Wyoming 2011

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I saw a neck shot on one buck and a lung/heart on the doe. Good shooting and what calibers were you using?

Actually, that 'neck shot' is an opitical illusion....that is just some blood that was on the cape when we flipped it. It was actually a nice double lung shot that flipped that buck....when he went down, we saw all 4 feet in the air before he rolled down the opposite side of the hill.

My friend was using a Remington M700 in .300 Win. magnum with 150 grain Remington Core-lokt ammuntion. I was using a Interarms Mark X Viscount that I've had since 1978 in .30-06. I was using a handload consisting of a Sierra 150 grain BTSP with a Winchester case, CCI 250 primer, and 56.0 grains of Hodgdon H414. The white paper taped to the stock had all my data on it for bullet drop out to 300 yards, as well as wind drift for various wind speeds. Fortunately, our guide was very, very good at getting us to within reasonable shooting range; my friend's shots were 140 yards for his buck and 180 for his doe, and mine was 230 yards for my buck and 75 for my doe.