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  1. Is the kiddie pool a watering station?
  2. Regarding the 300 Wby, in will have about the same trajectory as your 7 Rem mag, but arrive down range with ~20% more energy. Great big game cartridge. Here’s the Hornady Precision Hunter loads for each:
  3. Nice buck! He would be awesome with another year. As you say, not likely, but there’s a chance. Things have changed in many parts of Texas. I saw at least a half dozen bucks this weekend on our little low fence place that are bigger than anything I ever saw hunting the hill country in the 80s-early 2000’s; they would have been shot years before now. Antler restrictions, trail cameras, high fences, the internet, etc have all changed hunting society. Good luck
  4. A Tikka in 22-250 with a Boyd’s at one adjustable stock. The stock was still too long so I took off the adjustable butt pad and made a little homemade recoil pad that cut the draw length down another 3/4”.
  5. Nice work and congrats!
  6. Taught my 9 year old to shoot a center fire rifle today. Still need some help handling the recoil, but getting the hang of it. Did some hunting with her today, she really wants a deer. Didn’t work out this evening but will try tomorrow. Finished with some elk steaks and Camus cabernet, pretty great day.
  7. A chupacabra
  8. Nice, Any history with the buck?
  9. I do like the action on the Ruger Americans (similar to Tikka), and the price point and caliber selections are fun as well. Only issue I had is that the magazine (as sold) couldn’t handle the recoil of 450 bushmaster and the bottom of the magazine would shift upon recoil and blow out. I gorilla glued it and it’s been ok since. Recoil on 450 BM with this light rifle is not insignificant, either shooting supersonic or 395gr subsonics, it recoils more than my 300 Weatherby. You know you are sending a big damn pill down range with those subsonics, the thud when they hit something is nice.
  10. Great looking bucks
  11. Big Culls are fun. My dad shot a similar big six cull a few years back at a place in south Texas
  12. Since Weatherby was mentioned, here’s a bullet performance datapoint on the 200 grain ELD-X. Muzzle velocity 3000fps; impact velocity at 300 yards = 2640 fps, energy at impact = 3095 ft-lbs. Shot was slightly quartering on, entered a few inches in front of the right shoulder and was recovered under the skin just in front of the point of the left shoulder. Obviously shed a lot of weight, but a nice mushroom. I’m a Barnes fan as well and was “only Barnes” for awhile, but they don’t open as well at extended range. Hard to argue that the ELD-X didn’t do just fine here. I want to try some Nosler LRABs, but they have been completely unobtainable for awhile. Nathan Foster really likes the ELD-X and it’s coming around on me. I’m typing this from my blind, nice little evening sit. Bucks are chasing does pretty hard here in Lampasas County. Did see this high fence monster buck right off the side of the county road chasing a doe at 11:15 this morning when we were driving into town for lunch.
  13. Had a decent sit this morning. Wanted to get a doe or two, but didn’t pan out. Saw a few decent bucks, this one needs another year, lousy pic through binos:
  14. Great pics - what camera/lens do you shoot with if you don’t mind? I’m trying to decide on an upgrade for my old Rebel T1
  15. The First Lite Obsidian Merino pants worked great on my elk hunt FYI. Really comfortable, great pockets, great balance of insulative value, decent durability in moderate thorns/brush.
  16. Hiked hard and hunted some beautiful country the last three days but still haven’t filled my buddy’s tag yet. Lots of cows and a few non shooter bulls. Tomorrow is the last day of our season, hopefully we get lucky.
  17. I’ll definitely never forget it. I’ve been dreaming of making this happen for about 30 years; still a little in shock that it did.
  18. Got my first elk Saturday. DIY public land with my hunting buddy; about 5 miles off the road into national forest, 8400’ elevation. Packed out the head, cape, tenderloins and straps on foot, which took four hours. Luckily a friend loaned us a couple horses to pack out the quarters the next day. Pack out and deboning took 14 hours total four two guys. We’re whipped. Not a giant, but a decent bull for this unit, and we couldn’t have asked for a nicer setting. This bull was still rutting and didn’t want to go down. 3 shots through the chest with my 300 Weatherby at 300 yards before he went down. The exit wound you see is from a hard quartering on shot that entered in front of his right shoulder.
  19. My season is going well so far. Shot a big whitetail as a guest on a high fence place last week and heading up to Colorado for rifle elk season tomorrow. Got the new Weatherby bloody for the first time on the whitetail, hopefully the first of many. The 200gr ELD-X bullet blew up pretty good after entering the ribs at close range (~120yds) and didn’t exit. Animal was dead and down in 40 yards, but I will need to pay attention with the softer bullet construction at close range on elk; not like shooting the monometals I’ve been shooting the last several years.
  20. I like the cut of your jib. I splurge and use 18-24” concrete form stakes with pre-drilled holes to anchor my feeder legs (attach to legs with brace wire). I don’t like T-Posts next to my feeder legs in case I fall (God forbid) loading the feeder; I’m also lazy and I can drive the form stakes with a 3lb sledge instead of a T-post driver. (We have rocky soil)
  21. Nice plot - what implement(s) do you plant with?
  22. You had a good question and interesting scenario man, no need to delete. Same type questions come up for a lot of folks on a new place.
  23. You guys are talking me into 4.5 with the nose, swayback, and little starter belly
  24. In your first year, since it hasn’t been hunted for the last 3, I would focus on getting an idea of the age structure and target harvest on older / mature / ~5-6yo+ bucks regardless of antlers, and spread the doe harvest out among the age classes if you can at all. We had a trait of no brow tines that was common, but after we started managing the forage better and some supplemental feeding, that problem went away. Was any supplemental feeding/plotting done the last 3 yrs? If you are going to start a feed program, you need to continue it through winter and keep something available when pasture conditions aren’t great, or you can lose the older bucks. My dad bought a place that hadn’t been hunted, had a bunch of old big 8 pointers. We started feeding, and my dad liked watching those old bucks and didn’t want any of them shot. We didn’t keep the feeding program up after January and we didn’t see a single one of those old bucks the next year. They had gotten accustomed to corn and protein feed, and then we stopped feeding when pasture conditions weren’t good, the deer crashed; laid down and died somewhere. It is known to potentially happen with cattle in the similar circumstances.
  25. 3.5 would be my first guess as well
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