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The Basics, Starting Out
What it takes to get to 800 yards
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 892961" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>I know what you mean. I've told the long version of this before, but in short my dad got the Elk Hunting bug back about 75 or so. He'd spent his whole life with his only "deer rifle" or "big game rifle" being an old pump 30-06 he got for Christmas when he was 14.</p><p></p><p>In prep for the Elk Hunt he spent more money than he could imagine on a 700bdl 7mm Mag and what he thought was a "top quality scope".</p><p></p><p>Off he goes for his elk hunt and everything that could go wrong did go wrong. He got kicked by the mule, and fell off of three different horses over the course of the ten days and spent four of them in a tent waiting out a blizzard and he seriously thought he was going to die.</p><p></p><p>On day six he finally gets a shot at an absolute monster bull and his scope had leaked, and was fogged up and his action was frozen solid so he could not chamber a round.</p><p></p><p>Dejected he comes off of the mountain on day ten, loads it all up and is leaving out when they spot another monster, just a big 5x5 about 500yds off of the road so he pulls over, pulls out the old rifle he'd forgotten and left in the truck and kills it with one shot. That rifle was still wearing the same 4x 32mm weaver that came new on it, same cheap weaver clamp down rings, same factor 180gr Remington cheap ammo.</p><p></p><p>... .</p><p></p><p>I don't know that they ever had the bull scored but his main beams are over five feet and tip to tip it's right at 6'2" wide at the top.</p><p></p><p>The thing was so big they couldn't even get it in the back of the truck without removing the head and legs above the knee and when they got it to the locker plant what they hung weighed 970lbs LOL.</p><p></p><p>It's funny how things work out sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 892961, member: 30902"] I know what you mean. I've told the long version of this before, but in short my dad got the Elk Hunting bug back about 75 or so. He'd spent his whole life with his only "deer rifle" or "big game rifle" being an old pump 30-06 he got for Christmas when he was 14. In prep for the Elk Hunt he spent more money than he could imagine on a 700bdl 7mm Mag and what he thought was a "top quality scope". Off he goes for his elk hunt and everything that could go wrong did go wrong. He got kicked by the mule, and fell off of three different horses over the course of the ten days and spent four of them in a tent waiting out a blizzard and he seriously thought he was going to die. On day six he finally gets a shot at an absolute monster bull and his scope had leaked, and was fogged up and his action was frozen solid so he could not chamber a round. Dejected he comes off of the mountain on day ten, loads it all up and is leaving out when they spot another monster, just a big 5x5 about 500yds off of the road so he pulls over, pulls out the old rifle he'd forgotten and left in the truck and kills it with one shot. That rifle was still wearing the same 4x 32mm weaver that came new on it, same cheap weaver clamp down rings, same factor 180gr Remington cheap ammo. ... . I don't know that they ever had the bull scored but his main beams are over five feet and tip to tip it's right at 6'2" wide at the top. The thing was so big they couldn't even get it in the back of the truck without removing the head and legs above the knee and when they got it to the locker plant what they hung weighed 970lbs LOL. It's funny how things work out sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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