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Went to our property up in North Central Nebraska. Left Friday the 13th and hunted Saturday through this morning. My brother scored a forky with his 99C in 243 and my oldest son scored another forky with his 99F in 243(thanks to RAS). My nephew also a scored a small buck with his 10mm handgun. All were done my Monday, except me. They had been seeing deer and I did not see a deer any deer, except the above, and they were already shot. We were to stop hunting at 10AM to get packed up and head for home. The weather was the best of the week. 30 degrees, slight WNW breeze of 10 mph to calm. At sunrise I finally spotted 5 does/fawns on my neighbors property. No permission there, but at least I finally got to see some. A few minutes went by and about 7:15 a 5x5 stepped out and started feeding with the does. Then I noticed he was trying to check does out, so I grabbed by grunt tube and started in on calling. He heard it. He started coming in on a string and hung about at 150, but still on the neighbors. Dang thing!! He spotted another doe to the west and headed for her. When he got close to her, I started the grunting again and he was hooked. He started to skirt the edge of the pasture to swing in behind me to check me out. He made a mistake. He crossed on to our side of the fence, about 20 yards in and 230 yards out. I picked up my 1957 era 99F in 300 Savage, loaded with 180 grain silvertips. Put the crosshairs of the Leupold 6X on him squeezed. Humped and start to move ever so slowly to try and cross fence. I took another shot. This one staggered him and he then went down for good. By the time I got there he had expired. I was happy, he was not. Had a drag of 40 yards, backed the truck up to him and he was mine. Left there a happy hunter. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q503/savage1899/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-11/20151118_074845_zpsrmqv0ct0.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q503/savage1899/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-11/20151118_080232_zpsumjovf4c.jpg)
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Real nice buck, congrats.
If he would have made it across the fence, would the neighbor let you retrieve him?
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Yes, I am pretty sure they would. Most folks out there are good folks.
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Big ole neck on that one…nice deer! B
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Nice work; love the '99 camp! Very cool.
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Jim Great Buck! im still looking, have seen a pair of spikes so far, and a few does, deer not been moveing here much.
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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Nice buck! Style points for the Silvertips...
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Excellent ! Great week for the 99's. 
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I just love it when a "300 Savage" moment ends do well.
Congratulations.
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Hellova nice buck. Congrats!
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Jim, Nice Buck and Nice Shootin'
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Nice buck. Did you score or weigh him?
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No on both counts. Guessing about 225 lbs and maybe 135 or so.
Someone who is a lot smarter than I am could probably get closer.
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We did the best we could on scoring, never really doing it before, but it came to roughly 147.
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Congrats Jim! Beautiful buck and great pictures.
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