rocksteady
10-28-2007, 01:46 PM
Well now that I have your attention, I will tell you the story..Up at 6:30, when I went to get out of bed feet slipped out from under me and did a faceplant into the hight stand...Great start to the day....
Had coffee, went up to feed my horses around 7:30, figured what the hell I would take a drive with the .243 as I have not been hunting for a week....
Drove down the Hidden Valley (paved) road onto the Peavine and then started up Hogg Creek...Just getting light so turned off the headlights, idling along....At the 1 km board a whitey crosses the road about 50 yards ahead of me and goes into the open fir and starts feeding..I glass it, its got horns (1 for sure), so I shut off the truck (Sirius radio is still playing, door dinger is dinging) load the clip into the gun, take 3 steps towards the front of the truck....Mr. Whiteys head comes up, I loook at him in the scope, hes legal, off goes the safety...BOOM....Aimed about 2 inches below his white throat patch and thats all she wrote....The bullet hit exactly where I pointed it, taking out the deers vertabrae and down for good....Was using Winchester 100 grain XP3 factory ammo..Maybe a 40 yard shot...Dragged him to the edge of the road, gutted in less than 10 minutes, on the way home and in my carport by 8:45....
Extremely hard hunt:mrgreen::biggrin:
Weighed in at 70 lbs at the butcher but no signs of rutting up so should be good eating....Since I did not get an elk this year I was not gonna be picky about my whitey....
Not sure what he would score 2" on one tine 2 1/2" on the other.....
It is now officially COYOTE SEASON....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/Picture002-4.jpg
Had coffee, went up to feed my horses around 7:30, figured what the hell I would take a drive with the .243 as I have not been hunting for a week....
Drove down the Hidden Valley (paved) road onto the Peavine and then started up Hogg Creek...Just getting light so turned off the headlights, idling along....At the 1 km board a whitey crosses the road about 50 yards ahead of me and goes into the open fir and starts feeding..I glass it, its got horns (1 for sure), so I shut off the truck (Sirius radio is still playing, door dinger is dinging) load the clip into the gun, take 3 steps towards the front of the truck....Mr. Whiteys head comes up, I loook at him in the scope, hes legal, off goes the safety...BOOM....Aimed about 2 inches below his white throat patch and thats all she wrote....The bullet hit exactly where I pointed it, taking out the deers vertabrae and down for good....Was using Winchester 100 grain XP3 factory ammo..Maybe a 40 yard shot...Dragged him to the edge of the road, gutted in less than 10 minutes, on the way home and in my carport by 8:45....
Extremely hard hunt:mrgreen::biggrin:
Weighed in at 70 lbs at the butcher but no signs of rutting up so should be good eating....Since I did not get an elk this year I was not gonna be picky about my whitey....
Not sure what he would score 2" on one tine 2 1/2" on the other.....
It is now officially COYOTE SEASON....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/Picture002-4.jpg