I think we need a hunting pic thread. I’ll start it off. Nothing fancy, just closing weekend this past season for me.
Friday evening I was the only one to hunt and harvested this dude who had already shed (had seen him multiple times with horns, wasn’t an ideal shooter, but it was closing weekend and could have done a lot worse–he was an older deer and had a mediocre rack at best).
Next evening was looking to take a nice pig or fill out another deer tag (I guess I did want a pig as my Asian wife was dying for wild swine). This sow’s piglets ran out into the right of way I was hunting just before sunset and wanted to start popping off out of habit. Thankfully I was using a bolt gun and waited for this 100# sow to come right out into the open. I know if I had a black gun with me I would have started popping off at the piglets.
My most favored harvest was this buck; the first deer i took with my PA-10. After seeing the exit hole, I decided to never again shoot a deer with anything other than .308win.
This gal was heading for my garden when I asked her to stay out. Both of her ears were cut completely off and the scar tissue had grown over the ear canals.
Not mine, but my dad shot this 173 B&C “cull buck” in December and recently got the mount back. A family friend of ours took a group of five buddies to a ranch in central Texas this past season on cull hunts. Only one or two were harvested the first trip in November, so my dad got to go a second time. By then with the season drawing to a close, the managers needing to get the population down quickly, travel and hunts down due to the China virus, the cull list was much larger. Another family friend shot a similar class non-typical, another bagged a 150-160ish typical, and the other was still a solid 140ish 8 point.
Deer season, Missouri, 2020. Looking forward to returning this season.
Best times of my life have been spent in the field hunting or fishing.
Remington 700; .308
I’ll play along. I posted a pig and a turkey from this year in another thread, so for this one I’ll throw out fun trip with my old man a few years back. I used the hunt as justification to my wife to get a new rifle. Wanted something different so I went with a rem 700 in 300wsm and dropped it in a MDT chassis. Short version is I love the rifle and had an awesome time stalking this beautiful specimen, but 30 caliber, even magnum, is probably not quite enough for waterbuck. Go 338 mag. Barnes TSX handloads broke both front shoulders but he pushed off his hind legs a good 30 yards before one more to the high-neck spine turned the lights out.
