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10-14-2016, 05:52 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
I'm using a Wolf with open sights. Hornady Great Plains 385gr bullet with 75gr of Schuetzen 2F black powder.
This is really my elk load that i'm trying next year. I still have a muley buck tag for the last week of this month. So, i'll try the load for that too. I'll be hunting right under timberline at 11,000ft in the timber.
I'm hoping the snow will hold off until the hunt so the bucks will still be there.
This is really my elk load that i'm trying next year. I still have a muley buck tag for the last week of this month. So, i'll try the load for that too. I'll be hunting right under timberline at 11,000ft in the timber.
I'm hoping the snow will hold off until the hunt so the bucks will still be there.
10-14-2016, 11:31 AM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 141
I'm using a 240gr XTP Mag on 2 pellets of 777. Skipping early ML Because it's too hot. 80's for highs and we just don't see deer moving were we are with those temps.
Last year we lucked out and had a cold front drop temps into the 30's for lows and 50's for high. Saw a bunch of deer and bagged a 8pt at 7am opening morning. I was using the Honady 250gr SST on that one.
Last year we lucked out and had a cold front drop temps into the 30's for lows and 50's for high. Saw a bunch of deer and bagged a 8pt at 7am opening morning. I was using the Honady 250gr SST on that one.
10-14-2016, 12:08 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
I'm using a Wolf with open sights. Hornady Great Plains 385gr bullet with 75gr of Schuetzen 2F black powder.
This is really my elk load that i'm trying next year. I still have a muley buck tag for the last week of this month. So, i'll try the load for that too. I'll be hunting right under timberline at 11,000ft in the timber.
I'm hoping the snow will hold off until the hunt so the bucks will still be there.
This is really my elk load that i'm trying next year. I still have a muley buck tag for the last week of this month. So, i'll try the load for that too. I'll be hunting right under timberline at 11,000ft in the timber.
I'm hoping the snow will hold off until the hunt so the bucks will still be there.
Thump usually= good shoulder hit. Thwack usually= just behind the shoulder with ribs breaking. Deep hollow thump usually= a bad day having to trail a gut shot deer 
10-14-2016, 12:17 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
The knee is about 70% but I aint about to trust it going up a tree stand just yet. May take my climber and go up about 6 feet just for a better line of sight but that's as far as I'm willing to push it this year.
10-15-2016, 05:34 AM
#17
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
Nothing wrong with that load at all for deer Pete. Big and slow has worked for me many times. Less meat damage and I can hear the impact much better to know if I made a good hit Thump usually= good shoulder hit. Thwack usually= just behind the shoulder with ribs breaking. Deep hollow thump usually= a bad day having to trail a gut shot deer
Thump usually= good shoulder hit. Thwack usually= just behind the shoulder with ribs breaking. Deep hollow thump usually= a bad day having to trail a gut shot deer I know some will say anything that will kill a deer will kill a bear. I don't agree. Maybe if you hunt in trees over bait when you can take the perfect shot it will. Not always for a large charging bear face to face on the ground.
So, being a boy scout as a kid. I'm always prepared. I really wanted to use the 460gr NoExcuses, but they fit too loose. Knurling them didn't help.
10-15-2016, 05:40 AM
#18
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,762
So right Muley. I remember reading a long time ago when a grizzly bear guide was asked why he carried a .45-70 and not a 300 mag. His reply was "cause a grizzly ain't dangerous when he's 300 yards away"! I have to agree with him.
10-15-2016, 08:38 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
Yup! And if I'm in Brownie territory, I don't give a rat's pitute if the law allows it or not, my .500S&W is strapped on and ready. Them Brownies tend to not wait for you to reload if you didn't put him down on the first shot.
