if it wasnt for my pse carbon stick shooter i would be deerless!on doe day in blackpowder season i let 4 walk ,(kinda waiting on mister big)today finished our firearms season and yep you guessed it....im still waiting for the big one(or a little one )actually no deer presented themselves for my target practice!my friend killed a nice 8 today,30 yards away with a 7mm magnum and a 150 gr. bullet...jim257

So far this year I have taken 4 deer. 3 with my 209x50 and 1 opening day of firearm season with my Mossberg 835.

Deer #1 a very small doe taken during the early M.L. season
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deer #2 a very small doe taken the last day of early M.L. season
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deer #3 was taken opening morning firearm season Mossberg 835 a small- med. spike
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deer #4 a med. 6 pt buck about 120 lbs no blood trail until it fell the first time
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Kind of a bummer Jim. Don't feel bad I'm there with ya. I didn't even get out this year with my bow. I have been working 66 hours a week. Then I take a whole week for firearms season and get nothing. I hunted 4 solid day and never had the opertunity to cock the hammer. I have 2 weekends left. I hope to get at least one before it's all over.

Yep I've been at it since Nov. 18th, and so far nothing has fallen. I keep hoping to get a crack at one with the 15" .243 Encore though before the season is over.

Larry

Why do you see the situation as a failure? You have a deer with the bow. Lets fact it, hunting isn't easy and it is not guaranteed. You have a deer. That is a hell of a lot better than most.

I have taken three deer so far here in Massachusetts and Connecticut. One buck with the bow in Mass, two does with the rifle( I wish they'd allow handguns) in Conn.Many hunters get nothing.

You did very well to get one for the season to begin with.

Hey jim257, Don't consider it failure. You passed on purpose! On the Monday opener, I had a non-shootalbe fork horn within 7 yards of me and the 2x scope on my 500 was there and ready to go. I had to pass, not fail. On two other occassions during the day, I jumped one buck and had another sneak in and I couldn't get shots becausle of the 2x scope and running deer. I know I could've had high probability snap shots with my rifles--but hey, we added a much more difficult factor in the equation; It's called hand gun hunting. I'll take hunting like this each and every day over standing or sitting in a tree stand with a high mag scope and high powered rifle. Yhere are times and places for these typyes of hunts, but it's not in my staking nature. I don't see failure in any of this. I respect the person who can sit on stand for 10+ hours and wait one out; it's not me. Keep at it, but consider the fact that you hunt with a handgun-a true challenge. I can honestly say I'd kill a deer every time I see one when I have a good, scoped rifle. I can't say that about a handgunning!