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Seems like this site is more Craigslist than Coues hunting, so here is a coues deer. Glassed up a bigger buck on the next to last day. Made a move and glassed him as soon as he stepped in to the thick stuff and the wait was on. An hour and fifteen minutes later this guy stepped out, 435 yards. Slight adjustment to the turret, one shot and he was down. Shot the buck at 930, got back to the side by side at 315. Craig's Custom Rifles 28 Nosler, 180 Berger Hybrid, shot from the seated position with the Harris bipod.

It was a hot one this year! At one time our trucks recorded 98 degrees on Saturday. We only glassed up 24 bucks this season, way less than our usual 50 bucks. After the first 4 days of struggling and passing up bucks, my wife decided to turn her hunt into a meat hunt. At first light she saw this buck 1300 yards away and we watched him while waiting for the heat to kick in. Once it got warm enough, he bedded and we were off. We snuck in to 309 yards and had to wait a couple of hours for him to stand up. As soon as the buck got up, she was all ready and dropped him. I got a feeling this next Nov hunt is gonna be a real good one with the cooler temperatures and a lot more bucks in the field.

His little 20ga did a number on these things. I was impressed.

I shot a great buck opening morning! Not quite as big as the one above but still a really great Deer.

Wife and I had a few fun days in the heat filling some deer tags to start the season off. Wife killed her buck at 469 yards one shot and dropped him in his tracks. Shot my buck at 250 yards. Nice to have some coues meat in the freezer. We have our 10 year old daughter’s first deer tag to look forward to in 3 weeks which is the one we are truly excited about to get her her first buck

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Took a few years to figure out this unit. Not a good unit. Scouted a big buck this summer. Saw him 2 days before season but not again for 3 days during season. Crafty old sucker. Bears like flies. Not for the faint of heart unit. It sucks. Big buck scouted. Caught this buck stretching at 130 PM, 20 minutes after my nap, Day 2 of 5 of hunt but day 5 for me as NM has 5 day seasons and I got there early. Thought he was my big guy and he was in a good spot for an open sighted muzzleloader with very few deer in this unit. Gotta go get there in case I said. Got setup at 75 yards after a sporty stalk. Great setup with some rocks in front, perfect. I still couldn't tell exactly what he was as he was tight in the trees with 83 degree highs. But I was hoping he was my guy as this area was smack in the middle of the big guys home range. Opportunities are not many in NM for sure.... Sat on him for 4 hours at 75 yards and still couldn't ID what exactly he was other than a good buck. Finally, he got up to feed a bit and I realized he wasn't the big guy but dang with a big wind storm coming in and at 75 yards I assessed him fast and said he's pretty good. He wouldnt turn so I shot him hard, hard quarter to. Shot him at 75 with a 275 grain Barnes. Heart shot him but I didn't know with the BH 209 smoke . He went a full 100 yards and it was a bloodbath. No idea how he went that far. He's got ear and brisket wrinkles and his teeth match that. He's at least 6 I think if not older. Maybe older. He's likely as good as he's gonna get, likely. I'm happy with him even though the big boy is a class above. Inspired by Kev...

Does anyone need any free Elk meat that's been in the freezer for a couple of years? It was going to be ground up for brats but it got lost at the bottom of the freezer. Pick up is in South Chandler.

What do all figure it will score? Not that score is important but this kid really deserved this buck.

My dog says she would like it. I will message you for pickup

Great story and congrats

1975 Winchester model 70 sporter .300 win with Leupold m8 6x42. 20” barrel and appears to have a shortened stock with 13” lop. SOLD

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That is Freakin AWESOME!!!!!

I got a 357 harret barrel that was sold with a package deal at a gun shop and the guys said 357 mag. Was a pleasant surprise after I figured out what I had . The max is definitely a better round than the magnum in a single shot.

I only use it for relatively short type shots when another type of rest isn't an option but I have not noticed POI changes. I agree with Kevin's foreend comments...

As long as you don't put it out to far on the fore end of the stock crunching the stock against the barrel it shouldn't change poi

This buck was killed. Unless he moved quite a ways it was 12aw.

Savages! America needs more of this

Man what a story. I hope that if anything ever happens to me, I would have friends and family that would continue this legacy with my boys. Congrats to all.

One for the books my daughter made an awesome shot got to experience what elk hunt was all about the bulls were going crazy we had 2 fighting 20 yards away she was amazed

The same. are you interested or are you just a moderator?

I will take this.

So here are some thoughts on the Weatherby 307. I would use this action again, only minor fit and finish issues after getting some measurements. Superior to Rem 700 action for sure. At 750.00 for a ready to go 700 footprint clone action so far I say I like it. Main issue I had with it was they painted the lug face, I skim cut it off while indicating and it was close to square but with just buffing the paint off I got .0005 better. So the metal under the paint was .0005 square to center axis but the paint was showing .001 Overall very nice action

When I was in high school, I bought pot off a guy that let his parrot de-seed his Mexican brick weed. Bird seemed fine and I never got bird flu. Win, win.