whos got the best

[Dean Romig]

Would a stone-dead ruffed grouse at 45 yds. (low-house station 6) with a skeet choked 28 gauge qualify?

[Labowner]

Three years ago last day of my Goose season in my scull boat, floated in on a flock of ice bound geese in a triangular cove. I sculled the edge of the ice not being able to find a way at them. I ran the boat up on the ice at the best angle to the tree lines hoping for the best and sat up in the boat. the geese lit off from the left bow at about 150yrds and headed down the tree line to my right, I hesitated to shoot because of the distance but decided last chance of the year and threw a exaggerated lead on a bird on the outside of the flock and the mighty ten folded the bird dead in the air, what to do with the second barrel, the birds because of the tree line couldn't gain any distance on me and touched of the left barrel. The second bird came down after a bit with a broken wing which made for a hour long hunt in four mill waders but I got him in the end. The first bird had to be in the seventy yard range after post holing through the ice in two feet of water to retrieve it.

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Would a stone-dead ruffed grouse at 45 yds. (low-house station 6) with a skeet choked 28 gauge qualify?

hit any grouse would count, never mind at 45 yds

[Phil C]

Austin,
Was the deer flagging and going directly away from him when he shot???

[Old and Reliable]

A member of our Busted Flush deer camp shot a 6 point buck running away up a rise with the white flag of surrender raised- He was using his M71 in .348 Win with 250 grain Silvertip loads from about the 1948 era- a inheritance from his family- fine lever rifle-

The deer collapsed and was bled out at a measured 133 paces uphill from the ejected shell casing found in the footprints he left in the snow- the Silvertip went "Uppa Da Fundament", ripped open the vitals and the lungs, and exited at the white patch of the deceased deer's throat- a hole about the size of a tennis ball- When we slit open the diaphragm, the innards looked like red jello-

He has taken two trophy Bull Elk with that same unscoped rifle and the older 250 grain Silvertip bullets- one in MT. and one in Idaho- 75 yard (est'd) shots- aim point just behind the animal's facing shoulder- aka- "Da Boiler Room" and both critters dropped in their tracks, the exit side of the deceased elk(s) had holes about grapefruit size.

I would not be hesitant to use the .348 Win, for black bear or even Kodiaks, but I might prefer 300 grain bullets (A-square or Barnes) but Boy Howdy- around here factory ammo for that great stopper is hard to come by--