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Beautiful animals. You animal.
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When I was younger I used to just run them down, jump on their backs and sink my teeth into their necks......
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Ingwe/Bobin.....love seeing the pics. Very nice animals too.
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Great pictures fellas! Great bucks..
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Inge: Nice! I do love this stuff!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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We've used scopes from 4-12,3.5-10,3-9,2-7 and anymore the wife and I both just prefer a straight 6x scope. Our ranges that we have killed animals are from 30 yards to 450 but typically are from 200-300. You don't need a high power scope for hunting out west. Heres a few victims of low power scopes. 90 yards 3-9 If I remember right about 120 yards 3.5-10 Right at 300 yards. 3-9 430 yards with 6x 450 yards 6x scope 200 yards 6x
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50 yards 3-9 Hell it can even be done without a scope. 40 yards 43 yards
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When I was younger I used to just run them down, jump on their backs and sink my teeth into their necks...... On one thread I remember seeing Shrapnel holding the foot of an antelope and it had the other three feet on the ground and he was holding some kind of rifle. He stated the .243 was not effective!!!!!
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Good looking bucks there laker.
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JG thanks!
Laker that muley looks like a very old buck!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Great pictures Laker... I'm slowly coming around to the straight 6X myself. Haven't found it lacking in the least yet.
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OK. I was involved in a discussion recently. A bunch of us easterners were hashing out various deer hunting related nonsense. Rifles,calibers,scopes. It seems there is an underlying thread through the whole "Out west" conundrum. Seems flat shooting rifles with high magnification glass are best suited to hunting out west. Yep. That's the skinny. So,here it is. How about all of our resident western deer hunters chime in. What is the average,longest,and shortest range you take mule deer at? A bunch of folks here think all mule deer are shot at no less than 300 yards. (Most have never been west of the Mississippi) I know I can count on the "Fire" to iron this out. They won't listen to me. The last mule deer I shot was 270 yards-lasered. I Wyoming, where I do most of my pronghorn and deer hunting for over the last 30+ years, I would say the average shot is 200 yards. I've shot over 300 only once, and under 200 several times. I would say an average of 300 is high.
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I limit myself to 300yds. But I'm a stunt shooter. I use a 250 savage with 100gr interlocks, and either a straight 6 or a 3x9 usually set on 3. I keep forgetting to crank it up at the moment of truth. I put a second shot on a doe antelope at just over 400yds once. She was dead on her feet from the first shot at 200 but she was having a hard time getting the memo that she'd been killed. The second shot convinced her!
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I've been killing Deer, Elk, Antelope and One Sheep in MT and OR since '59. Only the Sheep was taken past 300 yards. Most everything else was 100 yards or less. A few were 150-250.
I've used mainly (on Mule and Whitetail Deer) a .308, a 7 Rem Mag, a .270 and for the last 20 years, a 6MM-06.
The biggest scope I've used on big game is a 3x9x40.
When I was growing up on the plains of MT, the .270 was very popular -- still is. If you lived on the West side of the Continental Divide you more likely had an '06. Pretty much everyone had a 2 1/2 or 4 power scope.
Last year my Nephew's son missed an Antelope Doe several times with his .338 RUM. Maybe times are changing.
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Mid 400s tend to be my average for mule deer.
In the last 20 or so elk and deer, other than the one described above, I have not shot a single one under 300 yards.
My experience as well. "Out West" can mean many different environments, but as was stated earlier, the potential for long shots is very real.
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I will echo what most of my fellow "westerners" have said herein. However, if you want to go hunt in the west in Alaska, with our little buddy, you will need to set yourself up to be able to take 1 to 2000 yard shots. Anything else, you're wasting your money no matter what your personal interests and needs are. If you don't believe me, just ask a couple of his regular sycophants.
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Never before believed in the notion that men get better looking as they age ! Guess you can learn something new everywhere, even the campfire.
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I limit myself to 300yds. But I'm a stunt shooter. I use a 250 savage with 100gr interlocks, and either a straight 6 or a 3x9 usually set on 3. I keep forgetting to crank it up at the moment of truth. I put a second shot on a doe antelope at just over 400yds once. She was dead on her feet from the first shot at 200 but she was having a hard time getting the memo that she'd been killed. The second shot convinced her! Good shooting! My daughter and I shoot in a local 400 yd deer target match. That's a pretty good poke. The 250/3000 is a cool round.
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Never before believed in the notion that men get better looking as they age ! Since this is ingwe we're talking about, I have to ask--better than what?
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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