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 Forgot my rifle
#5549433
01/18/15 01:51 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 376
allterrain
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Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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On the last morning of doe and spike season I get to my hunting area and open my gun boot and it was empty. I often leave my rifle in my gun boot overnight but I forgot that I took it out last night. The first braze of light was creeping up in the horizon so it was to late to go back to camp. Loaded only with my trusty 7 1/2 inch barrel ruger 45 I bravely sit in my stand hoping for a pig to step out within 50 yards. But as hunting goes I will probably just sit in my stand for the last time this season wishing and hoping. It was a slow season for animal movement but I had a great year of hunting.
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 Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5549465
01/18/15 02:22 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 376
allterrain
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Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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Yes i did get to hunt this morning. I enjoy every minute in the woods. Seen 4 promising young bucks this weekend.
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: White Falcon]
#5549475
01/18/15 02:31 PM
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Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 13,610
1860.colt
emoji colt.45
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emoji colt.45
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he had me  with bravely sitting in his stand with his loaded 45 
i'm postaddic
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5551341
01/19/15 02:35 PM
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Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 6,135
landsurveyor
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5555738
01/21/15 05:27 PM
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 13,203
CCBIRDDOGMAN
Bird Herder
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Bird Herder
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What's bad is when you get 30' up in a tree in your tree climber on opening morning and realize you dont have your release. Been there.
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: CCBIRDDOGMAN]
#5555819
01/21/15 06:02 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,708
pigplinker
Veteran Tracker
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Veteran Tracker
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I always practiced with fingers also just in case the release malfunctions.
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5556020
01/21/15 07:05 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,963
jdickey
Extreme Tracker
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Extreme Tracker
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At least you didn't drive 200 miles and remembered that you forgot your rifle! Did that on my very first elk hunt to New Mexico. Borrowed my cousin's rifel when I got there!
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5556032
01/21/15 07:08 PM
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 915
cyberpyrot
Tracker
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Tracker
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I would have just climbed on the feeder and waited with my buck knife.
I'm a terrible shot but I follow up with a grenade!
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: CCBIRDDOGMAN]
#5556519
01/21/15 11:22 PM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 5,067
titan2232
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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What's bad is when you get 30' up in a tree in your tree climber on opening morning and realize you dont have your release. Been there. Ouch
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5556809
01/22/15 01:46 AM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 2,428
Franklin517
Veteran Tracker
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Veteran Tracker
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Man I only got to go to lease twice this year. I would gladly go empty handed just because
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: Franklin517]
#5557059
01/22/15 04:21 AM
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Joined: May 2008
Posts: 69
Emmett
Outdoorsman
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Outdoorsman
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Man I only got to go to lease twice this year. I would gladly go empty handed just because I'm with you on that one..
Psalm 121
82nd Airborne Division. 3/504 PIR, Recon
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5560006
01/23/15 03:49 PM
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Joined: Apr 2009
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redfred
Pro Tracker
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Pro Tracker
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My dad used to go to Colorado deer hunting every year. One trip, he hiked almost a half mile from camp before he realized he left his ammo in the Jeep. He saw the biggest buck of his life walk right by. He went back to camp, got the ammo and went back, but never saw that deer again. When he got back to Texas, one of the first things he did was to take off the butt plate, drill a couple of holes on the butt stock, and slip in a couple of cartridges, just in case it ever happened again.
Alcohol,Tobacco, and Firearms. Should not be a government bureau. Should be a department store.
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5560015
01/23/15 03:52 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,404
Choctaw
THF Celebrity
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THF Celebrity
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I usually only hunt with a Ruger chambered in 45 Colt. You were alright. 
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Re: Forgot my rifle
[Re: allterrain]
#5563770
01/25/15 09:13 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 9,969
Old Rabbit
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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No more than a release weighs I always carried a spare. Would hate to see where my arrow would hit using bare fingers.
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