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* you're * Hahaha please don't ban me though

thanks guys. I might start my daughter (5 in july) out and buy her a .22 AR, and start a build for her for a AR15 this winter. Once she is 9 or 10 her build will be ready, and he gets the .22 (he will be 5 by then), and i start his build. Once they are both 10 they have their builds and I keep the AR.22 hahaha!!! I will need a lot of advice though, I dont know apricot one about building a rifle.

Hey everybody here he is! My son Timothy. Future 308AR community member.

I just started bowhunting a couple years ago, and last year I got my first buck with the bow. He was a 9 pointer, and field dressed at 230 lbs. The boys at work machined me a nice little stand for him from a brass block and some brass rod. I do need to polish it a bit more though.

I did not, but he was old, yet still huge and strong. If I had to guess I would say 6+ though. Clark county grows some really great bucks being kind of on the west side of the state. The mineral content out there is very good, promoting good antler growth. Most booners come out of the far west and south west counties where mineral content is extraordinary. Those counties have so many record book bucks, with both the minerals, food sources, and genetics. Wisconsin is really an amazing place to be a deer hunter or a fisherman as you know well!

Thanks man, we have got some nice deer over the years up there, but nothing close to him. With the gun i'm a purist, hunting with the old methods. I have done it that way (very successfully for my freezer) for 23 years its all i know. I like to walk around with my 30-30 all day. And now the AR10!!! With the bow is different. Feeders are illegal here, but some areas here you can have a pile of bait no bigger than 2 gallons. With bow I sit in a treestand. I usually dont, but I have used bait bowhunting. I use a treestand, hunt mostly private land, bow hunting is my super fun grocery shopping Lol. But i'm not a purist bowhunting, not yet. Maybe when I have time to build a longbow......

Ok so I hunt with my family on public land by Thorp WI. There are a lot of wolves, and hunters too though with the deer population decline not so many hunters anymore like 20 years ago. Now we hunt the old way, a mix of sit on a log and wait, as well as track/spot and stalk, and some afternoon deer drives. We hunt no private property, the same public land for 60 years, and use no blinds or treestands. So I get my brand new RRA LAR8 predator HP, three days before gun opener. I was jacked! sighted it in the morning before opening day. 3/4" at a hundred with factory ammo. There was a back corner of a 300 acre 3 year old clearcut (6-10 foot trees) where it transitions to older woods and I had sat in this spot the previous year and liked it. They left a few 6-10 foot wide, ancient pines when they cut it. I trek out to my pine and sit down on the roots, and settle in feeling like rambo with my new AR10 hahaha. The wind is to my back/tree. I light a cigarette after an hour, and as i'm looking around i never heard him but I look to my right and see a rack bobbing through the clearcut. It is really thick so I thought he was like a nice six pointer or something. I stood, turned, and rested on my big pine and when he stepped out of the thick he was quartering slightly away at 70 yards. 1 shot, double lung with a big hole and he still went 120 yards. Never seen that much blood from any deer. I am glad I never got a good look at how big the rack was till he was down, or i'd have shat my pants and missed hahaha! 7:05 AM opening day and I shot a real dandy. It has continued to be an amazing experience! When I got him home I measured the rack, and called a boone and crockett measurer named Mark Miller. He scored the rack at 167 2/8 inches gross, and 165 2/8 inches net. Only 2 inches of deductions is rare on a booner, he is very symmetrical. 9 6/8 inch brow tines, 26 inch main beams, and a 21 6/8 inch inside spread what a dream buck on public land! He made the 30th triennial B&C awards 2016-2018 and will be in the record book. Call me a dork but i'm buying a copy. Mark has scored for B&C and P&Y for many years and never scored an 8 pointer that actually made B&C with it's 160 inch minimum. Its been amazing. I hunt for meat, to just be out where I belong, and fellowship with my family. I am not a trophy hunter, but to take a buck like him on public land swarming with wolves that's a good hunt.

Welcome from WI. R25, is that the remington rifle that is an AR10 platform rifle? I almost bought one because I found a really good deal on one, but it sold before i could get it and then I fell madly in love with RRA and now i'm poor hahahaha

Welcome from WI! I am a big bolt guy too, but trust the AR10 platform. It is really great once you get used to it.

Thank you gentlemen! I need to pick up two frames next week so I can put up his award and score sheet. My coworkers machined for me a nice stand for my 9 pointer too, I will post a pic tomorrow or monday when I can take a nice pic of it.

yeah nothing common about common sense Lol. Plus when one refuses to answer a question like that, one is answering it anyway.

Well he shouldnt have poked the bear Lol

Hahahaha I'm dying that's exactly the scene I was picturing when I read this thread Lol

Its all he does and he is good and fast. Picture doesn't do it justice, even the whiskers are perfect!

I have been hopping back and forth, I just started a thread under hunting, I got my booner back from the taxidermist and I am super happy. Makes my 9 pointer look tiny though... What a week!

FK I'm a goner. It was only a matter of time till y'all figured out I'm an A hole haha

I picked my booner up this week. Taxidermist did a great job on him, and I had him back in 5 months which is pretty fast! I am very happy with the results, Animal Arts Taxidermy out of Campbellsport WI Is awesome!

lolz

I just got super curious as it shows you have 6,642 posts. That doesn't seem o line up with the 5000. It seems like the 0 or 100 is what newer guys have, then 500, 2500, 5000. I wonder what it means and how high it goes?

fellow new guy!

welcome from WI

What does the 5000 and the 5 dots mean under your name?

Welcome from WI. Conjuncti Stamus!

hahaha almost 7,000 posts later

Slick rig sir! welcome from WI!