More pictures added Colorado third season Bucks and Antelope

07 November 2009, 17:38

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Thursday morning I shot this Buck. With the help of my brother and "Graybird" we got it out in several trips on packs. I shot it quite a ways down a canyon from the road.
The Buck kept giving me the slip from the first time I spotted him but I kept trying to outwit him and he finally gave me a poor shot opportunity thru 200 yards of deadfall/burn. Shot him thru the small window while he was walking over the next rise. .257 Roberts, Sierra 117 grain SPBT, 41.5 grains of IMR-4350, struck him in the shoulder and exited in his neck. Dropped so fast I thought I may have missed him.
My brother got a Buck that morning too and Graybird got one Friday morning. He will post his pictures in another thread of his nice buck. I posted my sons Buck in an earlier thread that he killed monday. All required packframes and mileage to get them back to the road. All in all we did good for public land hunting, hope you like the pictures.

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Graybird

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Aaron Neilson
Global Hunting Resources
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08 November 2009, 00:45

Snellstrom

Hey Aaron
Thanks for the comments, that area is no secret! The place was crawling with road hunters but with a little work by getting away from the road some decent bucks can be found. I'll be in unit 44 next week, not hunting big bucks but chasing Elk on an either sex tag. The either sex was not my first choice in the draw but it gets me out in the field for another week and a chance at a Bull.
We do need to catch up with each other its just busy for me during the season.

Mike

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What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.

Aaron Neilson
Global Hunting Resources
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globalhunts@aol.com
www.huntghr.com

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19 November 2009, 05:39

Snellstrom

Thought I would add my brothers Buck to this post, just got his pictures yesterday. He used a 270 WSM and 110 grain TTSX factory Federals, shot was just over 200 yards and was a drop right there at the shot. I helped him with a real nice uphill pack with packframes back to the road. Not his biggest buck as far as horns go but the body was enormous. I really enjoyed this hunt with my son, my brother and a couple real good friends that I met right here on AR. I'm pretty picky about the friends I keep and "Graybird" and "Taylorce" are really great people, says a lot for this forum when you can meet people off the internet and become good friends. I hope to hunt with the same group next year. I thought it was a great experience for my son to share a hunting camp with more than just me for a change.

I'm going to add his Wyoming Antelope buck here as well. We had a very successful Antelope hunt here in Colorado where my son, brother and I all filled our doe tags opening day, then my brother and I filled our buck tags later in the week with real nice ones, then my brother headed to Wyo for the buck in the pictures below. He may correct me but the shot was just under 200 yards and he used his 270 WSM and 110 grain Barnes TTSX.