LOL muley I know what you mean. My buck was a "quick one" in that we had just dropped my brothers buck off at the processors back in Buffalo, grabbed lunch and hightailed it back out too the ranch to go after a lope for me. On the drive into the ranch (it was 100k acres) we saw a great buck in a herd about a 1/2 mile off the main ranch road. We drove on out of sight of the goats and then pulled off the road and quickly got "the basics" and took off after the herd. I had my rifle, my brother had my cam corder and our guide had his spotting scope. Like I said, an hour earlier we were back in town eating lunch and talking about the big lope my brother had just shot.

We covered the ground quickly and as we peeked over a hill there stood my buck about 400yds away. They didn't know we were around but they were moving off at a steady pace. My guide and brother took a sit where they could see and I was forced to ease on up too the top of the slope we were on. I am 6'4" and my big Sako has a 26" barrel plus another couple inches of KDF muzzlebrake in addition too the bi-pod, did not a sneak below the sagebrush make! By the time I snake crawled 30yds I was breathing hard and could hardly hold my Leica rangefinder on the buck steady enough to get a read. The buck finally paused a moment and the rangefinder flashed 367 so I knew I only had to put the crosshairs on him and crank one off! BTW I too recommend big optics for sagegoats. I took my Warbird as much for the 6x24x50 Swarovski as I did for the extreme flatness of the cartridge.

Killing wise, yes the lil boogers can take some thumpin. Like I said, I was winded, nervous, had a typical WY crosswind on a long shot and to top it all off I knew I was being filmed and would NEVER live a miss down so when I pulled the trigger on my buck as he was broadside I cleanly hit him in the back of the lungs/liver too which he then swung left and faced me head on. I put another round into him that took his left leg out of commission and exited just in front of his right hind leg. He STILL stood there, I could hear my guide saying, "Give him another one". I was about to jack the bolt when the buck quivered and began to take a step on the now decommissioned left leg which then sent him too the dirt for good! My 150 Lazerhead was still doin 3k fps at that range and that lil dude took two of them in the breadbasket and still stood for a couple of seconds! [:-]

The muley I took and basically ALL the whitetails I have ever killed with that gun have gone down like they were hit by lightning. That is when I decided that speedgoats are nothing but 130# elk!!!
RA