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Chawn,
What do they say: 'hijacking the thread,' no?

My go to deer bullet in the .308 is 165 speer pushed by a bunch of varget.....pretty much bang flop everytime.

Lefty

Go ahead; truthfully it's more interesting than ballistics

Don't get me started!
Rick will ban me, for sure...

I agree(with the last part)....

http://www.spiderwebart.com/enlarge.asp?image=105973.jpg

Reminds me of the bathroom walls of the Plonk........

LOL, you've been to Plonk?

I didn't know they served beer

were does the the term cull buck come into play on this deer,what was the age?
there was a major drought this year,and from viewing some footage of deer from the past few years,(some) of the deer did not grow hardley any inches on there racks on or farm this year,if any,and yes we could tell they were the same deer from years of pics,some others have noticed the same thing this year with the drought.
nice big 6 you got there.

Bastards don't have Bud Light.....

Rasmussen drags me in there every once in awhile and I'm forced to drink whiskey......grin

The first time we(I) went in there(LONG night), I left without paying the tab on my debit card...
Next morning I can't find my card. No big deal, just go back to the bar and get it right?
Wrong, I went into two bars, both of which weren't the Plonk, and asked the bartender to settle up my tab.
I finally called Joe to ask were the hell we ended up that night.
Maygan was quite impressed when she came to pick me up for the ride home........grin

I don't mind the scenery at the Plonk, just a little 'hoity toity' for an old farm boy...LOL

Yeah well, I'm a little suspect now... sister at, where is it, Harvard?

Sister is a smart young women(Thank God for scholarships!), she graduates this spring...

A clean shirt and jeans equals dressed up for me.......

And it's Haaaaavard, Brad.......LOL

Sam, that's just cool! Congrat's to her, really impressive. Montana is full of some of the down-to-earth smartest folks anywhere.

A few years back I was down at the lumber yard (bear in mind I said Lumber Yard) working on the framing package for a house I was building... gent there was helping me looking over my plans. Somehow it came up he would be gone the following week at his College Class Reunion... course I asked him where he went to school... answer, "DARTMOUTH."

I nearly fell over! Native Montanan on scholarship too...

Trophytaker308,
A cull buck is a buck you want to take from the herd based on his genetic trait of growing a less than trophy rack. The buck I shot is at least 3.5 years old and possibly 4.5 years old (our biologist will age him based on his jaw bone). A mature typical 6 point, in most cases, will just be a bigger 6 point next year and you do not want to have him in your deer herd breeding more 6 points. I hunt on 10,000 acres of private land located on the big black river in Hinds county MS. The soil on this property has the potential to produce some great trophies. Here is a picture of a trophy deer from our hunting property (21" wide and scores in the 140s).

yea i know what a cull buck is,some do some dont.
its was a really nice six anyway you look at it,and thats a nice 8 there,any 8 that will make 140 is one heck of a 8 pointer.

Fine deer and a nice rifle. I loaded 110 grain accubonds for my son to shoot out of his .257 Roberts this year. He shot his first buck at about 65 yards, through the ribs, and for all I know that bullet is still sailing.. Deer ran only 25 yards, if that, before piling up.

nice.

Thanks Brad, I'm pretty proud of her....



Sorry about he hijack Mississippi, nice bucks!

I hope you did a better job gutting that deer than you did on the tree...

Mississippi: those 165 Accubonds are great bullets! Have a nice string of one-shot kills with them out of my .308's including whitetails, auodad and big axis deer.

Shot a meat doe last Friday with a 165 in my 30-06 (2890 fps). Deer was bedded, facing me, round went into front chest chewed up the lungs punched through the paunch and broke the rear leg as it exited with a nickel-sized hole. Critter never moved.

Certainly, you don't NEED premiums for deer but since I only shoot seconds (shootersproshop.com) it's not costing me any more and I have one load for everything including elk. Nice buck by the way!

I built a 7x57 instead of a 308 because I got a great price on the barrel. But the 308 thing wouldn't go away and my next one is close to completion. Accubonds are fine as are just about anything else is in the 308 including corelokts.