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I know the 7mm. Our whitetails are not easy to kill so 7mm are fairly common. I am guessing that is a muley the way the high tines split. How many inches between the horns? It looks giganticus and nicely symmetrical.

Wow. We are lucky to get 24 on a whitetail. What a moose. Bet the old antlers are looking good for size too. Sorry you lost one. That is a heart break. Especially if you had to go so far back.
And injuring the animal. A bad scene all around and is the unfortunate part of hunting. It happens to all of em.
I had a monster run 4 does under me and he stopped. i was in a stand this time and he was 10 feet below me and i saw brown hair and shot straight under me(moving my foot). I shot
and saw a 3 foot circle of brown hair and was instantly disgusted. Got down from the stand, set gun against tree, took 10 steps and looked up and had enough time to count 12 points.

NEVER leave your gun behind. i saw a streak on his side where i skinned him. At least he was fine.

Hanky-panky in the brush, nope, too many sticker bushes. Like all that .270 talk, with 130's they are hard to beat. Shotgunner, come up to Oregon and hunt feral pigs around John Day. A couple people I know that have gotten them say the meat is nice and lean, sort of pre-spiced with sage.

I have not hunted for a long long time but when I did it was 243 or black powder. I ALWAYS took neck shots and I either ate them or missed them. With the black powder it was "take whatever you could get close enough to". Which can be very tough in Montana. No place for a man to hide like there is back east.
Jim

Truly loving all the chatter about calibers and bullet weights and designs. I love that stuff and am constantly learning. Thanks guys!

My 30-06 at 3000fps with 150gr Barnes Triple Shock X bullets will take anything I plan to hunt. I am good now to 200 yards and can within a couple of trips to the range be good to 400 yards.

jamesp - it looks to me like rural Texas has more wild pigs than humans! I had a reptile client whose biz was trapping and shootin' wild hogs. He sold them for $4 a pound hangin' weight to "upscale restaurants". They took all he could catch or shoot.

@wampidy, neck shots are the ticket! Large kill zone, drops 'em fast. I used to practice that with my 25 cal pellet rifle (85 grain pellet at 800fps for 105fpe) on feral housecats at the dairy farm. Housecats are a super tough animal. They'll run 100 yards after a dead kill heart shot. Head shots were effective, unless the pellet bounces. Then they'd be cuncussed, but up and running before I could load a second pellet. Hit 'em in the neck and they fold like a house of cards.

My buddy in Colorado took 6 elk 6 years straight with a 243 and factory ammo. Neck shots kill 'em dead!

Here in LA most folks use a 30-06 as well. I bought one, a Savage bolt action, and wish now that I would have bought a 243 instead. I love the rifle, but man, that thing kicks like a MULE! I have always used my dad's, which is a semi-automatic, but went with the bolt action for some reason.

Here we have a one deer a day rule, but i think you can take one doe and one buck in the same day, too lazy to go look lol, six deer total, only two of which can be antlered. I don't deer hunt so much anymore because I HATE to sit in a stand. I grew up running dogs and loved it. We raised lemon spotted walker dogs and they could fly! Back in the day, we could hunt almost anywhere, but now the big woods are all leased up so the folks that run dogs just use beagles so they can catch the dogs, plus the deer usually don't go too far cause the beagles don't push them like walkers did. I can remember jumping a big deer, prob a buck and they left the country like an arrow, those deer were almost never seen.

As far as being inhumane, I raised them all from puppies so they were my babies lol. I wish that I had some pictures now. Most folks think that people deer hunt with dogs to kill a lot of deer. Actually, if you really want to kill a lot of deer, especially big deer, dogs are not the way. Dog hunters mostly hunt to hear the dogs, there is something about it that is, quite simply, awesome. When I was a kid, there was a whole crew of mostly older men that fox hunted as well. I can remember sitting on the side of the road or on a pipeline in the dark listening to the dogs run. I really miss it sometimes. My father sold our dogs when I went to college, they were mine anyway. By then, we had a mix of walkers, lemon spotted, blueticks and walker/bluetick mix. Great dogs, you get the speed with the walker and the cold nose with the blue tick, but don't have to worry about them staying forever on a cold track. Blue tick puppies are a trip, all ears and feet and absolutely no coordination at all!

Got a young buck. Give him a few years.

I think i see a little horn



A ghost deer

My old timer neighbor always killed deer in his crops resting his 270 on the P/U truck-with iron sights.

His nephew put a scope on it for him and the old fella kept complaining about the bullet hitting 30 feet to left,then 40 feet short-all over the place.

Nephew found 5 holes in the other side of the bed where the scope had lowered the shot 2 inches up close.

They laughed at MR. Campbell for a long time.(it was Sammy Frankie).

Now, that I have read this three times I understand what happened! The scope could see a close deer but the barrel could not so he blew holes in his truck!

So, take the effing scope off and let ole Mr Campbell kill deer anyway he wants.

Poor ole codger.