Coues Sniper

Sweet pics. I like that heavy lil' bugger

Freaking awesome, congrats guys

What up

No, I haven't. But that is a good idea. I haven't shot it without the brake. Ever. Although I was thinking about doing just that this weekend. I'm planning on shooting this Saturday, maybe I'll give that a try. Thanks Doug.

Ahhh yes, awesomeness. That crap is expensive Donation forthcoming

Went to the range again this morning, and I'm still a bit confused. The brake never came loose, so the plumbers tape turned out to be a good temporary fix for that. But the gun still didn't shoot like it did over the summer with these bullets. To back up a bit, I don't reload (yet, I will as soon as my hunts are over) but I had a couple hundred hand loads made up for the gun that shot well. My old man bugged me to try the Remington factory loads with 180 grain Scirocco's that he really liked. I gave them a shot and my gun LOVED them. 1/2 moa was a cake walk. Shots touching at 400 was not uncommon. It was almost too good to be true. Well, after I fixed the brake problem for this morning the gun shot significantly better, but I still had 2 fliers out of 6 shots with the factory loads (both around 2 minutes, once at 100 and once at 400). I tried the old hand loads and they shot just like they did before. So I don't know if Remington changed something (these were all different boxes than shot over the summer, and I tried 3 different ones) or what, but the gun doesn't seem to like these Remington factory rounds at all any more. Anyone else ever have this problem ?

How cool is that? Great bull too, thanks for sharing man

I have faith that that guy doesn't need luck. But I guess it couldn't hurt... Give 'em heII GRONG!!!

Great story and a great bull. A 3 mile pack out in rough country, now that's some work Congrats.

Thanks! Brad is also a game biologist and looks at the teeth on the bottom jaw to age deer. The tooth he normally looks at was actually gone on my deer so he looked at the other teeth and that's what he came up with. I don't think you can be exact unless you cut the tooth open but he says he is usually pretty darn close. He was an old buck for sure though. Hopefully I'll have a good report from the range tomorrow. I have another hunt on the 1st so i need to get this figured out quickly I'll keep you guys posted.

I agree, chuckar hunting is a blast. Especially when it comes time to eat 'em

It just doesn't get much better than that! Congrats!

That is a bummer. It would have been nice if you could have at least kept the pelt.

Jason, Prayers sent to you and your family.

+1 on big Nog putting a hurting on Mir. That would be great. I haven't seen the fight of Corey breaking his leg, but i heard about it. They say he'll be out 18 months minimum . Hate to see that happen to anyone, but I like that guy. He was fun to watch on TUF.

Nice work Christian But where's the close up of him on the ground???

+1

Great buck, congrats. Ultramag, i miss that unit too. Had some great hunts in 23.

That is freaking SWEET . Wow. Far and away the best Zebra mount I have ever seen. Awesome work.

Finally got a chance to shoot the rifle today. First thing I noticed when i did a once over on her was that the brake was loose . Most screw on type brakes will slowly get tight, but not this one. It's hard to get it tight because once it gets to the end it simply won't go any farther. You can crank it as hard as you want with your hand to tighten it, but when you try and loosen it it only takes 2 fingers. This has gotten progressively worse as I've had her. I think the reason is because I take the brake off to clean it every time and the constant on and off has made it easier to loosen. Another thing is, when it does get loose, it wobbles. And it doesn't have to be all that loose for it to wobble either. So i tightened it with my hand and shot. Good up and down and probably 3/4" left. 2nd shot is about an inch left. OK, so 4 clicks right and i'm home again right? Make my 4 clicks and shoot again. 1/4" low and 1/4"left. The shot felt about there so i shoot again. 1/4" right and almost 3" low. What the??? That couldn't have been me! Check the brake, and you guessed it: loose. VERY loose. Tighten the brake and then proceed to put one touching the bull's eye. Sweet. Let's try 400 now. Dial to 400 and shoot. 12" low, easy. What the ____? Check the brake. It's a little loose but not enough to affect it, I would think. Crank it tight and shoot again. Dead nuts center of the bull, I mean perfect. Try it one more time, almost 12" low again. Brake again was a touch loose but I'm not sure if it was enough to affect it. By this point I'm about to pull my freaking hair out and I'm out of time anyways so I head home. I cleaned the rig and put a bit of plumber's tape on the threads of the brake to see if that will keep it from coming loose. It made it much harder to tighten, and took about all i had to get it fully on. I'm praying that's all it is. I also inspected the brake to see if it was getting any contact from the bullet (due to that wobble) and couldn't see any. But i may have to look a little more closely than i could at the range. The weird thing is, all the shots that were off were off vertically. There was vitually no left or right variance. And when a shot was a flier, it was always low. About 3 to 4 minutes. I'm taking the chrono with me next time to check my loads and see if i'm getting any variances in velocity. Think positive thoughts for me

I agree, that was a geat card, especially for being free! Bader looked great and Effrain shocked the heck out of me. And I hate to say it but Junie looked like he might be able to back up that mountain of smack he's been talking. He domintaed Kaplan.

I was going to ask you about that buck and whether you had ever seen him again or not. I really hope you slip an arrow into him Tyson, that would be a sweet end to that story. Good luck man

I think it's pretty freaking cool. Nice work Amanda

I apologize. I thought Lousy was trying to start a bickering match. He sent me a pm explaining his post. I assumed his intent and you know what happens when you assume... I take back what i said. Lousy, you have a returned PM

Mike, you were quite... geeky looking in your younger years. I hope time has been good to you No rut yet. Too early.