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The old #1 270 strikes again. Hunted a spot I've have hunted many years and taken many bucks, but haven't hunted for a few years. Hunt lasted about 20 minutes. Boring 130 gr powerpoint, 1 shotDRT. Nice Palouse country buck, well over 200lbs. Not an absolute monster rack, but about as good as you get where I hunt. Did break a couple of tips of tines tumbling down scree and cliffs above river...
and just maybe I figured out how to post a photo...

Congrats ,nice buck

Very nice.

I'm going to try to blood my 1A 30-06 in November. It shoots like a laser so it'll be up to me.

Congrats on a nice buck.

d.

That's a real nice buck. Will be hunting with my .35 Whelen #1 some again this year.

RSI in .243. 3X3 Blacktail/83lbs. hanging at the locker. Nothing to call home about, but it's been one of those seasons where it's just nice to put one in the freezer.



Course then there's the "in my face", bragging daughter who put this 3X3 with one eye guard down earlier in the season. He weighted 120 lbs. at the locker. This is a very large buck (body wise) for our area.

1885 - Perfect!

Them single shots realy work

Those are some nice deer. Congrats to all!

1885 - That is a real nice blacktail your daughter got, you don't see that nice of one everyday.

If .22s count, I've shot 26 squirrels with my H&R Sportster, so far this year.


maddog

Wish I had brought one of my single shots to the panhandle with me. SIL called for me to come assist with the cotton harvest this week. ( He was a hand short.) Weather has turned dreary and it must be on the dry side to run the machines.

May have to borrow a rifle and go anyway. I don't know why I do not keep one out here. I leave a shotgun and a .22 here. Might as well leave a rifle also. That would leave room for one more in my safe.

We have some pretty nice WT deer here and the Mule Deer are now within twenty miles or less.

Jack

I shot these two with an H&R Handi "Trapper" 44 magnum about 15 seconds apart on Saturday.





Worked great with a 240 grain Hornady XTP over Win 296 powder. It helps when the deer only run about 20 yards, then stop and look around so you can reload.....

My sons and I:

Took a break to go chase elk after starting thread. Good photos and deer.

It was number two No.1's turn, my 300 win mag, on this trip:



makes for an awfully good year. Thinking about fillin the bear tag but that might not sit too well with a certain someone, given the chores that have been waiting...

Congrats to all, Didn't see an entrance/exit wound on your Buck in the very first pic ,prob' a right side entry ? and those 130's seldom exit anyhow >

The No. 1 has struck again. Nothing spectacular, just a WT doe so far. I must stop being picky, season is running out.

I don't think it exited. However, I am not certain. I have sometimes thought to comment about all of this stuff about giant exit holes, but it occurs to me that I have shockingly become old school and old. We alwasy used to think that a big expanded bullet intact and just under the offside hide was a good thing. I do use bonded and monometal bullets, although seldom for deer, I have shot something more than 40 deer over the yrs, mostly with this 270, also 41 and 44 mag revolvers, 7-30 waters t/c pistol, 30-30, 300 wm (1 with a x, 1 with an accubond), 7mm mag, etc. I have only had 3 deer run off (found em all) so I have never considered the cup and core bullet stayin in the deer a failure....might update sometime, though...

Took a doe this winter with my newest No.1 - a 270 with a custom fiddle back maple stock with carved forend and grip
VERY nice rifle and shoots well also!
Cat

interesting wood there!

Yes JRK , that old tale about thet bullet under the offside hide did it's job or they wouldn't be skinnin' the thing anyhow ! Probably ran off til it bled out interally .
Before the the current whoop about "controlled expansion " bullets , most 130 grain 270's never exited ,but when they entered the boiler room the devastation was tremendous !
Makes me recall one instance 'bout 50 years back just into dusk
three fat does stepped out (I haven't harvested one in almost that many years)and my Dad said here , "Take my gun and shoot the big one in the middle". Dad's gun was a 270 Weatherby w/130 gr Hornadys factory loaded by Wby factory. The range was all of 250 yds and in those moments just prior to touchin' her off ,it had commenced to snow pretty heavy . taking a good rest I put the crosshairs on her ribs and touched the trigger . Well the rifle jumped so I couldn't tell what happened and Dad apparently blinked from the report and said go on down there and check .
When I got to where they standing, I got quite the surprise : I could still see plainly where the three of them walked out there and stood , the other two had run off , and this big doe lay right on her side , not a bit of any indication that she had even kicked !! The big issue was she laid at least 4 feet to the far side of the tracks they all were standing in, blown sideways 4 feet clearly right out of her tracks . When I opened her up , I saw that the bullet had cut a rib going in , totally destroying the lungs and there was all these little marks on the offside rib cage from fragments . Like I said there was no indication where she had even twitched in her last moments !
Those Hornady 130's were good killers , but you didn't want to hit anything bigger than a rib going in .