is like a bald man's head!
Great saying from a hunting mentor. Good advice when you're out in the woods with your trusty deer hunting rifle looking for a buck.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
What slug gun will you be using this fall? - Indiana Sportsman.com - Hunting and Fishing talk
Great discussion about using a shotgun as a deer hunting rifle. I'll have to try some of the tips here.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Her First Deer-I love her reaction at the end
Collin Condray Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Top 7 Mistakes Deer Hunters Make
http://www.buckhuntersblog.com/top-7-mistakes-deer-hunters-make
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Collin Condray Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Project Enfield Pt 2.wmv
Interesting conversion of an old Enfield to a fully functional deer hunting rifle.
Deer Hunting Hawaiian Style
Looks like a gorgeous place to go hunt. Great background music too, very relaxed. Seems like they're dressed a little warm for Hawaii though.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Here's a great discussion on selecting a muzzleloading deer hunting rifle
I saw a H&R Single Shot .280 at Wal-Mart for $245, Is this a good deal for a deer hunting rifle? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100427171240AATssyY#
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Emma's First Deer
Emma’s First Deer
First Year Deer Hunting – Emma’s Deer
Emma’s first deer was an exciting time for her, her dad, myself, and would be for any young deer hunter just starting out. Emma is my 15 year old great niece. Her Dad, Todd is my nephew. This was the first year that they have had the opportunity to hunt on our farm and the surrounding area. Todd is a construction worker by trade. He owns his own sheet rock taping business. This last fall Todd volunteered to help me with some work on my farm in Northern Minnesota in exchange for a guided hunt for Emma and himself on, and around my farm. Knowing Todd’s work and my love for both of them, I couldn’t pass this opportunity to share my passion for deer hunting with them. I told Todd that I couldn’t promise a trophy deer, but that I could positively get them in front of some nice whitetail deer that I had been seeing on and around our farm. I got them fired up for deer hunting by telling them of the several nice trophy deer that were in our hunting area. I knew of at least 2 nice 8 – point bucks, and a nice 12 to 14 point trophy deer, that was roaming our farm and hunting area. They got to see a lot of does and small bucks the two weekends they were here, helping me, before the rifle deer hunting season. I told them our hunting area needed help harvesting several of these does as I felt our buck-to-doe ratio was getting out of balance (too many does in respect to the number of bucks, a problem many hunting areas are experiencing these days). They both were excited, and said they would be happy to help if the deer hunting opportunity presented itself. I reassured them it would. Todd wanted some tender venison for his freezer anyway.
Youth Deer Hunting – Women Hunters
I just love helping youth deer hunters. I feel every experienced mature deer hunter should help mentor and educate young deer hunters; especially women hunters. Youth deer hunting is so important to our sport, and so are women hunters. It is so much fun, and so rewarding to mentor such a fine young woman deer hunter such as Emma. She is such a treat.
The Deer Hunt – A Young Woman Deer Hunter
I decided to take Emma out to, what I call – “The First Year Deer Stand”. It is a two person deer stand overlooking one of my clover fields. It is a great stand for a youth deer hunter to harvest their first deer. This stand is very comfortable. It is about 10 feet off the ground; 4 x 8 feet in size with 3 foot walls and roof overhead. Inside there are 2 adjustable fishing boat seats that swivel, and soft carpet on the floor for sound insulation and foot comfort.
Emma and I arrived at the stand a little later that we would have liked to. We were very quiet in our approach. We circled downwind of a bedding area and quietly climbed into the stand. We set up. Emma was using my Winchester, pre-64 model, model 70, deer hunting rifle in a 30-06 caliber. It has a Burris 3x9x40 scope on it that is sited in for 200 yards. She would be shooting Hornady light magnum, 165 grain – SST bullets. This is a great whitetail deer cartridge. It has a muzzle velocity of 3015 feet per second. I was carrying my Remington model 742 carbine, semi-auto, in a 30-06 caliber, with a Bushnell Trophy Red Dot scope on top. I was shooting Remington 150 grain core-lock bullets (please note that the Hornady Light Magnum bullets are only to be used with bolt action rifles. Please read all ammunition warnings before use).
A Long Shot – What A Shot
As we settled down for the hunt I told Emma to watch her front and to the right. I would cover the back swamp area and the woods to our left. We whispered off and on as I talked about women hunters, youth deer hunting, whitetail deer habitat, and gave her tips about deer hunting and shot placement. We had about 30 minutes of legal light left when Emma whispered, “Uncle Steve, there’s a deer.” I turned slowly and sure enough, about a hundred yards out, moving quickly to the middle of the clover field, was a young doe that had just come out of her daytime bedding area. Emma was getting excited now. I told her to stay calm as the deer would soon stop to feed. To my surprise, the deer kept moving towards the other side of the field. I told Emma to get her rifle ready. I was just about to do a grunt call to stop the deer, it stopped on its own and started to feed. I could sense Emma’s uncertainty about shooting this deer. I said “Lets watch this deer for a few moments, it’s not going anywhere soon.” As we watched the doe feed, we waited to see if any other deer were going to join her. Maybe one of those trophy bucks would show up. I told Emma that there was no better decoy, for a trophy deer to come to, then a real life deer; especially if it was the breeding season and the rut was on. We waited about 10 minutes. I told Emma that this deer was all alone, we were losing light, and there was only one day left to hunt. “This would be a great first deer to harvest, your dad will be proud, and you will help my management plan.” She said “OK, I’ll take her.” I said, “Great, let me range her. She is at a 195 yards.” Emma sited on the broad side standing deer. I coached her of where to site, how to breath, and finally the squeezing of the trigger. “BLAM!” The Odd-6 roared, as I watched through my binoculars. I could see she was hit good. She ran in a big circle and stopped again broadside, this time a 175 yards out. I told Emma to take another shot. She was breathing hard now and I could tell the adrenaline was pumping through her veins. “BLAM!” The deer took off running in our direction, heading back towards her bedding area. I told Emma to take my semi-auto rifle and that I would do a grunt when she was in the open about 50 yards away to stop her. That rifle wasn’t needed as the doe dropped and expired about 75 yards from us. “Nice shot!” I said, as we high fived each other. We took a moment to enjoy the moment. I told her of how proud I was of her, and how pleased her dad would be. We talked of the value of harvesting a deer like this doe. I told her that a trophy deer is in the eye of the beholder; and that her deer is a trophy deer. This would be some great eating venison.
Field Dressing – Teaching Young Deer Hunters
I believe that youth deer hunters and women hunters should be taught how to field dress a deer by an experienced deer hunter, at least the first few times. I took the time to show and explain all aspects of removing the entrails. After seeing how it is done, Emma was much more comfortable with that aspect of whitetail deer hunting. I know that Emma, and her dad Todd, had a great time deer hunting our family farm, this past 2007 deer hunting season. Todd harvested a nice doe himself the weekend before. They definitely will need a bigger freezer.
Va DIY gunsmith class adds element to hunting
Local/APVa DIY gunsmith class adds element to hunting
By: BRIAN MCNEILL
Associated Press
07/18/10 1:30 AM EDTAUGUSTA SPRINGS, VA. — Nick Hamilton peers down the scope of his 7mm bolt-action rifle at a bull's eye target propped up 100 yards away.
Hamilton, a contractor from Fairfax County, built the custom rifle himself that weekend as part of a new do-it-yourself gunsmithing class offered by a pair of Charlottesville-area hunting and firearms experts.
Two days of hard work have culminated in this single moment of truth. Will the rifle - which has never been fired - actually shoot?
Hamilton clicks off the safety and places his index finger over the trigger. His body perfectly still, concentration showing on his face. He squeezes the trigger, ever so slightly.
The rifle fires. Its bullet punches a dime-sized hole through the paper target and kicks up an explosion of dust at the Hite Hollow shooting range in George Washington National Forest.
"How'd it feel?" asks Paul Fritz, one of the class' two instructors.
"It felt good," Hamilton smiles. "Real good."
"Well, it works. It goes bang," said Jackson Landers, the other instructor. "Hallelujah."
Hamilton is among the first students to take part in Landers' latest venture: a class on how to build a deer-hunting rifle.
Landers - who already teaches a deer-hunting class for beginners interested in the local food movement - wanted to offer a set of skills to the most hardcore do-it-yourselfers.
In late April, Landers wrote on his popular blog, rule-303.blogspot.com, that he was launching the new class "because hunting, field dressing, butchering and cooking your own food isn't quite DIY enough."
"Hunting and butchering your own food is pretty satisfying as it stands," he continued. "Obtaining that food with a tool that you built yourself takes you to a whole new level."
Landers, an insurance broker by day, seems to be on the cusp of garnering a lot of attention. His first book, "A Locavore's Guide to Deer Hunting" is scheduled to come out next year from Storey Publishing, which specializes in books for country living. His Deer Hunting for Locavores class was written up last year in the New York Times. A TV show is in development by Discovery Networks - which owns the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and numerous other channels - is also in the works.
To co-teach his DIY rifle building class, Landers enlisted the aid of Fritz, a trained blacksmith and firearms expert who lives in Troy. While not at his blacksmith's forge or tinkering with firearms in his garage, Fritz works as the information technology director at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello.
Much of the rifle building class takes place in the garage of Fritz's home in Troy. The garage is remarkably chockablock full of power tools, welding equipment, rifle parts, ammunition, thick firearms encyclopedias, anvils and much more.
A major aim of the class, Fritz said, is to give the student the ability to build his own rifle, using common tools that can be bought at any hardware store.
"Everything we're using here can be bought at Lowe's," Fritz said. "These are tools that you can find very, very easily."
The DIY rifle class gets underway at just after 9 a.m. last Saturday. Hamilton pulls into Fritz' driveway, after a two-hour drive from Northern Virginia, ready for two days of sweaty labor in the service of his goal to own a rifle he built with his own hands.
"I'm a real do-it-yourselfer with everything," Hamilton says. "I figure, why not with guns too?"
Hamilton took Landers' deer hunting class after reading about it in the New York Times. His chose to take the DIY rifle class, he said, after he imagined what it would be like to hunt with a gun he crafted himself.
"Take your first deer with it," he said. "That'd be pretty cool."
Hamilton has brought along an old beat-up Brazilian Mauser rifle, circa 1908, which he will strip down for parts.
Landers, working alongside Hamilton, is stripping down a 1938 Mauser that was used in World War II by the Nazis.
As Landers breaks the rifle down, Nazi insignias are clearly visible on the receiver. Someone - probably a Russian soldier, Landers says - has stamped out three swastikas.
It was apparently picked up off the battlefield by the Russians, as it was kept in storage in Russia for years until it made its way into the American surplus market, Landers said.
Mausers, he explains, have been in use around the world since the late 1800s. Many of the parts are often interchangeable, no matter which country it came from. And they can be picked up for $50 to $200 at gun shows or from many used gun dealers.
From their pair of old Mausers, Hamilton and Landers remove the mechanical heart of the rifles: the receiver and the bolt, which together are known as the action.
They spend hours retooling these parts. At one point, Fritz heats up Hamilton's bolt with a torch while Hamilton bends it by banging it with a three-pound blacksmith's hammer.
The trickiest part of the operation was removing Hamilton's rifle's original barrel from the receiver. It took at least an hour of trying to twist it off with the aid of a wrench, a pipe, a band saw and a six-ton press.
"There you go," Fritz said to Hamilton, as they finally removed the receiver. "You are now the proud owner of a brand new receiver, only 100 years of use."
An important point about the class, Fritz said, is that the student performs 99 percent of the work on his own rifle, all while under the supervision of Fritz and Landers.
After retooling the original parts and making several other modifications, the action is installed in a new stock. Also added are an after-market trigger, a new scope and a modern safety.
The following day, the trio heads out to the Hite Hollow shooting range, located about an hour west of Charlottesville. The goal is to break in the newly built rifles and zero the scopes with the help of a laser.
They spend a few hours shooting at paper bull's eye targets affixed to cardboard boxes and at bright orange clay targets.
Once finished, Landers said, Hamilton's DIY rifle is the equivalent of a high-end deer-hunting rifle that could retail for more than $1,000.
The class costs $800 and students are asked to bring along their own Mauser rifles for parts. At the completion of the class, the students will have their own deer hunting rifle, a gun case, a gun vise, a gunsmith's screwdriver set and a cleaning kit.
"Everyone else in the world takes their gun to a gunsmith," Fritz said to Hamilton. "Not you. You'll get to say, I built this.'"
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Information from: The Daily Progress, http://www.dailyprogress.com
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Wish I lived near Augusta Springs so I could take the course. Now I have to keep a look out for old deer hunting rifles like the ones in the article so I can do the same thing.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
2 Deer 1 Bullet Video
via break.com
How often do you get a chance to do this? Wonder what kind of deer hunting rifle he was using too?
Monday, September 6, 2010
Official State Hunting and Fishing Websites
Ready to get out your deer hunting rifle and go hunting, but need to know when and where to go? Below is the latest list of hunting and fishing sites with all the information that you need by state for 2010.
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game
- Alabama Game and Fish Division
- Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
- Arizona Game and Fish Department
- California Department of Fish and Game
- Colorado Division of Wildlife
- Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
- Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources
- Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife
- Iowa Division of Fish and Wildlife
- Idaho Department of Fish and Game
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
- Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife
- Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
- Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
- Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
- Massachusetts Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement
- Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Missouri Conservation Department
- Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
- Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
- North Dakota Game and Fish Department
- Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
- New Jersey Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife
- New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
- Nevada Division of Wildlife
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Ohio Division of Wildlife
- Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
- South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks
- Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
- Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
- Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
- State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource
- West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
- Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Blocked Deer Hunting Rifle Barrel Explodes
A great reminder to keep your deer hunting rifle clean and well maintained.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Buck Attacked By Agressive Bear « Sportsman's Blog
Blogger’s NOTE: since first posting this story about a day ago, other Internet sources (i.e. http://tinyurl.com/35nxr4o) have called into question the authenticity of the information reporting this event occurred in Minnesota. While it would be nice to have the information correct and verified accurate, what is most interesting and provocative is the content of the pictures. As this story further develops, we’ll provide the information as we discover it.
A good friend of mine who lives down in the area where this was purported to have happened sent me these interesting pics by e-mail. As is often the case, the e-mail fails to mention the name of the photographer/witness to this scene, but nevertheless the pictures are striking enough I thought I would pass them along. Check out the brief story and photos as it appeared in the e-mail.
This is just west of Chatfield [Minnesota] off hwy 30. The pics are of a buck that was hit by a vehicle and could not walk. It happened locally off of County Road 139 near Cummingsville, MN. A friend of a friend happened to stop to look at the deer when the bear came out of the woods and attacked it. He was actually pretty close when all this happened as the pics will show. ~Anonymous
As is always the case in these viral e-mail stories, if the witness to the scene wants to step up and take credit for the photos, as well as tell us some additional details about what they observed, we welcome those comments.
For what it’s worth…it should be noted that this summer in southern Minnesota we have been hearing many reports of bear sightings outside their typical range. In fact, for the first time in my nearly 50 year lifetime we have had credible sightings of bears with cubs less than two miles from my farm. Amazing!
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Amazing pics! I hope he had his foot on the pedal and his hand on his deer hunting rifle just in case.
Remington 700 Video Review
via youtube.com
And here's another video review of a Remington 700 deer hunting rifle and Center Point scope. Pretty comprehensive but the camera work is a little jerky so be warned if you're prone to motion sickness.
Hunting Deer with Black-Powder Rifles | Rifle Cabinet
Hunting Deer with Black-Powder Rifles
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Great article about hunting with a muzzleloading deer hunting rifle.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
5 Inexpensive Military Surplus Rifles For Deer Hunters
Need A Budget Deer Hunting Rifle? Check out these 5 military surplus rifles.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Three Deer Hunting Rifle Calibers Reviewed
Interesting video review of calibers for deer hunting rifles, .30-06, 7MM and 300 Winchester:
He's got some good looking guns.
Check out more at Deer Hunting Rifle