Great opening day!
10-07-2007 | 07:44 AM
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Fork Horn
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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.
Thanks for all the help again.
10-07-2007 | 07:54 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: southwest Ohio
RE: Great opening day!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!
What bullet and powder charge did you finally settle on? Sounds like it did a good job.
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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
10-07-2007 | 07:59 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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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.
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.
10-07-2007 | 08:30 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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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.
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.
10-07-2007 | 08:49 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Great opening day!
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...
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...
10-07-2007 | 09:19 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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From: Idaho
RE: Great opening day!
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....
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....
10-07-2007 | 09:23 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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From: Idaho
RE: Great opening day!
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....
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....