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Today was the opener for my wife's pronghorn season, she drew a tag for the Crook's Mountain area, west and south of Jeffrey City Wyoming. Area is high desert, some rolling hills with little vegetation other than meager grass and some scruffy sagebrush. Got out there about 0730 and spent an hour or so driving around looking for a likely place to put the sneak on one. We are in our 70's so don't need to be hiking too far. We finally set up about 400 yards or so above a small reservoir, glassing the few animals that were in the area. After a bit, two single bucks left the draw and climbed to the top of the ridge to our right, about 300 yards from us. She didn't want to take a skyline shot, so we waited until the bucks were out of sight over the ridge, then walked up to the top, peeking over a small hill. Both bucks were there just grazing, about 100 yards apart. She made her way to a small group of sagebrush about 50 yards from me, got down into prone, rested the rifle on a bush and dropped the larger of the two bucks: one shot, one pronghorn. Shot him in the base of the neck, he never stirred out of his tracks. I later ranged the distance, 242 yards. We had him dressed, skinned out and cooling on the tailgate by 10:00 AM. I was proud of my wife, she has hunted for years and this was one of her longest shots. She shoots a model 722 Remington , a Weaver K6 scope from the same era, 257 Roberts cartridge, with 100 grain Hornadys and 44 grains of H4350. What a great old cartridge, she has seldom had to shoot twice. Coming through the checking station, the G&F biologist measured the buck at 14 1/4' and said he was about 4 years old. Was plumb disgusted when I loaded the pix I took, me "autofocus" camera didn't, came out blurry but you get the idea. A perfect day for this geezer and his geezerette. Happiness is a cool carcass and a cold Bud.
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Way cool! Congratulations on a fine hunt.
My wife's first big game animal was a very similar buck, taken with the 722 .257 Roberts that belonged to my grandmother. Eileen used a very similar load with IMR4350 and the 100-grain Nosler Partition, and the range was a little under 200.
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Great story with great gear! I loved it...right up till the pic of the Bud Lite! How can such a classy lady with classy gear stoop so low! Send along kudos to her on a job well done...
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..alittle fuzzy cant ruin that memory.
Nice work.
Thanks for posting.
Congrats to her. Gotta love a girl who gets after it.
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I've always been different with one foot over the line.....
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Congratulations to you and your lady! When it came time for me to pick a cartridge for my son's first deer rifle, I chose the .257 Roberts. I ordered a Ruger 77mkII Ultralight and loaded 100 grain Hornady SP's.
If the good Lord lets me live to 100, I'll never forget the look on my son's face and the excitement we shared when he bumped off his first deer at the ripe old age of 8.
Since then, I have also been blessed to be with him when he collected several other whitetails with that rifle, and I have never regretted my choice of the 257 Roberts.
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Great account of a day well spent... in your 70's LOL. I hope I am still out and about shooting critters when I get there.
I gotta quit reading these posts.... now I gotta go out and get a 257. For the wife of course! LOL
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Looks like a fun day afield. Congratulations on having a great time with your wife. Hopefully that is some good eating.
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jn, You and you wife are a great inspiration to the great many apprentice Geezer's here on the fire. Thanks your sharing. John
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Congrats on a great hunt. That's the same load I used years ago in a 257 Roberts to take a number of deer.
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Congratulations to the successful huntress! Looks like the kind of Wyoming weather that I like to hunt in. Thanks for posting.
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Congratulations! A fine hunt and a grand old rifle.
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Congratulations! The grin on her face says it all.
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This is an example of some of the great story that circulated through this forum in the beginning.
Thank you for sharing your hunt and congratulations to both of you.
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Congratulations to your wife on her trophy! Here is a link to a free, web-based program I use to "fix" digital pictures. You can't make it perfect, but you can make it better. Odessa http://www.webresizer.com/resizer/
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Thanks for a great post, my wife gets self conscious sometimes about carrying her rifle because she feels strangers will think she's too old. She doesn't let it stop her but I think reading this post will be encouraging. Good shooting ma'am.
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Great story. Classy cartridge, rifle, and lady.
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I am..........disturbed.
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