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<blockquote data-quote="norsepeak" data-source="post: 99400" data-attributes="member: 3664"><p><strong>Re: Ok,,, One More,</strong></p><p></p><p>My dad and I were hunting whitetails in the palouse country of Wa. one day. We decided to drive to the back of a wheatfield to an eyebrow that usually held deer to check it out. When we pulled up to the top of the eyebrow, I caught something come busting out of the bottom of the eyebrow. Were talking about 200-250 of elevation change. What I saw was a very nice big yote'. He was running full out accross the bottom of the draw which was in winter wheat at the time. He was around 300 yards running full tilt, left to right and about 250 ft. lower in elevation. I jumped out of the jeep, grabbed my model 88 winchaser 243, jammed the clip home and took a bead on the yote'. Just for the fun of it I held about 3 ft. in front of him, and kept my swing as if I were shooting a passing duck, and touched 'er off. The yote' tumbled like he had been hit by a truck, rolled once and jumped back up and took off around the hill full steam. I looked at my dad in disbelief. He returned the look. We walked on up the eyebrow to where we could see up the draw that the yote' disappeared in, and there he was, piled up not 20 yards from where I rolled him. Later, I went and took a close up look just to see where I had hit him. The bullet struck him just behind the shoulder and hammered both lungs and the heart. My dad said that was the best shot he had ever seen....not too long after that he passed away from cancer....I'll always remeber that shot, just for the simple fact that it was one of last times I got to hunt with my dad, and he was proud of hunter he had raised....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norsepeak, post: 99400, member: 3664"] [b]Re: Ok,,, One More,[/b] My dad and I were hunting whitetails in the palouse country of Wa. one day. We decided to drive to the back of a wheatfield to an eyebrow that usually held deer to check it out. When we pulled up to the top of the eyebrow, I caught something come busting out of the bottom of the eyebrow. Were talking about 200-250 of elevation change. What I saw was a very nice big yote'. He was running full out accross the bottom of the draw which was in winter wheat at the time. He was around 300 yards running full tilt, left to right and about 250 ft. lower in elevation. I jumped out of the jeep, grabbed my model 88 winchaser 243, jammed the clip home and took a bead on the yote'. Just for the fun of it I held about 3 ft. in front of him, and kept my swing as if I were shooting a passing duck, and touched 'er off. The yote' tumbled like he had been hit by a truck, rolled once and jumped back up and took off around the hill full steam. I looked at my dad in disbelief. He returned the look. We walked on up the eyebrow to where we could see up the draw that the yote' disappeared in, and there he was, piled up not 20 yards from where I rolled him. Later, I went and took a close up look just to see where I had hit him. The bullet struck him just behind the shoulder and hammered both lungs and the heart. My dad said that was the best shot he had ever seen....not too long after that he passed away from cancer....I'll always remeber that shot, just for the simple fact that it was one of last times I got to hunt with my dad, and he was proud of hunter he had raised.... [/QUOTE]
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