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Lets see here: 270wsm made by Bettin Custom guns: gun is a tad heavy but over all not bad. shoots very well, except when there is a buck in the crosshairs, then the accuracy goes to poo!!!! in that gun used 140 gr Nosler Accubonds: seemed to work well as there was a lot of damage to the area of the buck that i hit several times, accuracy on the bench was superb! Zeiss 15x60's worked well, i didnt spot many deer this hunt but when i did, i could tell what they were! Velbon Chaser efl-4: (bought from amanda) this tripod is very sturdy! one thing i didnt like was when i would get it in just the right spot, one of the legs would slide out. Mad Dog pack- this pack works very well for the price! it has a rifle carrier on the outside that i use to carry my tripod. when we knocked our bucks down, i put the tripod inside the pack, put either my rifle or my dads in the rifle holder, and put the deer on my back and away i went! like sundevil, the hip wasit strap came up around my gut and was not all that comfortable and had to keep adjusting. leupold vxIII 4.5-14x40 Varmint Reticle Scope. if i could do it again, i would get the boone and crockett scope. at different times, the varmint reticle is difficult to see. when my buck was bedded under a tree dieing at 251 yards, i cranked the scope up to 14 power and it was blury. not enough time in the field to adjust the side focus, had to go back down to about 9 power. the boone and crockett is easier to see.

keep looking! chances are he is with in a 1/4 mile of the last time you saw blood. the same thing happened to me this year with my elk. blood got thick and then stopped. then thick then stopped. i looked for her till i had to get off the mountain. if it wasnt the last night i would have found her but could not continue the search it being the end of the season and all! good luck!

so, as you all know it took me a ton of shots to kill my deer this year with a rifle that regilously produces 1/2 inch groups with the load i was carrying! well the other day i went out and shot it and my new 7mag, the groups wer between 1 1/2-2 inches! i was like what the heck! so today i took the rest of the bullets i have from that batch apart and found out i was over my load by more than a grain! might not sound like a lot but when i have shot the 1 grain over (65.5) the groups really opened up! i was realoding on a broken scale! so maybe there is hope for me to have a one shot kill one of these days!

banjo was in the truck didnt thuink the coyotes would like my sweet music as much as you!

thats what i like! what really happened, is i tried to get him to run and he didnt run so i kept shooting then when he ran, im such a good shot, i hit him 3 or 4 times before he could fall!!! and as to a new rifle this is the most accurate rifle i have! and it is the second best caliber ever ( according to lark) it is a 270wsm (270 being first)

cold? it said 1 degree in town ( about 7000feet) we were above 8,000 so im thinking atleast -2 or -3 when we got on stand, i have on sweat pants, pants, 2 pairs of sockcs, a t shirt, long sleeve t shirt, a really really thick long sleeve a down jacket, heade net and 2 pairs of gloves, i was ok lol

there were two holes in her: one the size of a grape fruit and one the size of a orange. the coyote was facing us and the big one ( from dougs vmax varmint bullet) was on the corresponding side to where dougs exit would have been. the orange size one was on the corresponding exit side with my accubond. SO doug and i put 2+2 together and came up with since we shot at the same time, this is what happened!

Ernesto,. i knew someone would bring that up. ACTUALLY it only took me one shot! AND i hit her good on the first one! man talk about pelt damage it was bad! the cool thing was doug and i shot at almost EXACTLY the same time! man was that fun and like he said, it was my first! man what a blast!

DAMNIT you saw right through me! az, 1 1/2 inches at 100 is like 3 at 200. and i missed between 3-5 inches away from a good shot, still kniced the lungs, but not much more than that!

those are nice bucks! your dads buck has some serious tine length! your buck looks like my buck from 2 years ago, is he a 2x3?

dad and i got left over tags. have never ever hunted in 36c and have no idea where to look for pigs! i have never killed one and would like to shoot one with my grand dads old 30-30 any help! thanks!

my dad is good for a few miles but not many! Cory ( 9 y/o) brother will be with us also! should be fun!

wow this guy is a lowlife! he must hace some grudge against Amanda to come on HER site and bad mouth her! all i know is if it was me that you had had a heated conversation with on the hillside, things would not have turned out so peacefull as they did with amanda! you really need to back off of her because i guarntee 100% of the members here have her back and you are not winning any of us over.

when my grandad pased, i inhertied many guns from him. most of them are off the wall guns that no one has heard of. i have a OLD savage 22 that RedRabbit has seen that i got from my grandad, a remington 721 .270 that, with 140 accubonds will shoot as good/ better than my CUSTOM made 270 wsm. the 721 is beat all to heck and has knicks and dings all over the place but it is probably my favorite gun! i also got a 30-30 that is so old it doesnt even say 30-30, it says 30 W.C.F. now, back to the topic, i think that any of the .284 caliber guns are the best guns for deer. sorry lark. but they produce more velocity with higher energy than thet .277 and shoot a bigger bullet. that being said, i have a 7mag and my dad has a 7 ultra mag.

welcome to the forum! these coues are amazing deer! welcome to the forum and may many monsters fall to your bulllet of choice!

you went the wrong way!!!! congrats

i have a 270, 270wsm, 7mag, 243. i reload. which is the best round with any bulletfor piggies? i also have a .40 and .45 as well as 30-30 i will be hunting in 36c. what should i load and take? Lark, i know to take my 270 and banjo.

forgot to add LOL in that last post, sorry lol

well my trucks is the oldest uglies one out there but it has a sticker on it so i guess its not THAT bad..

.458 and work down? lark we all know i am the biggest, baddest MOFO here and i couldnt even handle that with out a flinch! and no.. i started on a smaller size banjo... butt!!!

i dont agree on getting him one rifle that he can shoot everything with. the LAST thing you want to do is get him a rifle that kicks him too much for him to be afrad to shoot it or develop a flinch. trust me on this one! get him a rifle that fits him and then if he grows out of it or wantsa bigger caliber, do i like my dad and i did, he bought me my first gun and we split ( like 90% me and 10% him) my second rifle.

deerslam, depending on the size of your son, be careful! my little brother, who will be 10 in Feb, is TINY ( ask RedRabbit) i wanted the 7mm-08 but opted for a .243 because i dont want the recoil to be hard on him. that is the big thing is felt recoil, if he starts on a flinch, he will have it for a while, i started on a 308 with a steel but plate and had a flinch for a while!

my vote is for 270wsm or 270. i own both and neither kick hard ( the WSM does weigh in at about 10lbs though) and they are very effective guns. tell him to suck it up a lil!

man lets make some tequila out of that!

i love dogs as well, i hate pit bulls but no dog deserves this. i hope this person rots in jail for this even if it was a pitbull! if it wasnt for my old rottweiler, i would either have no face or would not be here. to make a long story short, at 8 or 9 years old a pitbull charged me and my rott said that aint gonna fly, my rott took this pit out of mid flight and ripped his throat out 3 feet from my face!