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Hey guys, hunting season is upon us. Wes has started a thread for this in the past but I figured I start one up this season. Let’s see everyone’s kills for the 20/21 hunting season. You can include what gun bullet powder combo, and remember gun pictures are encouraged here on the forum.
My 2020 buck, shot with my 35 Whelen AI 98 Mauser (08 Brazillian), first blood for this rifle, 200gr Barnes TTSX over IMR 4895 in brass purchased from Wes.
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My xtag doe, shot with S&W 629 44 Mag at 85 yds, 240gr Hornady XTP over H110.
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Great buck and doe! I love that rifle too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauser
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Thanks, it's a Mauser, imagine that.Quote:
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Ha! Never would’ve guessed it!Quote:
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Pretty sure this has been posted on other threads already, but I haven’t pulled a trigger yet. My wife has filled two of three tags so far. Both shot with the same Savage 11 .243 with a mixture of IMR4064 and the Barnes 85gr TSX. First was the pronghorn at a bit over 200 yards. The next was a whitetail doe at about 80yards. Neither went far!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...49849aab8a.jpg
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Hoping to get out myself now that we have some cooler temps. I would love to let a deer hang for a couple days instead of hurrying it into the freezer during the warmer temps.
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Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jbotto
Being in Texas, it is almost always a rush to get an animal in the freezer. Every once in awhile I get to leave one hanging overnight.
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Killed this buck this morning, opening day of Missouri firearms season. I was using my old 7x57 Mauser. 154gr Hornady Interlock over Vihtavouri N150. Recovered the bullet, it weighed 121.8gr.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0ff6e55b5b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0b7f8f2381.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f1c03c0dfa.jpg
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Nicely done.
Filled my South Dakota buck tag this week...best mulie to date and an absolute tank of a deer body-wise. Very happy to fill the tag with a nice buck!
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Wow! Nice one!!!Quote:
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Great deer! Congrats!Quote:
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Hard to beat that for opening morning! Nice deed you got there! Looks like the bullet did its job!Quote:
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Last night I filled my first tag of the year. Been too busy with other things and getting my wife’s tags filled that I have neglected my own!
.338-06 210gr Barnes TTSX. 90 yards or so. Double lung and heart shot. Complete pass through if you’d believe it. Wide and short blood trail. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cfd1619bb6.jpg
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She looks delicious. Are you hunting in a crop circle?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jbotto
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Well since this isn’t FB I suppose I can share the pictures that are all part of the hunt.
So here's the story. Snuck in like a half mile through an irrigation ditch. Watched three deer most of the evening. Two younger smaller deer at around 130 and another deer than might have been a bit bigger on the other side of me at about the same distance. Had a shot on the loner but passed it up as she really didn't look very big. She busted out shortly after I passed on her which left me to watch the other two. They were small but also kinda skylined as I could see ranches and cattle behind them. If they kept walking along the field edge they'd pass in front of a pile of dirt that would surely stop my bullet. Before they got there they were watching something else. I looked to where they were looking and saw two bigger does walking into the field. After I got the rifle ready, the bigger doe stopped in front on the dirt pile. Haha. She took that shot hard, went down, rolled over and three bounds later tried to jump a fence. She barely cleared it as she kinda dead centered a post. She cleared a two-track road on the other side of fence and went over the the side of an irrigation canal on the other side. Seems like when you use a big-ass bullet the blood trail isn't hard to follow. She went thirty yards or so after the shot. Shot ended up being under 100 yards.
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Haha! Not exactly! I was hunting near a center-pivot so maybe that can count for a crop circle. No she ended up over the bank of an irrigation canal right next to a retainment pond. Luckily all drained for the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
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All tagged out for 2020. 5 whitetails and a cow elk in our freezer and I helped 3 other friends fill their deer tags too! She was 2 miles up the country from the nearest open road and 1000ft in elevation but if you hunt up the pack is down. Got her out in just 2 pieces and didn't have to carry them at all. Those black toboggans worked pretty slick. 150yd shot with my 35 Whelen AI and a 200gr Barnes TTSX did the job. DRT!
I have been hunting the last few years with a handgun. Yesterday evening I was finally able to take a doe with my 338 Federal Encore pistol, 200gr Ballistic Silvertips over H335. That was my first time using Ballistic Silvertips on game, and they performed well.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...320fcf74ea.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bb4e0d6f03.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b65c0a04d2.jpg
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That sure is a freezer full of meat.Quote:
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I can’t wait to try that bullet in my 338-06. Way to go with the handgun!Quote:
Originally Posted by muforester
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Finally got something.
My 13 year old got his first deer this season. He’s been going hunting with me since he was 3. This is the first year I let him carry a gun. It’s not a big doe, but he was so excited. He was shooting my CZ550 in 6.5x55 with 140gr Sierra game kings. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...49e790e2ba.jpg
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I whacked this guy with my 375 whelen improved with 270gr Speer spbt.
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Congrats to your son! That is a dandy buck for you as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
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Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jbotto
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Jump shooting sounders of hogs,that could number as many as 20,just off the sides of the peanut fields. These areas are called no mans land due to the thick vines and heavy growths of thick bamboo. Usually standing water with small islends of 20yds across. The hogs love to lay up on these due to the coolness and they can hear anything coming at them due to the water.<br>BUT . . . we have a plan. Cut them off and strafe them as they run by.<br>I use a Sten gun. 9mm with 32rd mag. Class III full auto. ---- SAWMAN
ADDED: GLOCK 20 for backup.
Great picture. Sounds like a blast!Quote:
Originally Posted by SAWMAN
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Got plenty more pics of two old guys out making rocking chair stories ("And their I was,and this is no shiz.").
We are older now with some health problems . . . but still hunting,shooting,and doing a sheetload of relosding.
Especially in 300BLK,6.8SPC,308Win,450Bushmaster,22-250,etc,etc,plus other old guy tinkering projects.
My latest - - > turn a Win Mod 70 bolt gun,chambered in 375 H&H Mag,into my daylight,closer range hog slayer. Somewhat loaded down of course.
Gun will be chopped to 18 inches and LOP reduced to 13.25 inches.
These three were dropped with my 6.8. Sounder of 13 in peanuts. Shot the biggest. DRT. The rest ran to the edge of the field,two stopped.A quick two shots dropped these other smaller hogs at 145yds. Backstrap nirvana. Smoked using pear tree wood. --- SAWMAN
That 375H&H project sounds like a fun one.
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I just might expierament with some hardcast lead bullets although I do not expect that much penetration and that little wound cavity.
Probably will gravitate towards light and semi-fast. The no lead variety would be a good option.
This caliber cuts a wider that "normal" hole going in. Plus will have the ability to load HOT if invited to a big nasty bore hunt.
Don't laugh. This happened several years ago because this boar hog was "harassing" the farmers draft horses.
When we went out to scout,we found prints that were bigger than hard box of Marlboro's.
I hunted with my 10ga "carbine" throwing a 766gr slug at 1285fps.
We never got a shot at this beast but I suspect the land owner killed him 5 months later. With a 243Win at 225yds.
WEIGHT ON DIGITAL SCALE. - - -> 409lbs. ---- SAWMAN