I’ve hunted public land like that in mid-Michigan, in bow and rifle season, though the areas are much less than 10,000 contiguous acres. I would start scouting after deer season to see where the deer were located under the intense rifle season pressure. Early spring scouting is also good to see...
NW Ontario at my deer camp right now, and NELP Michigan on rifle opener there. Agonizingly slow in NW Ontario; my slowest start of 20 seasons up here.
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A deer shot in the lungs with that load should be dead, and pretty quickly. I’ve killed a bunch with plain old factory load 150 GR Core-Lokt PSP.
The lack of blood is, to me, meaningless if you shoot a deer through the lungs with my cartridge. Sometimes there’s a good blood trail but deer hit...
I got an Ororo vest last year with two batteries. Yes, it sure works for me for stand hunting in northern MI and NW Ontario. It lets me skip the heavy zip-up neck underlayer and without that I don’t get so darned hot walking in to a stand. So I can wear a light or medium underlayer on really...
My first deer rifle was my Model 788 in .308 Winchester. I bought it from a tiny dealer thru my friend “Woody” in late 1972, for $69.95 with a Universal 4X scope and mounts. I loved that rifle. I only bowhunted from 1963 to 1973, and first hunted with my rifle in the Jemez mountains with my...