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Pure Gold Hunts! 
Trump Won!
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Good job Huntsman, I did the same thing with my neighbors son. Very rewarding! He sounds like a very smart, & mature man. Pretty sure you had something to do with that also. Oh, & a shout out to his grand dad! WPGGUY. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦
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Looks like you taught him well…..on several levels. 😊
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Hell Huntsman....a few lessons from that kid, you`ll be back on top in no time!
Good coaching..
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It takes the pressure off when you pass it along to the next generation!
Nice to pass it to one who cares!
Well done, both of you!
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You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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Excellent job and story. Thanks.
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Very cool sir! Love that bloody tag pic. Caught my eye too - says "Doe Damage" on it. Some sort of depredation tag I take it.
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Yeah, the cpw gives our farmer doe damage tags to keep the goats off the winter wheat and he gives them to us to keep them stirred up and outta the fields.
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to bad you helped to beat your self, but you did a fine job of helping the one who did it .
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Wow! We should all have such great mentors in our lives...good on ya Huntsman!
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Glad it was a good guy that did the knocking you off lol. He's a lucky guy to have such a great mentor.
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My boss keeps a ledger board for all the big game kilt on the ranch. Up till Sunday, I was the undisputed LR kill champeen with a whitetail from 849 yards. ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_3221.JPG) But Sunday, the kid who has worked the last 4 summers for me, putting himself thru engineering school, kicked my everlovin' azz. He's been a good student (both at shooting, and school). I've given him scopes to get started dialling. His hunting rifle was a package rifle savage 243 that he killed a couple deer and antelope with and now wears one of my 4-18 LRHS's. His bergara LR .22 has one of my Arkens, his 204 has an Arken 6-24, and his 17 hummer uses my old 4-12 leupold. His grandpa has bought him all his cheap savage and ruger american rifles up till this past year. Then the kid bought a couple pistols and a pair of Bergara rifles hisself, a .22 and a 6.5 creed, and a burris xtr3 for the creed. I've also got him started reloading his 3 centerfires with my stuff, and he really likes it. He was so wanting the new ranch record, that he didn't score until the last week of our damage season, passing up lottsa does every weekend less than my 850. But it worked out good for him the other day. The wind was way less than saturday, and the goats moved into a pasture that allowed him a longer poke. 952 yards prone from a bipod, but the wind bit him just a little. Spined her just in front of the hips while trying to slip one behind her shoulder, but it all worked out for him. Congats, Cortland. You earned it, kid..... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_3146.jpeg) ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_0898.jpeg) Very proud for both of you!
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How long are you going to let him keep the record? I just happened to be the one with the longest biggame kill, being the record holder wasn't my reason for living. I've killed coyotes further than the new record, but they don't count in the hunt book, and my cop buddy killed one at 1740 yards, so I've been beat there, too...... Great story and glad the young guy put in the time and work. That's stretching a 6.5mm CM pretty hard and glad he is going up to a 7mm PRC if he wants that kind of reach on a regular basis. Range Records can lead to bad outcomes but I know I am preaching to the choir. That's some well done mentoring, Don.
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We'll be building his first custom rifle as soon as his AG stock is finished. He chose to go 7PRC for his new hunting rifle. He kinda copied me as far as action/barrel/trigger as he really likes my Bighorns/proofs/ TT Diamonds. Whenever he gets the stock, he'll come up and use my barrel vice and action wrench and screw it together. Cortlands stock showed up from AG today, so he came over and screwed everything together. He is still short a scope, so I loaned him a loose LRHSi to slap on it tonight. Kurt(30338) and fam is coming out tomorrow to bang steel, and Cort wants to get his new 7PRC wrung out too. He is also bringing his Bergara 22 and Kurt's bringing his Vudoo. I'll slum my RimX, and we'll do a little .22 longrange playtime as well. I think his PRC will be a hammer... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_0989.jpeg)
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Congrats to Cortland.. and instructor. 😊
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After playing with his new toy this weekend to 1000, he is looking forward to going even farther next fall... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_1006.jpeg)
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That's some good shooting. Congrats to you both.
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Don,
He'll forever remember you as a mentor and someone that he looks up to. Guarantee you've left an impression on him that we'll forever be with him. I say this as the farmer that took me under his wing and taught me how to hunt still sticks with me to this day. Kudos to you Sir.
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