Got bored this morning hunting for my late season doe. Called this fellow up instead. Might of done him a favor , had a bit of mange.
Hunting & Fishing 2018 Hunting Thread - Post your pictures!
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I was shooting at a yote this morning. Missed the little bastard dads rangefinder is about to go back to sig just isnt working rifht compared to our kilo 2000. Anyway i turn right and i think it’s this tall 6 point just walking the tree line. Nope it’s probably a 3 year old 8 point. Didn’t really get to look at him much before he got back in the woods. I don’t think he’s a shooter but he’s not small either.
My son dropped this aoudad over the Christmas break. 237 yard shot, standing shooting off of trigger sticks.
Took this guy with my 6.5 CM this afternoon chasing a doe.
Got this buck two weeks ago in Texas. Used Ruger No. 1 in 6.5x55 with 28in Douglas barrel. Topped with Swarovski Z5 3.5-18x44 BT 4W. Didnt get to stretch out its legs. Shot was under 40 yds. Came around the edge of a clearing and he was walking behind a doe. Used 143gr eldx. Shot him at base of neck. Dropp
ed in his tracks. Bullet was stuck half in and half out. Lol. Initially thought I missed and gave it a heart attack. No blood as hide was cauterized by bullet. Good bit of damage inside. Suspect it hit a bone and blew up on impact.
Probably the most productive hunt we have had in the last 5 years, the two on the right were taken by me. One that i took was odd looking to say the least...
Batesville, 2000 acre family owned ranch. Thank you! it was probably the best haul we have ever had there
So far...
That skull we found, whitened it up a bit, and gave the antlers a paint job...
That skull we found, whitened it up a bit, and gave the antlers a paint job...
I've always been curious how you do it to keep their heads staying up as if posing for pictures.
so what we do is in the freezer we built a metal rack on the top, we prop them up and get their legs under them and tie a rope to the base of the rack and hook it up to the top rack. in 24hrs they come out as you see in my pictures
Slow season this year but got my personal best whitetail opening day.
Finally got dad's SAUM sorted out. Wasn't the V6, wasn't the load, was me doing load development with the omega and the POI shift from it. He wouldn't use it suppressed because he didn't like the weight. Well we got it figured out and finally he's not missing shots anymore. Nothing more frustrating to build your father a nice custom rig only to hear that he keeps missing with said gun when you know it shoots very well. So he took a nice 10pt at 253yds or so. Should've been with him that day, we went this afternoon just to get a doe for some meat. Finally got to see him use it today as intended. He DRTd a doe at 595yds in our bean field. Loved every minute of it, the grin on his face in the second picture says it all.
Great to see you got that rig figured out and he is enjoying it!
Question for the Texas guys, at least those who do it...How come you bring the deer back whole and hang by the neck? Where I hunt we always quarter or gut in the field, and if I am able to get the whole animal back for processing, I hang by the rear legs. Seems like everyone I have been around that lives in the Rockies does this. Wondering if it is a regional thing or if there is a reason.
Here is a picture the taxidermist sent. The one on the left belongs to my 7 yo Granddaughter, the one on the right is mine.
Just had enough time this morning to do one quick stand.
My son harvested his first deer ever, a doe, during the youth season and then brought the heat during regular rifle season for his first ever buck. 199# 9pt. It was a long poke at 34yds with the 223ai running 80.5's. The buck was DRT.
Out of my entire family and close friends, I was the only tag holder this year. Made the best of it with a decent first ever pronghorn for me from NM @ 183 yards. 2nd day, 5 minutes into legal light after two failed stalks over 1.5 miles each on day 1. 6.5SS w. 150 SMK @ 3117fps.
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And another one falls to the Grendel. 341 yards double lung with 129 ablr
