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Post by Big Bore on Dec 10, 2023 6:27:25 GMT -5
Thanks everyone!
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Post by dobegrant on Dec 10, 2023 9:20:22 GMT -5
congratulations very nice buck and handgun. In 2004 I shot my first buck with a handgun in West Texas, it was a 8 point buck,I used my S&W 57 6" 41 magnum same bullet and powder you used.
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Post by rjm52 on Dec 11, 2023 17:36:39 GMT -5
....always more fun with a .41...
Nice deer!!
Bob
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Post by cdf41 on Dec 12, 2023 21:04:23 GMT -5
Nice old buck! Congrats!!
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 13, 2023 13:28:37 GMT -5
I saw this buck briefly this morning and knew he was old for our ranch. He’s been spotted on a few game cams and everyone agreed he was at least 5 years old - very rare for our ranch. So I went back to the same stand and was set up by 3:00 pm. Temperature was close to 80 today in this part of Texas so it was a bit painful but clearly worth it. So right at about 3:30 he comes in from my right and walks behind a mesquite thicket no more than 30 yards from where I am set up and…beds down. I sat there and watched this buck for the better part of an hour before he stood up and started walking away from me. He got to about the 55 yard mark, turned broadside, and I let the hammer fall. 55ish yards with my Freedom Arms M97 in 41 magnum. Hand loaded 210 XTP over H110. Complete pass through and a solid heart shot. He made it about 35 yards before calling it quits. The optic (because I know someone will ask) is a Vortex Venom 3MOA on a factory FA mount. Heckuva day. View Attachment***** Randy.... good job. Is that a tinge of Mule Deer ancestry in the old boy’s right antler? David Bradshaw |
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Post by Big Bore on Dec 13, 2023 23:20:43 GMT -5
I saw this buck briefly this morning and knew he was old for our ranch. He’s been spotted on a few game cams and everyone agreed he was at least 5 years old - very rare for our ranch. So I went back to the same stand and was set up by 3:00 pm. Temperature was close to 80 today in this part of Texas so it was a bit painful but clearly worth it. So right at about 3:30 he comes in from my right and walks behind a mesquite thicket no more than 30 yards from where I am set up and…beds down. I sat there and watched this buck for the better part of an hour before he stood up and started walking away from me. He got to about the 55 yard mark, turned broadside, and I let the hammer fall. 55ish yards with my Freedom Arms M97 in 41 magnum. Hand loaded 210 XTP over H110. Complete pass through and a solid heart shot. He made it about 35 yards before calling it quits. The optic (because I know someone will ask) is a Vortex Venom 3MOA on a factory FA mount. Heckuva day. View Attachment***** Randy.... good job. Is that a tinge of Mule Deer ancestry in the old boy’s right antler? David Bradshaw It’s very likely. We are close to the western part of Texas where we’ve seen evidence of cross breeding. And it wouldn’t be the first forked tine we’ve seen come off this ranch. |
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