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Sometimes it's best to blend in with the herd. This calico hoglet stood out amongst all the others. So she got nailed. Talley one more for the Merkel! Best GWB
A Kill Artist. When I draw, I draw blood.
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Firearm deer season opened this last weekend, here in Indiana. I used my CVA Scout .44 mag/leverevolution ammo, to score on 2 nice does, the last 3 days. The pics aren't the best, but you get the idea. My son scored a small buck on the third day, with his handi rifle .44 mag/LE ammo, also. All my hunting this fall[squirrels/deer] has been with single shot rifles. maddog
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Firearm deer season opened this last weekend, here in Indiana. I used my CVA Scout .44 mag/leverevolution ammo, to score on 2 nice does, the last 3 days. The pics aren't the best, but you get the idea. My son scored a small buck on the third day, with his handi rifle .44 mag/LE ammo, also. All my hunting this fall[squirrels/deer] has been with single shot rifles. maddog What are those deer eating?!! Hell, even the does look bigger than my 10-pointer!
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. I do tend to fit in well wherever I go in person. The campfire is the most outside exposure I get. No TV, no newspaper.
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Brickie, we grow em big here in NW Indiana. My heaviest buck ever weighed 226 lbs. field dressed, and my biggest doe was 140 lbs. field dressed. Add 30-35% and you get real close to the live weight. maddog
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Here's a pic of my buddy's buck that he took opening morning about sun up. he took it with his Knight ML. All three of us hunted with single shots on his property. maddog
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Brickie, we grow em big here in NW Indiana. My heaviest buck ever weighed 226 lbs. field dressed, and my biggest doe was 140 lbs. field dressed. Add 30-35% and you get real close to the live weight. maddog The heaviest deer ever killed in the county I hunt in southeast Oklahoma was a little over 170 pounds; my heaviest was a little under 130 pounds.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. I do tend to fit in well wherever I go in person. The campfire is the most outside exposure I get. No TV, no newspaper.
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I don't know what my 2012 single shot take buck weighed, but I do know I am 5'9" 185 pounds, and I could only lift one end. To get him into the vehicle, I had to put a rope around his neck and winch him in.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Took a WT doe this morning at 9:30 with the 7x57 1A.
92 yds, broadside & clueless ain't hard but I didn't scorn her for bein' easy.
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad." ---------------------------------------------- "Jimmy, some of it's magic, Some of it's tragic, But I had a good life all the way." (Jimmy Buffett)
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I had my 1A 257R out this morning and a couple of does got a free pass.
There is no accounting for taste.
Experience is a great thing as long as one survives it.
Generally, there ain't a lot that separates the two however, Barely making it is a whole lot more satisfying than barely not making it.
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Shot this buck with a 20 guage NEF Tracker II using a 3" Winchester Partition Gold Sabot. @ 85 yards. When rifle hunting I mainly use Handi Rifles and Toppers. Maddog I have a CVA in 7mm-08 Stainless I am still working with to get consistent shot after shot performance.
Take your kids and your grand kids huntin' and shootin'.
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Just returned from Kyrgyzstan two weeks ago and the new Luxus 30-06 I took worked just fine on this mid-Asian Ibex.
Phil Shoemaker Alaska Master Guide, Alaska Hunter Ed Instructor FAA Master pilot www.grizzlyskinsofalaska.comAnyone who claims the 30-06 is not effective has either not used one, or else is unwittingly commenting on their marksmanship.
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Just returned from Kyrgyzstan two weeks ago and the new Luxus 30-06 I took worked just fine on this mid-Asian Ibex. Awesome!
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Wow, just Wow! What a set of horns! Details?
Shew me thy ways, O LORD: teach me thy paths. "there are few better cartridges on Earth than the 7 x 57mm Mauser" "the .30 Springfield is light, accurate, penetrating, and has surprising stopping power"
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Up to three now with the Encore/300 H&H after big doe Saturday evening. About time to safe it and let some other rifles play this season Hunted the Sabatti double last couple evenings, ya'll let me post pics here if I only shoot one barrel?
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Wow....
Awesome Phil, simply awesome.
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Put it up in another thread but here is my buck from last Sat. Taken with a Ruger #1 in .460 S&W.
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Bucks and squirrels with my Savage 24J 22mag/20 GA
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my youngest son dropped a six-point whitetail this evening with his .45-70 handi-rifle.
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I don't always hunt..but when I do I prefer single shots!!
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