Didn't need many animals to fill the freezer this year, mostly due to my wife taking a VERY big cow elk last year, and me getting a good-sized mule deer buck and big pronghorn buck.
Ended the fall taking two mule deer bucks, one in New Mexico and one in Montana, both with "long-range" 6.5mm rounds. First, a Franchi Momentum in 6.5 Creedmoor, with a 143-grain ELD-X factory loads. The second I took with a 6.5 PRC, my Remington 700 custom rifle with a 24" Lilja, using it's most accurate handload with the 129 Nosler ABLR at around 3000 fps.
I lasered the the shots afterward: 101 on the New Mexico deer, 159 on the Montana buck.
