Is my first long-range rifle shot quite a bit it wasn't as accurate as I wanted looking back now some of it was my reloading processes which I refined later
6.5-284 good for it all?
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Charles Keethler
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Great pic love the way you rack and stack them. Good hunt.
Yep, you are a fine, upstanding man. Now, I just hope your knife sharpener is as good as your trailer load of stuff looks like the sharpener is going to need to be.
Should come clean one buck is my buddies the larger buck and two does were mine and I got them on the single pipeline in the pictures above
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I am having trouble with this reply. Sorry 'bout that. You are younger than me, but with the hair, mustache, and goatee, we could be confused as being cousins. I have got to learn how to post pictures. I do have a few small whitetails on my wall, along with a decent mule deer, but I like making sausage and doe meat works as well as trophy bucks for that treat. Got a bad knee kinda keeping me down this year, but I am hoping to get some hogs with my new 1911 pistol. You guys got me thinking about making a long shot on a pig or two just because I have a place with a long view to try it from. Bet you're glad you had help with all those critters!
I was gonna say"gee Bill, leave some for someone else" before I read the post. Weather looks nothing like the storm I was chasing Elk in today. That's a great day afield for sure.
Only help was that 4 wheeler you saw I'm the guy that rounds up the deer for everybody else and nobody helped me field dress all three of them either we could be cousins in more ways than one besides looks I have a bad back and two bad knees That's why I am the guy with the four wheeler by the time I was bent over and field dressed all three of those I was Hurtin bad by the way I'm 56 years old
Of course 30-06 works out easily to 400 and ammunition is available. That being said mine has been on the shelf for 2 years. I went to the 28 Nosler once you have brass it's easy to get Bullets, and I recently got the 6.5 PRC which is what I recommend. Very little recoil, was easy to get a recipe that shoots half moa. Again once you get brass there's a lot of Bullets to choose from. I don't believe in ONE caliber to rule them all.
I agree the 6.5 is a great caliber to shoot. Shoot my 6.5 creedmoor for competition. Just got a 6.5 PRC for hunting and got a mule deer doe with it using the 156's at just over 2900 fps. For Elk and moose and hopefully Buffalo soon I use my 28 Nosler and Noslers 175 partition and Berger's 180 vld's at just over 3200 fps
I am 68 years OLD. I raised 3 boys (taught 'em how to do their own deer) and hunted with folks that were glad to let me field dress their deer and hogs, as well as grind them into sausage, cut them into steaks and roasts, or make them into jerky. I learned to butcher meat in the short amount of time I spent in high school, doing Vocational Agriculture, FFA, (Future Farmers of America.) That got me invited on many hunts, but I believe I have spent more time working on dead animals than hunting live animals. I must have a dozen or more knife sharpeners. Both of my knees are bad, but right now it is the right knee that doesn't work so well. The left one has been cut on three times, but it is in pretty fair shape at the time. My back has bulldozer-itiss. We must be cousins.
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I was thinking about selling my sausage grinder and stuffing machine but maybe I should wait. Tell ya what, save some deer for next year, and maybe we'll talk about getting together after I see (Monday) what the witch doctor plans to do to get me walking safely again, and maybe we can grind some Texas pig and some Tennessee venison. I'll bring the seasoning mix.
