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waksupi
10-21-2007, 03:12 PM
This is the first day of general season, so I went up the road about a mile, and found a little five point buck grazing. The shot was right on 200 yards, from a sitting position. I was using a Mauser rifle I had built last fall, and this is the first time it has drawn blood.
It is a .358 Winchester (of course!), water quenched WW boolit, with Felix Lube. Boolit was the Bator Lite, coming in at 237 gr. from my mold, with GC and lube. Load was 47.5 gr. WC852, estimated velocity around 2000 fps.
The exit wound shows I had some expansion, making an exit around 1.5 inches. Bullet entered the point of the shoulder, and exited near the rear rib on the offside. Lungs were mush, and chest cavity full of blood. He went about 20 yards after the hit.
It was about a 700 yard drag back down the mountain to the road, so wasn't too bad, being downhill all the way.
45nut
10-21-2007, 03:17 PM
Nicely Done Ric.
Bass Ackward
10-21-2007, 04:33 PM
Nice one Ric.

Glad you got to try the 200 yard range. I find that the bore diameter allows excellent work out to here whether it is a 35 Remmy on up. And if you can push that just a little harder, you can make 300 if you can hold it well enough. At that point I start to string.
6pt-sika
10-21-2007, 04:53 PM
Congrats :drinks:

Thats a WT correct ?
Trailblazer
10-21-2007, 05:04 PM
Nice going! I guess Bass is right, 200 yards is no problem for a 35.

Looks like a WT, hard to tell from the picture.
Bullshop
10-21-2007, 05:38 PM
Looks like a nice fat WT to me. AS T.R. would say, thats just bully.
BIC/BS
waksupi
10-21-2007, 07:43 PM
Yes, it's a whitetail. Couldn't figure out how to make the pictures bigger.
200 yards is my limit for shots on game, so this works fine for me.
SharpsShooter
10-21-2007, 08:10 PM
That's a good'un.

SS
dragonrider
10-21-2007, 09:30 PM
Nice shootin Ric
sundog
10-21-2007, 09:44 PM
Hooah! Ric.
JDL
10-22-2007, 09:12 AM
Very nice Ric! My luck always has me to drag uphill for some reason. :-) -JDL
John F.
10-22-2007, 08:33 PM
Very well done!! Thanks for the info and pics, and congrats on good shooting!
John
gregg
11-05-2007, 06:26 PM
Great pics good job. Wish i had taken pictures myself.
trickyasafox
11-05-2007, 10:59 PM
nice animal! hows the drop on those big boomers? (i realize big is a relative term, but to me 30-06+ is a big boomer)
MGySgt
11-06-2007, 09:15 AM
Congrats Ric! At least you have some meat for the winter!

Drew
Boz330
11-06-2007, 10:18 AM
Nice job!


It was about a 700 yard drag back down the mountain to the road, so wasn't too bad, being downhill all the way.

The last one I helped drag out in MT was down hill to but the problem was getting him over all the dead falls. Might as well been up hill.

Bob
MGySgt
11-06-2007, 03:51 PM
Thats why I use a Guide Service. When I am lucky enough to drop one I just tell him:

Go Fetch!
legend
11-06-2007, 06:30 PM
nice going! i left my cast at home(thinking i had them)and got lucky in finding three j-word bullits in the truck;good thing as i needed two to get through the oak brush and find a 4x4's heart!
my hats off to you!
Russell James
11-06-2007, 06:49 PM
Well done!
fatnhappy
11-06-2007, 08:19 PM
Now what are you going to do? :drinks:
waksupi
11-06-2007, 09:10 PM
nice animal! hows the drop on those big boomers? (i realize big is a relative term, but to me 30-06+ is a big boomer)

Well, I have a point blank range of 225 yards, so I have it pretty well covered.

Shot a doe last Friday, have one more doe tag, and will concentrate on elk the week of Thanksgiving.
Boz330
11-07-2007, 09:37 AM
Thats why I use a Guide Service. When I am lucky enough to drop one I just tell him:

Go Fetch!

Yeh! I used to guide, I remember those words well. I was lucky enough one time to back right up to one and had plenty of help to load it. The rest of the time it was carried out in little peices. Deer are a cake walk compared to an elk.
We never did horse hunts. It was drive close and walk in, AND walk out.


Bob