Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:25 PM
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Ernie
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A little after first light this morning, we saw a really wide antelope buck, but I wasn't ready to shoot one yet as we hadn't looked at anything else. Then, we began to do the typical thing, glass the area, move, and glass the next area. After doing this for sometime, Dan saw a coyote to his left moving almost parallel to us. I had not even got the XP out of the back yet, but had everything else on me ready to go. She was just around 200 yards when I quickly ranged her. By the time I was set up, she was around 325 yards. Both of us were surprised that I had enough time to make the shot. I knew that I?d ranged a little ridge (325 yards/5 MOA ) in front of her, so I aimed a little high (Still on the body), made a good trigger press, and we were convinced we put a good hit on her. She went just over the other side of that ridge and disappeared. We assumed she was down and then we continued heading south, glassing looking for more antelope. The two track has a dead-end so we turned around and headed back that same way, and then got out and walked over to where we thought she would be. We did not measure how far she ran before she went down, but Dan guessed it to be 40-50 yards. We were able to find the actual impact point by the stringing out of hair and the blood trail, which Dan thought that was pretty cool. Shot placement was right where I wanted it to be. We took some pictures and then started hunting antelope again. We kept glassing and checked out a lot of the property, then went back to where a large herd was. The largest buck of the group had been identified, now it was up for me to decide whether I was going to take him, or go to where we thought another group was that had a fairly nice buck about the same size as this one. Length was around 13 inches, maybe a smidgen longer. Once I decided that I was going to take him, I grabbed my tripod and my gear for either a prone shot or a double kneeling shot. I went prone on top of the prairie dog mound, and I had grass in the way and I could not make the shot. I extended the legs on my bog gear, came up on my knees, having already dialed the correction into the optic and then waited for him to get clear of some does. Once he was clear, made the shot and he immediately dropped on the spot at 237 yards when the 162 grain A-Max connected. To date, I had never shot this XP for big game, just for steel, paper, and an occasional prairie dog. We took care of everything, drove back to Gillette, and I took Dan out for lunch at Los Compadres. Great morning!
Ernie the Un-Tactical
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:48 PM
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Zee
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Pretty buck!
I love the 162gr A-Max.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:49 PM
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Zee
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I forget. What is the clambering of that XP?
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:52 PM
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:57 PM
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Ernie
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Ernie the Un-Tactical
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 1:58 PM
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Zee
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"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 2:03 PM
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Ernie
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Really like that stock finish too
Ernie the Un-Tactical
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 2:21 PM
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s4s4u
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Rod, too.
Short cuts often lead to long recoveries.
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/20/2017 4:40 PM
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sixshot
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Ernie, you're off to a good start! That's a big bodied Pronghorn.
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10/20/2017 6:15 PM
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Whitworth
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Nicely don, Ernie! Great start indeed!
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10/20/2017 7:04 PM
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10/20/2017 9:43 PM
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Sheriff Russell Cottle, Ret. USMC; 1967-1970; Vietnam-'68-'69
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10/20/2017 11:28 PM
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10/21/2017 1:19 AM
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/21/2017 3:57 AM
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Productive morning. Congrats!
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/21/2017 5:14 AM
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Experience is the best teacher, hunger good sauce. Osborne Russell Journal of a Trapper
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10/21/2017 12:47 PM
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Bob Roach
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You did have a good morning.
The only thing I have killed so far is Steel Plates, Clay Birds, and a few Rocks on the berms.
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Re: Song Dog and a Buck=A Good Morning
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10/21/2017 4:23 PM
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Gregg Richter
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OK Ernie, you now have a new nick-name with me (with all due respect of course).
MR. MACHINE: As in "precision shooting machine"; not necessarily "killing machine."
By the way I found my wallet!
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10/24/2017 12:57 AM
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~BT~
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10/24/2017 1:03 AM
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It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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10/24/2017 2:19 AM
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Ernie
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Gregg, I wish I was a machine every time I shoot/hunt.
Ernie the Un-Tactical
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10/25/2017 2:36 AM
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