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2011 Deer Season....

Nice little 8 Point




Nice little basket horn 6 point



and a doe to help keep the balance right.

One doe with muzzelloader one doe with rifle and two bucks with rifle. All with diffrent guns lol doe #1 remington 700ML 50cal doe #2browning Abolt 280 buck#1 Tikka T3 30-06 buck#2 handi rifle 444.

Actually a .308 WIN, but I use Hornady 165 grain Interlock's - probably much more bullet weight than needed, but I own 400+ of them I accumulated during my .300 WIN MAG days - just using them up (slowly) in handloads. Yep, rub that corn in and they will jump up and run!

Ps. Those 165 grain bullets shoot right at MOA in that cantankerous M88, 150's are all over the place in that gun at 2 - 3 MOA.

600 pound rag horn 5x5 bull elk - model seven 300 saum, 180 accubond. About 80 yards, drt. (his tenderloins were mighty tasty this evening)

10pt whitetail - model seven 350 rem mag, 200 core lokt. 35 yards. Ran about 50 yards

4 whitetail does in one afternoon - model seven 300 saum, 180 accubond. All but one drt; one ran about 40 yards. 70 to 275 yards

Not all deer but all this year.
#1 WY Antelope 9/24
#2 WY Elk 9/26
#3 WY Mtn. Goat 9/28
#4 Home place WT 11/12
Love the chance to post these pictures




Tried to fill my IL WT tag yesterday but no luck.

Just one so far, decent 10 pt whitetail with the new 7-08 M70 Fwt. Still got 2 doe tags, but will only have 2 days left to hunt during regular season. There will be a week of doe hunting in January, we'll see.

Got a few tree rats & two coyotes.
One doe with ML on Oct 15. Been dry for rifle season so far and running out of time!

Hey Odessa! What caliber is that 88? Nice gun.

August billy in Alaska.
Once-in-a-lifetime Idaho billy in September.
October Idaho 4X3 whitetail buck
October Idaho Cow elk

All with a .270 150 grn.

Wife took a dandy Idaho 5X3 whitetail buck last week--same rifle; freezer is packed.

Thanks for the explanation! I had never heard that before.

One through three taken with X-Bolt 308 using 150gr SSTs over 47gr of Varget;

1. "doe" that turned out to be a button buck, not proud of the misidentification.
2. Doe at 100 yds ran in a 40 foot circle almost back to spot she was shot at. Never saw one do that before.
3. 11 point buck at 96yds. He made about 40 yds before giving it up.
4. A mature doe right at 200 yds, my longest shot ever at a WT deer. Rifle is a Kimber Montana in 257 Roberts loaded with 110gr Accubonds over 46gr RL 19. First blood for the Kimber and I love that little rig!
5. I'm done with the deer, but there's pigs, yotes and lots of skunks that need thining out.

Nothing in the big game category this year unfortunately.

21 Roosters
14 Geese
8 ducks

Never fails...after passing on a dozen different little bucks, and unable to get a shot at three "keepers" (One of which taunted me by standing broadside 150 yards on the wrong side of the fence) it came down to the last afternoon of the season...

Doe, a deer...a female deer, ra, a drop of golden sun....

Thanks, it's a .308 WIN, made in 1963 (but has an early post-64 basketweave style stock - don't know if it came that way or if the original was replaced, bought it used in the mid-1990's).

I am up to two does this season. We still have eight weeks of seaon to go and I am off work for a week starting tomorrow.

Started off the season with an average WY antelope buck at 250 yds in October.

A week later shot the smallest button buck I've ever seen with my bow at 52 yards.

A week after that shot a spike buck with my muzzleloader.

On the fifth day of our gun season in November I shot a buck with a really impressive left antler and a really unimpressive right antler. Used my Belgium Browning BAR 30-06.

Saturday I shot a button buck with my 7mm mag.

I can still shoot a couple more does with my muzzleloader plus a couple of bucks and unlimited does with my bow. It ain't over yet!

1-8pointer Nov 6th with bow, 17-1/2" inside spread, 9" g-2's

2-doe Nov 6th with bow, went looking for my buck and walked right up on her

3-9 pointer Nov 19th openening day of rifle in N.Y. state, one shot, destroyed the heart, 7mm SAUM shooting handloaded 139gr Hornady spire point flat bases. complete penetration and nice holes in and out....

No bucks for me yet, but I have been slaying "excess" does!
My daughter got an 8pt with the 7x57
I got: 1 with ML, 7-08, 25-06, 243AI
Headin out with the 300 Winnie next and donating to Hunters for the Hungry. Been a great year and still have til first week of Jan!

43 California Blacktail buck encounters this year.
Two killed.






Two black bears treed and passed.



Goose egg in Southern Oregon late archery blacktail.
Idaho wolf hunt cancelled.

1 fairly mature doe with the bow & a 5pt with my weatherby 06 so far.

i'll take another run up for ny close this weekend.

-ken