We’ve been after a cull behind the house and yesterday evening he finally came out in the daylight when we was there.
I have a shoothouse setup but by the time I got home from work there was already a few does mingling around so we elected to setup in my shop which I have a shooting bench setup in. You can see almost everything out of shop you can the shoothouse but the kids prefer to go to the shoothouse.
Anyways a couple minutes after 5 I noticed a big bodied deer appear on the back corner and after confirming it was our target.
She was setup on sandbags on the bench and the shot was 402 yards. I was watching through spotter and felt confident she made a good shot. She said dad let’s go get him as soon as she shot and was very confident.
When we got out there the deer was about 50 yards from where she shot and a perfect right behind the shoulder double lung shot.
This may not sound like much to some but ol papa is pretty proud of the hard work she has put in shooting the 260 Rayhill rocket with a 156 eol Berger. She has practiced a lot of the bench and prone with the rifle and not short of confidence. Several times grown men have been here and missed the plate at 362 and she tells them to move out of the way I’ll show you.
Of course it’s given us a lot of quality time together and I would not take anything for that.
402 YARDS WITH TOTAL CONFIDENCE AT AGE 6. Only a five point but a target buck that weighed in at 186.6lbs. Not much on aging by teeth but pretty sure he’s 5 as I’ve been getting his picture for several years That’s my girl
Will get buddy to post pictures

Congrats to both of you and great shooting

Nice shot!

Congratulations!

Cool!

Dang.....402 yards is a long for any deer hunter much less a 6 year old. She had a great teacher....congrat's to you both.

Photos for Luke

Good shooting! Congrats to her (and you)!

Good for the young lady! Man, that is one big ol' 5 point.

No joke! I'm impressed....

Dang fine shootin'!

Congrats to the young lady. Nice buck and at 402 yds.

Congrats!

Congrats to you and your little lady sidekick. Great shooting!

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What the heck, 6 years old, just shaking my head here. Stand up and take a bow young lady.

Wow, congratulations to your young lady.

What are the cartridge dimensions on the .260 Rayhill Rocket?

Nice shot and a great report, Congratulations!

Great!

OMG, A 402 yd shot on a nice Buck right in the boiler room, and she is 6 years old.. OUTSTANDING. Congrats to both of you. Way to go Dad. what an awesome little young Lady you have there.

It is a fire formed 260 rem, basically an ackley improved with slight differences. Kevin Rayhill built it for me and it’s his design. Getting 2880 with rl 26. I got lucky to get the speed and accuracy that I did. Very very low extreme spread and almost one hole when you do your part. Gotta give a shout out to a few members on here for helping me with bullets with the market like it is. I was almost out and they sold me a couple hundred to keep us practicing


Thanks for all the words gentlemen. It has been great season and the best week of hunting for us is just starting. I have most of the week off next week so hopefully we get to see a few more. Nothing like spending time with her in the woods.

You’ve got a good hunting buddy that can really shoot. Nice job! 😊

Congrats! Very impressive.

Congrats to you and your little girl. That’s a great deer! And great shooting!

That’s impressive, congrats to her 👍

That's just too cool.
The pic on the sxs is priceless .
Well done and congrats to you both.

well done!
congrats to you both!

Excellent!!

Good for you all, congratulations on the hunt

Wow ! Congratulations to her and you!

That's a big 5! Congrats young lady!

-Jake

NICE!!!!!!

Wow, she gotter'done.

She is so cute!

Good going NMShooter !!

Very cool! Congratulations to her!
Nothing wrong with being a proud pappa.

Congrads to the young lady, that's a poke. Great Shooting!

Super awesome!