Brambles
09-19-2010, 01:09 AM
I'm gonna try and keep it short because I'm BEAT, just got in from the first hunting trip of the year. I've been VERY busy building/renovating my house, big project, not much time for hunting. I've got some Late season mulie hunting planned but I basically wrote any early season hunting off the books.
That is until today, first day out in the field, had the weekend off and Rattler and I decided to go putz around a bit. The day was pretty uneventful until about 5pm when Rattler spots a bull. The bull was 550 yards away, first look over showed the bull missing his second points and small back tines (which should have been the 6th points but only a 5er with the missing 2nds), however we were able to see he had an extra on one side. Luckily we had spotting scopes. Rattler did well pulling the bull away from his two girlfriends to within 250 yards. It took a while looking through the spotter to see if his points were long enough to be legal but in the end they were and it was GO time.
Being the sporting hunter I am I gave a low warning shot:mrgreen: He basically just stood there and I was able to put a 130 gr TTSX from my 270WSM through the boiler room. He stood there for a minute or a little less with Knees shaking and then fell down. He still had his head up so I threaded another one through the back of his head.
Not a monster by any stretch but he's gonna taste good, still took 4 hours to pack him out to the truck, all of it in the dark through blowdown and creek crossings.
I'm going to assault my pillow now.
5x6
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That is until today, first day out in the field, had the weekend off and Rattler and I decided to go putz around a bit. The day was pretty uneventful until about 5pm when Rattler spots a bull. The bull was 550 yards away, first look over showed the bull missing his second points and small back tines (which should have been the 6th points but only a 5er with the missing 2nds), however we were able to see he had an extra on one side. Luckily we had spotting scopes. Rattler did well pulling the bull away from his two girlfriends to within 250 yards. It took a while looking through the spotter to see if his points were long enough to be legal but in the end they were and it was GO time.
Being the sporting hunter I am I gave a low warning shot:mrgreen: He basically just stood there and I was able to put a 130 gr TTSX from my 270WSM through the boiler room. He stood there for a minute or a little less with Knees shaking and then fell down. He still had his head up so I threaded another one through the back of his head.
Not a monster by any stretch but he's gonna taste good, still took 4 hours to pack him out to the truck, all of it in the dark through blowdown and creek crossings.
I'm going to assault my pillow now.
5x6
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Brambles77/P9180506.jpg