scrubbedexpat099

Spent this afternoon over at a friends getting the sights on target, initially at 100 yards and then used a rock that must have been about 400 yards just to check long range.

Zeroed at 200 yds, quite a drop at 400 yards.

Anyway 2nd Rifle starts Saturday and just wondered who else will be heading out and what you will be after?

ottotheboar

Bow season here right now, muzzle loader first two weeks of November. After that dog hunting starts and they deer are scattered everywhere.
We have big problems this year with Chronic Wasting Disease CWD. I have seen a few dead ones and a buck jumped up when I was cutting hay who could hardly walk.

scrubbedexpat099

All the ones I have seen looked in pretty good condition, looks like the weather next week will be good, fine by me but my friends prefer snow on the ground.

Octang Frye

Hunting raccoons. Well, one. He's taken one of our lovely ducks already.
He must die.

scrubbedexpat099

mrken30

I wish I could hunt racoons and wolves, unfortunately I live in the city. Ducks all went to duck heaven.

scrubbedexpat099

ottotheboar

If you plan on eating raccoon it should be boiled before frying it. I was chastised by a friend who is a connoisseur of woodland creatures chastised me for not knowing this.

scrubbedexpat099

I blame it on the Teachers.

Octang Frye

I can't shoot him. I live in the city too.

We're gonna have to trap him and then release him in the foothills.

ottotheboar

The possibility of being black listed by the Charlottesville and Districts raccoon frying circles is quite unsettling.

scrubbedexpat099

And then shoot him?

Anian

The weather means I won't even bother with the deer hunt this year. The guy with the camper van sold it, so it would mean a tent, and the father-in-law won't sleep in a tent when it is raining. Looks like the rainy season has started pretty heavily this year, it would just be unpleasant all round.

scrubbedexpat099

Our rainy season has finished, anything now will be white.

ottotheboar

Rain and muzzle loader is the best for me, I made some blinds from large round bales with the fake bale in the middle.
Many people do not hunt during the muzzle loader season in the rain due to the high rate of misfires.