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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Eichele" data-source="post: 587935" data-attributes="member: 1007"><p>I have 3 kills that I am VERY proud of. None are my longest but due to the conditions at hand, I concider to be my best shots.</p><p></p><p>1: Sitka Blacktail buck 505 yards. Not too far. Judged and measured the wind at 10 MPH at my location. I dialed the drop and wind and fired. The buck just stood there. My two buddies could not tell where the bullet went so I fired another. Same thing. I assumed since I was shooting accross a HUGE canyon that if the wind was 10 MPH at my location, it was probably faster over the canyon. So I decided to set my windage back to zero and held off target using Kentucky windage just uising my best guess and fired. The buck lungged forward a few yards and dropped. Come to find out, the 178 AMAX center punched the boiler room. After I got home and did the reverse math based on my hold over, the wind was estimated to have been 17-19 MPH.</p><p></p><p>2: My buddy made two bad shots on a bull moose right at the very tip top edge of darkness (we dont have time of day restrictions for legal shooting light up here). The bull ran off to 440 yards and was about to nose into the alders. He did not have the rifle or the ability to make a 440 yard shot. I asked him if he minded if I finished him off. He said go for it. I lined up my 1st mil right on the top of his top most vertabre and touched it off. The bull fell straight down. My only rest was a frame pack sitting upright due to the very steep hill side we were on. Between the tough position and the low light, I feel like it is a noteworthy shot.</p><p></p><p>3: The same buddy wounded a dall ram at 350 yards. He rolled to 702 yards. We were going to have to take a couple of hours to go around and down to finish him off. I asked him if I could put him out of his missery. He gave me the green light and I set up. The tricky part here was the extreme angle of the shot. I was using the ACI which led me to 37 degrees. I set up and fired. My buddy said I missed just high. I aimed for the low brisket and fired. The ram dropped in his tracks due to the high shoulder/spine hit. After further analyzation, it turned out to be 45 degrees. Then I inspected my ACI to find that it would periodically stick a bit. What made that tough was trying to find a suitable rest for the rear of the stock. Typically you lay down prone and use a bag or pack to support the butt of the stock. Here the butt was a foot off the ground. There is no way to support a rifle steady trying to hold it with just your shoulder. It was too dangerous to lean over the rocky edge so I had to take the shot from the top of the rocky spine. The only way to make it possible was to remove the ball head from my tri-pod and use my tri-pod as a rear support. Even then it was a real trick to get everything to line up right. In the picture below, you can see the angle of the rifle barrel and the legs of my tri-pod under the rear of the stock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Eichele, post: 587935, member: 1007"] I have 3 kills that I am VERY proud of. None are my longest but due to the conditions at hand, I concider to be my best shots. 1: Sitka Blacktail buck 505 yards. Not too far. Judged and measured the wind at 10 MPH at my location. I dialed the drop and wind and fired. The buck just stood there. My two buddies could not tell where the bullet went so I fired another. Same thing. I assumed since I was shooting accross a HUGE canyon that if the wind was 10 MPH at my location, it was probably faster over the canyon. So I decided to set my windage back to zero and held off target using Kentucky windage just uising my best guess and fired. The buck lungged forward a few yards and dropped. Come to find out, the 178 AMAX center punched the boiler room. After I got home and did the reverse math based on my hold over, the wind was estimated to have been 17-19 MPH. 2: My buddy made two bad shots on a bull moose right at the very tip top edge of darkness (we dont have time of day restrictions for legal shooting light up here). The bull ran off to 440 yards and was about to nose into the alders. He did not have the rifle or the ability to make a 440 yard shot. I asked him if he minded if I finished him off. He said go for it. I lined up my 1st mil right on the top of his top most vertabre and touched it off. The bull fell straight down. My only rest was a frame pack sitting upright due to the very steep hill side we were on. Between the tough position and the low light, I feel like it is a noteworthy shot. 3: The same buddy wounded a dall ram at 350 yards. He rolled to 702 yards. We were going to have to take a couple of hours to go around and down to finish him off. I asked him if I could put him out of his missery. He gave me the green light and I set up. The tricky part here was the extreme angle of the shot. I was using the ACI which led me to 37 degrees. I set up and fired. My buddy said I missed just high. I aimed for the low brisket and fired. The ram dropped in his tracks due to the high shoulder/spine hit. After further analyzation, it turned out to be 45 degrees. Then I inspected my ACI to find that it would periodically stick a bit. What made that tough was trying to find a suitable rest for the rear of the stock. Typically you lay down prone and use a bag or pack to support the butt of the stock. Here the butt was a foot off the ground. There is no way to support a rifle steady trying to hold it with just your shoulder. It was too dangerous to lean over the rocky edge so I had to take the shot from the top of the rocky spine. The only way to make it possible was to remove the ball head from my tri-pod and use my tri-pod as a rear support. Even then it was a real trick to get everything to line up right. In the picture below, you can see the angle of the rifle barrel and the legs of my tri-pod under the rear of the stock. [/QUOTE]
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