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Posts: 2141 | Location: enjoying my freedom in wyoming | Registered: 13 January 2006Reply With Quote
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Biggest feral pig ever..taken this year...



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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: 10136 | Location: Loving retirement in Boise, ID | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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my dad and my daughter. His deer, her first rifle hunt



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Shot my first turkey in May.



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My youngest boy bags another whitetail, filled both his doe tags all on the same day too, 3 one shot kills and the season was over in a day.
 
Posts: 5604 | Location: Eastern plains of Colorado | Registered: 31 October 2005Reply With Quote
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Three one shot kills by my daughter in one day as well in OK just a couple of days after Snell's boy. First buck ever for her and her first ever shots past 200 yards on game.



 
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She did great Chad! Great pictures too. Tell her way to hang in there until the last Deer, last minute, last day. My son Cody was really relieved to hear that she filled her tags, every day he kept rooting for her.
Fun stuff.
 
Posts: 5604 | Location: Eastern plains of Colorado | Registered: 31 October 2005Reply With Quote
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I wish my phone would show the pics.

Anyways congrats guys.


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These are the two that I'm most proud of!





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Posts: 3722 | Location: Okie in Falcon, CO | Registered: 01 July 2004Reply With Quote
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Bailey's first deer.

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This photo and the one above are these hunter's first deer. The above photo is my daughter who hunted with me for 12 years and never had a decent opportunity to kill a deer. This photo is of my adopted daughter's boyfriend who had only hunted deer one other time.

Perry
 
Posts: 1144 | Location: Green Country Oklahoma | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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Perry,

That's a pretty good first buck that is going to be hard to beat!

Congrats to both of your hunters!!!


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Looks like you are doing your take off run into the wind.


...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men.
-Edward, duke of York

". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”
― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations”
 
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I got two pix...it was a family outing. My Dad, my Brother and I finally had a family hunt together. It looked like this:



Dad with his Doe!

I got a nice Buck that same night:



The next day My brother also got a doe. Good, solid family times!

PS: not sure what happened to the pix with my Brother...I gotta find out.


Regards,

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Far to many high on life moments this year to just pick one


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Posts: 7361 | Location: South East Missouri | Registered: 23 November 2005Reply With Quote
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Probably this one is my favorite.



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Posts: 3722 | Location: Okie in Falcon, CO | Registered: 01 July 2004Reply With Quote
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My 8yr old son's first deer



And a week later, his second


30+ years experience tells me that perfection hit at .264. Others are adequate but anything before or after is wishful thinking.
 
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Teri's first bear, a hunt I will never forget



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Hiland, Wyoming
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Posts: 402 | Location: Central Wyoming | Registered: 14 March 2010Reply With Quote
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Hey Ralphie
That looks like you got a wolf!?
Nice!

Great pictures everyone, I love seeing everyones photo's and the kids and wives especially that's great!
 
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My 12 year old daughter's sika doe with a 120 gr reduced recoil 7mm-08 load I made up for her.



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"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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Austin Hunter
Your little boot wearing huntress
is surely growing up!
Miss the "boot pic's"

To everyone else...
Great photo's
Keep them coming!
 
Posts: 2141 | Location: enjoying my freedom in wyoming | Registered: 13 January 2006Reply With Quote
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Way to go Gramps!
I hope I'm still killin them when I'm old.
I mean older.
 
Posts: 5604 | Location: Eastern plains of Colorado | Registered: 31 October 2005Reply With Quote
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This was a proud day with my good friend graybird



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Posts: 7361 | Location: South East Missouri | Registered: 23 November 2005Reply With Quote
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This was a red letter day in June as my wife and PH took her first African animal

30-06 150 grn Accubond at 341 yards bang flop









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Hard to not be proud of these jewels





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Out of all the cool stuff I killed in SA

This guy put me on cloud 9






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Posts: 7361 | Location: South East Missouri | Registered: 23 November 2005Reply With Quote
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This one made me want to... dancing




Link to the story...http://forums.accuratereloadin...3411043/m/4261060402


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Hard to not be proud of thee jewels


What were you looking for when you discovered that?! Big Grin Wink


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Shame? Not much



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All fun and games till somebody gets blue balls!
 
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My boy's first deer.



As a general rule, people are nuts!
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Posts: 2095 | Location: Missouri, USA | Registered: 02 March 2002Reply With Quote
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Nice first deer!
 
Posts: 1295 | Location: N.J | Registered: 16 October 2004Reply With Quote
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I am fortunate to hunt a lot, thus sometimes I take it for granted (not intentionally). Getting the chance to take my girlfriend after her first whitetail - that for me was a proud moment in 2014.



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This one made me want to... dancing




Link to the story...http://forums.accuratereloadin...3411043/m/4261060402


said it before, saying it again: Yours is THE coolest story/accomplishment on AR. Congrats again!
 
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I didn't get much to brag about but my son did. This is his best sturgeon this year.




This was his first buck.

 
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My 2014 OK crossbow buck 173 gross


I also bagged my first tom turkey and with my crossbow 10 inch beard






 
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That's one hell of a good buck Jeff

Glad to see your post....you've not been around much lately.


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