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Happy Birthday 30-06 w/pics of rifle/trophy

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22 November 2006, 21:48
Battle River
Happy Birthday 30-06 w/pics of rifle/trophy
I took the liberty of using an o6 for the past two weeks of deer season for several reasons


--I had not shot an animal with the 06 in 6 yearrs, the last one being a calf moose with my Kimber89

--I had never taken an animal with my Heym SR20 in 30-06, even though it is the most accurate rifle in my safe


--- Hey its the 100th anniversery of the 30-06 and another story to tack onto a hunting season memory!







After passing on 45 bucks this season I found this deer on some cropland my family farm,s and took him at 120 yards
Load is 165 gr Hornady SST 61.5 gr RL 22
Retained weight 110 gr shot was on point of shoulder angled through hungs and liver. Lots of tissue damage and great bullet performance IMHO




22 November 2006, 22:54
Heat
Now that is certainly a great way to celebrate the 100th year of the '06... Congratulations...

Ken...


"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. " - Ronald Reagan
23 November 2006, 01:11
54JNoll
Nice rifle, nice buck, nice caliber choice, and an even nicer memory. Congrats.
23 November 2006, 01:35
Fjold
That's certainly a big bodied deer, it would make three of ours. Congratulations.


Frank



"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

23 November 2006, 01:39
Battle River
FYI he grosses 164 nets 158 B&C. and was missed by at least two other hunters this year. The rut did him in as he was really trailing a doe hard when I spotted him, VERY heavy deer and was barely able to lift him into the truck. Estimated at 260lbs live
23 November 2006, 03:25
Don Slater
Nice deer BR! thumb
23 November 2006, 03:41
Huntr 30-06
Awesome buck taken with an awesome cartridge!! Congrat's!!
23 November 2006, 04:52
Hot Core
Yes indeed, congratulations on a fine 1-shot kill. Good things happen for the Hunter when the Bullet goes in a shoulder.
23 November 2006, 07:45
seafire/B17G
Beautiful deer, beautiful rifle....

Pretty awesome for a Canuck, eh? dancing

Congrats, eh?

cheers
seafire
cheers
23 November 2006, 17:47
D Humbarger
Congratulations BR. Very nice animal indeed! thumb



Doug Humbarger
NRA Life member
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73.
Yankee Station

Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo.
23 November 2006, 22:10
Battle River
Another FYI carcass minus legs hide horns head was 140 lbs delivered into butcher