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Judging from the blood, it was a major caliber hockey stick too. Just how long did you beat that poor yote?

.280 Ackley Improved: Wonderfully accurate, available actions (think bolt-face , mag box and feed rails), brass is excellent and available from multiple sources, feeds easily and well. What the heck is not to like???????

The WSMs and SAUMs offer less; they need specialized actions, brass supply is not assured and they are not particularly ballistically superior.

Steve

I'd shot one of his rear feet off (running like a bugger) at about 300 yards. He was sulking in a draw and I thought it would be fun to bonk him with a stick. So I snuck up on him and bashed him over the head. Took one major SLAP SHOT

Steve

Thanks Steve. Now that you've typed it out, I think I remember putting those reason in print before. Makes sense to me.

Steve;

A V-max via a .221 Fireball at about... 20 feet... will do about the same thing.

Thank coyotewallace for proving that this year...

Great pic's horse1,I think we can hang together....grin. I'm in coyote mode right now.

Steve,that puts a new meaning to MPAJ!Reminds me of a buddy who only had a hand full of rounds after wounding and shooting the legs out from a doe he was out of shells,a rock became his weapon of choice.

Horse1,

I like the license plates--where you at, up north? I'm in the southeast.

Are those ruffed grouse in the pic, or what?

Horse,

Good pix!! Good hunting too!!!

Don

My brother's first bow-kill was a fiasco. He only took three arrows, the first he missed with and lost, the second missed and broke, the third hit a buck in the spine. He had no knife nor big rock handy, so he had to chase down the crawling buck and pull out the arrow, only to find that the nock was missing. He then had to go get the nock from the broken arrow to make a complete arrow to shoot the deer again. He couldn't stab it because it was a wide-cut expandable head.

Dad said "Son, did you kill one?" Brother said, "Yes, but it wasn't pretty."

He had to be prodded into telling the whole story a few months later at a cookout, my abs were hurting the next day from laughing. If it could happen to anybody, it would be him.

No offense taken. It's just not in me to take such a 'road' and start in 'mean-mouthing' another person. To sift through all that garbage for some little tid-bit of information that may, or may not, prove beneficial to me at some future date is like bobbing for apples in a septic tank. Just ain't worth it. If nobody ever starts the filth it won't happen. Life is just better without it.

AWRIGHT! Who gut shot the deer? Was it Hondo64d?

I'm not against killing deer. I just don't enjoy it any longer. I've kilt my share but rather plant food plots and watch fish280 not shoot......(sorry, Paul, just couldn't help it ;)). Dorothy has come to view all the deer that come up behind the house as family but she knows that a bullet is probably the most humane method of deer control (thinning the herd) there is. She just doesn't like to dwell on it.

I'm not saying I'll never kill another deer. I may, but don't think so. I will shoot a coyote, though, just for Bullet.

"To sift through all that garbage for some little tid-bit of information that may, or may not, prove beneficial to me at some future date is like bobbing for apples in a septic tank. Just ain't worth it" ....... I like that Mickey

It's original but not copyrighted. Feel free to use it.
Thanks,

NOTE TO SELF: do NOT shoot your meat doe if it is the lone deer out on the prairie..........you want something near by for size referance.......................easiest pack out i ever had though



here is a more normal sized doe for the area...(both deer from 2 seasons ago)

You take a hockey stick hunting with you? I never heard of that. Hmmm...new equipment to research and buy--excellent!

Naw, I was "under the control" of my Canadian guide, which meant that he was at home sleeping and I borrowed his truck and was out in the field killing stuff. Anyway, the hockey stick was in the truck bed and I wanted to see if I could effectively bonk a sulking coyote with it.

Worked better than my wildest dreams.

Steve

belly laughin' here.
thanks for the pics and stories, guys.
and jds: what are the red cloth things on the horses?
fly screens?
i love this place.
even you, mickey. i'll show you - one day ...

zapper,

Paint that stick black and call it tactical; you'd make a zillion.

Just started reloading and took this sacrifice with the 7-08 and 120tsx



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