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We had a very exciting day in the backcountry this weekend. We got to our glassing spot an hour before sunlight. We started glassing and didn't see much until about 9. I glass up a good buck, I would put him at about 95. He was sidehilling pretty quickly so we stand up and get ready to go after him when we see deer right in front of us. A doe and 3 fawns were about 40 yards downhill from us. We watched them for a second and then bumped them to go after this buck. Well we don't get very far before we see the doe and her fawns tearing up the hill. A mountain lion was chasing them full speed. You could even hear it snarling at them, very scary noises. The lion swiped at one of the fawns but missed and stood broadside, out of breath. So I threw my gun on top of my tripod and yelled range him!! 500 yards, so I looked at my ballistic chart taped to my gun, 25 inch drop. I had him in my crosshairs, broadside, about to shoot but I couldn't get steady enough to let one go before he took off. After that we hike a few more miles glassing as we went. We took a nap and decided to go back to that hillside we saw the buck and the lion. We get there and almost immediately I glass up a 3x3 2 ridges over. As I throw up my spotting scope to get a better look at him, I end up glassing the hillside closer to me by mistake. I ended up glassing up a bedded 2x2 right in front of us. I decided to go after him even though he was about the same size as my last deer. I had a bunch of school work to do and couldn't really afford to stay the whole length of my hunt without hurting my grades. I sneak in to 350 yards, get set up and start waiting for him to stand up. About an hour goes by just staring at this buck so I decided to take a little less practical shot through the neck. I have been practicing a lot, working my load to perfection, had a ballistics table, and an outdoorsmans front and rear support. I go through my sequence and BOOM! I back off my rifle and scan the hillside as I pump another round in. No movement, good sign. I pack up and hike over to the ridge and back range to where I shot from (315 yards), I wait for my buddy adrian to get over to me before going further. He said he saw me shoot, then blinked, and then there was no deer. We walk over to where he was and sure enough there's my buck piled up. While we were cleaning him up and quarting him in the dark we definately heard something turning over rocks and lurking just out of sight. So after we finished cleaning we hustled up to the trail and headed back to the truck. 4 hours and several miles later, DONE on opening day. Thanks for reading, Connor

great finds, i think he is hiding there too

THEY WORK LOL

I have finally tweaked my load to where I am getting sub-MOA performance. I am told that if i hit a whitetail with this bullet it will just go through it and not create a huge wound channel. What are you personal experiences with this bullet weight being shot out of a 300 win mag at coues deer. Thanks Connor

thanks for all the responses that gives me some peice of mind before I start backpacking in tonight after my buck. Good luck on everyones upcoming hunts. Connor

Here are some pics of some bulls I took pictures of this weekend.

Wow great bull and the pics turned out really good!

Thanks for all the responses! I currently have an outdoorsmans tripod with a jim white head and I am a loyal supporter of outdoorsmans. I think I am sold on this shooting setup, but do you guys think the tilt adjust on the jim white is not ideal compared to the outdoorsmans pan head. I guess what im trying to say is will it work just as well as the outdoorsmans? Thanks again Connor

Does anyone use the outdoorsmans rear rifle rest for the tripod? If so, is it worth it? does it hold you completely steady? Thanks Connor

that video was awesome

Huge

Welcome to the site!! Honestly on a rifle hunt it doesn't matter I shot my first whitetail in a DC shirt and jeans. I like carhartt pants and a dark shirt, vision is not the best sense a whitetail has. Do you have any pics of your first deer?

I ve pretty much come to terms with this kind of stuff, if i put a camera out I am completely prepared to never see it again.

Thats funny

thats my buddy austin, but I don't know how much he checks the forums

my good friend uses one and he likes it a lot, its got a lot of good things about it for the price. I have used it a couple times and it works nicely. I think he got his at cabelas but I do not know what he paid there.

I don't worry about field scoring, just look at tons of pictures of bucks online guess the score just by looking at it and not trying to measure it out and then see what it actually scores. Once you do this for a while you will be able to get a pretty close score of a buck just by glancing at it. just my 2 cents

well done

looks pretty good!

not a yote lol

those are really really nice pictures i think i might have to pick one of those up

ya i did that 1/2 down thing with the shutter button and that helps and I tried putting it in macro mode but I think with the equipment I have this is about as good as it gets. I am using an 8.2mp fujifilm camera that was 99 bucks and a vortex nomad spotter