Recent content by Jcataudella

I'm in what i guess you'd call north central FL, in Suwannee County. I live in a very rural area and hunt my own 5 acre lot. Each lot around me is the same long rectangular 5 acre size, and while others make their homes here it is all very heavily wooded. In fact, the lots surrounding my place...

I have a platform I use with a pop up blind for the last 5 years. The blind won't collapse because I put the platform between some trees, and the blind has loops to tie onto. Each side of the blind is tied off to its respective tree, and one line runs from one tree, through the top center and...

I couldn't agree more. I'm always hoping for a broadside shot to avoid damaging the front legs. In his book, Larry Benoit called it "One in the boiler works", which meant a double lung and heart shot. Even if it's just the lungs the deer can't go very far. In my case, these small Florida deer...

I have to agree. I made a shot like that in Delaware once but it was pure luck. I had actually judged it to be 150 and it was 25-30 farther than that. When I took the shot I couldn't see the deer move under recoil, but I had to guess the deer did a refelxive ducking motion. Instead of the double...

Here in Florida's northern woods we have little to no need for long range capability, and safety is also a consideration. When we moved here 5 years ago my first deer was taken with a Remington 1100 semi-auto shotgun in 12 ga., using 3" buckshot in a 24" barrel. After that I located and...