Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/21/2016 2:13 AM
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racksmasher1
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Good shooting, he"s a dandy!
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/21/2016 1:00 PM
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Great Job. He is a nice one. We are finally getting some nice hunting weather here in Missouri. We had 4 or 5 days of high wind ontop of the Super Full Moon to contend with.
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/21/2016 10:12 PM
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good shooting, sir. Congrats
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/24/2016 9:33 AM
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I have not seen much since last Thursday's kill but I did pass on a doe and a spike monday. I was hunting in Caldwell county and doe season is not in there until a couple of weeks from now and the buck was too young. I did get to watch him work a scrape. Gun season is in now so I am switching to my contender 223 with Barnes 55 gr tsx bullets.
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/24/2016 12:18 PM
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Darrell H
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Sounds like you've had a great season with lots of encounters so far! Congrats RedHawk, nice buck!
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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11/25/2016 2:50 AM
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Passed on a six point thus morning and a deer whose sex was undetermined. Hopping for something bigger tomorrow. My son who is out of buck tags watched a three year old eight point work a scrape. I should have been in that stand.
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/08/2016 9:37 AM
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I hunted several times since Thanksgiving without seeing anything until yesterday afternoon.
At 5:05 pm yesterday afternoon a cow horn spike stepped out of the cut over into the hay field I was watching from my popup blind. He spent about eight minutes within sixty yards of me relaxed and eating. I was hunting club land and we do not allow shooting bucks younger than three years old so he got a pass but I did get to practice using my shooting sticks to line up the shot with my Optima V2.
Right at the end of legal shooting time a big doe with a young deer came across the field and started to feed in the same spot in the field. I have been buck hunting this spot and decided not to shoot, After feeding for several minutes they moved on and I left. I hope to hunt this spot again one afternoon next week.
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/14/2016 10:02 AM
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Yesterday afternoon I returned to my popup blind at the hay field where I passed on three deer last week. I had not been in the blind more than 15 minutes when five does crossed the field stopping several times. I had my Optima V2 and my shooting stick so I had a good steady rest and the shoots were only about sixty yards.
I did not know if I really wanted to end my hunt that quick and not give myself time to see one of four shooter bucks we have on camera there, I finally decided that if they got within 50 yards I would shoot the largest when they made my decision for me by looping into the cut over.
I hunted until dark without seeing anything else. Trophy hunting again left me empty handed. Sometimes I wish we did not have any trail cameras because it is hard to take the doe in hand for the buck in the brush.
Michael Joe Moore
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/15/2016 6:17 AM
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Bob Roach
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I have a couple tree rubs on approximately 6 inch diameter cedar trees behind my house in the woods. They have been scraped up for a few years now. I need to put a camera on them next year and see who is keeping them scraped up. I am starting to think that is the only way I will get a look at him. He seems to be on permanent Night Shift. I guess he read the memo "Dark Means Dark" He may have been the one who wrote it.
We need to pull the card on a camera we have near a mineral lick across the road, and have a look. It has not been checked in a month. It is hard to use your Buck Tag on a small buck when you know you have a real trophy running around.
I need to get my Optima back to the range for sight in. I swapped scope mounts to the EGW base, and put a third Zee ring on my 2-7 Burris. I also moved the scope forward some. We are getting closer to the December 24 Alternative Weapons Season opening day.
Bob
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/15/2016 10:09 AM
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Bob, you have a new season approaching while our season here is coming to a close fast. Good Luck!
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/20/2016 2:50 AM
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I took my first handgun deer this year using my V2. Mine is 44 mag. I want the ML just another one on the list!
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/20/2016 11:47 AM
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REDHAWK1954
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You will like the ML. It groups just as tight as my 44 mag rifle and tighter than my 44 revolvers.
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Re: Season II with my Optima V2 ML
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12/20/2016 11:50 AM
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44MagOptimaV2, I see you are from Georgia. What part of Georgia. I lived in Augusta for nine years back in the 70s and 80s and hunted on Briar Creek Hunting Club.
Michael Joe Moore
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