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I've hunted or thought about hunting pretty much for the last twenty days. I spent 7 days elk hunting int the high country and pretty much the rest hunting deer out here in the plains.
My buddy shot this rag bull on the second day of elk season. We rode in on horses and put the sneak on a group of elk with this bull in it. My buddy Tim popped him with his .375H&H dropping him with a neck shot. 270gr X bullet at around 140 yards.
On the first day of deer season my buddy Ashley and I pushed this nice little 3X3 out of a draw and went into bad hair day mode. Shooting 4 times at him at a starting distance of 50 yards or so we managed to miss him clean except for one graze mark across the hind quater. As they say sometimes stuff happens. In anycase he ran down the draw where my other buddy was blocking and recived a .270 cal 140gr trophy bonded in the noggin at 267 yards. Some days a chicken some days a feather.
And finally I hunted deer every day all day on some days and around my work schedule on others and finally got a chance at this pretty 4X4 as he was sneaking onto a hay field just at dark. I dropped him with one shot at about 85 yards. I was using my kimber 84M Motana in .308 firing a 180gr Nosler Partition. He was quartering away doing the classic "last look" mule deer pose. The bullet took him just forward of the right hip and stopped in the skin just behind the left shoulder. A very pretty perfectly mushroomed bullet. Not the biggest buck in Colorado but a nice last afternooner if I may say so.
My buddy shot this rag bull on the second day of elk season. We rode in on horses and put the sneak on a group of elk with this bull in it. My buddy Tim popped him with his .375H&H dropping him with a neck shot. 270gr X bullet at around 140 yards.
On the first day of deer season my buddy Ashley and I pushed this nice little 3X3 out of a draw and went into bad hair day mode. Shooting 4 times at him at a starting distance of 50 yards or so we managed to miss him clean except for one graze mark across the hind quater. As they say sometimes stuff happens. In anycase he ran down the draw where my other buddy was blocking and recived a .270 cal 140gr trophy bonded in the noggin at 267 yards. Some days a chicken some days a feather.
And finally I hunted deer every day all day on some days and around my work schedule on others and finally got a chance at this pretty 4X4 as he was sneaking onto a hay field just at dark. I dropped him with one shot at about 85 yards. I was using my kimber 84M Motana in .308 firing a 180gr Nosler Partition. He was quartering away doing the classic "last look" mule deer pose. The bullet took him just forward of the right hip and stopped in the skin just behind the left shoulder. A very pretty perfectly mushroomed bullet. Not the biggest buck in Colorado but a nice last afternooner if I may say so.
