Okay, today I went out deer hunting with some friends and I ended up shooting one coyote and shot at two more. Sorry, I don't have a photo of the kill from today but that's life. It was a 60 yard shot with a 243 Remington 700 and the 100 grain Core-lockt bullet opened a crater sized hole on the exit side. I was with the land owner of one of the ranches I hunt and I was really just along for the ride, but when the rancher told me to shoot the dog....well, I just had to sever my purpose in life.
Later we were up on his land close to dark tonight and I spot 5 bucks about a mile out up in the winter wheat. So we head over and take a really loooooong walk up into the nicely seeded green growth of winter wheat. We get to the 285 yard mark when the bucks stop and look back towards us. We were laying along the edge of the wheat and the CRP concealed from veiw. I had the ranchers 11 year old son, hunker down behind my 243WSSM AR and for the first time of ever shooting this rifle, he lands the third round into the left hind quarter at... get this.......315 yard mark /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
An increadible hit for a first timer. I told him to put the deer between the crosshair and the next stadia line down on the Leupold 4.5-14 Boone and Crocket scope. I calmly told him to feel the trigger and begin to squeeze slowly on the Jewell 2 stage 3 lb trigger. He did just that and made smoke just barely missing the buck. I told him to try again but again, a miss. The buck started to walk away and I told him to hold about 2 - 4 inches to the right into the wind, I heard boom smack and the buck stumbled around and stood wobbling looking like it was going down. However, it turned and bagan walking away. Long story short we failed to find the buck but we are heading back tomorrow early a.m. with some extra bodies to do more looking. It just got way too dark and we didn't have flashlights to assist us. Hoping and praying we find it tomorrow alive and bedded down in the CRP.
Wish us luck.
