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<blockquote data-quote="lerch" data-source="post: 169023" data-attributes="member: 3115"><p>We make it back to camp and i calm down, a little, i calmed down the rest of the way with some crown and coke and a nice pinch of red grizzly snuff . The next morning brought 50mph winds in the bottoms so huntin wasnt worth much. Fast forward to wednesday evening and we are on the same saddle we got shot at on. 4:30 comes around and out walks a little 4 pointer about 430yds away. BJ is chomping at the bit to kill something and we are both pretty disgusted with the way our hunt has turned out with all the people here. I told him that this early in the day we could have him cleaned and hung way before dark. Well that talked him into it. Ranged him a 430yds, ACI gave a of around 15deg up hill, wind .5 value from the right at 20mph. I settled in behind the swaro spotter and BJ let the big 338 Edge bark. I followed the trace all the way to the deer, he was quatering away walking up hill. The bullet took him even with the offside shoulder in a massive puff of grey hair. The buck spun to his right a little and then whirled back to his left spraying the sage with blood. And it was over quick as it started. We hiked up to the buck, this elevation crap aint easy on a country boy, and upon inspection found bits of deer blown up to 8 yds uphill from the animal!!!! 338 Edge does a little damage. We got the buck bac kto camp and butchered him up in the morning. here are some pics of the damage done by the 300gr SMK.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This is the entrance wound.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007023.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The entrance wound on the inside of the chest cavity.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007024.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The exit from the inside.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>the next day we had some guys from Ohio move into our little grove with us and they were amazed that we were butchering our own meat, come to find out they drove every animal they killed all the way back to rawlins to the meat processors. Anyway after a couple of missed shots at 860yds me and BJ had a feeling something had gotten jarred around in my scope. I actually shot it last nite and sure enough my once 100yd zero was now 2" high!!!! So the week winded down and by saturday morning we were loading up the truck and heading back south with only one small deer. Defiantly not what we had in mind but like i said it was a hell of a learning experince and the last time i go to a unit with that many roads in it. I am now a firm believer in the saying "if you can drive a truck or ATV there, So can they!!!!!" </p><p> </p><p>All in all it was alot of fun but things definantly could have gone better. We lived off of mountain house freeze dried meals for the whole week and while they taste pretty darn good, a steak and cold beer is a HELLLLLLLLLUVA lot better</p><p> </p><p>here are some pics of the country and a doe and fawn we saw bed down one day, you can imagine what the doe is lookin at cause about 30 sec after i took the pic a hail of bullets came down the timber line towards her, she did escape though. </p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007013.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>here are some pic off of one of the ridges we hunted alot</p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007011.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007020.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If i didnt have bad luck i wouldnt have any luck at all!!!</p><p> </p><p>steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lerch, post: 169023, member: 3115"] We make it back to camp and i calm down, a little, i calmed down the rest of the way with some crown and coke and a nice pinch of red grizzly snuff . The next morning brought 50mph winds in the bottoms so huntin wasnt worth much. Fast forward to wednesday evening and we are on the same saddle we got shot at on. 4:30 comes around and out walks a little 4 pointer about 430yds away. BJ is chomping at the bit to kill something and we are both pretty disgusted with the way our hunt has turned out with all the people here. I told him that this early in the day we could have him cleaned and hung way before dark. Well that talked him into it. Ranged him a 430yds, ACI gave a of around 15deg up hill, wind .5 value from the right at 20mph. I settled in behind the swaro spotter and BJ let the big 338 Edge bark. I followed the trace all the way to the deer, he was quatering away walking up hill. The bullet took him even with the offside shoulder in a massive puff of grey hair. The buck spun to his right a little and then whirled back to his left spraying the sage with blood. And it was over quick as it started. We hiked up to the buck, this elevation crap aint easy on a country boy, and upon inspection found bits of deer blown up to 8 yds uphill from the animal!!!! 338 Edge does a little damage. We got the buck bac kto camp and butchered him up in the morning. here are some pics of the damage done by the 300gr SMK. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007022.jpg[/IMG]This is the entrance wound. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007023.jpg[/IMG]The entrance wound on the inside of the chest cavity. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007024.jpg[/IMG]The exit from the inside. the next day we had some guys from Ohio move into our little grove with us and they were amazed that we were butchering our own meat, come to find out they drove every animal they killed all the way back to rawlins to the meat processors. Anyway after a couple of missed shots at 860yds me and BJ had a feeling something had gotten jarred around in my scope. I actually shot it last nite and sure enough my once 100yd zero was now 2" high!!!! So the week winded down and by saturday morning we were loading up the truck and heading back south with only one small deer. Defiantly not what we had in mind but like i said it was a hell of a learning experince and the last time i go to a unit with that many roads in it. I am now a firm believer in the saying "if you can drive a truck or ATV there, So can they!!!!!" All in all it was alot of fun but things definantly could have gone better. We lived off of mountain house freeze dried meals for the whole week and while they taste pretty darn good, a steak and cold beer is a HELLLLLLLLLUVA lot better here are some pics of the country and a doe and fawn we saw bed down one day, you can imagine what the doe is lookin at cause about 30 sec after i took the pic a hail of bullets came down the timber line towards her, she did escape though. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007013.jpg[/IMG] here are some pic off of one of the ridges we hunted alot [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007011.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/bailey1474/Wyoming%202007/Wyominghunt2007020.jpg[/IMG] If i didnt have bad luck i wouldnt have any luck at all!!! steve [/QUOTE]
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