2022 Hunting season and intro post!

[ChrisRhodes]

Wow! I'd like to know the velocity and bullet used in those XP-100s.

2950. 127 BArnes lrx.

 

[WYO300RUM]

Welcome to LRH and congratulations to you and family on the successful hunts! Also on your retirement!

 

[Chas1]

Congratulation on retirement! The only thing I find wrong with being retired is that you have to get old to do it…!

**** ain't that the truth.

 

[Ol' Red]

That is one heck of a first post. Welcome to the forum.

 

[Rick Richard]

Welcome from North Carolina…and the retired life.

 

[azsugarbear]

Chris, you're living my dream.

 

[skipglo]

Terrific intro...welcome from Alberta, Canada!

 

[Central FL Mike]

Welcome and congratulations on retirement and a successful 2022 in the outdoors with family and friends. I can't wait until all my days are Saturdays!

 

[sierracharlie338]

Welcome! And that's a heck of a season for you both. Congrats!!

 

[HRM Johnny]

Welcome from Virginia. Thanks for posting this. Thanks for all the great pictures!

 

[JustMe2]

Congratulations. That 6.5-284 "pistol" looks more like a rifle with a broken butt stock. Must weigh 7 pounds or more. LOL

 

[ChrisRhodes]

Congratulations. That 6.5-284 "pistol" looks more like a rifle with a broken butt stock. Must weigh 7 pounds or more. LOL

The xp is actually under 6lbs….it's under 5 without the bipod.

So it weighs less than a x frame smith

 

[bamban]

Welcome from CenTex. Great write-up. I am envious you can get your wife to hunt, and quite successful at it, good job.

Nez

 

[Len Backus]

I moved over from SP forum…

Dedicated handgun hunter, retired May 2022 from my day job as owner of Bayside Custom Gunworks. Now my life revolves around….. hunting, fishing, and shooting….every day is a Saturday!

2022 season…

Big game season has come to a close for my household. This season success in the field came almost too easy with an animal a day hitting the ground. My main focus this year was getting the wife to accomplish some firsts. She got her first mule deer and first bull. She really wanted a revolver critter but terrain/conditions just didn't allow it. She took all of her animals with a xp100 in 6.5-284.

It was great getting to hunt all over the state of Wyoming this year. From the mountains, desert, and the prairie. And after 40 miles of packing out my bull I'm grateful for the ability to access my wife's two elk with the 4 wheeler.

I was fortunate enough to have the chance to take a new handgun hunter (not my wife) into the field some to start showing them/teaching them about hunting the west completely DIY. Also had the privilege of taking some vets out to tag animals.

Now onto small game with a 22 and ice fishing!

Revolver shots were around 40 yards

Xp was from 250-400 ish

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Welcome!