got myself a nice freezer buck!

[todbartell]

went out last night and managed to get a nice 2-3 yr old whitetail buck. 4x4

shot at 150 yards +/- with my new custom m700 chambered in 260 Remington. Bullet was 130 gr. Barnes Triple Shock X @ 2840 fps. Buck did a backflip practically on impact, stone dead heart shot.


here's a view from my blindhttp://usera.imagecave.com/ws6/Sept30_05001.jpg

as he fell...
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[Marc]

Nice buck and defanitely some good eating! Congrats on a sucessfull hunt.

Marc.

[Gateholio]

Nice whitetail!!

I thought they were all little things up around there...:???:

Was it a head on shot?

Details, you *******, details!:mrgreen:

Vension burrito coming up!:smile:

[Schmaus]

good shooting, went out the pelican yesterday seen lots of deer but no shooters

[Freshtracks]

Very nice whitey buck. Surprising how them digital camera pics make it look dark out all of the sudden.

I'll assume that isn't your honker field.

[brotherjack]

Thumbs up! Very nice! That's what I think is the perfect size/age white-tail: old enough to have plenty of meat on his bones, and young enough the meat is still tender and suclent. :)

[bsa30-06]

congrats on the whitey looks like some good eatin!

[todbartell]

I thought they were all little things up around there...:???:

Was it a head on shot?

Details, you *******, details!:mrgreen:

There's big whitetails all over the province. The local ones are the Dakota Whitetail subspecies, like the ones found up in Ft St John/Dawson Creek (and Alberta/Saskachewan/Manitoba). Big bodied and heavy racked when mature. The season around here has been open since 1993, and I know of a few 160-170 class bucks taken, even last year a 190 gross NonTyp. :o Last year I managed to miss a nice 160 class hawg...:oops:

The shot was slight quartering towards, basically broadside. The 130 TSX impacted right in front of the near shoulder, busted through the heart, and exited between two ribs behind the off-side shoulder. At the shot the buck just reared up on his hind legs, stumbled a half a step then flipped, within 5 seconds the kicking was done.


Very nice whitey buck. Surprising how them digital camera pics make it look dark out all of the sudden.

I'll assume that isn't your honker field.

The shot was taken at approx half hour after sundown. And no, no geese in this field, the damn alfalfa is about knee high!

[Gateholio]

I guess I was thinking of Bone Collectors whitetail pic he had, it was a really small whitetail with almost no antlers. I htought maybe the whitetails around your place were all like that, I suppose...:???: :???:

[Thunderstix]

I am insanely jealous!!

[rollingrock]

I am insanely jealous!!

Same here!:evil:

[BCrams]

Hey nice buck !!!!!

However a little biology correction -- its not the Dakota strain we have here. The whitetails in Central BC through the Robson Valley and south are of the Virginia whitetail strain.

The official boundary recognized by the biologists lies between the mountains up north in the Pine Pass and the Peace River country which is indeed known as the Dakota strain whiteys going into Alberta / Saskatchewan.

However - thats not to say the whiteys around here don't produce big racks as evidence from whiteys shot from southern BC in the record books as well as from around here.

I love that shooting shack you have there set on the field edge !!! Nothing like an alfalfa fed deer.

[todbartell]

the bucks here, especially in the rut, look like the ones from Northern Saskachewan, not the ones from Cranbrook and Alabama.

I firmly believe the whitetails that moved into this area are from the north, not the south.

Regardless, I love whitetails :razz:



I love that shooting shack you have there set on the field edge !!!

PS, the shack is smack dab in the middle of the field in a small brushpile island. 350 yards to the far tree line out front and back, about 100 yards to the south and north edges. Windows on all 4 sides. :-D

[Gateholio]

There have been a few whitetails reported around here in recent times.

One happened this summer. A farmer/hunter saw one jump over his fence.

It will be interesting to see int he next few years what happen...

[todbartell]

I remember the first one I ever saw. 1993 hunting season, carrying binoculars for my dad as a tagalong 12 yr old. First year they opened this area for WT's.

My dad and I were deer hunting, we're standing on this brushy ridge overlooking a alfalfa field below us when all of a sudden this deer runs out of the brush and into the field, tail flagging.

"WHITETAIL!" :o

"BUCK!" :shock:

BAM~!

that lil 3x3 hit the ground pretty hard when the 308 Norma spoke up. man alive my 'ol man was excited, it was probably one of the first whitetails legally shot in 7-12A.

1994 & 1995 were good November rut hunts, in '94 I watched my Dad miss what was probably a 180 class brute...it was by far the largest deer I'd ever seen and I dont think to this day I've seen another one like that. THe memory is burned into my brain seeing that sucker standing at the brushline field edge as he stepped out after a doe. :o

[BCrams]

Firebird -

Yep regardless and you're entitled to believe what you'd like ......but a little factual research will say otherwise.

I've hunted northern Saskatchewan on my relatives ranch and the Peace Country extensively ...... there's a difference between the ones we've shot and seen shot around PG/Vanderhoof / Robson Valley and the Okanogan / Kootenays being quite consistent ....... and the ones we've shot in the Peace and Saskatchewan blows em away :grin: A few trips to Saskatchewan / Peace River yourself will show a difference.

[Sikanni Stalker]

I guess I haven't seen any bigguns up here at all. the whitey's I see here look like the blacktails on the island (small). I remember the farm as a kid in Ontario, we had some real big whiteys there. The Mulies on the other hand, I have seen some big enough to be elk!(not really but get my drift)

[youngfellla]

I call dibs on the tenderloins!!

[ex bc guide]

Nice buck Congrats
Mike

[Gus]

Beauty buck firebird, i'm hoping to get something like that myself this year. Ive never shot a whitetail before but i'm looking forward to it. I think they better eating then mulies.

[Mulie_Hunter]

Very Nice Whitey, Gratz on breaking in the new boomstick.:mrgreen:

[ZENYO]

Pics are not working for me

[oldtimer]

JEALOUS AS HELL !!!! Nice buck firebird . You ever hunt government land ?????? With your results this year why would you ?? Mike

[Seeadler]

Hey nice buck !!!!!

However a little biology correction -- its not the Dakota strain we have here. The whitetails in Central BC through the Robson Valley and south are of the Virginia whitetail strain.



Everything that I can find on the Internet says that the Whitetails in Southern BC are the Northwest subspecies.

Nice buck regardless of subspecies!

[Ltbullken]

Nice animal. Is that a blind you were working from? What kind? I also have a .260 Rem, Rem M700 DBM SS, 24 " barrel. I got a 129 grn Hdy SP coming out about 2775fps with 42.5 grn IMR 4831, Fed 210 primer and a 125 Nosler Ptn with H4831, 48.5 grn H4831, Rem 9 1/2 primer at 2850fps.

Care to share your 130 grn recipe?

Great shootin'!

[Ronforca]

Congrats Firebird.Should be excellent eating.It looks about like mine.Mine had fat on its back 2 in.thick.I actually measured it.Enjoy.:smile:

[todbartell]

Care to share your 130 grn recipe?


The load I shoot is a 130 gr. Barnes TSX over 43.0 grs. H4350. WLR primer & R-P brass. 2840 fps avg. @ 23" tube.



PS, the blind is homemade out of chipboard :-D

[Ltbullken]

[QUOTE=Firebird]The load I shoot is a 130 gr. Barnes TSX over 43.0 grs. H4350. WLR primer & R-P brass. 2840 fps avg. @ 23" tube.


Thanks. I'll give it a try.

[PGKris]

Nice whitie! And yes, we do have big boys around here. The ex's dad got one last year out east that score 177 typical! Brow tines came in at 7 1/2"

[BCrams]

I held that 177 buck in my own hands :mrgreen: