Worked and played in the bush all my life. Only carried a gun while hunting. This summer while walking my springers I could hear them coming through the bush towards me. But it was a Black Bear,it was close enough I could have poked it in the eye with my cane. When it saw me it spun around and skinned out before I had a chance to poke it. I live next to the bush and it is not uncommon to have a bear in my yard or walking down the street. They raise hell with the fruit trees in the fall. Always stay cool and give them a way out. They can move a lot faster then we think they can.
T.W.K.
What Have You Bagged This 2012 Season with Ithacas
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I can't agree more. stay out of their way. Same for moose, too. They might look docile, and they are for the most part but don't piss one off. they are fast and can flip motor vehicles when motivated.
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Out this afternoon for another short hunt.First time I have been able to get out since November 15th.Was able to bag another partridge(ruffed grouse) with the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.
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Got any pics 28...?!
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Been a slow one for me – just two doves and this one wild rooster from a national wildlife refuge not far from my home. Got a very fine piece of dogwork on the rooster, though, and we took this photo when we came across a mobility-impaired duck blind. I'll kill a bunch of pen-raised pheasants at my club during January and February, but that's not the same. |
I'm with Raven. This has been a horrible season thus far. It's too hot, too dry, too sunny, just bad. I've gotten a shot at exactly one rabbit, and that's with some good dog work. And I manages to shoot him up beyond salvage!
They're in the thickest of the thick, buried up, and when you do have a good race you can't push them out yo get a shot. Man I hope it gets better! |
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I'm done for the year Col. Gonna scrub out all my guns and put them away. It is deer season here so no dogs. --Jim
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That is a good looking dog, ditch, what is he/she?
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I bought a 12 gauge Waterfowler this year and took it out last month on its first hunt. The first flock I shot three times, three gadwalls fell. The next group I shot once, dropped another, then one more shot next flock and dropped another.
All I thought was WOW, this new gun is five for five and a triple to boot. Then I got cocky and missed five or so in a row. I typically hunt 10 gauge but have decided my Waterfowler is now my prime gun for 12. Best purchase I have made in a long time. Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East.
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Sorry Shooter13,my computer skills just not that good. |
3 rabbits so far with the 1956 vintage Ithaca 37 that I just purchased about 3 weeks ago.
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Well done,drcook.What gauge is your Ithaca 37? Out this afternoon for a couple of hours before dark.Was able to bag another rabbit with my 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.That makes 3 for me as well. |
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Out this afternoon for a short hunt with the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.The first place I was in ,I was in for only about two minutes and bagged two rabbits.The next place I went in I bagged one rabbit.
Seems kind of unfair to bag them as the rabbits are easy to see as they are white and the ground is bare.Nature has played a cruel trick on them. |
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Out this afternoon for a short hunt.Was able to bag another rabbit just before sunset with my Ithaca Model 37 28 gauge.
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Out this afternoon for another hunt.Bagged one rabbit with the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.Fired two shots at another one on the high run.Hunted around the alder bunches for over an hour after that, but could not catch sight of him again.O well,you cannot get them all.LOL
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It is a 16 gauge. |
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Nice.Do you get to use it a lot? |
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Out for another hunt this afternoon.Bagged two more rabbits with the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.
Could be my last hunt for awhile as we are to get 10 to 40 CM of snow with high wind tonight.That could make getting around in the uplands rather diffucult. |
I have been hunting with it a couple times a week for the last couple weeks. Unfortunately on some of the places I have been going, the coyotes are getting the rabbits and pheasants, so it is more exercising my dog (family pet, got pudgy) than it is getting something. I went to one of the places yesterday, and everywhere that a rabbit would hide, there was coyote tracks in the snow. come summer spring and fall, I have a Ruger 77 ..223 that is going to get exercised a bit thinning out the coyotes
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Out this afternoon and picked up anopther rabbit with the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37.
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Out rabbit hunting this afternoon.Score another one for the 28 gauge Ithaca Moderl 37.
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The 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37 bagged another rabbit(snowshoe hare) today.
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My tally this year was:
28 ruffed grouse 6 sage grouse 6 doves 1 blue grouse 1 spruce grouse Couple dozen squirrels countless Jack rabbits All were taken with my '58 20ga or my Ohio 16ga. I favor the 20ga. |
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Seems you have had a great year,uplanddan.
What type of squirrels do you hunt?We have red squirrels but I know of no one who hunts them. Partride(ruffed grouse) were not many in my area this year.We have spruce partridge here but you are not alowed to hunt them.No blue or sage grouse.We have doves but no season on them.What we call rabbits here are really snowshoe hare.Some around but not like in a really good year. |
Fox squirrels, but they are smaller than the Midwestern variety. It was a decent year, but I didn't get out as much as I'd hoped(new baby at the house). Next year should be epic for birds if I don't move home, but that looks inevitable.
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