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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Poyntman:
Awesome Lane....
My little boy is about the same age now....what gun did you find he could handle well there? I need to buy him a little gun here this next year.

I bought a Ruger American in .300 Blackout. I then bought the compact stock which makes it a 12.5" length of pull with a nice soft pad. The barrel is threaded too...can get a moderator to help with muzzle blast and recoil ( I did not).

I was impressed with the kill that little gun made. He was shooting Fiocchi factory loads with a 125 gr polymer tipped bullet of some make. It looks like a ballistic tip. It went between ribs entering but hit a rib dead center exiting and took out a chunk leaving a big exit hole...one little fragment of jacket under off side skin adjacent to the exit hole. He was exactly 79 yards away...buck took 5 steps and died.

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Poyntman:
Awesome Lane....
My little boy is about the same age now....what gun did you find he could handle well there? I need to buy him a little gun here this next year.

I bought a Ruger American in .300 Blackout. I then bought the compact stock which makes it a 12.5" length of pull with a nice soft pad. The barrel is threaded too...can get a moderator to help with muzzle blast and recoil ( I did not).

I was impressed with the kill that little gun made. He was shooting Fiocchi factory loads with a 125 gr polymer tipped bullet of some make. It looks like a ballistic tip. It went between ribs entering but hit a rib dead center exiting and took out a chunk leaving a big exit hole...one little fragment of jacket under off side skin adjacent to the exit hole. He was exactly 79 yards away...buck took 5 steps and died.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Love to see that, It amazes me what some parents give up by not hunting with their kids, grand kids and great grand kids, some of my best memories...I hunt at Lometa and that's pretty close to Gainesville, I love to hunt and eat those wild low fenced hill country whitetail. I do that every year or so!

I have a little 5 cubic foot deep freeze that will hold the allotted 2 bucks and 3 does if I quarter them. its small and fits in the back of my pickup..Ihave a 100 ft. of electrical cord and can plug it in at camp and in a motel while traveling, meat will stay frozen for a week once frozen (overnight) without pluging it in and the unit cost me $144. at Home Depot, cheaper than a Yeti or whatever and does a lot better job...Get home thaw it out enough to butcher and wrap and into the main freezers and Im ready for fishing season..

Stopped on the way home in Post Texas and got some of the worlds best beef jerky from Jacksons meats, its just damn awesome..They ship to anywhere.

Give that boy a big high 5 from me..nice buck.