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Open Fire: QDMA’s Kip Adams Answers Your Questions (Part II)

Online Editors — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:47:32 +0000

I know many of you have been eagerly awaiting Kip Adam’s answers to your questions about QDM and the QDMA, and here they are—in spades. I originally planned to have Kip answer about half...

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Hurteau: Color A Buck With Your Kids

Online Editors — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:43:48 +0000

With deer season still months away, what’s a whitetail nut to do? You can work on food plots, of course, or hang some spring stands, but that’s nothing but work. Coloring, on the other...

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Open Fire: QDMA’s Kip Adams Answers Your Questions

Online Editors — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:57:33 +0000

APR may be the three most controversial letters in deer hunting, judging by Scott Bestul’s last post. If not, they’re probably QDM. There’s no question that quality deer management...

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Deer Hunting Stories from Minnesota

admin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:57:00 +0000

I shot my first Deer in November of 2004. We were hunting private land in Pine County, MN and it was freezing outside. Swede and I were stand hunting and after sitting for about 2 hours in 12 degree weather, I was frozen. I hadn’t seen nor heard a thing except for the farmers donkey, when i heard that ” Snap”. I looked behind me and there was a nice 9pt just walking along, smelling the rut, without a care in the world.

I slowly turned, raised my 30.06 and fired…..CLICK! My rifle misfired, so i quickly rechambered my bolt action, raised my rifle and ClICK!…Another misfire. This happened 2 more times, before I had to completely reload my rifle. Surprising, the Deer didn’t even noticed me. It continued to slowly walk, it’s nose to the earth, completely oblivious to my frantic attempts to get my damn gun to fire.

So, now i have reloaded my rifle and sure enough, I cant see the deer anywhere. Looking through my scope, I final catch a glimspe of its tail through the woods. My first shot misses and yet the deer doesnt run. I reload and fire again….BANG and the Deer disappears.

At this point, I am crushed as I figured there was no way that I had hit the deer. I climb down from my stand and walk in the general direction of where I think the deer was standing. As I approach, I see it laying on the ground…No blood nothing…I had hit it in the spine and dropped it where it stood. The Deer never knew what hit it