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I just got back from my caribou hunt a couple days ago. I have this pic of one bull and I got another but I don't have the pic yet. It is on my buddies camera and he's out of town. So I'll post this one and then the other. I took 2 rifles, both Browning 1885s in 30-06 and 45-70. This pic is of the bull I dropped with the 1885 chambered in 30-06. This rifle is a bit new to me and I ended up using factory ammo which was Winchester 180grain XP3 Supreme Elite. I usually handload everything but I ran out of time. The shot was 382 yards as he was looking at me and entered center mass of the neck and exited through the lung on his right side. He was DRT like a bag of hammers! I usually try to get two caribou per season and my family willn eat on that and salmon through the winter. Just finished with all the meat. I had 60 pounds made into summer sausage and hunter stix,Yum! I'll post the other pics when I get them from my buddy.
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. I do tend to fit in well wherever I go in person. The campfire is the most outside exposure I get. No TV, no newspaper.
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Missed a coyote with my 1V 220 Swift not long ago. Failed to hold into the 30+ mph crosswind enough and the shot went wide. That yote didn't hang around to see where the noise came from either.
Hope to use the 1AH 25-06 on deer this November.
Was working on a load for the Winchester Low Wall in 243 using 85gr Barnes TSX, but haven't come up with a combo it likes yet. Now with temps over 100 further load work may have to wait.
"An open message for all Democrats; "Look you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable." Isaiah 41:24 (HCSB)
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Still 5 weeks or so from BP deer season opening.
Congrats to all who have already 'made meat' or reduced the varmint population.
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I've just gone once so far, but the new 7x57 seems to work
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Not from this year, but one of my coolest single-shot photos. Locals call these ghost deer with the light grey coloring.
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been out a couple times.. too dry for my inept feet to leave the road much, but I'm still plugging away at it... my typical hunting area:
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Did it say "feral" on their collars??
You might not know what a feral animal is. Here is a definition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral
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been out a couple times.. too dry for my inept feet to leave the road much, but I'm still plugging away at it... my typical hunting area: Thats tree stand thick there.
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been out a couple times.. too dry for my inept feet to leave the road much, but I'm still plugging away at it... my typical hunting area: Thats tree stand thick there. Thick and prime blacktail country :-)
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I've been bear hunting with my Encore in .444. Will use it for deer as well.
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I dumped a big, dry antelope doe on Sunday. About a 150 yard shot with my Liberty marked No. 1 in 6mm REM. Shot her in her bed....ever knew what hit her! That little 100gr Partition did exactly what it does so well!
Sorry no pictures...
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ive got 2 does a spike and a red fox so far this year with my H&R .45-70 wearin a redfield and hopefully ill have a few hogs and a black bear with it by the end of november
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A Wyoming antelope in September with an H&R Handi-Rifle in 35 Remington and 200 gr. Beartooth cast bullets.
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Killed a grey with a .410cal Beretta break open single shot. It died hung up high in the tree it was in. To retrieve it, had to cut down the tree. The hard part of squirrel hunting is having to carry along a chainsaw. Good thing I've got a lightweight. At 14,500 rpm WOT, does a hellofajob skinning the buggers too.
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That's some funny stuff right there...
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Been hunting, but not killing. Carried my No. 1 in 9.3x74R, but the elk just didn't cooperate this year. Since I had lots of "spare time" this year, I took the obligatory "fence post" picture during a lull one morning: Would have much preferred to spend that time field dressing a bull.
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