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Successful Hunter's Weekend.
I guided a family from Florida deer hunting this weekend on my friend.
They have been coming to Texas every year for the past 10 years, but this was their first time on this ranch.
Guns:
Custom .300 Remington Ultra Mag (Grandfather) - 180gr Barnes
Weatherby Mark 5 in .300 Remington Ultra Mag (Son) - 180gr Accubond
Remington 700 in .25-06 Remington (Son) - 90gr Hornady GMX
I'll keep it simple and make a photo montage with key info.
Grandfather - 82 Years Old / Vietnam Vet
Shot was 105 yards. Buck ran 24 yards leaving a massive blood trail. Buck ran 24 yards and fell.
Scored 149-/14"
6.5 Years Old
Son - The son hunted with my rancher friend, so I wasn't with him when he shot his buck.
25 yard shot
Buck dropped on the spot
4.5 years old
Grandson
130 Yard Shot
Buck ran about 70 yards and entered the brush.
Boy and I approached and the buck tried to get up. We both aimed in at 20 yards while the buck struggled to regain his feet. I told the boy, "You need to shoot him or I'm going to!" The boy fired and the buck dropped.
First shot was quartering away and the bullet struck the front of the on side shoulder. Broke the shoulder and traveled forward through the neck. Exiting the off side. Did not penetrate the vitals. Just broke the shoulder and severed the esophagus and damaged the carotid/wind pipe area. Would have been fatal, but lengthy. Second bullet entered the back of the ribs quartering forward. Lodging under hide in front of off side shoulder.
6.5 year old buck
Odds and Ins Pics.
A productive weekend. Supposed to have 3 more hunters coming in the next few weeks.
They have been coming to Texas every year for the past 10 years, but this was their first time on this ranch.
Guns:
Custom .300 Remington Ultra Mag (Grandfather) - 180gr Barnes
Weatherby Mark 5 in .300 Remington Ultra Mag (Son) - 180gr Accubond
Remington 700 in .25-06 Remington (Son) - 90gr Hornady GMX
I'll keep it simple and make a photo montage with key info.
Grandfather - 82 Years Old / Vietnam Vet
Shot was 105 yards. Buck ran 24 yards leaving a massive blood trail. Buck ran 24 yards and fell.
Scored 149-/14"
6.5 Years Old
Son - The son hunted with my rancher friend, so I wasn't with him when he shot his buck.
25 yard shot
Buck dropped on the spot
4.5 years old
Grandson
130 Yard Shot
Buck ran about 70 yards and entered the brush.
Boy and I approached and the buck tried to get up. We both aimed in at 20 yards while the buck struggled to regain his feet. I told the boy, "You need to shoot him or I'm going to!" The boy fired and the buck dropped.
First shot was quartering away and the bullet struck the front of the on side shoulder. Broke the shoulder and traveled forward through the neck. Exiting the off side. Did not penetrate the vitals. Just broke the shoulder and severed the esophagus and damaged the carotid/wind pipe area. Would have been fatal, but lengthy. Second bullet entered the back of the ribs quartering forward. Lodging under hide in front of off side shoulder.
6.5 year old buck
Odds and Ins Pics.
A productive weekend. Supposed to have 3 more hunters coming in the next few weeks.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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Have you had any luck with the GMX??
All in all it looks like a great family weekend for them!! Kudos to the Old mans equipment choices!! Looks like a Swarovski or Schmidt topped rifle in one of my favorite calibers, with Leica range finding binos around his neck!
Definitely my kinda people!!! HAhaa!
Great photos dude!!
"As long as there's Lead in the air there's hope!" -- Ralph Adkinson(Daddy) The original Marlboro Man
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
I would love to hunt there too. Totally different enviroment from what we have here.
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All kidding aside, looks like you had a very successful weekend, and your hunters got some really nice south Texas bucks. Good for them and you. Congrats!
The two older men must have really thought a lot of those deer, though. They certainly packed enough firepower.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Far be it from to to believe in too much gun. I’ve used everything from a .223 Remington to a .458 Win Mag and most every caliber in between.
But, I did find it interesting that they spoke as if such was needed. When the boy didn’t kill his deer with the first shot and required the sneak and follow up shot, the Dad mentioned it was time for the boy to move up to a 7mm Rem Mag as it worked better on deer.
I was there when the boy sighted in the rifle. It ain’t the cartridge. Personally, I would spend more time teaching the boy to shoot accurately with his already perfectly good deer cartridge than on a larger/faster cartridge that will have more recoil and blast........making the poor boy an even worse shot.
Cartridges should be a personal option. Not a personal excuse.
I have never used the GMX.
All I've used in my .25-06 are the 115gr Berger H-VLD and the 117gr Hornady SST. Both did exceptionally well.
I agree, I've always used the 115gr Ballistic Tip and have never had a single problem as they are super accurate. But since I switched up to Berger's in other calibers I wanted to try them.... When we cut up that Cull's leg cleaning/Skinning him.....It fell off lolol :cool2:
"As long as there's Lead in the air there's hope!" -- Ralph Adkinson(Daddy) The original Marlboro Man
If his first shot had been where his second shot was...........it would have been a moot point.
Amen to your thoughts on that. It blows my mind what people think is necessary to kill a run-of-the-mill deer these days (be it whitetail or mule deer). Not a thing can make up for an inability to place a bullet properly.
I used to believe that bigger calibers made things deader too. Ex FIL taught me differently.
Looks like your a good guide as well as shot, congrats
Exactly. If he can't do it with a .25-06, maybe deer hunting isn't his thing. A .25-06 with a 90-100-or 115 grain bullet is the deal for Texas deer and I would imagine for any deer. Yep a 7 Mag will work too, but not exactly necessary. I mean if you have one and you can shoot it well, use it. But it doesn't have to be so. Use what you can shoot well and like to shoot. But that kid needs to be taught that bigger can't make up for poor shot placement.
Actually, you don't even NEED a .25-06, my little .250 Savage will kill Texas White Tail all day long with a 115 grain bullet.
I've used 117 Grain Hornady Interlocks and my favorite is a 115 Grain Combined Technologies Ballistic Tip. But even with that, you still need to hit it where you aim. Again, shot placement. Nothing works better.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
John 3: 1-21
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
JAY
On Thursday evening, two other members of the hunting party hunted with us. They were using a .300 WSM and a .300 Weatherby. It started cold and windy Thursday afternoon. By an hour before dark, it was snowing so hard I couldn’t see 50 yards. That is only the second time I’ve ever hunted Texas in the snow.
We saw plenty of deer. Just nothing they wanted or could afford.
Seems that entire family has a preference for fast .30cals.
They asked my favorite cartridge and I said, while I was a 6.5 and 7mm fan, I’d probably done more with a .308 Win than anything else. They kind of scoffed at that. So, I took them outside the barn and pointed at the 1,600 yard target.
No takers.
:-)
AWESOME?
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
That’s the first time I can recall seeing someone hunting in a pattern perfectly suited for a marijuana patch.
Seriously though, that’s some cool, old school stuff. I have a few pieces sorta like that.
This made me laugh:worthy:, thanks hey.
I don't think anybody born after about 1940 could successfully pull off 1970's Upholstery Camo - he does it with a vengeance. Brings back pre-polypropylene memories of walking around the woods in layers of bulky, bunchy, largely cotton clothing that wouldn't dry out EVER if you got wet. . .followed by sitting around Grandma's wood stove waiting to get warm/dry enough to go out and do it again.
If the guy had a stamped-checkering Winchester or Remington, we'd REALLY be time-capsuling! :cool2:
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Lots of palmettos in these woods. Lots and lots of palmettos.
Makes sense that he is from Florida. What looks to you like a marijuana leaf is in reality a palmetto leaf. With that camo he could walk into the woods here in Florida and instantly disappear.