Well...Ernie's daughter shot that nice anterless buck last week at 350 yards...so I'm trying to get a deer over 350 yards with the Striker 7-08 (16.75" Shilen barrel) but just can't seem to get one that far away. Darn PA hills!! I nailed a yearling buck this AM at 270 yards...yes, Kyle...he was looking at me!

The bottom duplex is zeroed at 300yds on 12X which makes the crosshair junction zeroed at about 250 or so. I held the crosshair junction dead center on the chest and hit 2" below the POI.

The shot was perfect on target...just behind the shoulder and on top of the heart but bullet performance was so-so. The deer expired...so I must really say that the bullet did its job. Nothing hard was hit other than two ribs on entrance, penetrated the chest, gut and exited through the opposite side ham...bad esimation of the angle due to a tree blocking the hind quarter...should have aimed about 6" forward which would have made the shot exactly like the 238yd deer I got last Wednesday (21" of total penetration, 3" exit hole and recovered the bullet jacket). The holes on todays deer (in and out) were both caliber size...maybe a skosh more.

This deer had a funny hump in its back...the spine is bent very weird just about 3" ahead of the inner tenderloin. I'll take pic tomorrow of it skinned and see what you think. Other than that it looked healthy. You can see some pronouned white marks on its side...the other side has even more white of its side...almost like it's part albino.

I was using the prone position, Harris bipod, no rear bag...and was laying in 6" of snow. Wind was non-existant...at times my breath steam would simply rise straight up. This LR deer hunting is a hoot!! Kick back, relax and wait for them to come out of the woods!!

excellent! not many tines have i hunted in snow....only a couple times down here. once a pretty big snow storm....sittin in a treestand in a big thick pine yrs ago. that was pretty cool......er cold.


well.....as long as it was lookin at ya dan...hehehe

hey! you mad at us?

you's gots that MEAN look again .....LOL...LOL!

Heck of a shot anyhow...
Way to go but why do you look so mad?
LOL

Nice shooting Dan! And DANG! Smile
PM sent at ya also......

Good luck on getting the 350+ kill!
You are going to make Kristen smile when she reads this post
Good shot man!
It is fun just waiting to ambush from afar.
I asked her yesterday after school what her goal was for 2006 concerning where she wanted to set up for deer.
I asked her if she wanted to move back another 100 yards (450 yards) and she said, "No."
I said, "well, how far do you want to be then?"
She said, "Just over 500 yards."
Watching her shoot the past several years I have no doubt she will accomplish it.
Pretty soon she is going to be pushing me

Dan,
Concerning LR hunting:
Longest shot I have ever made on a game animal (mule deer) was with a 7mm-08 XP.
That being said, the 284 family of cartridges has a little extra umph for downrange performance.
Ideally, the WSM class puts you into a different arena all together.

Just food for thought since the bug has bitten.

Ernie...I'm thinking I may try a WSM on my "extra" XP action. Iffin I do it will certainly be the 7mm version. If not that...then most likely a 6.5-284. Tell Kristen...that considering the large size of her deer at 350yds and smallness of mine at 270yds...the shot difficulty was about the same!!

To the rest of ya'll...I'm just naturally mean looking!!

Hey Dan-- Ernie's going to the 7 Dakota case for his rig soon-- u might oughtta consider that. Imagine what u could do with a 162 A-Max out of a case that size? There uoghtta be some cross-valley shots out there in PA that'd be tailor made for such a setup. Just like Butch Keen's videos.

Applying the plex reticle "tactically" is a GREAT system-- one of the simplest of tactical reticle systems. I also use it for my .17 Mach IV XP for coyotes. With a 225 zero, the lower post of the 4-12X Burris Mini is dead on @ 350 on 12X where the plex post tip's subtension is 2.7 MOA (from the Burris website) below crosshair. This is what i put on my range sticker that's on top of the scope, referencing both horizontal and vertical trajectory in tenths of a "stadia unit" (1 stadia unit is distance between x-hair and post tip in MOA). Wind is 10 mph.

ELE-------Wind
150--------.6
200--------.7
225-0------.8
250-.2-----.9
275-.4-----1.1
300-.6-----1.2
325-.8-----1.3
350-P------1.4

Steve...I've been eyeing up some cross valley shooting...powerlines provide a great opportunity for this. This would be a good system to try during the last week of the season...certainly not on the first day. They cross the powerlines going about 200mph! Then hole up pretty tight unless pushed for the rest of that week. I saw two does yesterday that were out and about feeding...and I only have a buck tag!

What are the videos you mentioned??

Their Butch Keen's videos-- Point Blank From Long-Range--www.keenvisionvideo.com (i think).