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Old 10-30-2005, 09:42 PM
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stubblejumper
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Default RE: Good long-range deer calibers.

ORIGINAL: Rammer

To tell you the honest truth I didn't realize that doe was 512 yards when I squeezed the trigger. We were hunting in the sandhills in Nebraksa and the rancher wanted us to fill our doe tags, so I decided to shoot my mulie doe on the run (looked to be 300 yards), but there was a pretty good downhill slope, and a few hills in the way. After the shot when we were walking to the deer, we are like this is alot further than 300 yards, so when we got to where the deer was we lasered it with 2 different laser range finders and came up with an average of 512 yards.
In that case the shot was extremely lucky considering that your bullet should have dropped about two feet more at 512 yards than at 300 yards.
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