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<blockquote data-quote="liltank" data-source="post: 586661" data-attributes="member: 13275"><p>I have 2. The first is with a Howa 25-06 my dad built when I was a kid. I was probably around 15yrs old. I had gotten pretty good with that rifle. Before I developed a load for it, my dad put together a load using 110 NBT's. This big ole doe comes walking up to my spot. She couldn't have been more than 30yds away. She just looked at me straight on and I put the cross hairs right between the lookers. I was leaning on a tree as a rest for my rifle. I squeezed the trigger. As I recover from recoil, she is just standing there looking at me like, "HAHA, you missed me!" She took off running around the point to my right. I swung the gun around and already had a fresh shell in. I saw hair and pulled the trigger. This was my first time swinging on a deer and shooting one running. When I hit her it was only about 25yds away. She slowed very quickly and walked into some mountain laurel. I heard her flop over. Clean shot right between the ribs and took her heart out. Couldn't have been more perfect.</p><p></p><p>The second was my second long range kill ever in groundhog season here in PA. I had just skipped a 208 A-max off the ground right into the shoulders of one groundhog at 628yds. So I guess that one was pretty lucky shot in itself. But the second was great by comparison. We saw another one at 620yds. I set up and took a bead between the head and shoulder. Savageshtr was calling the wind. It was a little tricky that day, but we did our best. I squeezed the shot off. I recovered from the recoil to see the round impact just in front of his nose. He ran from left to right into a brushy area under a tree in a fence row. I kept my scope on the general area to see if he would come back out to the field. Well he ended up popping up right under the tree. I had to guide Savageshtr in because it was difficult to see him. The groundhog stood there like a statue and stared at up. I lazed him at 605. </p><p></p><p>Savageshtr started calling the wind in again. He said, "put a 1/2 minute in.... wait take it out.... nope put it back in." I said, "you on him?" he said yes. Then he says, "send it......boom!" I recovered to see him flop straight back over. I saw his little legs twitch really fast. I put the cross hairs on his nose to allow for any drop. I wasn't very sure of my load at this point. I knew it was somewhat accurate, but I was having consistency problems with it (turned out to be fire cracking in the barrel). We drove up to the groundhog. Sure enough I put the bullet right through his right eye and out the left ear. Needless to say it was a good day.</p><p></p><p>The skip shot at 628</p><p><img src="http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_3980.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The head shot at 605 and me</p><p><img src="http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_3995.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Total package Stock Savage 300WSM, 208A-max</p><p><img src="http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_4008.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="liltank, post: 586661, member: 13275"] I have 2. The first is with a Howa 25-06 my dad built when I was a kid. I was probably around 15yrs old. I had gotten pretty good with that rifle. Before I developed a load for it, my dad put together a load using 110 NBT's. This big ole doe comes walking up to my spot. She couldn't have been more than 30yds away. She just looked at me straight on and I put the cross hairs right between the lookers. I was leaning on a tree as a rest for my rifle. I squeezed the trigger. As I recover from recoil, she is just standing there looking at me like, "HAHA, you missed me!" She took off running around the point to my right. I swung the gun around and already had a fresh shell in. I saw hair and pulled the trigger. This was my first time swinging on a deer and shooting one running. When I hit her it was only about 25yds away. She slowed very quickly and walked into some mountain laurel. I heard her flop over. Clean shot right between the ribs and took her heart out. Couldn't have been more perfect. The second was my second long range kill ever in groundhog season here in PA. I had just skipped a 208 A-max off the ground right into the shoulders of one groundhog at 628yds. So I guess that one was pretty lucky shot in itself. But the second was great by comparison. We saw another one at 620yds. I set up and took a bead between the head and shoulder. Savageshtr was calling the wind. It was a little tricky that day, but we did our best. I squeezed the shot off. I recovered from the recoil to see the round impact just in front of his nose. He ran from left to right into a brushy area under a tree in a fence row. I kept my scope on the general area to see if he would come back out to the field. Well he ended up popping up right under the tree. I had to guide Savageshtr in because it was difficult to see him. The groundhog stood there like a statue and stared at up. I lazed him at 605. Savageshtr started calling the wind in again. He said, "put a 1/2 minute in.... wait take it out.... nope put it back in." I said, "you on him?" he said yes. Then he says, "send it......boom!" I recovered to see him flop straight back over. I saw his little legs twitch really fast. I put the cross hairs on his nose to allow for any drop. I wasn't very sure of my load at this point. I knew it was somewhat accurate, but I was having consistency problems with it (turned out to be fire cracking in the barrel). We drove up to the groundhog. Sure enough I put the bullet right through his right eye and out the left ear. Needless to say it was a good day. The skip shot at 628 [IMG]http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_3980.jpg[/IMG] The head shot at 605 and me [IMG]http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_3995.jpg[/IMG] Total package Stock Savage 300WSM, 208A-max [IMG]http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/liltank300/IMG_4008.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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