I have to admit...this feels like cheating...

[brazosland]

Getting an early start this evening on our last weekend of muzzleloader season in Texas. No issue there.

But its cold and there is a stiff breeze blowing and my unfinished cabin has a feeder just 40 yards out the front door.

This sofa is not PC/HC at all...but it sure beats a metal tree stand seat!

Please pray for my forgiveness!

 

[brazosland]

Brought a second rifle to defend against the hogs if they show up...

I hope everyone has a chance to get outdoors this weekend. Like me...outdoors...sort of...

 

[griffiga]

Nice looking rifles, what are they?

 

[brazosland]

One by the door is a flint .40

The other is my full stock .62 Hawken gun.

 

[griffiga]

One by the door is a flint .40

The other is my full stock .62 Hawken gun.

Are they custom? and if so, did you make them?

 

[Eterry]

I have no problem hunting as such... do you think your great great grandfather ever opened the cabin door and said... "there's deer feeding on my rye 50 yards away... but it wouldn't be right to shoot them!"

I'll be hunting from my box blind tomorrow... good luck Brazos.

 

[brazosland]

My resident 6 point. He loves the corn. He will be a great buck in a couple of years.

 

[brazosland]

Are they custom? and if so, did you make them?

I can’t build them, I just shoot them.
The .62 is unsigned. Tapered barrel. Bought it from Lodgewood several years ago. Lots of honest wear but in great shape. I think it may have been a track kit.

The .40 was originally a Rice barreled .50...that barrel is signed. Don’t recall the name. It was a disaster when I bought it from a guy that fitted a .40 barrel to it and cut the stock and the .50 barrel...36” now on both. Had to do a lot of work to get it back to presentable. But now I have all the advantages of an awesome rifle with an incredible piece of wood and two wedged fitted barrels.

 

[Spikebuck]

Doesn't look any different than a lot of box blinds! No different than sitting in a pop-up blind. When I was a kid I used to sit in an old corn crib to hunt woodchucks that burrowed under the barn. On another farm, we used to hunt deer out of an old barn loft (the barn was abandoned in a part of the farm away from the main buildings a bit). Is sitting 30 feet up a tree where they have little chance of seeing or smelling the hunter any more "sporting?"

Looks fine to me, but I might still say a prayer for you anyway!

 

[biliff]

Would this be considered cheating, what with the bench rest, range markers and sight in target

 

[appalichian hunter]

Comfort is where it is at. biliff only if that deer has a target on his shoulder, When I was a active firearms instructor it was common for deer to walk across the top of the berm while the officers were qualifying. Now talk about a excited range officer in the tower calling seace fire.

 

[Ponderosaman]

I don’t think it unethical or cheating, but I do feel like its bad juju.

 

[1950DAVE]

Nice blind ther buddy. You do have a little heat don't you?
Dave

 

[appalichian hunter]

Heat is good.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Forgot just do not get to comfortable and take a nap.

 

[SDSmlf]

Great deer stand. Have taken more than a few deer out the back door and/or off the deck with archery tackle (muzzleloaders and CF rifles are legal, just prefer being stealthy) and do not feel guilty at all. Have bows setup at two different doors. Get grief from the bride for taking development deer (her words) but she complains in the spring and summer about there being too many deer eating every plant we have.

 

[Colterkid]

Guess it depends if you have any meat hanging in the Smoke house or freezer

 

[andy52]

At my age and with as many days I've spent in miserable weather hunting that looks perfect to me.

 

[Lakeman]

I used to have a home with a sliding glass back door. Slide open the door....BOOM. That was a long time ago but I don't remember feeling any guilt. Nor was the venison any less tasty.
John

 

[Christophero]

Yeah, its cheating. Won't stop you though, will it? LOL Pretty rifles you have to play with.