Rifle deer stories/pics

Toad

Toad

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I figured this would be a good time to start a thread for the rifle hunters who are headed out this morning. Please post up some good stories and pics!

I'll be watching a clearing in Wabaunsee county in about 7 hours. I'll have my rifle in my hot hands with the beautiful new scope that needs to get its first deer...:D Personally, I prefer bird hunting with dogs, BUT you sure do get a LOT of meals out of a single bullet.:D:p:D The jalapeno snack stix I was eating this morning from my archery doe are proof of that!!! And having wild game coming into range sure gets my blood pumping regardless of the species.

Gosh, if I could just manage to tag out this morning it would sure make me feel better about getting skunked last deer season. And maybe I would have some extra time to look for those elusive Kansas quail.

Good luck to all! Hope you get the big buck or delicious doe you are hunting for!
 
Hunted yesterday and saw one deer butt in the timber. 4 nices bucks shot out of our camp. 3 kids took bucks and one first time deer hunter who was 60 plus shot his first deer. My godson shot a nice 8pt. Too bad the weather is going to be rain and not snow:mad:. I like it when they are eay to see in the snow!
How did you do Toad?
 
I caught a road hunter. I was sitting in my blind when a white dodge pickup pulled up and shot a buck I had just passed on. Then they drove across my field cutting ruts out to the deer. Fortunately the sheriff deputy was in the area and got there just as they were pulling back on the road. This was one time a cell phone came in real handy. I will be pressing trespassing charges and destruction of property as well as the tickets they will be getting for shooting from the road and hunting deer with the aid of a vehicle. They were shooting right towards me. I was parked on the other side of the section, so they didn't know I was back there. This is how people get killed. The deer was a really nice 3.5 year old ten point that would have been shooter in another year or two.
 
fsentkilr said:
I caught a road hunter. I was sitting in my blind when a white dodge pickup pulled up and shot a buck I had just passed on. Then they drove across my field cutting ruts out to the deer. Fortunately the sheriff deputy was in the area and got there just as they were pulling back on the road. This was one time a cell phone came in real handy. I will be pressing trespassing charges and destruction of property as well as the tickets they will be getting for shooting from the road and hunting deer with the aid of a vehicle. They were shooting right towards me. I was parked on the other side of the section, so they didn't know I was back there. This is how people get killed. The deer was a really nice 3.5 year old ten point that would have been shooter in another year or two.
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Thanks for sharing this with us. I mean, I hate to heard of a-holes doing this, but it sure is nice to hear that someone took out a cell phone and did something about it! Kudos to you as those Northerners say:)
 
Sorry to hear about the road hunter but good for you on pressing charges. Prosecute those A-holes to the fullest extent of the law!
 
fsentkilr said:
I caught a road hunter. I was sitting in my blind when a white dodge pickup pulled up and shot a buck I had just passed on. Then they drove across my field cutting ruts out to the deer. Fortunately the sheriff deputy was in the area and got there just as they were pulling back on the road. This was one time a cell phone came in real handy. I will be pressing trespassing charges and destruction of property as well as the tickets they will be getting for shooting from the road and hunting deer with the aid of a vehicle. They were shooting right towards me. I was parked on the other side of the section, so they didn't know I was back there. This is how people get killed. The deer was a really nice 3.5 year old ten point that would have been shooter in another year or two.
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Well done!

I got a call from a buddy asking me how I did on wednesday. I told him I did not hunt. He asked who was wearing blaze orange in my field? I guess I need to get a plot watcher or something to catch these trespassers.
 
Well this thread has taken an awful turn!:mad:

Afraid I can't be of much help here either. I went to my little farm to do a little sitting and watching. Saw a lot of signs of rutting activity since my last visit when I filled my doe tag.:D Nothing was moving, so I started walking around a bit to see what trails had the most scrapes and rubs.

I noticed that there were a good numebr of trees that had "fallen down" near the West side of my property. When I went to check it out, I found that 12-15 very large, mature trees had been intentionally cut down, and their bases had been cut off and hauled away. The rest of the trees had been left where they fell. I went to the neighbor's house to ask him about it and met the timber cutter, who said, "oops, I didn't realize that was your property.":mad:

Long story short(ish), I got the owner of the company out there quickly and showed him where the property lines were, and the A#####E had the nerve to tell me that I was wrong. So I dragged the SOB along and showed him exactly where the survey stakes are still standing from the last survey, and that MFer said the survey crew must have screwed up.:rolleyes: Yeah... I'm sure...:mad:

Many of those trees were 100+ years old. 12 that I counted, and that doesn't include stumps that are probably buried in the treetops they left behind. So I don't know what to do, call the sheriff I guess... Then get a lawyer and sue his azz.

Also, while walking through the timber to educate this jacknut, I saw a treestand that wasn't mine, and another one on the neighbor's place. As I was leaving I stopped again to talk to the neighbor and asked if he had anybody hunting this year. He said that he didn't, so I informed him that he also had a trespasser.

Heads up! If you are my poacher, you will find your tree stands smashed at the bottom of the Kansas River. Have a nice day.:D
 
On a more positive note...:D I am headed out with a friend in the morning! We always have good hunts and I like having a buddy along to help me load the deer in the pickup.:thumbsup:

I hope to tag out early so I can spend the rest of the day clearing up these legal matters and start getting packed for my bird hunting trip to the wild west.:thumbsup:

If anybody has any experience dealing with this type of situation I posted above, please send me a PM. It is obvious that the timber company's owner is not willing to accept responsibility for his mistake and make things right by me. It seems like my only option is to take him to court at this point. Sucks...:cool:
 
Toad said:
Well this thread has taken an awful turn!:mad:

Afraid I can't be of much help here either. I went to my little farm to do a little sitting and watching. Saw a lot of signs of rutting activity since my last visit when I filled my doe tag.:D Nothing was moving, so I started walking around a bit to see what trails had the most scrapes and rubs.

I noticed that there were a good numebr of trees that had "fallen down" near the West side of my property. When I went to check it out, I found that 12-15 very large, mature trees had been intentionally cut down, and their bases had been cut off and hauled away. The rest of the trees had been left where they fell. I went to the neighbor's house to ask him about it and met the timber cutter, who said, "oops, I didn't realize that was your property.":mad:

Long story short(ish), I got the owner of the company out there quickly and showed him where the property lines were, and the A#####E had the nerve to tell me that I was wrong. So I dragged the SOB along and showed him exactly where the survey stakes are still standing from the last survey, and that MFer said the survey crew must have screwed up.:rolleyes: Yeah... I'm sure...:mad:

Many of those trees were 100+ years old. 12 that I counted, and that doesn't include stumps that are probably buried in the treetops they left behind. So I don't know what to do, call the sheriff I guess... Then get a lawyer and sue his azz.

Also, while walking through the timber to educate this jacknut, I saw a treestand that wasn't mine, and another one on the neighbor's place. As I was leaving I stopped again to talk to the neighbor and asked if he had anybody hunting this year. He said that he didn't, so I informed him that he also had a trespasser.

Heads up! If you are my poacher, you will find your tree stands smashed at the bottom of the Kansas River. Have a nice day.:D
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man some people have biggest set of nuts i have ever seen just put up a deer stand on private property wow! How could you enjoy your hunt worrying if the landowner or whoever would walk up on you unreal!!
 
Many of those trees were 100+ years old. 12 that I counted, and that doesn't include stumps that are probably buried in the treetops they left behind. So I don't know what to do, call the sheriff I guess... Then get a lawyer and sue his azz.

Toad,

You need to contact a lawyer and then get a certified arborist/ forester out to get a $$ value of the trees lost. You should be able to file a civil suit for property damge and the trees value. Which could be a sizeable amount if they were large hardwood trees.
I know that if we cut a tree down on the wrong property we are liable for damages. I believe the same would apply on a rural property. The company who did this should have insurance to cover stuff like this.

Hope you get your deer and your justice!
 
I have to deal with land issues (trespass) at work. Definitely contact the last person who did your last survey and get a copy of all the work that pertains to the property (field notes) and even the section if he will let you have it. Also go to the county court house and see if any other surveyor has filed property surveys in that section. Any extra documentation could help you figure it out. Surveyor's do get it wrong from time to time so comparing different surveyors work might help you figure out if what you have is accurate. More that likely it is but you may want to have it all figured out before you go and hire an attorney. Doing this work first may save you some money in the long run.
 
Toad:

Get thee a lawyer. I know that down on the lakes here in Missouri, if you cut so much as a branch to get a better view the Corps of Engineers is there right fast, and they put a high value on branches, let alone mature hardwoods.

Dad had a similar instance a few years ago. My uncle called him at work and said the local gas company was trenching across his land and burying a gas line, asking if he was getting any damage payments. Dad left work, got there in time to see them finishing up the pipe laying, had it all filled in and everything. He asked what they were doing, they said they were putting the pipeline in that they had everything in order. Dad pointed out the property lines, and got an 'oh chit' look. He kind of had them by the proverbial balls at that point, it was either pay what he wanted, or go through and rip the pipeline out, and then get sued for tearing up his property. He got better than market value out of that little ordeal. After the damage is done, you are holding the cards.
 
Call a nursery and ask them how much a tree of that size would cost, get a quote and present the quote to the tree cutter, that should get their attention.

Rut
 
I went out Wednesday to the Hillsdale area in eastern Kansas and got a nice deer. No trophy or anything but an 8 pointer counting the small brow tines. I shot the deer about 4:45 pm and had it field dressed in half an hour, I made it back to the truck at 11:05 pm after dragging the deer more than 3 miles back to the truck. That was the longest, hardest 3 miles of my life, but worth every step once I got it loaded up. It gave me a real sense of accomplishment to get that deer back by myself with just a rope and hard work. I've got one more tag to fill and then back to hunting pheasant and quail with my dog, George.

Good luck to everyone:cheers:
 
RuttCrazed said:
Call a nursery and ask them how much a tree of that size would cost, get a quote and present the quote to the tree cutter, that should get their attention.

Rut
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One of my best friends is a landscape architect. We were discussing the situation this morning. I said, "How do you put a value on old trees like that?" he said, "Its easy, there is a formula. You measure the diameter of the base of the tree and some other things and it gives you a value. A 100 year old oak tree would be worth upwards of $75,000 if I remember right."

Sounds like you need a lawyer. A good one.
 
cheesy said:
Toad:

Get thee a lawyer. I know that down on the lakes here in Missouri, if you cut so much as a branch to get a better view the Corps of Engineers is there right fast, and they put a high value on branches, let alone mature hardwoods.

Dad had a similar instance a few years ago. My uncle called him at work and said the local gas company was trenching across his land and burying a gas line, asking if he was getting any damage payments. Dad left work, got there in time to see them finishing up the pipe laying, had it all filled in and everything. He asked what they were doing, they said they were putting the pipeline in that they had everything in order. Dad pointed out the property lines, and got an 'oh chit' look. He kind of had them by the proverbial balls at that point, it was either pay what he wanted, or go through and rip the pipeline out, and then get sued for tearing up his property. He got better than market value out of that little ordeal. After the damage is done, you are holding the cards.
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In KS at least in my part of the state you have to have the pipe lines on the property. I almost made that mistake helping a friend. I was digging a line with his excavator, one power line and one gas line. I was putting the gas line on the east side of where I wanted the power line and found out I was actually right on the property line so I had to adjust fire and put the other line where I didn't want it because I couldn't put it on the other landowner.
 
Jakeismydog2 said:
One of my best friends is a landscape architect. We were discussing the situation this morning. I said, "How do you put a value on old trees like that?" he said, "Its easy, there is a formula. You measure the diameter of the base of the tree and some other things and it gives you a value. A 100 year old oak tree would be worth upwards of $75,000 if I remember right."

Sounds like you need a lawyer. A good one.
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Holy Smoke, that's a lot of money! They weren't oak trees, but they WERE holding my ground from being swept away by the Kansas River. At least half of them had a 3' diameter stump. If they are valued at even $10,000 each, that would pay for a LOT of habitat work, when you consider that there were at least 12 of them that got cut.

Thanks for the good advice, guys. I found a new use for the Garmin Astro on Friday. :D I used the collars and the 320 to measure the distances between the survey markers and verify that the survey stake in question was in the correct place. It actually worked really well, and I have no doubt that the survey was done correctly. I should recommend this strategy to the timber company...:rolleyes:

Nice job, Pointer Man. Sounds like your hard work paid off with a nice deer.:thumbsup:
 
On a brighter note, I went out after deer yesterday. I hunted WIHA's in Cloud
county. Shot a small buck at around 3PM walking to a field I wanted to watch. Roads were so muddy that I could not drive anywhere close, and had to drag it for a little less then a mile. Had fun. One more to go and then back to the birds.
Speaking of birds, I did not see a single Pheasant, Quail, or rabbit while trying to push deer or driving between areas. After I had the deer loaded I took out the shotgun and started walking CRP and windbreaks, saw nothing.
 
I had a fairly entertaining hunt over the weekend. Left Thursday night after work and headed down to a buddy's farm.

Got so damn drunk Thursday night on whisky, I only made it til' about 9 a.m. Friday morning, then I snuck back to the house and took a long siesta. Got back out around 2 p.m. I was in my stand down in the bottoms of this property facing a field to the North, as my buddy is about 300 yards behind me facing the same direction on the brow of the hill.

Sat up there til' about 4:15, and heard three loud snorts behind a cedar to my West. I thought, damn I got winded, game over... and then about ten minutes later, BOOM - the report sounded like the bullet would be coming right at me. Figured, I'm not shot, and sounds like my buddy got one. Then... BOOM BOOM BOOM, each one about 2 seconds apart. By this time I'm standing sideways in my stand, using the tree for cover. I resume normal hunting operations after about 15 minutes, thinking everyone at the OK Corral is dead.

I climb out of my stand at dark, and my buddy is waiting for me at the treeline. I asked "wtf, were you shooting a kevlar plated deer, or did he climb up in your stand and attack you?" ... "Well, the som' bitch wouldn't go down", he said. So, we go and find the deer, dead about 50 yards to the West from my stand as the crow flies from him to me. I thought thank God you weren't actually stupid enough to be shooting directly at my stand. It's a medium sized 7 point, and I ask "what happened to you not shooting anything that you wouldn't hang on the wall" (he shot a really nice one last year). I got the "he looked a lot bigger through the scope" explanation, and that was that. We took him back to the barn, got him hung, gutted and skinned.

Went out Saturday morning with much less excitement. Sat in a ground blind because of the rain, passed on a really nice doe that morning that I regret not shooting. Went back to the house to watch the Cats, of course rain delay so I only got to watch to halftime. Went to his treestand and passed on a sticker buck with an antler missing. Packed it up and headed home.

Deer 2, Hunter 0 :rolleyes:
 
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