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Just wanted to see if I could post a photo.[IMG:left] [/IMG]

Wow, it worked!

I shot this buck on my farm in 2004. He was 5 1/2 years old and dressed @ 219#s

To get some perspective of the size of the deer, I am 5'10" and weighed at the time about 270#s.

He was in prime condition, obviously an axample of bad "genes" when it comes to antlers. I think he WAS the dominant buck as he had many scars about the head and neck. Also I never saw any "medium sized" bucks in the area until after he was shot.

He has a scar on the left side of his neck that angles diagonaly down. It is from a shot I took @ about 240 yards in 2001.

He gave me the slip several times over the course of 3 years. He had me "patterned", but I stayed out late on election day 2004. It was pouring rain and he must have thought that it was "safe" to step out a little.

He was wrong.


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Posts: 2440 | Location: Northern New York, WAY NORTH | Registered: 04 March 2001Reply With Quote
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WCJ,

Great story and nice buck...I like the culling the bad genes. I have shot two non typicals on Catalina Island.

This 4x4 in MT this year was good size in body. The lower portion of his rack was good but short tines. He was estimated at 4.5 years old. He only had 1 testicle that was shriveled up but he was all "rutted" up anyway.



Mike

Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.



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.
 
Posts: 10124 | Location: Loving retirement in Boise, ID | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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I don't see a picture in the first post.

BTW, nice buck Mike!


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