Biggest buck I’ve ever seen

[Mike Matteson]

Good shooting and hunting.

 

[gus444]

dang. congratulations.

 

[PatriotHenry]

Public land in Iowa, 125 yard shot, 350 legend with hornady ftx bullets

First let me show you the cams
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Looked huge but couldn't count points from the low quality pic.
First 45 minutes of deer season and I got a great shot on him. Shot once and saw him stumble hard, but kept running. Shot again and I completely missed lol but after 30-40 yards running he took a hard fall and never got back up.
Here he is
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Words could not describe the feeling when I saw how big that deer was in person
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Realizing you can't see all the points in the picture lol, there's some small points that curve backwards and stick out from the back of the antler and this angle doesn't show them. 20 points total, 17 that are longer than 1 inch and not broken off (the 3 other points were small and chipped off from fighting I think)

Biggest deer I've ever seen in person, took 3 people to lift it into the side by side after it was gutted.

Our group had 7 tags, and we got 7 deer by 9 am first day. 4 bucks and 3 does. 17 point, 7 point, 6 point, and 5 point, and one of the does was bigger bodied than the 5 point.

Plenty of meat! If only I owned a hanging scale to figure out just how heavy this monster is

Congratulations on a stud of a buck!

 

[Chas1]

Uh...we need better pics of that one! That's a brute!

+1

 

[MW204]

My nephew uses an AR version, jams pretty often. My brother and I both have bolt guns, I've got a Winchester XPR and he's got a ruger something or other bolt 350. His ruger had 2 light firing pin strikes this morning, one causing him to lose his shot at a 10 point. I haven't had a single issue with my xpr itself, but I had a couple misfires due to bad primers at -20° last winter (when I was testing specifically for that, not hunting). I finally got all the stuff to start hand loading for 350 2 weeks ago and I use small magnum rifle primers instead of small rifle, and they have never misfired even when I put the rounds in the deep freezer just for testing for that.

I LOVE my XPR. 350 legend is a great round too but I think it needs small magnum primers to be reliable in extreme cold. My brothers ruger I think needs a firing pin spring adjustment since it's not the first light primer strike he's had. That's not a 350 issue though, more of a ruger quality control issue.

I imagine in the AR form it would be more reliable with handloads since you can load them a tad hotter than factory ammo to be more reliable, and more consistent round to round if you load for precision like I do.


The load I used is 25.9 grains of Lil Gun, small magnum rifle primer, hornady 165gr FTX, COAL is 2.260 (max SAAMI length) but I haven't played with the load very much yet, basically just developed one that shot a good enough group at 100 and told myself I wouldn't shoot any further than 150 because I don't have a clue what velocity it's running at. But at those ranges it's good enough it doesn't really matter.

My favorite part is the 350 is a lot quieter than a slug gun, as long as I'm wearing a hat that covers my ears, my ears don't ring after shooting like they did with shotgun slug hunting.

Let me know any other questions you have I'll do my best to answer

I once had a 50 Beowulf on an AR-15 platform and I too had loading issues, the bolt would like 1/4-1/2" closing. My fix for that problem was to take the front of the magazine and put a 1/4" deep horseshoe in the front of the magazine and I never had a feeding issue again. The case lip was hitting the magazine front edge and slowing the bullet down enough it wouldn't close, problem fixed for me.

 

[Hard rock]

I once had a 50 Beowulf on an AR-15 platform and I too had loading issues, the bolt would like 1/4-1/2" closing. My fix for that problem was to take the front of the magazine and put a 1/4" deep horseshoe in the front of the magazine and I never had a feeding issue again. The case lip was hitting the magazine front edge and slowing the bullet down enough it wouldn't close, problem fixed for me.

I've made that mistake before , they all ways look bigger going away. Kidding nice Buck congrats

 

[gdc23]

Incredible deer, theres some great public land available in Iowa

 

[susanpandy123]

Nice!! Congratulations

 

[mashbcg]

Congrats, heck of a deer.

 

[savage_one]

@Rifleman97 , I'm in the process of finishing a 350 Legend build and plan to load the 165-grain FTX for deer. I know that the big boy dropped in about 35 yards, so I'm wondering about your shot placement and any comments you might have about bullet performance. Were you fortunate enough to harvest any other deer with the 350 Legend; are you still happy with the cartridge? Thanks...and last, but not least, congratulations on a phenomenal buck.

 

[MW204]

My nephew uses an AR version, jams pretty often. My brother and I both have bolt guns, I've got a Winchester XPR and he's got a ruger something or other bolt 350. His ruger had 2 light firing pin strikes this morning, one causing him to lose his shot at a 10 point. I haven't had a single issue with my xpr itself, but I had a couple misfires due to bad primers at -20° last winter (when I was testing specifically for that, not hunting). I finally got all the stuff to start hand loading for 350 2 weeks ago and I use small magnum rifle primers instead of small rifle, and they have never misfired even when I put the rounds in the deep freezer just for testing for that.

I LOVE my XPR. 350 legend is a great round too but I think it needs small magnum primers to be reliable in extreme cold. My brothers ruger I think needs a firing pin spring adjustment since it's not the first light primer strike he's had. That's not a 350 issue though, more of a ruger quality control issue.

I imagine in the AR form it would be more reliable with handloads since you can load them a tad hotter than factory ammo to be more reliable, and more consistent round to round if you load for precision like I do.


The load I used is 25.9 grains of Lil Gun, small magnum rifle primer, hornady 165gr FTX, COAL is 2.260 (max SAAMI length) but I haven't played with the load very much yet, basically just developed one that shot a good enough group at 100 and told myself I wouldn't shoot any further than 150 because I don't have a clue what velocity it's running at. But at those ranges it's good enough it doesn't really matter.

My favorite part is the 350 is a lot quieter than a slug gun, as long as I'm wearing a hat that covers my ears, my ears don't ring after shooting like they did with shotgun slug hunting.

Let me know any other questions you have I'll do my best to answer

I don't know what kind of jamming problem he's having but I had a .50 Beowulf with jamming problems until I did this. Take a look at the below pic and that should explain it pretty easy, it fixed my issue.

 

[hicountry1]

That's a stud, congrats

 

[D.LIP]

Great buck. Congrats.

 

[d500lnn]

Public land in Iowa, 125 yard shot, 350 legend with hornady ftx bullets

First let me show you the cams
View attachment 317022
Looked huge but couldn't count points from the low quality pic.
First 45 minutes of deer season and I got a great shot on him. Shot once and saw him stumble hard, but kept running. Shot again and I completely missed lol but after 30-40 yards running he took a hard fall and never got back up.
Here he is
View attachment 317023
Words could not describe the feeling when I saw how big that deer was in person
View attachment 317025
Realizing you can't see all the points in the picture lol, there's some small points that curve backwards and stick out from the back of the antler and this angle doesn't show them. 20 points total, 17 that are longer than 1 inch and not broken off (the 3 other points were small and chipped off from fighting I think)

Biggest deer I've ever seen in person, took 3 people to lift it into the side by side after it was gutted.

Our group had 7 tags, and we got 7 deer by 9 am first day. 4 bucks and 3 does. 17 point, 7 point, 6 point, and 5 point, and one of the does was bigger bodied than the 5 point.

Plenty of meat! If only I owned a hanging scale to figure out just how heavy this monster is

What a giant! Congrats!!!