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Some pics from our trip Friday through Wednesday.

Ella took a nice free range whitetail that she had been hunting for 3 days. I took an old aoudad, 28" 253.5 lbs from 330 yards from the top of a canyon shooting down (see pic below). We also took 6 hogs between one of my friends and I.














Uber blind in process:




Another deer and aoudad from another lease member and his friend:





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Nicely done!
Great buck Ella


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me neither


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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.
 
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No pictures here either!
 
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One more time. F-ing Google!


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Good job, it looks a great time was had by all.


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Austin Hunter--Nice pictures. Give us the facts. Is Ella daughter, grand daughter, wife? What rifle she use?
 
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Originally posted by carpetman1:
Austin Hunter--Nice pictures. Give us the facts. Is Ella daughter, grand daughter, wife? What rifle she use?


Youngest of 4; 14 years old. 7mm-08 with my own 140 gr Sierra Game King load at 2,710 fps from a 20" barrel (2.780" 43 gr Varget CCI #200 RP Brass); Weatherbey Vanguard, Accurate Innovations wood stock, Burris 3-9x40 Fulffield II, ~100 yard shot in the morning. Hogs came in and scared him off, so she shot him on facing shot and got in the shoulder and then followed up with a side shot.


"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan

"Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians."

Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness.
 
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Great animals! I love the pic of the Aoudad hanging next to you. Makes him look like a STUD.


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