Welllll kadoodles! Went out in the fading light just for a quick recon (something is digging in my yard). It just rained and as I walked under a big pine I heard water droplets falling. Head went up and there he was. Rifle went up and I broke the shot. He fell to earth from about 40 feet and landed with a thud! I though for sure he was done but I was wrong. Started moving and I though the better of a second shot with all the decorative rock and vehicles in close proximity. I can't imagine Mr. Tree Rat is feeling 100% and the 3rd shift will finish what I started but I really hoped to have a pic of dinner for ya'll. Now that I know they are danger close again I'm sure there will be photos soon!
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I'm not sure, but something tells me that this is nikonNUT heading out to "manage" the tree rat population around his estate..lol
Just slow hunting and watching!First with the TX22 and first with a pistol period! Like the no magnification thing. Gonna try again for sure! Lousy shot by the way...
BTW... Is it ominous that I tracked her down by her mating call in late October?!? That's 3 to 5 months late...
BTW... Is it ominous that I tracked her down by her mating call in late October?!? That's 3 to 5 months late...
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If the predicted food shortages hit, looks like it's gonna be squirrel in a delicious acorn and wine reduction at your place
Save me the neck!
Will do! Now you know one of the reasons I want to go on a Bison hunt. A meat hunt is $2500 and an 1100 pound critter will yield about 600 pounds of meat. That's less than right at $4.00/pound! Beats Wal-Mart meat prices by a mile and I love Bison. Sounds like a slam dunk to me!If the predicted food shortages hit, looks like it's gonna be squirrel in a delicious acorn and wine reduction at your place
Save me the neck!
That would be a slam dunk for sure!!!
I would imagine being wild, grass-fed and absent of antibiotics etc.. that the sweet bread and brains would be a part of the meat haul as well !?
I would imagine being wild, grass-fed and absent of antibiotics etc.. that the sweet bread and brains would be a part of the meat haul as well !?
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One would hope! The part that has me drooling is all that marrow!!! Might be a bugger to spit the bones but so much goodness!
Didn't even think about the marrow !
At 28 years of age I finally got my first deer. I took over a decade off hunting and finally got back to it this year in the pursuit of meat for the family.
Shot with a Mossberg 500 at 85 yards.
He was big for a 3 pointer and I am beyond happy to provide for the family!
Shot with a Mossberg 500 at 85 yards.
He was big for a 3 pointer and I am beyond happy to provide for the family!
My nephew just sent me a picture of the nice young buck he shot yesterday for the winter meat.
~120 yards. Sako TRG-S .338 Lapua, 200 grain Hornady SST at ~3200fps. The entrance is just behind the eye.
~120 yards. Sako TRG-S .338 Lapua, 200 grain Hornady SST at ~3200fps. The entrance is just behind the eye.
Congrats!
Now for deer chili, deer steaks ...What kind of slug? What kind of groups you getting? I see the scope.
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That is good sized.
I was actually wondering.....I ain't as Brite as some of y'all's!I'll use my old hunter skills to extrapolate that it didn't run very far ...
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Tell yer nephew not a terrible shot if he was aiming for his eyeball.....
And .338 Lapua is up there with .50 BMG, at least to me ... some fairly *serious* hunting going on there.
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As Ross Seyfried once said "It ran three feet, straight down." My nephew said its head hit the snow before its body. He doesnt like shooting them where theres any chance of wasting meat. He remembers when he was little and my mother roasting and eating an entire neck. Its now his favorite part, very lean and tender.
He said he could fit 4 fingers in the exit.I'm amazed the head is still intact! At a 120 yards the bullet whizzing by should have been enough to induce a brain bleed! Question.... What does the other side look like <eewww>?
Years ago, I shot a 350lb Black bear at 40 yards with the same rifle, it was mine for many years, I think I bought it in 1995. I hit it tight behind the left shoulder with a 200 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip which was a new bullet on the market at the time, that I had worked up a load for at 3500fps. At the shot that bear jumped straight up, turned 180, ran for the road and as soon as his feet hit the gravel he turned around and ran back to the bush. I shot again just grazing his chest and took two claws off the right front foot and left a hairless line across his chest. That bear went 75 yards and would have outrun any jackrabbit alive. The bullet broke 4 ribs on the way in and didnt exit. The entire chest cavity was a congealed mass of black blood. It did to a 350lb Black bear what a .22-250 does to a woodchuck.
It depends on the angle. Hitting the eyeball on the angle he was shooting would have just taken off the front of its face. It landed where he meant it to. That rifle is accurate and so is he. This picture from when he was sighting in at 100m.
They hunt firebreaks up there in the bush in northern Alberta so you never know how far anything will be when it comes out of the bush. With the Lapua, it doesnt matter. The Moose hunt from the year before last below. They havent gotten a tag the last two years.
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