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Great opening day!
Opening day came with warm temperatures and heavy fog. Tyler ( my 10 yr old son ) and I sat in a box blind from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. We left the stand and headed for the club house. We rounded a curve in the dirt road, and there stood a doe in the middle of the road but she was a long way off. I checked her with the rangefinder and she was at 180 yards. I gave it some thought and decided to give her a try. With a good rest, I took my time and settled the cross hairs level with the top of her back and down her front leg and slowly squeezed the trigger. At the crack of the shot, I saw her jump straight up into the air and run out of the road. When we got to where she was standing, we found a huge area of blood spray. Tyler eased up to the ditch bank with his CVA Wolf, and looked back at me with a huge grin on his face. I looked into the canal and there she was floating in it. We got her out and onto the tailgate. The shot was perfect. Right beind the front shoulder. Just to be sure of the distance, we checked again and the shot was 180 yards. Upon cleaning her, her insides were like jello. Just a huge pile if matter. It appeared that the bullet had hit just above the heart and made a complete pass through. I'd say that my accuracy problems have been solved. Would someone please tell me how to post photos, ( step by step including resizing them ).
Thanks for all the help again.  |
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!
What bullet and powder charge did you finally settle on? Sounds like it did a good job.;)  to post a pic click on the Add Image button on the right in the toolbar. If you get a pop-up line asking if you want to allow scripted windows click on it and click to allow windows. I have to click on the buttona second time to get the scripted window. When you get the window just paste the URL to the pic. No [tags], just the URL;) |
RE: Great opening day!
ORIGINAL: Bigtimer Opening day came with warm temperatures and heavy fog. Tyler ( my 10 yr old son ) and I sat in a box blind from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. We left the stand and headed for the club house. We rounded a curve in the dirt road, and there stood a doe in the middle of the road but she was a long way off. I checked her with the rangefinder and she was at 180 yards. I gave it some thought and decided to give her a try. With a good rest, I took my time and settled the cross hairs level with the top of her back and down her front leg and slowly squeezed the trigger. At the crack of the shot, I saw her jump straight up into the air and run out of the road. When we got to where she was standing, we found a huge area of blood spray. Tyler eased up to the ditch bank with his CVA Wolf, and looked back at me with a huge grin on his face. I looked into the canal and there she was floating in it. We got her out and onto the tailgate. The shot was perfect. Right beind the front shoulder. Just to be sure of the distance, we checked again and the shot was 180 yards. Upon cleaning her, her insides were like jello. Just a huge pile if matter. It appeared that the bullet had hit just above the heart and made a complete pass through. I'd say that my accuracy problems have been solved. Would someone please tell me how to post photos, ( step by step including resizing them ). Thanks for all the help again. |
RE: Great opening day!
100 grain of T-7 (loose), MMP 24 Sabot, Nosler .451 HP bullet and winchester 209 primers.
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RE: Great opening day!
Bigtimer, congrats on the deer.
You could go to allyoucanupload.com or tinypic.com and upload your photos. Both of those sites will provide you with the necessary links to post on most forums, just copy the entired line provided (primary) and paste into the message body. But HuntingNet runs on some very unusual software. You can actually right click on a picture most anywhere on the internet (including from tinypic or allyoucanupload), then left click copy. Then right click and paste into the message body here. It works and this is the only forum I visit that will work by doing that. You can even resize the image once it is pasted by dragging the edges where indicated. |
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Bigtimer - excellent job on the harvesting of what appears to be some excellent looking and I am sure eating venison. Granted everyone wants large racks but when it comes to the table, give me a nice young doe any day of the week. Nothing better in the pot as my Grandfather used to say.
Also congratulations on making a heck of a shot. 180 yards is a long way in anyone's book when shooting a muzzleloader. And you also proved a very important fact that some people find hard to understand.. 100 grains of powder and the right bullet will take deer out to 200 yards. You got complete pass through and total wound production at 180 yards. With 100 grains of Triple Se7en. Do you think 150 grainis of powder would have knocked that nice deer down any faster? It was your shot placement that made all the difference. Again, congratulations, nice shot, and I bet your son is still smiling and bragging about the deer hunt the two of you had today... :D |
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Nice deer and one heck of a shot! Congratulations
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Bigtimer
Congratualtions!!!! Nothing beats success - Gets you really feeling ready for that buckmasters hunt now doesn't it. Remember I told you you and your gun could do it.... Here are the pics - tell us more about the hunt....  |
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Bigtimer
That Nosler Partition is a performer... What did it do to the internal organs? I love that load and bullet combination - told you so... Hey Tyler looks pretty happy also.... had to be a big day for him.... |
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Concradulations,Bigtimer, What distance were you sighted in for. Lee
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It is zeroed in 2" high at 50 yards. As I said, I held the crosshairs right at the top of her back. A big thanks to sabot loader for all the help:D.
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Bigtimer
It is zeroed in 2" high at 50 yards The 2" lift @ 50 or 2.75" @ 100 give you a 0 @ 145 and a max range of 178 yards. Looking at the wound it looks like you were pretty close to that trajectory. I hope that is about your max range with that setup - the bullet will perform farther out than that but it will require you to compute some Kentuk'elevation in the formula unless you a have a scope with a Ballistic Reticule or a Mil -Dot reticule... Again congrats - I feel good about your success there -clear out here in Idaho... |
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I've been hunting all my life and that had to have been the best shot that I've ever made. I struggled with the decision weather or not to take such a long shot, but after shooting as much as I have all week, I felt confident that I could do my part and extremely impressed with the performance with the Nosler. I hear a lot of complaints about cost of Noslers but if my calculations are correct, it costs me $1.35 per shot. I think that's reasonable for an accurate hunting load but wouldn't consider "plinkin" with.
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after shooting as much as I have all week, I felt confident that I could do my part You've got your meat. Congratulations! |
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I listened to a guy at the range coaching his friend on how to shoot a muzzleloader. I couldn't believe my ears. This guy told his buddy that " if you can hit a pie plate at 50 yards, that is perfectly acceptable. When the range was cleared and I retrieved my target, his jaw could have dropped to the ground. I heard him tell his buddy that I was shooting a custom built muzzleloader and I informed him that there was nothing custom about the gun and told him that it came from Cabela's. He really had a hard time accepting what I had told him because he was shooting a very expensive gun and the load that the manufacture recommended. I told him that he needed to shoot the load that his ML wanted and began to explain. I told him about this website and hope that he'll visit us and learn more. There's no replacement for confidence. Thanks for all that you guys have taught me over the last couple of months.
Thanks and God Bless you all, |
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