The Party's Over, or will be for deer season in Archer and Young counties on the 19th. of this month. It ended for me however on Thursday, as we have 10 hog hunters from Nebraska here till Monday.

So knowing what we were going to have to deal with, on Thursday morning I went out north of Olney and got in one of the blinds we have on a 300 acre chunk that Robert holds back for himself. This was looking out the door, back to the east waiting for shooting time.

Actually there was enough moon light that I looked thru my scope at 6:24 AM and could see the crosshairs well enough that I could have shot the doe that was at the feeder.

After it got light enough to shoot two does came in and started feeding at one feeder and 20 or so quail came in and fed at the second feeder. The does were equal in size so I watched them for 20 minutes or so, waiting for a little spike I wanted to take out. I got to thinking about all the stuff I needed to get done before the hog hunters got here so at 7:30 the first doe that offered me a broad side shot was my pigeon.

It was a 125 maybe 130 yard shot, behind the shoulders and thru the lungs. She took off like a bat out of hell for about 50 yards and I began to think that I had flat assed missed.

She had ran out into another little right of way, took a hard turn to the left headed back toward the feeders and fell dead.

Not a big doe by any means, 80 pounds live weight and appeared to have not had her first fawn, so will be some good eats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQZ0qmf-mk

Tell us about your rifle??

.300 Weatherby Mark V deluxe. The ornamentation is stuff I added. I bought the rifle from a Pawn Shop in Fort Worth I used to do business with when I lived down there. The guy that owned the shop had tried to sell me the rifle for about 3 years, but I really was not interested. Finally one day I was in there and he went into his sales pitch and I asked him if I could look at it again. He did not keep it out on the rack but in the back room in a safe. I did not figure I could afford it, it at the time I bought it had a 2.5x7 Weatherby Premier scope on it. I looked the gun over, cycled the action and started making my excuses about why I didn't need it, besides as I said I figured he was going to ask a lot more for it than I was going to spend.

Before I handed it back to him I asked him what he wanted, and he said $500.00. I stood there looking at him and at the gun for a couple of minutes, told him to start the paperwork and I would be back in a little while. Went straight to the Credit Union I belonged to, borrowed the $$$$ and went right back to the shop and finished filling out the forms. That was in 1994 and have had the gun ever since.

The only thing I could tell that was wrong was that the stock had started splitting at the tang and in front of the floor plate. So, I tooks ome brass crews made some nuts to go on them inletted them in the right spots and no more splitting.

I really like the look of that " humped" stock on your rifle, reminds me of guns I saw in shops in Germany. I bought a takedown Verney- Caron in .270 WSM ( which I thought was a strange caliber for a French rifle) for my wife, stock looks similar. Does yours have the cheek-swell on the other side also? Nice, tasty doe, by the way...

Very nice additions to that stock to make it a one of a kind treasured rifle. That's also a gorgeous picture of the sky and of a tasty doe on the ground. That all adds up to why we hunt and not for big horns and a bunch of other such nonsense!

Those are some sweet rifles.I would glass bed it and not worry about the splits.They could be stabilized with some Gorilla glue (Super Glue).Some cool decorations on it.Nice meat doe.

Craze

I like the pics and as a solo hunter 99.9% of my pictures are of my rifle or pac and rifle looking at a landscape or laying on a dead critter.

I have read about your 300 and I think this is the first pic of it I can recall.

My rifle taste have changed since I was a young kid but I do remember loving the way those Weatherby rifles looked in the catalogs and magazines of my youth.

Here's to us all getting another "next season" chears