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Being loony's we DO have more than 1 fav. Guess it goes with the disease. < grin
It sure is nice when game co operates ! IIRC it was '99 when I could not BUY a deer to see. Finally I did something they had never seen before. I snuggled in among small pines on a fire break overlooking a deep draw. BINGO ! I earned that deer and I don't care that it was a Doe. lol That was the hardest season I've seen in a long time.
I appreciate it.
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10/4, Copy that! Besides calling my lease at Reagan Wells, "the Petting Zoo", I also refer to it as my "Beer Lease" as opposed to a deer lease. I've now been there 14 years. When we first got on it was not uncommon to see six or more bucks in a 3 day period, plus does. We allow for two bucks and two does even though Uvalde is a 5 deer county. Around 2007 the Rancher decided clear out some of the brush and cedar. To do this they take two TD-30's or equivlalent and stretch about 100' of anchor chain between the dozers and take off. It knocks over every thing in its path. Then they come back and push up all the brush in piles. After that, my original location which was a deer high-way previously, I did not see a deer for the next three years. Next we had a drought, and then anthrax which we believe caused a pretty good deer die off. What with the coyotes, the big boars and a couple of cougars, the deer number remain scarce. In addition, we are located on a ranch road that folks have to pass through on to get to their leases. One of the reasons I go up during the week rather than the weekend. I had not shot a deer there in 3 years before I went ahead and took this buck I called "The Claw". We are on a 1,700 acre pasture, that if you flattened out the hills would probably be more like 3,000 acres. For 3 years, on occasion, and only at night we would catch this guy on game cam on different parts of the lease a mile or so apart. He had a growth under his jaw about the size of a baseball, which made him very easy to distinguish. Never once did I actually lay eyes on him, nor did we have a picture of him during the day. Not only did I shoot him on my birthday, about 10 minutes before the end of shooting light, but also found a knife that I'd lost two years before in a dry creekbed. I shoulda' gone and bought a lottery ticket that night. Another one of my favs, Steyr, Mannlicher Classic, 6.5 x 55 SE ya! GWB
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Love that orange stock. That is so cool. What kind of ... idiot plays in septic tanks ? Jerry
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I had to turn in my looney card Jer...and I’m a trophy doe hunter that uses factory ammo and Leupold.
Gonna get banned if I don’t watch my step
16, I don’t know how old you are but I remember when factory ammo weren’t so good < grin > Yes factory ammo has definitely improved. I’m just TOO invested in components to change. Jerry
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STUFF happens !!! Due to my F M D all I can remember is that our deer had shifted, food ? pressure ? I don’t remember.
The older a buck gets the smarter/warier he gets UNTIL the little head does the thinking !!
EVERY older buck I’ve killed was pushing or hot trailing a good smelling Doe. Your post reminds me that we had an Ice storm Christmas Day in 99 and before the ice melted, a big SNOW storm on New Years Day 2000. Timber Cos lost kkk acres of timber in 2000. We lost deer to starvation.
Jerry
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I’ll try to add some pics later but my fav is my cz 550 in 308. Standard 98 length action. It’s the old model with very nice irons and a slender low combed stock like a 54. Very very well finished barrel and it’s been shot enough that the action is as smooth as glass. Trigger breaks at 3lbs and it’s set mode breaks at 10 oz. Shoots well.
Ziess glass on qd mounts and the irons are regulated at 50 yards for its load.
Beautiful Turkish walnut with an oil finish. Solid steel everything...what’s not to love.
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Marlin XLR in .338 Marlin Express. It's a caribou and moose killing machine. Also, it just looks darned sexy in the success photos. I have a matching silver Bausch and Lomb Elite 3000 that sits atop it.
Question: how do you folks get larger size photos to attach? The size limit when I try basically limits me to a postage stamp. Thanks in advance.
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She's a PEACH. Hasty MPAJ trio at it's 250yd zero with 88's at 3200fps. Will get the last of this Lot shot up,poke the TT Special in it and see what changes. Hint.................
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Love that orange stock. That is so cool. Looks like some just shat a bag of skittles.
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Marlin XLR in .338 Marlin Express. It's a caribou and moose killing machine. Also, it just looks darned sexy in the success photos. I have a matching silver Bausch and Lomb Elite 3000 that sits atop it.
Question: how do you folks get larger size photos to attach? The size limit when I try basically limits me to a postage stamp. Thanks in advance. AKT, one of the forums here is called "Image gallery". I upload the picture there and copy and paste it to my post.
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I love them all, but if I had to pick one it would probably be my Kimber Classic in 7mm/o8.
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Tough call for me between a couple NULA rifles, a .243 and a 7mm-08 but I guess I'd have to say the latter is my favorite.....
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I REALLY don't have a favorite, but this one is always a contender. Model 70 push-feed (horror!) Safari Grade .300 H&H Mag
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I'm not going to look through 20+ pages of post to see if I already posted something here. Were I to post my favorite again it would probably contradict a previous post.
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Right now I am really liking this one as a favorite - at least its one I am going to use for everything this year: Christensen Arms Ridgeline 270win - bedded and large bolt knob installed Warne Bases, Warne Mnt Tech Rings NF 3-10X42 MOAR 140 accubonds at 3080 Should handle anything Idaho plans on throwing my way this fall (antelope, elk, mule deer, bear)
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That’s a good looking rifle Hiaring!
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I'm not going to look through 20+ pages of post to see if I already posted something here. Were I to post my favorite again it would probably contradict a previous post. I Know I have big game hunted with Mosin Nagant, Sav 99 308, Swedish Mauser, Win M70 270, Ruger #1 7mmRM, Rem700 7mmRM, Win 1885 257RAI, Rem700 7mmRM, VZ24 7mmRM, Browning 1885 7mmRM, Mosin Nagant 300WM, Dumoulin Mauser 6.5-06, Win M70 25-06, Rem 700 6mmBR, another Rem700 7mmRM, Kimber 280ai, Win M70 280ai. In 2019 probably a Defiance deviant 7mmSTW and a Rem700 6.5-06. Beware of the man with one gun. He knows where the safety is.
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280, 70 action, Jewell trigger, NF, Lilja barrel, HS stock bedded and pillared,
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That’s a good looking rifle Hiaring! Appreciate the kind words - it carries well, shoots very well, and a 140 accubond and just shy of 3100 is pretty skookum out to 600 yards or so.... Haven't shot a good bull elk in a few years and the first 3 elk I ever killed were with a .270 - so I am kind of going back to my roots...lol I have in my pocket an Idaho Antelope Super Tag (Won the lottery!) Elk, Deer, Bear, and Wolf tags....There should be something this things bloodies this fall.
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That’s a good looking rifle Hiaring! Appreciate the kind words - it carries well, shoots very well, and a 140 accubond and just shy of 3100 is pretty skookum out to 600 yards or so.... Haven't shot a good bull elk in a few years and the first 3 elk I ever killed were with a .270 - so I am kind of going back to my roots...lol I have in my pocket an Idaho Antelope Super Tag (Won the lottery!) Elk, Deer, Bear, and Wolf tags....There should be something this things bloodies this fall. I think I remember you running a 270 quite a lot. That’s the same rifle as my 300 RUM and I like it quite a bit. Huge departure from the 70’s I usually carry but so far the rifle is doing real well for me. Good luck with those tags. I hope to be in Idaho in Oct for elk and deer myself. Can’t wait to hit the hills!
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The .257 Roberts is my favourite cartridge but my favourite rifle that would be the one, if I could have only one, would be my Ruger 1A in 7x57 with a 6x36 Loopy scope.
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