Coues Sniper

This is awesome. Great story, your son is doing very nice work and learning valuable life lessons. If only the rest of our youth had your sons work ethic. Well done dad.

Haha, got one last punch in before he bolted. Awesome.

Thanks Coues Sniper, Yes I have great groups with the A-Max Bullets however last season my son shot his bull elk with it. He dropped the elk in its tracks, he was flopping around for a couple of minutes so we got closer to put another round in him and he just got his footing and took off. Very Little blood (4 drops) and to make a long story short we could never find him. I feel if we had a better bullet like a Berger or ELD-X the initial devastation would have been greater and we would have never lost that bull. I have shot many Coues Deer with the A-max with no problems but an Elk is a lot bigger. I just never want to have that happen again... Sorry to hear that happened to you. The Berger and A-max are similar bullets in that they are both thin jacketed and frangible, so I imagine performance in your situation would have been similar also. Having said that, I wouldn't likely use the 168's for elk either as I prefer overkill. My elk/deer hunting rig is a 300 Norma pushing the 230 grain Bergers. Good luck to you.

If you have a good load with the amax's, stop there. Excellent hunting bullet, and you can stop the money spiral testing new loads.

Anyone else see this? Absolutely my dream deer. I'd kill this buck over any other Eastern I've ever seen. Officially 223" gross B&C, 216 Net. Amazing. http://newsok.com/article/5541219

Article made it sound like fair chase. Was on a small chunk of farmland, and was the guys first buck.

Found more pics. Gotta love Google.

I'm assuming the extras account for a lot, but he has 29" beams, and his mass is off the charts Just a crazy frame. Do you still get 4 mass measurements despite the number of tines? That deer has elk-like mass and might make 120-125 on beams+mass. That still leaves a lot of ground for G1's, G2's and spread. I wonder what it scores without junk. Yes, you get 4 mass measurements no matter how many points it has.

I'm assuming the extras account for a lot, but he has 29" beams, and his mass is off the charts Just a crazy frame. Just saw another article that says it has 46" of mass, which seems low, and 37 scorable points.

They look perfect. Great job.

I agree he seems young, but WHT, whats going on with his right brow - does it split or something? If so, his right side is outstanding. Depending on what that brow does,and with that great G3 on his right, I'd guess him 105ish? Very nice genetics, if you can turn him up next year, (or even year after) you might be glad you guys didn't kill him.

Packs are kind of like bows in that they are very subjective. All the bags mentioned above are great, just different people have differnet needs/opinions. The Kuiu bag I have is the best bag I've ever had, IMO. I too was concerned about durability, but its held up much better than I thought it would.

That would mean a WR if other side matched at over 70"

Don't think this is the case - they had a 100 yard range that they dug a trench in the ground to get out of the wind that they use. I actually shot in it on one of my 3 (yep, three) forays there trying to get my rig sorted out. That was several years back though.

Elkhunter, you're a class guy all the way. Great job.

Thats really cool, good for him. Wish I were closer, I'd definitely give you a few. Good/Bad thing being so far east - I'm 2,700 miles from a Coues deer, but I can literally shoot as many deer as I want. A buddy killed 61 last year. Yes, sixty-one

Very cool stuff Case, congrats man. Of course, this means she doesn't need your help in the field at all. Looks like many more days of at home daddy duty

You guys had a phenominal hunt, congrats. Looks like you had done your homework too. What did they tape out at?

I had a 300 RUM from Christensen Arms, and I about lost my mind trying to get it dialed where I wanted it. It would shoot like a dream for several strings, and then go to absolute garbage, and then back again, without much ryhme or reason as to why. I checked EVERYTHIING over a period of a couple years, and couldn't get it figured. Tried different combinations of bullets, powders, primers, COAL's, on and on, same issues no matter what I did. Sent it to Christensen several times, and it always shot perfectly for them, of course. Took it to several smiths. By the end, the only original part on the rifle was the trigger, and the barrel. I had swapped every other piece of the rifle out, even the brake. Finally took it to a new smith, and asked him to try and build a load for it. He had same issues. He had it shooting ragged holes with a certain load, and then the next day would shoot it to verify, and it would be a different poi and garbage groups. Finally I asked him to just rebarrel it. He finally gave me a piece of information that made sense to me - he explained that since Christensen mills down their barrels before they wrap them (mine was milled from a Krieger Match Grade barrel, they make their own barrels now I believe), it causes the barrel to expand slightly from the heat. When they cool, they go back down, however, they don't return to the exact same diameter. Now, this wouldn't be THAT big of a deal, except they don't mill down the ends, so since the barrel didn't expand at those locations, the barrel is slightly smaller there. He verified this by measuring the barrel in the middle, and the ends. He explained that this is the opposite of what you would want and can cause inconsistency with harmonics. At any rate, he rebarrled it with a Proof Research barrel in 300 Norma, and it shoots incredible - no fliers or garbage groups. As a side note, even if it wasn't for the above, I'd never deal with Christensen again. I just didn't like the way they dealt with me. And in full disclosure, I do have a 6.5x284 from them that I haven't had any issues with. My smith said it depends on the rifle, and that the issue I explained above doesn't affect the smaller diameter calibers as much. Hope that helps.

I use the Kuiu harness for my 10's, and love it. Best I've used.

And you have a carp in your avatar. Shows what you know.

I think being bad at hunting pigs means you are actually a good hunter. Which would mean your recent success is a sign you are regressing. My advice, get back out there and hunt some Coues and shake off the new found stink pig mojo. Congrats

Really nice bucks, congrats. Need more pictures - especially of the double beam buck.

"Off" switch

Cool twist to a sad story. Sorry for your loss, but neat way to honor him.