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Wow - some great photos of great hunts here guys! Thanks.

I didn't think about it at the time I posted my 3x3 mule deer buck, but earlier in 2017 I did go to Alaska and take a wolf and a grizzly in the arctic. Great spring bear hunt!

Wolf was at 250 ish yards.


Grizzly was at about 40 yards.


Both with a 30-06 Rem 700 with handloaded 200 gr Nosler Partitions and, an old 2-7x Redfield.


Guy

I missed a coyote at a bit over 700 with my 250 AI 700 SA with 117gn. Hornady interlocks in Montana..didn`t give enough wind. DID shoot a Pdog at 425 using the same set up, Only one...because I WAS deer hunting after all. Sure was fun tho.

Nothing as big as some of the deer on here but I was able to finally get a buck this rifle season. The last day, the last hour and was surprised when the buck walked into the hay field. Only 210 yards and luckily he was feeding with 4 does. I had to take a couple minutes to settle down, heart was racing!! Northern Michigan on the farm.

So far a couple of culls. 20-25 steps on both. Glock 20 with irons and 180xtp reloads.

I can do it both ways. And in between. LOL. Had quite a few walk right under me so far this season.

Wife did chip shot her best at 192 through the heart with our heavy 308 and light 185 bergers.

Fall black bear Montana.

452 yards
Tikka T3 30-06
180gr Sierra (the old faithful)

Maybe I'll add a pic....

Just a little one horned cull buck so far. My county is a one buck county so anything else after this will be a doe. This one was DRT at 410 yards via 22-250 with 75gr Amax. Used a garage assembled chassis rifle with a 4.5-18 LRTSi. A little quartering to. Watched him fall in the scope.

John

crappy pic................630am opening morning......

hiked my azz off to my spot 350 yds behind the house..........

spotted this guy at 700am......waited to 712am to drop him at 220 yds.......

Salvage 308.......then.......had to hike my azz off again to get my tractor

back at the barn......570 yds away ..........holy schidt.......rough morning...

darn good eatin'...........

congrats to all you others........especially GuyM the Grizz & Wolf..........and that big mulie !

Thats one of my fears, thinking a buck has just a stub and blast him to find he broke the side off. But it happens at times. These days I tend to use a spotting scope more and more if we are going to toss one out a bit longer than normal just to make sure.

It was broken, but for his age he should have been more. Still firmly in the cull category in my book.

John

TicklerDude, give me a shout next time!

Cheap beer and alfalfa fed Tloins? I'd trade one of my many bitches for that.

Hook a brutha up!

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The 9 point was taken at 324 yards
The 12 point at 402 yards

Both were taken with my Sako A7S Tecomate .270 WSM
130g NAB over 72g of MagPro

This year I got;

California Bighorn Sheep-160 7/8 in; 84l Montana, 2.5-8x36 Leupold, .30-06, 180 NPT-57 g H-4350, 80 yards, These are a once in a lifetime draw here in Oregon.

Whitetail Doe Deer; Ithaca 37 12 ga, 20 in rifled barrel, VX-2 Scout Scope, 12 ga Hornady SST Lite Sabots, 147 yards.

No joy on Buck Deer or Bull Elk. Pretty poor success rate in the unit.

Bighorn at 80 yards! Man I'd love to see your hunt write up on that. Sounds incredible. Congrats!

I took a monster cow elk at 840yds with my 260ai 140rdf combo. One shot bang flopped.

My 28 Nosler killed a real nice coues buck at 719 yards, and a nice bull elk at 676 yards this year. Both one shot kills.

Bull elk at about 200- M70 30-06 w/200 partiion

Coues buck at about 325 - M70 6.5-06 w/123 Amax

I practiced all summer long at 600 yards, then kilt a 4x4 mulie at 180, and a big 6x6 bull at 200.

Dang.







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My gun Bergara HMR 6.5 Creedmore, 142gr LR AB, RL 26.

Whitetail Doe 577 yds
Whitetail Buck 372 yds

Right in tight to 260 big game animals; most fallow does and red hinds culls, with some chitals and broken horn rusas and a hailed out busted up chital. Those were split between a completely factory .257 Weatherby/ 4.5-14 VX3 LR with B&C and .300 Win on a 700, McMillan Rem Hunter, 26" fluted Lilja with 6.5-20 Mark 4. The .257 was used mostly from 3-690 but there where some shorter ones. 115 Ballistic tips for the longer stuff, long shot was 690 on a fallow. Also used 110 Accubonds, 110 grain Sciroccos and had basically a train wreck with 80 TTSXs. The 300 was used mostly from 500 and out, with some very close shots on reds to determine if the 190 LR Accubonds would blow up. Exits were the norm though. Long shot was 1000 on the nose and performance across the board quite impressive. Also used some 215 Berger VLDs with a hurriedly worked up load. Vertical was getting bad much past 600 so stayed inside that, Terminal performance was fine, perhaps not as violent at close range as the LRs but they sort of merged together as the range stretched. Or at least that was the lasting impression.

Closer to home 100 yard bear with 195 ELOs with my Defiance/ McMillan/Frozen Fiber 28 Nosler 8.5-25 Mark 4, 80 yard spike elk with a Rem 700 LSS rebarrelled with a Gaillard to 270 Weatherby and 130 Sciroccos 4.5-14x 56 VX3 L, and an 80 yard 7 point whitetail with a Montana 1999/ Accuracy Innovation/ Benchmark .300 Win with 185 grain Classic Hunters. 70 yard wolf with 7-300 Win and 180 Berger Hunting VLDs, stainless Sako 75/McMillan Sako Hunter, 26" Hart/ 4.5-14 Hart.

3 more deer in North Carolina with Kimber Select 7 Rem and Cooper Western Classic in 7 STW, both with Ballistic tips and 4.5-14 VX3s w CDS.

It was a pretty good year for longer shooting.