Congrats to all you handgunners that have taken game this year. Those are some nice bucks.

Larry

Thanks for the support guys. If I were a rich man i'd be handgunning all the critters I could but for now I have to stay with what I have at home.

Cull fork horn from last weekend. 45 yards with .44 mag. Bullet is 300 gr wfn pushed by 20 grains of 110.

Nice shot Randy.

He had it coming sticking his tongue out at you like that.

Way to go, Randy

Texas doe gets the nod to break-in the 300 Whisper...

Looks like she liked the whisper seeing how she stuck around for a picture and everything

Nice shooting guys and great deer. Our muley season opens saturday

Good shooting fellas!

Randy that is one heck of a fork horn!

Wow that is an awesome 10 pt Minnesota

Congrats SC! She'll eat just fine.

Nice going Dur!

Got my buck on sunday .The picture is on bragging board but I can;t seem to get it here , Any help would be appreciated Thanks.

Junebug's Buck

great buck! that a way Junebug!

Congrats to all! Anything taken with a handgun is a trophy.

Great buck, junebug! Congratulations!

Thanks guys
The shot was 60 yds with my 5 1/2 in Bisley in .45 Colt. I used a
250 grn.XTP and 20 grn. of 2400 powder. Rib in and rib out, the liver and both lungs. Distance ran after shot approximately 70 yds. All three of my .45s have drawn blood now. Thanks SChunter for the help with the picture.

I posted several days ago regarding my son and his family coming to hunt with me and we had a blessed hunt and unbelievably filled out all four tags: one bull elk and three mule deer bucks.

That is a great photo Gregg and I'm sure many great memories to go with it.

+1 -- that is a great photo!

Gregg, that was a fantastic hunt; congrats to all!

My first bear, shot in northeast Georgia with a Contender 35 Rem at 117 yards.

good job !!!

Gregg that is great, some beautiful animals there. CM, congrats on your first bear!

Greg- great photo. Was that one of the bulls you saw earlier?

CMnash- great job on the black bear. I am yet to run into one.

That is a very fine trophy you have there. Great job.

Indeed it is!!!!!!

Congrats on the bear CM! Outstanding handgun kill.

Looks like it has been a bountiful year! Keep 'em coming!

CMNash: Good job on the bear! Good shot although I have been with you shooting prairie dogs and I do not doubt your ability at all!

SBHunter81: Yes I believe that is one of the bulls I scouted earlier; just didn't get his herd on video.

Well, I killed a 400+ pound black bear last Wednesday with hounds in North Carolina with forum member cottonstalk. But, due to the overcast conditions, which sent the gps system into a fritz, and the absolute impenetrable foliage, we were unable to recover the bear. Talk about depressing. We shot him in the shoulder while treed and he managed to run to another with the dogs in hot pursuit at which time we shot him in the vitals again, after catching up. Both shots knocked the bear off the tree and this last time he ran off, with dogs at his heels when he expired. By the time we got within 100 yards of the dogs, two hours had elapsed, and the dogs broke away from the dead bear as they had lost interest (which is what they do after a while when the animal isn't moving any more). Finding an animal in that mess is like finding a green BB in the grass. In hindsight, we should have simply let him expire after the first tree, but we pushed him off. Bummer. His head was easily three times the size of the 200 pound bear I killed last year. Crap.

Whit, thats tough... hurts to lose any animal yet alone a sizable one.

Gregg,

Which is the relative from Washington? I noticed the UW Huskies jacket and it made me proud! God job Dawg Fan!

SR1

Mine and my son's season so far.....

Kim now that looks list a good season so far!

Awesome season so far fellas keep it up an good luck

It's been a very good season, so far. (Thought I'd bring this post back to the front page; thread has been dead a while.)

Update on 2012-13 season....