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<blockquote data-quote="tsmiller4" data-source="post: 173723" data-attributes="member: 4585"><p>Not a monster by any means but I know how much I enjoy looking at other photos, so I'll post mine. </p><p></p><p>I'm sitting in my tower blind watching over my ridge. I have a corn pile set up right at 600yds to pick off some does....I had 3 doe tags. My ridge extends to about 750yds but the way it lays I can only get to about 600yds with a backstop. Otherwise if I shoot high my bullet goes directly into a road and maybe a few houses. So I'm sitting there, it's a light drizzle, about 40deg. and fog starts to roll in. I'm watching my corn pile through my NightForce and within two minutes I can't even see 200 yds in front of me. There goes my long range hopes, oh well. I have about 3 other corn piles w/in about 150 yds of me so I decide just to watch them. 5:30 out walks a deer at my 1 o'clock, just out of my optical ability to discern what sex it is. Luckily for me he has a bee-line right to me. The wind is good, at my face, fog is getting thicker, the deer sticks it's nose up to sniff the moist air....it's a buck I tell myself. He takes a few steps closer and reveals his dark rack. So I check to make sure my dial was back on Zero, not 600yds, check him over with my zeiss binocs, fog is getting thicker, I can see some descent tines, do I shoot or do I let him walk. He stops right at 130yds and turns broadside, qtrs away and I let him have it right behind his lower shoulder. He jumps, rolls, gets about 20yds and goes down. Wooohoooo. Now I just have to see how big(little) he is. I couldn't see much through the fog, but he looked decent enough. Well I give him about 30 mins, till right at dark. Head over to check him out, this is what I come up with.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/tsmiller4/?action=view&current=Scotts07Buck2.jpg" target="_blank">Image of Scott's 07 Buck 2 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/tsmiller4/?action=view&current=Scotts07Buck1.jpg" target="_blank">Image of Scott's 07 Buck 1 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>He turned out to be a so-so buck. Main frame 9 with two small kickers that would make him an 11. He's only about 13" wide, but for as young as he is he already had some decent tine length. I just wish now I would have let him walk. Oh well I'm sure his daddy and perhaps a few brothers are still running around out there. </p><p></p><p>Gun Specs:</p><p>300 RUM Rem 700bdlss</p><p>NF NXS 5.5x22x50</p><p>220gr SMK over 91grs of H-1000 @2900fps</p><p>Loaded to 3.75OAL</p><p>Shoots b/n .5 and .75 moa</p><p></p><p>Have a few more doe tags I plan on filling at long range. I'll post some more pics of them if I'm fortunate enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tsmiller4, post: 173723, member: 4585"] Not a monster by any means but I know how much I enjoy looking at other photos, so I'll post mine. I'm sitting in my tower blind watching over my ridge. I have a corn pile set up right at 600yds to pick off some does....I had 3 doe tags. My ridge extends to about 750yds but the way it lays I can only get to about 600yds with a backstop. Otherwise if I shoot high my bullet goes directly into a road and maybe a few houses. So I'm sitting there, it's a light drizzle, about 40deg. and fog starts to roll in. I'm watching my corn pile through my NightForce and within two minutes I can't even see 200 yds in front of me. There goes my long range hopes, oh well. I have about 3 other corn piles w/in about 150 yds of me so I decide just to watch them. 5:30 out walks a deer at my 1 o'clock, just out of my optical ability to discern what sex it is. Luckily for me he has a bee-line right to me. The wind is good, at my face, fog is getting thicker, the deer sticks it's nose up to sniff the moist air....it's a buck I tell myself. He takes a few steps closer and reveals his dark rack. So I check to make sure my dial was back on Zero, not 600yds, check him over with my zeiss binocs, fog is getting thicker, I can see some descent tines, do I shoot or do I let him walk. He stops right at 130yds and turns broadside, qtrs away and I let him have it right behind his lower shoulder. He jumps, rolls, gets about 20yds and goes down. Wooohoooo. Now I just have to see how big(little) he is. I couldn't see much through the fog, but he looked decent enough. Well I give him about 30 mins, till right at dark. Head over to check him out, this is what I come up with. [url=http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/tsmiller4/?action=view¤t=Scotts07Buck2.jpg]Image of Scott's 07 Buck 2 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting[/url] [url=http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/tsmiller4/?action=view¤t=Scotts07Buck1.jpg]Image of Scott's 07 Buck 1 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting[/url] He turned out to be a so-so buck. Main frame 9 with two small kickers that would make him an 11. He's only about 13" wide, but for as young as he is he already had some decent tine length. I just wish now I would have let him walk. Oh well I'm sure his daddy and perhaps a few brothers are still running around out there. Gun Specs: 300 RUM Rem 700bdlss NF NXS 5.5x22x50 220gr SMK over 91grs of H-1000 @2900fps Loaded to 3.75OAL Shoots b/n .5 and .75 moa Have a few more doe tags I plan on filling at long range. I'll post some more pics of them if I'm fortunate enough. [/QUOTE]
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