I went to my blind this morning, in Minnesota and carried my R8 in 9.3X62. I jumped a deer off of the plowed up soybean field in the dark. The wind blew hard all morning and it was cold. I went back and grabbed some breakfast and went back to the stand to catch up on my reading. Only thing different is I took my BBF97 in 9.3X74/20 gauge. I set there all day, did see a hen pheasant, but she was not legal to shoot. The shooting house I was hunting was not very well designed, with the windows too high, and they did not open far enough to give you much flexibility when making a shot. Also it was placed too close to where the deer would be crossing. About 45 minutes before dark, I looked up during a sweep, and two deer where facing me about 40 yards away, looking right at the stand that had been placed right in the middle of their crossing. The window was at a really bad place to make the shot, and I ended up laying it on its side, and put a round strait into the middle of the largest ones chest. It flipped it around in its tracks and was done, the other jumped out about 15 yards, and offered me another frontal shot, but it was facing me at about a 22 degree angle. I put a 20 gauge slug there as well. It hit the chest , and exited out the left side. It ran about 45 yards, and was down in a little strip of popler trees. I knew it was hit well by the way it ran with its belly low to the ground. I recovered the 250 grain Accubond bullet under the skin of the front of the right ham. It really did not make much of a mess considering my shot placement, and the close range. The slug had an exit hole that was about 3X4 inches in the other deer that was right in the ribcage, and very little damage that extended past that. I am very pleased with the Brenneke 3 inch 20 gauge slugs doing such an excellent job at about 55 yards.

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Deer killed with 9.3X74R


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Deer killed with 20 gauge Brenneke slug


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Recovered 9.3 Accubond

Ron, looks like the Passat got you up north pretty well, I guess?

I have to say:
That was about perfect
You couldn't possibly ask anymore out of your self or your gun then that.
That was great!

Cheers, John

Weidmann's Heil! Very nice, thanks for sharing!

Here a picture of the same rifle and it's prey:

Sehr gut! Ausgeseichnet!

Ron, I notice that the shotgun barrel is not "joined" to the upper barrel (unlike the other photo). Any reason for that? My Tikka 512SD has a 7x57 and 12 ga barrel in O/U configuration and they are joined as I recollect.
Peter.

The Blaser barrels are free floated, they come with a removable rubber filler strip. I have no objection to it, but I remove it, and leave it out. I am not that concerned about cosmetics.

Waidmannsheil on the Duplette there Ron Nice when a plan comes together, Dom.

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Originally posted by Dom:
Waidmannsheil on the Duplette there Ron Nice when a plan comes together, Dom.

I have been wanting to try a threesome, but I would have to get a drilling.

DUK
Tell the young man in the photo congrats from Texas!

Thank you Jeff, congratulations from Texas are most appreciated. The young man is doing fine also with the knife when it comes to gutting. It seems that his proud dad taught him a thing or two...

Ron, DUK,

great success and some really nice deers on the ground,

shared fortune is great and I seem to see just that in those pics.

/Chris