Got number 19 today using my Ithaca NID 10 gauge .

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Shot this bad boy twice !

The first shot he was coming directly towards me and about 20 yards I let him have it with a load of handloaded #3 Buck seems to me I was putting 25 pellets in each shell . For the second shot he had turned broadside and I popped him this time with a load of handloaded 000 Buck , there are 8 pellets in these I believe .

He made it about 30-40 yards from the second shot back into some rather nasty stuff .

I was hunting with some friends in a county I'd never killed a deer before . We were doing man drives .

Plan to end off the season next saturday with them same as I did last year .

Well that makes all three of my shootable 10 gauge guns "blooded" !



Now I'll start of the 12's I think !

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them big tens will do the job...good luck on the 12 s...charlie

I got a little news today I find a bit disturbing !

The two powders I generally load the majority of my shotgun shells with will be phased out by Hogdon this year !

Seems they will stop producing PB , SR4756 , SR4759 and SR7625 !

I use SR7625 for darn near all of my loads and from time to time SR4756 .

I suppose I need to get a couple 8 pounders of SR7625 before the supply gets scooped up .

hmmm -

that will put a dent in the short ten list of loads

i see they are no longer listed on the website

New Years Day 2014 and I got number 20 for the year !

Shot what I thought was a doe at 17:20 at about 32 yards with the Remington 700 6.5-06 with a Berger 130 VLD Hunting Match bullet pushed with 53 grains of RL-22 . At the moment my record with the pair of 6.5-06's I've owned is 6 shots and 6 deer !

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This deer makes me equal the best season "number wise" I ever had !

Perhaps with three days left I can reach a new high number .

May I ask why you killed 20 deer in one year? That seems a bit much no matter how plentiful they are where you live. Also, what did you do with all that meat?

The first 16 were on Damage Control Permits !

I kept the backstraps and tenderloin from just about all of them and gave them to friends etc . The rest of the deer were deboned and my gunsmith buddy grinds it or cubes it all and we cook it at the shop during the week for lunch in variouse ways . Generally we have four or five customers each day there eating lunch with us . So it doesn't take to long to go thru a couple dozen deer .

Matter of fact yesterday (saturday and the last day of the season) I cooked the backstraps from two deer for lunch out in the field for the dozen or so of us hunting the last day together .

I understand your question as I used to hunt your state in the north eastern corner . Generally I would have a buck and two doe tags up there and generally I'd fill them all where as my friends from PA didn't quite have the same luck .

To be honest the twenty I took this year are more then some of my friends up there had taken in their entire life and alot of those guys had hunted for 30+ years .

Twenty may sound like alot to some folks and I suppose it is , but folks who don't hunt Maryland , Virginia and several of the other southern states don't understand . My twenty is a good number but there are ALOT of fellows who take more then that in a year . My usual take for a year is 10-15 . I know several guys here that average well over 30 each year .

I will tell you this , after skinning gutting and cutting up my 20 and my gunsmith buddies six deer I was quite tired of semi processing deer !

that's a beautiful nid 10 ga . id love to have one some day but out my price range