dk17hmr
11-27-2006, 10:39 PM
Zac (older brother) and I got back home Saturday night after a week in deer camp. We had a great time.
I didnt see a legal buck to shoot at but I did see a big ol black bear at about 40 yards, where was he in October when I was bear hunting, very impressed as to how he moved through the woods.
Zac got a 30 yard shot at a 6 or an 8 and blew it by tryin to shoot between 2 trees oh well. Shooting the Family 30-30 with 170gr jacketed.
Dad blew a hole the size of Texas in the neck of a 3 point buck. I was just coming up over a hill about 300 yards from my blind and hear dads 30-06 thunder, so I high tailed it over there just in time to get to see dad poke him with his rifle. Help him gut it and drag it the 90 some yards to where my stand is. Dad was hunting it because he hadnt been seein alot of deer and I was walkin the hills all day so I told him he could hunt it if he wanted.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/scottbuck.jpg
Havent converted dad to Cast in his 06, he was shooting almost max load with 150gr Nosler Ballistic tips, threaded a needle with the shot through a little hole in the brush a 90 yard shot.
Few pics of the hunting trip.
Zac and I, if you look close you can see a doe standin between us.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/boysdeer.jpg
Big doe and a fawn I saw every day.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/deeratbait.jpg
On a side note although I didnt fire a bullet I carried my NEF 45-70 with the 32" barrel loaded with 515gr RNFP cast bullets at 1200fsp for better then 20 miles over the week up and down the hills and it was a pleasure to carry. Very well balanced rifle.
I didnt see a legal buck to shoot at but I did see a big ol black bear at about 40 yards, where was he in October when I was bear hunting, very impressed as to how he moved through the woods.
Zac got a 30 yard shot at a 6 or an 8 and blew it by tryin to shoot between 2 trees oh well. Shooting the Family 30-30 with 170gr jacketed.
Dad blew a hole the size of Texas in the neck of a 3 point buck. I was just coming up over a hill about 300 yards from my blind and hear dads 30-06 thunder, so I high tailed it over there just in time to get to see dad poke him with his rifle. Help him gut it and drag it the 90 some yards to where my stand is. Dad was hunting it because he hadnt been seein alot of deer and I was walkin the hills all day so I told him he could hunt it if he wanted.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/scottbuck.jpg
Havent converted dad to Cast in his 06, he was shooting almost max load with 150gr Nosler Ballistic tips, threaded a needle with the shot through a little hole in the brush a 90 yard shot.
Few pics of the hunting trip.
Zac and I, if you look close you can see a doe standin between us.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/boysdeer.jpg
Big doe and a fawn I saw every day.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/deeratbait.jpg
On a side note although I didnt fire a bullet I carried my NEF 45-70 with the 32" barrel loaded with 515gr RNFP cast bullets at 1200fsp for better then 20 miles over the week up and down the hills and it was a pleasure to carry. Very well balanced rifle.