809 yards Oklahoma Whitetail

Great shooting . I notice no blood on the ground , did the bullet exit ? I quit using 143gr eldx from my creedmoor because zero blood trails and one lost buck because of it .I'm glad yours dropped in its tracks .I have moved on from the creedmoor and eldx .
Yes the bullet did exit. I wish I would have taken a picture. It came out the other side and was just dangling by a burr on the bullet jacket. It probably had 1/3 weight retention. It was wild. I've never seen that before.
 
Nice buck, nice photos -- BUT: I'm not sure I read this right, as I don't read asterisks very exactly. But it sounds to me as if you shot him just as he was getting ready to breed. Couldn't you have given him a few minutes more?
I did shoot him right before he was about to breed. But he was literally 2-3 steps away from being over the back side of the dam. From there I would have lost him. There are plenty of good bucks in that area, so I'm pretty sure another good buck got the job done. :)
 
Great story, excellent shot, nice piece of property, does your family farm it?
They do. They grow wheat, cotton, corn, and a bunch of other things. They also run cattle, which is what that property is used for exclusively. They winter their cows here until they turn them out on the winter wheat.
 
Nice buck! Tell us about your rifle set up. Nice looking rig.
It's a tikka action, the trigger has been worked to 14 oz, the action is bedded in a McMillan ultralite stock. The barrel is a proof research 26" barrel. It's chambered in 7 saum with an extra .2" of freebore, so I can load them very long to squeeze a lot of 4831sc in the case. Muzzle break is off another rifle temporarily, until I can get a suppressor for it. Atlas bipod. Nightforce nxs 5.5-22, with Nightforce rings. I've shot a 9 1/2" group with it at 1501 yards before. It's very accurate, very lite (7.75 lbs), and has really low recoil (low enough you can watch your hits). I love this rifle. If I had one rifle to grab in a house fire, it would be the one. Lol
 
Here is a 7 saum next to a 7 mag. The 7 saum is using 58.5gr of h4831sc to push a 175 eldx, 2980 FPS. You can see how far out I can load the bullet, to give the case more capacity. The 7 mag is also pushing the 175 eldx, but with 69.9 gr of h1000. I'm getting 3005 FPS with it. But it is a very hot round, and I only get a few reloads out of the brass. The saum on the other hand gives me at least 12 reloads. Might be more, but I haven't reloaded them more than that yet. I bet they'll go 15+.
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So I thought I had lost this, but here is the bullet that I shot the deer with. It was crazy that it came out the other side, and was just dangling by the skin. I weighed it on a cheap little scale I have, and it weighed 61.2 gr. So very close to 1/3 weight retention. It had a really nice mushroom shape to it too. Very pleased with the eldx so far.
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Nice buck. Should beat 140". Good shooting, congrats
Taxidermist text me tonight. He taped at 139 1/8 broken. Once he fixes the broken g3 to match the other side, he should be be high 140's, or 150 even. Not too shabby. I'll take it. Now I really really want a 180 muley!! Something to work towards.
 
Haha. No pro here. But I have been reloading and shooting seriously for the last 11 years. I practice out to 1500 yards regularly. I just finished reloading my 20,000th precision round today in fact. All reloaded through an old rcbs single stage press.
It's a saying Iv'e used for years when I see something done right, my basketball teams have heard it a thousand times, along with "you'll get out, what you put in", and "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect". Your practice definitley paid off. BTW I use an old Herter's press for resizing, same one my dad used for many years.
 
It's a saying Iv'e used for years when I see something done right, my basketball teams have heard it a thousand times, along with "you'll get out, what you put in", and "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect". Your practice definitley paid off. BTW I use an old Herter's press for resizing, same one my dad used for many years.
You should see my plastic powder funnel. After 20,000 rounds of powder through it, it's paper thin. Haha. I didn't think they could wear out.
 

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