Last month my friend joined for for a deer hunt here in idaho, we found to great bucks chasing the same herd of does around so I got behind the gun and was able to make a great shot at 1082 yards, after my buck went down my friend got behind the gun and took this great 28.5" wide buck at 960 yards

Heres the video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9A-dvfFD0&list=UUW05Qtde64oWHNG0CvMrdHg


and some pics as well!!






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Now thats some LONG RANGE shooting !

Sonofabich nice spread! Good shooting, you guys!

Real good shooting!

Looney details please! Rifle, cartridge bullet etc..

Good shooting, looks like the perfect setup for it.

Mike

Thanks guys!

I'm shooting a 300 RUM, its a Lawton action, 28" ABS carbon barrel, MPI stock, jewel trigger topped with a 5-20x50 Vortex Razor, I'm pushing 230 bergers at 3014 fps

Nice rig! Certainly the right set-up for those shots. Looks like you guys planned and executed perfectly.

Great shooting! No chance of stalking closer?

Thanks dawaba

Yes we could of got closer and that was the plan originally, we spotted the wide buck first and we had a spot where we thought we could get within 400 yards. Then my buck showed up and we decided the best way to shoot both bucks is from the distance we where. Idea behind it is they wouldn't know where the shot came from and not spook which it worked out perfect

Details, rifle, load, scope, etc.

Shooting a 300 RUM, its a Lawton action, 28" ABS carbon barrel, MPI stock, jewel trigger topped with a 5-20x50 Vortex Razor, I'm pushing 230 bergers at 3014 fps

I'm using the G7 rangefinder as well

I have a few ABS barrels they are nice.

I really like it other than the length, its over 30" long with the brake and a pain to walk through timber with lol

Congratulations

NICE shooting man!

Fantastic shooting and great presentation and video. Sounds like the caliber to have for those distances. Thanks for the info on the gun also.

Haven't watched the video yet because the pics are great! Congratulations!

The video is great too! Nice job guys!

Bob

Some darn fine chootin'...

Nice bucks.

Congrats and thanks for your explanation. Not that you owed one to anybody, sounds like the right decision.

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Congrats and thanks for your explanation. Not that you owed one to anybody, sounds like the right decision.[/quote]

Thanks! I was actually planning on hunting with my 30-30 lever action with open sights, but when my 10 day hunt turned into a 3 day hunt I decided my long range rifle was my better option. Already put in my vacation for next year and have 12 days and plan on killing with the old model 94

Congrats and thanks for your explanation. Not that you owed one to anybody, sounds like the right decision.[/quote]

Thanks! I was actually planning on hunting with my 30-30 lever action with open sights, but when my 10 day hunt turned into a 3 day hunt I decided my long range rifle was my better option. Already put in my vacation for next year and have 12 days and plan on killing with the old model 94[/quote]

Excellent videos.

What's the story with the video (titled 200+ inch mule deer) showing many large (huge) antlers being loaded onto a plane?

Congrats and thanks for your explanation. Not that you owed one to anybody, sounds like the right decision.[/quote]

Thanks! I was actually planning on hunting with my 30-30 lever action with open sights, but when my 10 day hunt turned into a 3 day hunt I decided my long range rifle was my better option. Already put in my vacation for next year and have 12 days and plan on killing with the old model 94 [/quote]

Variety is the spice...

Fair Chase,

Im not sure what the story is behind that video, Ill ask my friend that uploaded see if I can get some details!

Very nice

Congrats all around,felt like i was there thks

Nice job what does you rig weigh ready to hunt?

Thanks for all the positive feedback! Been getting a lot of grief on some other forums I frequent. The rifle weighs 12lb 1oz loaded with scope and bipod on it ... Love the rifle but wish it was a little lighter

Too bad about the grief you're getting. Lots of people still confuse their own personal ethic with what is "ethical." When the truth is, a 250 yard shot uses superior technology to defeat an animal's senses too. Thing is, lots of guys can make a 250 yard shot.

I always find it funny when a thread is posted about a long range kill in the long range hunting section and folks chime in with negative responses. I always expect information discussion and examples of long range hunting in this part of the site.

Great job all around to the op.

If you read the thread, he wasn't talking about this forum, but some others.

No chit.
guess it never has happened on this one?

I'm sure it has, but it didn't on this thread.

Great video btw spdr, just got around to watching it, loved the playback of the bullet traces and the hits.

No chit nobody said it did. I made a statement same as you.

No chit? So what was it that you found funny?

The fact that some people go to long range hunting sections just to disagree with it. Would be like me going to a fly fishing thread and bashing fly fishing.

I was simply carrying on from your post and agreeing with You and said good job to op. Never said anything about this particular thread other than good job. Did mention I find humor in controversy about long shots in the long range section. I shoulda just said thanks and congrats and left it at that.

No worries. I've been accused of doing just what you said though, so it kind of struck a nerve, that's all.

I don't have issues with long range hunting, especially when guys like the OP can and did make a couple of clean, one-shot kills on undisturbed animals.

As a matter of fact, this fall on my antelope hunt, they were really skittish inside 600 or 700 yards, and I was thinking that a longer shot at an animal that wasn't on edge might be more ethical, given the skill to make the shot, which I admittedly don't have yet and luckily didn't need on that hunt.

Having said that, if someone does raise an issue about LR hunting, I think the best way to respond is to meet their point head-on, not just say "this is the LR forum, shove off."

Just my opinion, FWIW.

Most can't!

Most think they can.

Nice shootin. Those 30cal 230's are some wicked bullets.

Guessing grapefruit size exits?

I'm surprised they stayed standing after taking one.

If I ever stay that calm after shooting a buck that size, my deer hunting days are over.

NICE BUCKS! The 230 berger is what I shoot in my RUM as well hard to beat that combo.

I was too worried about getting my buddy behind the gun to celebrate this is how I usually act after shooting critters please don't laugh to hard at me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcK6nxycIPY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Yes the exit holes where insane ... And they also didn't ruin to much meat whcig I know doesn't sound possible, needless to say I love the combo!

If you wanna lighten your rig, try a 7mag shooting 180 scenars @ a mere 28-2900 fps..I love the big 30's with 230's..but the portability/recoil of the 7mm while matching ballistics..to make it short, there's a reason why they are so popular

I have a 7mm that weighs 8lb 9oz with scope and bipod, no doubt in my mind that gun could if made both those shots too couple days before the hunt I was shooting both of them at 1050 yards. Actually had the 7mm sitting right by the tripod with the video camera on it. 95% of the time I grab the 7mm but on this hunt we wherent hiking to far from the RZR

I've never heard of scenars. I'll have to look those up

spdrman ........... ask the naysayers to post a video of their 1000+ yard kills/shots.

I am still interested in knowing the story behind all those large MD antlers being loaded on the plane.

http://www.lapua.com/en/products/reloading

So finally got the story, guess thats Santa Rosa Island California they wanted the deer gone so they hunted it hard then machined gun down the rest to restore it to its "natural beauty"

Great video and a great shot! Thanks for sharing.

Nice shooting. BTW I'm Justin, the guy you always see at the Rexburg range. You hung a target for me when I was sighting in my creedmoor and I had blown out my acl a few years ago.

Bb

That's crazy.

Thanks Justin, I seen ya a couple days before I went on this hunt. I'm sure we'll see each other out there next summer again!

Pretty sad story, guess they killed everything on there

Wow!
Those were a Hickock 45 range x5 gong shots!
Incredible! Got'rDone

The Santa Rosa thing has been a work in progress for a few years...courtesy of your Federal Government.

Great shots on some good bucks! Were these taken in a general unit or a controlled hunt unit? I hunted a controlled hunt unit this year near where you are from that looked like similar country from what I could see on the video.

Nice shooting on nice animals, congrats.

Don't know what part of ID you were hunting but I hunted the Arbon Valley area SW of Pocatello for quite a few years & there's just simply lots of areas where you find great deer & cannot get very close.

I built a LR rifle specially for hunting hunting there.......

MM

tag

Sure wish deer season would hurry up and get here!