Thanks! That's tough still having to wait a month!
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We are waiting on 🦌 and 🦆 to start here too, not until 10/17. In the meantime I took my 15yo out for a black bear hunt last weekend, beautiful hike up a river. Saw lots of sign and a couple deer but no bears.
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Not a bad spot for a lunch break.
Success!!!!! 😃 My boy bagged his first bear yesterday!
Hide measured right at 6' nose to tail (slightly above average for this area) Definitely a proud papa moment. The next one he cleans and drags himself though 😉
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Freezer is filled :)
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Steyr Scout in .308, 165gr Nosler Accubonds.
P. S. I hate the scout scope, and hope to change it when funds permit.
My grandpa passed earlier this year. This Winchester 30/30 was his. Those are his initials he put in the stock. I clearly remember it standing in the corner of the box blind while I sat next to him on my first deer hunt when I was 8 years old. He taught me to shoot, to hunt, to fish, to enjoy the outdoors.
When he passed earlier this year I committed to taking a deer with it before the season was out. I took it on several hunts and passed on several small bucks, does, and a few good bucks that were out of range.
The Lord saw fit to bless me with an opportunity on this 7pt yesterday AM and I was proud to take it. I used grandpa’s knife to gut this one too.
Extra thanks to @Malamute for his help in getting the parts I needed to round out the sights a few years back.
Here’s to you, Pa! Thanks for the time, the lessons, and the memories.
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^^^^^ Overlapping circles of life.
Thanks for sharing. God bless PA. All of them. :cool:
Someone let the cat out of the office and he found this buck following a doe this morning at first light in steep country. Rifle is a home-built 6.5 Grendel, Aero upper and lower, Alexander 16 inch barrel, Leupold 6x33 (limited run) compact scope. Taken from about 35 yards high behind the shoulder broadside, double lung shot, with a 120 grain Hirtenberger bullet loaded to about 2450 fps. Ran maybe 40 yards and dropped. Straight downhill. Total hunting time elapsed from truck to the shot, 10 minutes. Time to get him back to the truck, 6 hours. :p He was a heavy SOB.
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My daughter's first deer. 265-yard heart shot. 6.5 Creedmoor with 130 grain Sierra Gamechanger
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