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Offline mattparliament

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Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« on: December 12, 2010, 02:23:37 PM »
My first bull!  got him at 65 yards when he turned broadside on "Black Friday"!  225 grain accubonds at 2700 fps through the shoulders and he never took a step, literally, but not a spine shot.  Couple of pics, first is where he dropped, then it's off to the taxidermist and finally the recovered bullet (far side skin) and ivories.  He was an old bull, ivories were down to the gums, one was deformed.  He'll go 320 (not that I really care...).  On a side note, when I was standing next to him realizing what I had just done 6 more bulls walked by at 50 yards, one 7x7 was 375 easy.  Public land too!



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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 12:18:29 AM »
nice elk. congrats!!!!!!!!
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2010, 03:17:46 AM »
Whatta beauty!!!!  Congrats!!
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2010, 03:46:35 AM »
Awesome. Nice bull Matt. Glad to hear the Accubonds worked so well. What state you in?
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2010, 08:53:45 AM »
Central MT, got him on "No-Tellum' Mountain"...  ;)
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2010, 06:00:39 PM »
Nothing better than free meat and a coat rack for mama
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2010, 08:52:42 AM »
Really nice elk! Pretty hard to top that one. What was your firearm of choice?

Does K1A mean it was a Ruger No.1A?
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2010, 11:08:28 AM »
Outstanding trophy, good write-up.
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2010, 02:51:06 AM »
  Outstanding  Matt !    Thats the kind of bull dreams are made of.  At 65 yards that must have been heart pounding plus.   Jedman
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Re: Accubonds and Ivories!!! 35 Whelen K1A
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2011, 04:28:06 PM »
I didn't even know what he was until after I shot him.  I could only tell that he was "legal" through the trees, didn't know he was so nice
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