whos got the best

[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--

[Quail1]

Not a long shot but....lucky??!

We were hunting pheasants in the Bighorn basin of Wyoming. An area that had some nice Whitetail bucks. I'd shot a rooster that sailed onto private ground. As my dog retrieved, my brother yelled that his dog was getting birdy. I hightailed it back into the action. Moments later my dog went on point and a rooster came up, hard to the right. I swung and pulled...and it blew into a "thousand" pieces.

I'd slipped in a slug that was intended for one of those Whitetails. *#$&!!

[Blind Dog]

Several years ago I was shooting a few clay birds out of my little string pull trap in back of the garage down the hill toward the road nearly 300 yards away. I was using 7&1/2 AAs. My wife came charging up the drive and gave me "what for" for having sprinkled her while she was getting the mail. I have never shot targets in that direction again.

[Dean Romig]

Amazin' what gets them wimmen riled up....

[Rod N. Gunn]

My 3- 1/2" 10ga belches out enough extra pellets to make me a better shot.... I just can't carry it more than 100 yards without stopping to rest.

[Austin W Hogan]

Around 1975 my friend Jack Brookman, his father Jim Brookman and a few others were hunting deer in "single ball or slug country" in northern Schoharie county NY. We stopped for a break around 10 AM along a small stream, with a pasture to the north. Jack spotted a deer, with its antlers bright in the sun at the top of the hill to the north, about 200 yards away. Jack fired one shot from a single barrel 12, and the deer dropped without a step. We hauled the deer out ,and skinned it that evening. We never found an entrance or exit wound.

Best. Austin

[Dean Romig]