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15 yr old boy shoots Elk at just under 1,000 yards
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<blockquote data-quote="kellyzier" data-source="post: 406509" data-attributes="member: 22137"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'">My 15 yr old boy's first bull elk at 940 yards.....After taking Shawn Carlock's long range class, I spent most of last summer getting my boy confident at 1,000 yards in varing wind conditions. With me spotting and doping the wind for him, he got pretty good at it, in fact he may even have a better eye than dear old dad.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">Anyhow, my brother and I had already dropped our elk at 800 and 830 yards the week before.....(fotos of the meat below)...now it was time for my son Hunter to get his elk. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">The night before was one of the worst wind storms I had ever been in with our wall tent. Many times that night, I was up trying to keep the smoke from back drafting in the tent, by about 3 am, I just put out the fire in the stove and went to bed.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">By 5 am it was still blowing, and at about 9 am it all stopped. At that point we all said, crap, we got to go. We got to our ambush point way tooo late, because the elk were on the move.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">When we got there, a rag horn was walking at about 850 yards in an opening and there just was not enough time to get on him. So I said heck with it, lets just get this gun dialed in. So I got out the kestrel and xbal and started working up the numbers. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'">A bit later, we started to glass more and we spot several elk bedded and a spike by a tree at 940 yards, but my boy was not comfortable with the shot. A bit later, the bull bedded just behind a tree.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">I told my boy to stay in the scope and watch for the bull to get up and be ready on the left side of the tree. My boy said, how do you know he's gonna walk left?? I said, look at the body, you see the dark brown head and chest, it's pointed left and ten bucks says he's gonna walk left when he gets up, so hold your cross hairs left of the tree and watch.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">About 30 minutes later the bull stands up and kind of streatches. My boy is on the gun and the wind is light and variable and I dope it left, then dope it right, then finally go back to zero and say just hold for the wind to settle. Finally the wind settles and I say..."you on it",,,he says yea im on it...I say..."send it" and wham!!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">The bull staggers like he's drunk....and I said put another in and tell me when you're on it...He said im on it...I see the wind is just about nill at this point and say..."send it" and wham,,,he drops like a ton of bricks.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">When we recovered the bull, we see the first shot was dead center heart and lung and the second shot was a bit higher and broke his shoulder and neck. Had we of waited another minute and not shot the second shot, the bull would have dropped in his tracks from the first shot.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">Needless to say, my boy is now addicted to long range shooting and hunting. Foto below......Special thanks to Shawn Carlock and his dad Bob for their training and expertise.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">zman</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'">My gun……was Shawn Carlock's shop rifle....</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">338 edge</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">14.75 pounds</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">30 inch barrel, 1--10 twist</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">5.5 by 22 night force w/ cosign & bubble</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">harris bipod w/ swivel</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">Huge..DE break,,,check piece</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">Bat action, 20 moa rail</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">Load....shoots 1/4 moa</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">90 grains H1000</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">CCI 250's</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">300 smk</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">2800 fps</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: black">3.860 OAL</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><img src="http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elk7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><img src="http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elkndothers004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><img src="http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elk9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kellyzier, post: 406509, member: 22137"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS]My 15 yr old boy's first bull elk at 940 yards.....After taking Shawn Carlock's long range class, I spent most of last summer getting my boy confident at 1,000 yards in varing wind conditions. With me spotting and doping the wind for him, he got pretty good at it, in fact he may even have a better eye than dear old dad.[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]Anyhow, my brother and I had already dropped our elk at 800 and 830 yards the week before.....(fotos of the meat below)...now it was time for my son Hunter to get his elk. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]The night before was one of the worst wind storms I had ever been in with our wall tent. Many times that night, I was up trying to keep the smoke from back drafting in the tent, by about 3 am, I just put out the fire in the stove and went to bed.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]By 5 am it was still blowing, and at about 9 am it all stopped. At that point we all said, crap, we got to go. We got to our ambush point way tooo late, because the elk were on the move.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]When we got there, a rag horn was walking at about 850 yards in an opening and there just was not enough time to get on him. So I said heck with it, lets just get this gun dialed in. So I got out the kestrel and xbal and started working up the numbers. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS]A bit later, we started to glass more and we spot several elk bedded and a spike by a tree at 940 yards, but my boy was not comfortable with the shot. A bit later, the bull bedded just behind a tree.[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]I told my boy to stay in the scope and watch for the bull to get up and be ready on the left side of the tree. My boy said, how do you know he's gonna walk left?? I said, look at the body, you see the dark brown head and chest, it's pointed left and ten bucks says he's gonna walk left when he gets up, so hold your cross hairs left of the tree and watch.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]About 30 minutes later the bull stands up and kind of streatches. My boy is on the gun and the wind is light and variable and I dope it left, then dope it right, then finally go back to zero and say just hold for the wind to settle. Finally the wind settles and I say..."you on it",,,he says yea im on it...I say..."send it" and wham!![/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]The bull staggers like he's drunk....and I said put another in and tell me when you're on it...He said im on it...I see the wind is just about nill at this point and say..."send it" and wham,,,he drops like a ton of bricks.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]When we recovered the bull, we see the first shot was dead center heart and lung and the second shot was a bit higher and broke his shoulder and neck. Had we of waited another minute and not shot the second shot, the bull would have dropped in his tracks from the first shot.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]Needless to say, my boy is now addicted to long range shooting and hunting. Foto below......Special thanks to Shawn Carlock and his dad Bob for their training and expertise.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]zman[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS]My gun……was Shawn Carlock's shop rifle....[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]338 edge[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]14.75 pounds[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]30 inch barrel, 1--10 twist[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]5.5 by 22 night force w/ cosign & bubble[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]harris bipod w/ swivel[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]Huge..DE break,,,check piece[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]Bat action, 20 moa rail[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]Load....shoots 1/4 moa[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]90 grains H1000[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]CCI 250's[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]300 smk[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]2800 fps[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=black]3.860 OAL[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS][IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elk7.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS][IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elkndothers004.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS][IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/shoot1760/2009elk9.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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