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Just a recap off this years hunting season. We hunted more days than last year but did about the same. My daughter got her first deer this year so for me that was a big deal. My oldest son also got his first elk. First was a doe Mule deer I got with my bow in Sept.  Daughters two deer   -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | ||
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Oldest sons two deer and elk.    -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Youngest sons deer. We tried so hard to get him an elk. He had a few chances but it just did not work out.   -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Finally my elk and Whitetail.   -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Another pic of my elk. 175 Barnes xlr 30-06. This is the exit. About 100 yard shot.  -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Elk hunting 101. High for the day -7*F 10Am  2pm on way to truck  -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Looks like the family did quite well! | |||
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I'll say! Very nice everyone! ~Ann   | |||
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Plenty of meat in the freezer this year, that's for sure. You and your family did well! _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Great looking family. And thanks for ensuring the next generation of hunters. | |||
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Always great to see kids in the field! We need the next generation to turn off video games and turn on to the great outdoors. Congratulations on raising your children to do just that! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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You and your Kids were Blessed with a very successful season.Congrats to all!!! | |||
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Thanks everyone. It can be a challenge at times to peel them off the video games or get them to get along while we are out. Usually it gets asked what we shot them with so here goes. First doe with a 100 grain 4 blade muzzy. Cow elk 30-06 180 round nose core-lokt 30 yards shot straight on neck shot drt. Bull elk 30-06 175 Barnes xlr 100 yard shot broadside nice wound channel with exit but barely a bloodtrail and 100 yard tracking job. By far the most challenging tracking job I have had to do. Just enough snow to follow tracks when there wasn't blood to follow. One mule deer buck 30-06 180 ballistic silvertip. Whitetail buck 165 seirra boattail 308 Win. The other two mulie bucks and three mulie does were all taken with a 20 gauge handi rifle and Hornady SST slugs. -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Great job, Dad! It looks like you're doing the job right. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Wow! Typical old fashioned fun hunting! I bet you borrowed some freezer space!  Well done. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Well done! Dad 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. | |||
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Good job Miller! Great stuff getting the kids out there!  | |||
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Pretty cool " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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