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[AlleninAlaska]

Boomer the 467 yard shot that I mention in my upper post was done with the 300 RUM and 150 grain Swift Sciroccos. That same day I did another Caribou at 443 yards.

Here is a picture of the 443 yard Caribou.

 

[Boomer.1]

338 ultra mag

338 ultra mag

Very nice shot.....what do they taste like...the boo's that is...LOL....how cold was it that day..looks cold as hell....

Boomer

 

[Vance in AK]

Here's a post from a handgun hunting sight I frequent (handgunhunt.com). The gun used is a modified Remington XP-100 handgun.

Long-range with the 7 Dakota
#19900 - 11/21/06 09:03 AM (207.200.116.74)

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Just got back from our CO elk/deer hunt, and it was very successful for us. Ernie had a buck permit we didn't fill, but he wanted to get back to Pueblo to hunt coyotes for a day or so.

The 1st day was a little rough to say the least. We were seeing/chasing game all over the place, and finally after putting on more than a few rugged miles we were in our old spot we affectionately call the "1st knob," that gives us a pretty good elevated spot to galss from. We spotted a herd of elk on a snow-covered no.-facing slope way down again, and we just looked at each other, groaned, and took off after them. We got to a shooting spot that overlooked the slope they were bedded on, and got set up for the shot. I had my portable Big Eyes set up on a backpackable tripod, and had a teeerrrific view of them. RX4 Leupold laser gave 666 LOS yds. to the tgt., and 655 slant-range yds. Kestral gave 4-8 mph wind, and Ernie obtained the targeting solution from his Dell Axim with Exbal loaded using the BIG 200 gr. ULD Wildcat bullet @ 2700 fps mv, and got set up for the 666 yd. shot. At the shot the cow just rolled over with it's head twitching here and there, and after a few seconds i told him to send another favoring wind a couple more inches or so, as i though it may have been a neck shot (turned out to be a high shoulder shot tho.) Second bullet centered her chest, and she seemed to have actually expired just before he sent the 2nd shot downrange anyway. Terrific downrange performance for sure. What a day!!!

2 days later after packing her out a couple miles, we were in a new spot, that was just off the road, but looked like it had potential. After hiking in up a steep slope, i thought it had some good glassing potential especially in sparsely-treed, typically overlooked no.-facing slopes. So i went back down to get Ernie who was waiting back at the truck. We grabbed our gear then and headed up and up, and up again to the top. When we got there Ernie immediately spotted a couple does across a valley in another no.-facing snow-covered slope at a lasered 597 yds. We elected to take the lower animal, and got set up for the shot again. Same system as before. Ernie checked wind, and range, plugged it into Exbal, and it gave a targeting solution using Ernie's big old handgun again (i'd hurt my back several months ago, and couldn't carry all my gear/gun up as usual). BUT I SCREWED UP ROYALLY, and applied windage the wrong way with the reticle. Oh well-- so much for screwups. Crap happens, i guess. At the shot the doe jumped forward and when i figured out what i did wrong, i set up again with the correct windage correction, and nailed her just an inch or so too far back. But she slid down hurting badly giving me a back shot, as she was now facing up and down the steep slope. I fired again and the bullet passed thru her just to the left of the backbone, and exited out her side. She dropped and rolled down the slope about 10 yds. or so dead. When we finally got to her turns out "she" was actually a yearling buck with no antlers-- OK, of course with an "antlerless" permit. It'll be good eating for sure, and wife Vicky likes that part. Man what a time we had, i tell ya'.

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Steve