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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 2674773" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>Been a while since I updated this....man!! </p><p></p><p>Well, she has two more harvests this year with it! Would have been more, but I have been away at training....anyway!! </p><p></p><p>First one was a pronghorn doe, taken at a little over 500 yards if I recall correctly, like 540. She made a perfect shot, and the 170 Cayugas did awesome!! Pretty simple hunt here, like most pronghorn, we drove out to a field, spotted this doe near the edge, and she shot her ha ha.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414345[/ATTACH]</p><p>Entrance - </p><p>[ATTACH=full]414346[/ATTACH]</p><p>Exit - [ATTACH=full]414347[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And her next one was today, her second elk ever, taken in really hard conditions! We saw a herd of about 40-60 elk out on an open bench, and headed their way. As they often do, they surprised us and changed direction, but strait towards us. They dropped into a drainage, but went into some timber. We figured they were going to stay there, so we planned on going down and working the timber slowly to try and find one. </p><p></p><p>However, as we were slowly going down, they came out the other side of the timber! She dropped down prone in the deep snow, laying down hill. At this point, they saw us, and were starting to get nervous and began slowly heading for some more timber. We extended the bipod all the way up and had her set it up on a large rock, though it wasn't the most stable as it was round.....and the gusting, 20-30 mph wind did not help either! Especially with the tiny, little stinging snow flakes blasting her in the face! </p><p></p><p>I ranged them at 430 yards, we got her scope dialed, told her the wind hold off, and reminded her to make sure it was a cow, as her tag was a cow/calf only tag, and I had see a lot of spikes in the group. She kept scanning the herd....they would either start moving, be too bunched up, or be a spike.....my anxiety was crazy! Finally though, one of the biggest cows of the herd separated herself, and got almost perfectly broadside. I heard her say "oh there's one!" I saw her take her bare, frozen, wet shivering hand and click off the saftey, touch the Jewel trigger, slowly breath out, and boom! I didn't see a hit, a miss, hear an impact, nothing! </p><p></p><p>All the elk took off running, none of them dropped. I was confident with the wind hold I gave her, especially at the shorter range and with the high bc 170 Cayuga, but the circumstances were challenging to say the least. We hiked over there....and almost immediately found heavy blood at the impact sight! A short, 75 yard track later, there was her massive cow!! </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414348[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>She had made a perfect double lung hit, the cow barely made it out of sight before she tumbled to the ground. To say I'm proud is an understatement!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 2674773, member: 87243"] Been a while since I updated this....man!! Well, she has two more harvests this year with it! Would have been more, but I have been away at training....anyway!! First one was a pronghorn doe, taken at a little over 500 yards if I recall correctly, like 540. She made a perfect shot, and the 170 Cayugas did awesome!! Pretty simple hunt here, like most pronghorn, we drove out to a field, spotted this doe near the edge, and she shot her ha ha. [ATTACH type="full"]414345[/ATTACH] Entrance - [ATTACH type="full"]414346[/ATTACH] Exit - [ATTACH type="full"]414347[/ATTACH] And her next one was today, her second elk ever, taken in really hard conditions! We saw a herd of about 40-60 elk out on an open bench, and headed their way. As they often do, they surprised us and changed direction, but strait towards us. They dropped into a drainage, but went into some timber. We figured they were going to stay there, so we planned on going down and working the timber slowly to try and find one. However, as we were slowly going down, they came out the other side of the timber! She dropped down prone in the deep snow, laying down hill. At this point, they saw us, and were starting to get nervous and began slowly heading for some more timber. We extended the bipod all the way up and had her set it up on a large rock, though it wasn't the most stable as it was round.....and the gusting, 20-30 mph wind did not help either! Especially with the tiny, little stinging snow flakes blasting her in the face! I ranged them at 430 yards, we got her scope dialed, told her the wind hold off, and reminded her to make sure it was a cow, as her tag was a cow/calf only tag, and I had see a lot of spikes in the group. She kept scanning the herd....they would either start moving, be too bunched up, or be a spike.....my anxiety was crazy! Finally though, one of the biggest cows of the herd separated herself, and got almost perfectly broadside. I heard her say "oh there's one!" I saw her take her bare, frozen, wet shivering hand and click off the saftey, touch the Jewel trigger, slowly breath out, and boom! I didn't see a hit, a miss, hear an impact, nothing! All the elk took off running, none of them dropped. I was confident with the wind hold I gave her, especially at the shorter range and with the high bc 170 Cayuga, but the circumstances were challenging to say the least. We hiked over there....and almost immediately found heavy blood at the impact sight! A short, 75 yard track later, there was her massive cow!! [ATTACH type="full"]414348[/ATTACH] She had made a perfect double lung hit, the cow barely made it out of sight before she tumbled to the ground. To say I'm proud is an understatement! [/QUOTE]
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