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<blockquote data-quote="Desert Fox" data-source="post: 98454" data-attributes="member: 396"><p>A few years back a friend and I were hunting in an area that was new to us. We haven't seen deer after three days of hard hunting. Worst yet, my friend's Redfield Accu-trac mounted on his super accurate Remington Sendero got fogged-up due to rain the night before. That put him out of commission. I was carrying my first truely LRH rifle, a 1909 Argentine Mauser Douglas barreled 280 Remington loaded with 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip, chronographed at 2890 fps. My scope was the super-precised Simmon Pro-50 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif equipped with bullet drop compensator. I paid for a whopping $110.00 for this Korean made scope /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif from a now defunct Gander Mountain, if I remembered correctly.</p><p>The light was fading fast as me and my friend were walking back to our camp when all of the sudden I spotted the muley rising from his bedding spot, accross two canyon directly from us. My friend and I immediately assumed the prone position readying ourselves for a shot of a lifetime. I cranked the dial on my Simmon and at the same time, bracketing the deer to figure out what the distance would be. Well, I run out of turn before I could fully bracket the deer's body. Turns out my Simmon maxed out to 500 yards on a deersized target. I knew the deer was still farther away so I asked my friend to see if he can at least utilized his accu-trac even in such condition, to see if he might be able to get distance. He said he still could and the deer was 600 yards away according to the Redfield Accu-trac. With that data in mind, I dialed 500 in my Simmon BDC plus raised the horizontal crosshair of the Simmon, 12 inches high above the deer's back and move the vertical, 3/4 towards the small of the deer's back, to compensate for the wind, that my friend warned me about, and let the Nosler fly. The slapped of the bullet was very pronounced and the deer went down as if it was hit by a bolt of lightning. Turned out, the deer was hit in the neck just forward of the shoulder. We didn't get back to our camp until 12 midnight that night but we got our deer. To this day, I never told my friend that it was a hail Mary shot. He still believed that I know exactly what I was doing, knows precisely where to dialed my scope with certainty and hit the target. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desert Fox, post: 98454, member: 396"] A few years back a friend and I were hunting in an area that was new to us. We haven't seen deer after three days of hard hunting. Worst yet, my friend's Redfield Accu-trac mounted on his super accurate Remington Sendero got fogged-up due to rain the night before. That put him out of commission. I was carrying my first truely LRH rifle, a 1909 Argentine Mauser Douglas barreled 280 Remington loaded with 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip, chronographed at 2890 fps. My scope was the super-precised Simmon Pro-50 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] equipped with bullet drop compensator. I paid for a whopping $110.00 for this Korean made scope [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] from a now defunct Gander Mountain, if I remembered correctly. The light was fading fast as me and my friend were walking back to our camp when all of the sudden I spotted the muley rising from his bedding spot, accross two canyon directly from us. My friend and I immediately assumed the prone position readying ourselves for a shot of a lifetime. I cranked the dial on my Simmon and at the same time, bracketing the deer to figure out what the distance would be. Well, I run out of turn before I could fully bracket the deer's body. Turns out my Simmon maxed out to 500 yards on a deersized target. I knew the deer was still farther away so I asked my friend to see if he can at least utilized his accu-trac even in such condition, to see if he might be able to get distance. He said he still could and the deer was 600 yards away according to the Redfield Accu-trac. With that data in mind, I dialed 500 in my Simmon BDC plus raised the horizontal crosshair of the Simmon, 12 inches high above the deer's back and move the vertical, 3/4 towards the small of the deer's back, to compensate for the wind, that my friend warned me about, and let the Nosler fly. The slapped of the bullet was very pronounced and the deer went down as if it was hit by a bolt of lightning. Turned out, the deer was hit in the neck just forward of the shoulder. We didn't get back to our camp until 12 midnight that night but we got our deer. To this day, I never told my friend that it was a hail Mary shot. He still believed that I know exactly what I was doing, knows precisely where to dialed my scope with certainty and hit the target. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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