October 13 and 14 was designated in Minnesota as the early rifle season for whitetail deer. It is the first time that I'm aware of in which an early season was held here in the state. Regular rifle deer hunting starts mid November, so it was nice to get out hunting and not have to plow through snow to get to the deer stand. I thoroughly enjoyed the two days out in the woods, accompanied by my brother-in-law Ben and his dad and brother. On Saturday, we hunted most of the day without seeing a thing. We ended up going to a different location during the afternoon where I ended up harvesting three whitetails (Odocoileus virginianus).
My firepower is a Remington 700 BDL in a 30-06 caliber. I have a Nikon Pro Staff scope with Leupold scope rings and base mounts. It is fun to shoot and very accurate. The rounds that I used during the hunt were a Nosler partition 180 grain round. It has real knock down power, which means minimal tracking!
The result of a good evening hunt. The deer on the left is an adult doe and the two smaller deer are a male and female fawn. I figure that the two fawns were born about a year and a half ago due to their size. Should be great eating and a good start to filling the freezer with venison.
4 comments:
Congratulations Matt on your deer! I can't view the pictures though!
Congratulations Matt, You did a wonderful on whitetail deer hunting
, Please can you share your hunting pic with us...
Wow...this was a number of years ago. Not sure where the pics went on the blog. I'll have to see if I can find them and repost.
Ah...if you look at the next post in the blog, you will see the pics. Thanks for looking!
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