dk17hmr
10-04-2013, 04:42 PM
I just had one tag this year in an area north of my house about 70 miles. I put in for this area because it had a pretty good chance for non residents to draw...well the non residents that hunt with me didn't draw. So I was stuck with a single doe tag.
My former boss and good friend Charles moved north about 100 miles and when I told him I would be hunting around his place he asked two questions, what day, and what was I going to do with the meat. His cousin said he was looking for some meat for his freezer and would take anything I was willing to give out. I'm not big on antelope meat so I gave him everything but the backstraps of this doe, I'm going to try and canning them to see if we will like it better.
This wasn't so much a hunt as it was just filling a tag. Charles met me on the highway between his house and mine about 9 oclock this morning. He got to the meeting place a little before me and already had a herd of goats picked out. Charles piled into my pickup with all his gear since he has an elk tag for the same area. Wasn't long before my rig was covered in mud.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/IMG_20131004_115236_zps1b37c6a3.jpg (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/dk17hmr/media/IMG_20131004_115236_zps1b37c6a3.jpg.html)
We got onto the herd and this doe presented an easy 250-260 yard broadside shot.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/ResizedImage_1380910716233_zps3a158a8a.jpg (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/dk17hmr/media/ResizedImage_1380910716233_zps3a158a8a.jpg.html)
Originally I was going to try and fill my tag with my M1 Garand but with the weather this morning I left the Garand and grabbed my Rem 700 30-06 instead. The load was a max charge of IMR4895 with a 125gr Nosler Ballistic tip, this load runs right at 3325fps out of my rifle and shoots well, 1/2" at 100 yards. Zeroed 1" high at 100 yards, gives me a dead on hold at 200 and give me a chest hold out to 300 yards. She ran about 30 yards and face planted it. The little 125 NBT made an exit about the size of a 50 cent piece. There was no wasted or blood shot meat, although I didn't open up the chest cavity I would guess from the blood spray all over the snow I turned the lungs into jello and likely blew the heart up.
My former boss and good friend Charles moved north about 100 miles and when I told him I would be hunting around his place he asked two questions, what day, and what was I going to do with the meat. His cousin said he was looking for some meat for his freezer and would take anything I was willing to give out. I'm not big on antelope meat so I gave him everything but the backstraps of this doe, I'm going to try and canning them to see if we will like it better.
This wasn't so much a hunt as it was just filling a tag. Charles met me on the highway between his house and mine about 9 oclock this morning. He got to the meeting place a little before me and already had a herd of goats picked out. Charles piled into my pickup with all his gear since he has an elk tag for the same area. Wasn't long before my rig was covered in mud.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/IMG_20131004_115236_zps1b37c6a3.jpg (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/dk17hmr/media/IMG_20131004_115236_zps1b37c6a3.jpg.html)
We got onto the herd and this doe presented an easy 250-260 yard broadside shot.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/dk17hmr/ResizedImage_1380910716233_zps3a158a8a.jpg (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/dk17hmr/media/ResizedImage_1380910716233_zps3a158a8a.jpg.html)
Originally I was going to try and fill my tag with my M1 Garand but with the weather this morning I left the Garand and grabbed my Rem 700 30-06 instead. The load was a max charge of IMR4895 with a 125gr Nosler Ballistic tip, this load runs right at 3325fps out of my rifle and shoots well, 1/2" at 100 yards. Zeroed 1" high at 100 yards, gives me a dead on hold at 200 and give me a chest hold out to 300 yards. She ran about 30 yards and face planted it. The little 125 NBT made an exit about the size of a 50 cent piece. There was no wasted or blood shot meat, although I didn't open up the chest cavity I would guess from the blood spray all over the snow I turned the lungs into jello and likely blew the heart up.