Granddaughter's First Big Game Animal

12 November 2015, 05:07

My son and I took his 12 year old daughter hunting this morning. She was armed with a Savage Arms youth rifle in 6.5 Creedmore. The bucks were rutting good and responding well to rattling. To start, I was rattling and my son was talking her through the action. Several bucks came in, but the one she settled for came running and stopped broadside to her at 77 yards. One shot, and her first big game animal hits the ground.

About an hour later, she rattled in my buck and I shot him with her rifle. Score two for the Creedmore.

It was a great three generation hunt!

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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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14 November 2015, 23:04

Atkinson

Awesome, and what a lovely young girl...Some of my best memories are my sons and daughters, grand sons and daughters first buck..No Creedmores back then but the 222 did the job and they graduated to the 25-35, and the 250 Savage, mostly they have stayed with the last two.

Hunting builds character and intelligent thinking and the ability to cope, and common since, something so many kids don't get these days. They sit in front of a TV set or violent game killing humans, they get desentsitised and the end result is often not all that great. Good for you.