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What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 01:13 AM
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scottfromdallas
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Like the title says. What was your rifle/shotgun/handgun of choice? What was your load? How did you do? I bought a Tikka CTR in 308 during the summer and used it the last week of November out in West Texas. Scope is a Leupold Patrol 3-9. Load as a 150 NBT at 2875 FPS. Good for my first mule deer. A decent boar. My first Collard Pecker. Now that deer season is over I plan setting up my 40 acres in East Texas for hog. I'll put out the feeder next week. Hogs are usually bold in February and March after deer season is over. My dedicated hog rifle is a FNAR 308 with a Super Sniper 1-4X. My property is 75% timber so the hunting is CQH (close quarter hog). This year I'm using the 185 Lapua Mega at 2350 FPS. I doubt my shots will be over 50 yards. One of last years hogs.
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01/07/17 01:25 AM
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Weapon of choice was a McWhorter 7mm08, 140 Accubond, 2820fps, Leupold VX3 CDS. Killed a nice 140" whitetail buck in the Panhandle, and a 180" TX sandhills mule deer. Shot lots of hogs as well.
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 02:08 AM
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Tactical Cowboy
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Either a ruger m77 300 mag with the boat paddle stock or my AR. Killed deer with each.
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01/07/17 02:11 AM
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Scott I mainly used your fave the Creedmoor... So far since Thanksgiving 21 deer 8 hogs not sure on how many coyotes but will add to that number tomorrow hopefully. Here it is in "Hush" mode
Last edited by DStroud; 01/07/17 02:17 AM.
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Jack O'Connor 1963
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 02:15 AM
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I used my old deer gun (ruger m77 ) in .270 to kill a few does and a pig. Works just like it's been doing for the past 20 years. I used my mark V accumark on a wt doe in October to test it out then out to west Texas where it got a few coyotes and a mule deer at 300 yards
Last edited by txtrophy85; 01/07/17 04:54 PM.
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 02:25 AM
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Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 02:36 AM
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dee
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Lots of pigs and yotes with one mature 9pt with a 162gr ELD match running 2688fps. Worked great with no issues.
"A vote is like a rifle; it's usefulness depends on the character of the user" Theodore Roosevelt
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01/07/17 02:39 AM
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Man I like that rifle! I'm putting together a build list for a short 6.5.
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 02:46 AM
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01/07/17 02:50 AM
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 03:10 AM
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Damn Creemoors! Really nice animals! In case I forgot to mention it,
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 03:15 AM
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Buzzsaw,
Love your whitetail and your daughter's is freaky cool with that palmation.
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01/07/17 03:34 AM
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It's gonna take me a week to post pics of all the kills and guns I used to do it
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 03:49 AM
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Buzzsaw,
Love your whitetail and your daughter's is freaky cool with that palmation. [quote=scottfromdallas]Buzzsaw, she killed one last year had the same genes, called freak nasty, this one she calls freak II
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01/07/17 03:51 AM
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6.8 with 120 grain SST. Two deer, multiple pigs and coyotes. I've been using this gun and round for two years and I'm really impressed.
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01/07/17 03:53 AM
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Buzzsaw
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Scott where were you hunting mulies?? that's a great buck,
flip sweet axis
dstroud is a killin machine
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 04:01 AM
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Didn't get out so much this Fall, but did okay... Taken with my pre-64 M70 in .264 Win Mag, launching a 140-grain Accubond at about 3150 IIRC (63.7 grains IMR 7828 in crappy old Winchester brass). The lil buck made it about 12 paces and croaked. I'm not sure exactly how I painted myself into the corner I did, but I only had three rifles ready to hunt when November came---and not the ones I wanted to use. I wanted to use a .280 loaded with 150 Partitions, but the rifle just wan't ready to go. I made no mistake using my .264, though.
"Arguing with you always makes me thirsty." -Augustus McRae
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Re: What did you hunt with this year? How did you do?
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01/07/17 04:44 AM
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scottfromdallas
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Buzzsaw,
Ranch was about 40 miles southwest of Fort Stockton. First time hunting in West Texas, beautiful country. I have to go back.
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01/07/17 04:49 AM
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Tikka 695 30-06, 150 grain Sierra game Kings, no deer this year, but killed 6 hogs with it. Also killed 1 hog with my bow, and one with my para elite carry 45.
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01/07/17 05:02 AM
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scottfromdallas
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Tikka 695 30-06, 150 grain Sierra game Kings, no deer this year, but killed 6 hogs with it. Also killed 1 hog with my bow, and one with my para elite carry 45. Its amazing how many hogs hunters kill and it doesn't even make a dent in the population.
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01/07/17 05:09 AM
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Rem 700 Sendero 300 Win Mag with a Burris XTR II set up to shoot LR. I ended up killing my best ever elk at 75 yards after waiting an hour and 15 min for him to stand. I intended to post up the whole experience but got busy.
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01/07/17 12:00 PM
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Alamo Precision Rifles 270 win with Leupold VX3 4.5-14 shooting 130 gr Nosler Accubonds. Shot this Tom---Need to find a good taxi for it.... About 7-8 hogs, 3 wt doe and a axis doe. Might take it on my Oryx hunt later this month
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01/07/17 12:42 PM
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01/07/17 12:47 PM
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01/07/17 01:07 PM
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Only taken two head of game this year. Axis doe with my 6.5x55 Load is IMR4350, lapua case, WLR primer, 142 LRAB Model 70, 24" Pac-nor barrel, Minox 3-15x42 ZA5 HD scope And a nice 5x5 bull elk with my 264 WM Load for the 264 is RL 33, Nosler case, Rem 9 1/2 primer, 142 LRAB out of a stock Win Mod 70 26" factory barrel w/ a Zeiss Conquest HD5 3-15x42 scope.
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