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Yep, I need a guy like tzone sneaking around on a track thinking that he will walk up on one. Then the deer is out of it's bed during daylight and heading for my stand. Bang, thanks. Lots of us think that we are great stand pickers, but in reality the deer that many of us shoot is because the guy two ridges over was late into his stand, or took off for lunch or read the Benoit book and has a 760 and thought that he could do that too in a crowded woods. I promise you...I won't be pushing you any deer. For starters, hunting in a crowded woods isn't my deal. For finishers, I don't walk up on them. I walk slow enough in the woods that they walk up on me.
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First three shots after mounting the Skinner. I bought a few boxes of the Winchester 200 grain stuff. ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ww233/beretzs/977D236F-D798-4075-97DB-636074EFC874.jpeg) Nudged the sigh to the right a skosh and plopped the next three in the center. Good enough. Got snow coming tonight so I hope to get lucky and get on a buck tomorrow. ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ww233/beretzs/A4A05814-12BA-496D-AF06-B85167DD8E44.jpeg) Nice! I hope you connect with one
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Anybody else used the Winchester 200 PP ammo in the Whelen? Looks like a 200 grain Hornady to me. Not that it matters, it's only going after deer and I trust the Hornady or WW out of that shorty barrel. It does make a nice little fireball though!
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Anybody else used the Winchester 200 PP ammo in the Whelen? Looks like a 200 grain Hornady to me. Not that it matters, it's only going after deer and I trust the Hornady or WW out of that shorty barrel. It does make a nice little fireball though! I just wondering if there are any 200 grainers that wouldn't work. A friend of mine uses the old 200 grain Silvertip in his. Kills deer dead.
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Same here. I use the 200 SilverTips in my BLR 358. They shoot great and pound deer.
I agree though. Anything 200 should be a Mack truck if it touches down.
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Anybody else used the Winchester 200 PP ammo in the Whelen? Looks like a 200 grain Hornady to me. Not that it matters, it's only going after deer and I trust the Hornady or WW out of that shorty barrel. It does make a nice little fireball though! I just wondering if there are any 200 grainers that wouldn't work. A friend of mine uses the old 200 grain Silvertip in his. Kills deer dead. What kind of deer y’all shootin? 
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![[Linked Image from i.ibb.co]](https://i.ibb.co/2vTxF2X/20221116-110732.jpg) 35 Whelen 7600 Carbine victim
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Hell yeah! Way to go buddy! I tracked one up and let him live. It was a great day though. ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ww233/beretzs/B47CE4BD-CF57-4BFA-A6E9-CB823532375E.jpeg) Had to dry my gloves and hat off after getting soaked from all of the snow in the trees, but it was well worth it! ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ww233/beretzs/35A38F43-BDE4-4DC4-BD2A-5A7F0563F947.jpeg)
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35 Whelen 7600 Carbine victim Congrats on the buck. A hunter showed up at our deer camp yesterday with a Ruger 77 35 Whelen. Been awhile since that happened.
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Had to dry my gloves and hat off after getting soaked from all of the snow in the trees, but it was well worth it! Black and green Buffalo plaid coat, where you channeling Larry Benoit? 
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HA! That coat is amazing. I have alot of First Lite and Sitka crap, but nothing beats wool coat in my book for keeping a fella warm and being quiet.
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Agreed, wool coats are quiet, but in parts of the country I hunt Whitetails, they attract burdocks, sticktights and other brush trash. Good to see you built an Indian fire, rather than a white man fire. Dances with wolves, 1990. "Only a white man would make a fire for everyone to see. Maybe there's more than one."
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Agreed, wool coats are quiet, but in parts of the country I hunt Whitetails, they attract burdocks, sticktights and other brush trash. Good to see you built an Indian fire, rather than a white man fire. Dances with wolves, 1990. "Only a white man would make a fire for everyone to see. Maybe there's more than one." I don't remember that line, but that made me laugh a little! Agreed, I have some of my old Cabelas Whitetail series my Dad got me when I was 16. I am 44 now, and that stuff is just as warm now as ever, but darned if it won't pick up every piece of burdock or burdocks in the woods if I walk too close!
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760’d on yesterday morning. Pics to follow when I have better service.
760, 30-06 with 150gr American Whitetail. Shot in front of shoulder and exit was other shoulder.
Deer dropped instantly. Lung soup when I gutted him out. A hair over 200 pounds.
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760’d on yesterday morning. Pics to follow when I have better service.
760, 30-06 with 150gr American Whitetail. Shot in front of shoulder and exit was other shoulder.
Deer dropped instantly. Lung soup when I gutted him out. A hair over 200 pounds. Gotta love those quartering to shots.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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760’d on yesterday morning. Pics to follow when I have better service.
760, 30-06 with 150gr American Whitetail. Shot in front of shoulder and exit was other shoulder.
Deer dropped instantly. Lung soup when I gutted him out. A hair over 200 pounds. Hell yeah! Congrats. Looking forward to seeing the pics! I believe it is time to drag the 7600 280 Rem out for a walk once I get home!
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760’d on yesterday morning. Pics to follow when I have better service.
760, 30-06 with 150gr American Whitetail. Shot in front of shoulder and exit was other shoulder.
Deer dropped instantly. Lung soup when I gutted him out. A hair over 200 pounds. Gotta love those quartering to shots. Yep. Lights out. He caught me raising my gun and turned towards me. His eyes got big so he was about to run. But his legs didn’t work there for a second.
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Don't sound like they are working at all anymore
Congrats
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760’d on yesterday morning. Pics to follow when I have better service.
760, 30-06 with 150gr American Whitetail. Shot in front of shoulder and exit was other shoulder.
Deer dropped instantly. Lung soup when I gutted him out. A hair over 200 pounds. Hell yeah! Congrats. Looking forward to seeing the pics! I believe it is time to drag the 7600 280 Rem out for a walk once I get home! Is that a wood stocked rifle?
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