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I just knew you were up to no good Jud.......Congrats on a nice one!

Dang fine buck Jud - congrats. Will be back there in Wyoming next year looking for one like that - hopefully without the snow:)

Got another goat tag in montucky, headed over there the 7th.

Eastern Montana



6.5 Creedmoor
Tikka T3x Superlite
130 gr. Sierra GameChanger
IMR 4451
273 yds.

Got my antelope back from the taxidermy man...20 day turnaround. I'm pleased with it.

wow WL that's a whopper, what state did you hunt him in?

Wyoming

Thanks I thought he was a good one.

Beautiful buck and impressive turn time on the taxi work. Really like they way they did that one!!

There are a lot of real toads on this thread. Congrats to everyone! My buck was just average for the area but it was a great day to be afield in Montana.
6.5 CM, 139 Scenar.

Cheers,
Rex

Here’s Eastern Colorado buck.

+1000
I helped more than a few start hunting with antelope. They are a great intro!!!

Why do you keep using them after 15 -20 "bad" results with this bullet? BS or insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again.Two stories I will never understand!

I shot him with my 1957 model 70, 270 Winchester. I even hate to say this because it will invariably turn into a giant pissing match, but I opened the door so to speak. I was shooting 140 grain VLD's. This model 70 is a particular rifle in that she only likes VLD's. Hates Noslers, Sierra's, TTSX's....despises them. VLD's? under a quarter inch at 100 yards 4 shot groups every time. For the statisticians, who, like me, don't place any validity on a statistical sample of one, I've shot over 50 head with this bullet. I have yet to have one drop right there....I have yet to have a single blood trail and I've lost two nice bucks from it blowing up on the shoulder (video'd). I'm sure the VLD crowd will try their best to flame me and I understand that.....that's how guys play here sometimes. Yet this rifle loves em so I keep giving them a chance.

He's dead. So the logical question to me will be "So how did it fail Mr. Bigshot?" My shot was 300-310 yards, icepicking the lungs. He ran, oh, about one hundred yards or so and did the little "circle and drop" thing with our son videoing it. He then got up and ran a few yards more and fell for good. When we got up to him he was still very much alive. The guide agreed with me that just a few seconds more and he'd be gone. Unfortunately that was not the case. I hate to see an animal suffer and my gun was back at the truck.....got to go back to the truck and finish the job. The guide grabbed his horns first and all hell broke loose. By that time I had gotten back with my rifle. We were looking at the buck saying "I'm not believing this....he's still kicking." I chamber a round and 2-3 minutes later he was still alive, with me then putting him down. I don't like that one bit....I should have immediately put him down but we were just not believing what we were seeing.

Some folks like VLD's and if you do, I'm your biggest fan. Sorry for being so wordy.....

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hendricks, that's a dandy! Around Baggs?

Nice thread.. I only had two doe tags this year.. Drew buck tags 44 years in a row.. Nothing but does the last few years..
This year I used a 700 .30/06 with 155 Lapuas.. Heart shot and he ran 200 yards.. I was beginning to think I had missed.. The other was with a 700 in 6mm Rem. 85 gr. Sierra hpbt.. crashed right there, hit her in the shoulders and spine..