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Looks really heavy horn & body, congrats.
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You did well. Waidmannsheil! A nice bit of natural art to remember your hunt by. I trust you have him hanging in a place of honour. For what it's worth, as a local I probably had a couple hundred deer in front of me at various times this fall, not one was as good as your deer. I think the same goes for a couple years before that too. It is a very special privilege when you get to put your tag on a really good one!
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Thanks, great buck and a very sweet rifle Buzz!
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Rifle started as a 700 SPS youth gun. Wears a 20" Rock Creek 1-11.25" 5R SS barrel in .308 Winchester. McMilan Remington Compact in McWoody pattern. Timney trigger set at 2.5#. Bolt Fluted in TI pattern and handle skeletonized by Kampfeld. Swarovski Z3 3x9x36mm #4a reticle in Talley UL rings. Cerakoted in graphite black. Bat trigger guard. Put together by Robert Gradous.
Load is a 150g Nosler Accubond using Federal cases, Federal 210M primers, 45.5g IMR 4895 powder. Approx 2830 fps. Shoots about 5/8" groups.
That explains it. We all know a 308 can't do something like that WITHOUT ALL the CUSTOMIZATION. Very Nice Jerry
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What a beautiful big buck. Congrats!!
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That explains it. We all know a 308 can't do something like that WITHOUT ALL the CUSTOMIZATION. Very Nice Jerry Thanks Jerry - being a lefty, just finding a left handed short action .308 isn't an easy task. It was a .243 youth rifle that I made into my version of a LH M7
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Awesome buck! Cool rifle too. What did you wear to keep warm?
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Way to go, amigo! Damn, what a fabulous buck. I trust you have confidence in that bullet now?
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Way to go, amigo! Damn, what a fabulous buck. I trust you have confidence in that bullet now? Thank you sir, and what a wonderful buck you got this year yourself. I do in fact now have confidence in that bullet and loaded 100 of them in fresh Lapua cases the other night!
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Nice- I love those chocolate colored racks!
Hunting Canadian whitetails, added to bucket list...check
Neat rifle too.
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Congrats!
That is a place high on my hunting "to do" list. My grandmother homesteaded there about 1907 and lived in a sod house!
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Thank you sir, the one you got was quite the impressive old buck! Very happy for you and Scott for your excellent Kansas hunt.
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Beauty.....tough one to whoop there.....
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Buck of a lifetime right there, congratulations!
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