Was going fishing until .......

[doubled]

Story to follow, gotta clean up and head to the neighbour's get together.


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[jeff]

great looking buck

[monasheemountainman]

Nice Mulie!

[pg83]

Congrats on the 4 pointer, looking forward to the story.

[Moose Guide]

Nice lookin deer, I smacked one last night just before dark(20" inside spread 4x5 if you count the brow tines)

[lilhoss]

That sucks,..what a way to wreck your day.Make sure you leave a little blood on you forearms for conversation purposes!!!Nice indeed!

[adamgarbett]

NICE BUCK. cant wait to hear the story. Funny that animals always seem to go down when a guys got plans for that evening lol, has happened to me a few times now

[moose2]

Nice buck looking forward to the story.
Mike

[ruger#1]

Nice clean rack. Good going

[Jelvis]

Completely scraped the velvet off with some shrub trees, nice mule deer buck.

[TESKELLY]

Nice. I sure hope all my stars align the right way when I'm off to go fishing :)

[cmarrie]

Nice work! Great September buck! Can't wait for the story. Congrats!

[doubled]

Feeling a little foggy this morning. Football and meat cutting - that is a tough day ahead.

Well we were going to go fishing for the day. Bruce and the boys wanted to go around 6 am from his house but I decided to be up there for first light. Almost nailed a coyote on the hwy in the dark on the way up (that scared the sh!t out of me).

Unloaded the quad and thought that I would poke around a few new blocks and see what is moving around. Went around the corner and got into a new block on my right that had a stand of trees in the middle of it. This was lined with numerous slash piles.

As I got closer to the stand of trees, I saw movement and instantly knew that it was a buck. I stopped the quad, turned it off, grabbed my rifle, loaded it and drew a bead on him. At this point, he was 260 yards away and heading directly away from me about 15 yards from the tree line.

I knew he was a good size but was not sure of the points yet. He quickly turned his head and I knew it was now or never as he would be gone in two more seconds. Four points stood out in my mind as I pulled the trigger.

He disappeared from my view and wondered if I had missed. After all, it was a very quick shot that was a fair distance away. I knew my Tikka T3 300 WSM was lined up for 200 yards so that was not a concern. It was the lack of time that bothered me as I walked up to where he entered the tree line.

I found blood almost immediately and he was only a few yards in.

Here are a couple pics of the bullet. It looks pretty uniform in the mushroom so was pleased to see that. Made a hell of a mes to his should. It was like pieces of popcorn when I was cleaning it up.


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Short video:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/th_Sep_2012_Muley.jpg (http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/?action=view&current=Sep_2012_Muley.mp4)

[groove]

Nice stuff D! My turn next!

[doubled]

Nice stuff D! My turn next!

Get out there Grant, the weather is getting better now.

[chainsaw]

Way to go nice buck, what bullet you shooting there.

[doubled]

Way to go nice buck, what bullet you shooting there.

Using Federal Fusion 165 grain. Wonder what others think of that pic of the bullet.

[nano]

Nice buck, congrats!

[matt420]

nice lookin 4x4 CONGRATS!!! i cant find the one yet that i seen during pre-season

[matt420]

i use a federal fusion 180 grain but outta a tikka t3 300 win mag, and mine usually mushroom about the same


Using Federal Fusion 165 grain. Wonder what others think of that pic of the bullet.