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Happy to see you got your freezer topped off for another year, Sir! You hunt like we do, the dinner table gets first priority. My boys (13 &14) each contributed a buck to our freezer three weeks ago. One spike and one fork, monsters for sure!
Anyway, glad you had success and hope it was a pleasant trip. Take care. |
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Doug buddy, great to see you out there taking your rifle for a walk and coming home heavy.
Congrats on the fine eating you and Nancy will have this winter, which by the looks of it, may be on the way. Oh, and nice shot for an old guy!
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As to the bullet I was shooting, the Hornady "190 grain Interlock" that particular rifle loves em and I love the way they perform. This is a picture of one of them bordered by two that were recovered from different elk. The longer one as memory serves was out of one shot at 450 to 500ish and stopped on the far side shoulder, the shorter squashed one took out the far side shoulder joint at 350ish to 400ish. If I'm shooting at an elk that's quartering away away from me I line the vertical cross-hair up to hit the far side shoulder, that's when I get recovered bullets. Full broadside and it is almost always a through and through wound channel with some real gooey lungs in the middle, no wasted meat and they usually make it about 30 or 40 yards after being hit. I never shoot running animals unless someone's wounded it first! Hornady discontinued these bullets, I guess they cost to much, I paid $14.00 or $15.00 a hundred. I now have 181 of em left so that oughtta get me through to the end. They are always changing things to keep ya buying new stuff when the old stuff worked just fine . These were a great bullet.
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Well done, Doug. Not a lot of animals left here. We used to have the highest per-acre moose population in B.C., but any more, the predation was made them few and far between. Elk and moose calls elicit wolf howls, more often than not.
Heading out SouthWest of town tomorrow to see if I can round up a deer for the freezer.
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Good luck on that deer Daryl. We are gonna end up in the same situation if the bunny huggers keep giving apex predators special dispensation. We're down about 70 percent in the Gallatin Canyon on elk since the wolves have been reintroduced and coddled by the guys at the top. Same with Grizzly's, when we had a hunting season on em they were scared of people, now they hear a rifle fire and the think it's a dinner bell, GRRRR!! I digress, sorry.
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Kids got a lotta memories in that rack. stinking old bull or not.
Around these parts bulls that big are rare to see. Thanks on the bullet info. Very true, when they produce things that work great they'll discontinue them and come up with something else usually half as good. For the range, those two opened up quite well. Gosh, 181, that's a bunch of elk to shoot yet. Hope you can use 'em all up as planned. They'll last longer on meat than paper though. cheers!
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Saw a bruiser in the back of a truck being taken on a tour of down town today, I think they wanted everyone in town to see it . Oh well, it was a "BIG" bull (a lot bigger then the one my buddies Grandson shot) and the guy was real proud, probably his first. As the kids say a lot "It's all good" .
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I hear ya Doug!
Am sitting not far from a stack of 19 SAW cans FULL of ammo right now. and haven't been out for over a year. I did shoot five thru the new .243 in the shop at the trap a month or so ago. Maybe 20 all this year, mostly revolvers. Just haven't felt up to the short drive to the range. Wish you well, keep that plow handy, it ain't gonna be long pard!
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Thanks for sharing Doug!
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Another horn hunting buddy, glad he likes sausage!
A buddy got a bull yesterday, he sent me a couple pics by phone. Great guy, great hunting partner and when he sees horns he goes ga-ga! Good for him though cause he sure digs it. We all hunt how we enjoy it most and he's a great hunter!
This years bull he took up behind his house. Him getting it back home. His might look better but mine sure taste better. That's my story and I'm sticking to it !
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