winmagman
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We watched this fella from 8 o clock Sat. morning until dark Sat. evening. He had a doe out in the middle of a picked corn field that he wasn't letting go anywhere. The only problem was they were right on the crest of a hill with no safe backstop.imagestation
Sunday morning we were back at it. I spotted a doe in the same field just off a fenceline shortly after legal shooting time. About the same time I saw the buck laying next to her my partners 13 year old son touched off a round that found his first buck. At the shot my buck stood up. I tried to range him but couldn't get a reading so I ranged the front of woods on the other side of the fenceline at 478 yds. he was another 50-75 yds. out.imagestation
So I dialed up 9.5 MOA for 550 yds. and touched one off, he dropped right where he stood. That was by far my longest shot to date. It was hard to tell who was happier me or my friends 13 yr. old. Here is a picture of both deer.imagestation
This one must have been the dumbest buck in the state. I was hunting a farm that is pretty wide open so I decided that I'd wait until it was light enogh to shoot before driving in. As I pulled into the access road alond the west fenceline I noticed a dark clump in the road about 100 ahead. Took a look through the binocs and sure enough it's a deer. So as I open the truck door he stands up and looks straight at me. He watches as I put on my blaze orange, get my gun out of the case, lay down on the ground, level up the bipod, and shoot his dumb butt.imagestation
The first one is a 10 pt with a 16" inside spread, the second is a 9pt with a 20" inside spread. The 9 pt came one week after the 10 pt at almost exactly the same time in the morning, 3 minutes earlier.
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Sunday morning we were back at it. I spotted a doe in the same field just off a fenceline shortly after legal shooting time. About the same time I saw the buck laying next to her my partners 13 year old son touched off a round that found his first buck. At the shot my buck stood up. I tried to range him but couldn't get a reading so I ranged the front of woods on the other side of the fenceline at 478 yds. he was another 50-75 yds. out.imagestation
So I dialed up 9.5 MOA for 550 yds. and touched one off, he dropped right where he stood. That was by far my longest shot to date. It was hard to tell who was happier me or my friends 13 yr. old. Here is a picture of both deer.imagestation
This one must have been the dumbest buck in the state. I was hunting a farm that is pretty wide open so I decided that I'd wait until it was light enogh to shoot before driving in. As I pulled into the access road alond the west fenceline I noticed a dark clump in the road about 100 ahead. Took a look through the binocs and sure enough it's a deer. So as I open the truck door he stands up and looks straight at me. He watches as I put on my blaze orange, get my gun out of the case, lay down on the ground, level up the bipod, and shoot his dumb butt.imagestation
The first one is a 10 pt with a 16" inside spread, the second is a 9pt with a 20" inside spread. The 9 pt came one week after the 10 pt at almost exactly the same time in the morning, 3 minutes earlier.
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