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<blockquote data-quote="freefloater59" data-source="post: 2023072" data-attributes="member: 74481"><p>You're a hunter and will experiencing the good, bad, & embarrassing. Longest: 900 yds West Texas Muley with a 264 Win Mag, Pre'64 26" bbl, Sierra 140 BT. Most embarrassing misses (plural) ... Wyoming Antelope, was up high on hill tops, saw the hurd cut around the base of the hill below, so I jogged around two more hill tops, trying to come out at a point in front of them. I'm shooting my 257 AI and 120 gr Speer BT, and confidence in hitting anything up to 800 yds. But those speed goats were ahead and out of range of me by the time I was in position to see them. So I'm setting down, huffing & puffing, trying to get my breath back. and I hear rocks clattering about 25 yds to my left and a big buck comes up out of the gully and tops out next to me. The buck is huffing & puffing also and just stands there. I turn slowly try an offhand twisted to my left and miss, and miss #2, and miss #3, and the buck is just keeps walking, both of us still huffing and puffing. I laid down, put the my rifle across my forearm, set the butt on the ground so I'm not touching except the grip, sight down the bbl and #4 hits the buck. BUT... the shot I missed that I've regretted was when I was 18 years old, in West Texas, and a giant muley stood up at about 250 yds down hill from me. I had a bench-rest shot across the cab of the truck, and the shot went just over his shoulder. My heart was pounding and I guess I pulled up when I squeezed off. My dad warned me about buck fever but it's one of those things that you just have to experience to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freefloater59, post: 2023072, member: 74481"] You're a hunter and will experiencing the good, bad, & embarrassing. Longest: 900 yds West Texas Muley with a 264 Win Mag, Pre'64 26" bbl, Sierra 140 BT. Most embarrassing misses (plural) ... Wyoming Antelope, was up high on hill tops, saw the hurd cut around the base of the hill below, so I jogged around two more hill tops, trying to come out at a point in front of them. I'm shooting my 257 AI and 120 gr Speer BT, and confidence in hitting anything up to 800 yds. But those speed goats were ahead and out of range of me by the time I was in position to see them. So I'm setting down, huffing & puffing, trying to get my breath back. and I hear rocks clattering about 25 yds to my left and a big buck comes up out of the gully and tops out next to me. The buck is huffing & puffing also and just stands there. I turn slowly try an offhand twisted to my left and miss, and miss #2, and miss #3, and the buck is just keeps walking, both of us still huffing and puffing. I laid down, put the my rifle across my forearm, set the butt on the ground so I'm not touching except the grip, sight down the bbl and #4 hits the buck. BUT... the shot I missed that I've regretted was when I was 18 years old, in West Texas, and a giant muley stood up at about 250 yds down hill from me. I had a bench-rest shot across the cab of the truck, and the shot went just over his shoulder. My heart was pounding and I guess I pulled up when I squeezed off. My dad warned me about buck fever but it's one of those things that you just have to experience to know. [/QUOTE]
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