Was out last night, for the last time this year. my how time flies. Anyway I was hunting with the mountaineer, on a cut cornfield and about 20minutes left of legal shooting light, I had a doe step out of the edge of a finger that runs directly behind my stand. She was way out there so, i picked up my range finder and ranged her at 237yds.

I sat for a second, to see if she was going to change directions. As you can figure, she did not. I thought what the hell, time to try out the ultimateslam. I aimed using the 250 yd. line and held 4" above the bottom of her chest and squeezed the trigger, BOOM flop!!!!

To my suprise a buck came out of nowhere and began to run towards me. Guess he couldn't tell where the shot came from. He stopped at 187yds. and turned broadside. By this time i had the powder in and the bullet started, I huuried and set the bullet home and it seemed to take forever to get the primer in correctly. Kept having to dump it back in my hand and try again, I am having a hard time with the bare primer bolt. He started to move and my heart was racing, i knew at any moment he was going to take off the a bat out of hell.

To my suprise he stayed put long enough to get the primer in and the bolt closed. I raised my gun to aim and my heart was thumping out of my chest. I took a second to relax and BOOM, He took 5 steps and folded up. I used my 200yd. line and it hit him a little high but, I will take 5 steps.

I was using the new Knight Mountaineer with 120gr. BH209 and a Hornady SST 250gr. with a crush rib sabot. He is a 11pt. slightly bigger than 140" and field dressed at 238lbs.

Nice buck, wheres the doe lol..

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Boonechaser

IMO - that is the one single stumble of the Mountaineer - whomever designed the front of the bolt to have rails to insert the primer in - probably did not do any cold weather hunters ant favors...

For my part I decided to to make a capper just for the intance you are talking about....





This summer I will make some better ones out of Teflon - but for now these work pretty well... instert the tool and primer in and lift up and out with the tool.

Great story and nice animal...

That's awesome!!! Congrats Boonechaser. Gotta love the double-play! They're rare. Nice buck, too.

What a way to end the season! Congrats!

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I have doubled with the encore with both doe over 200yds. So, yes I am positive it would have been the same outcome with either gun. And faster, I wouldn't have had to break out a short starter, with the qla and the primer would not have been an issue.

However 237yds. Is my furthest kill to date and the ultimateslam performed flawlessly.

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