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Offline huntnut

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45-70 got bloody today
« on: November 29, 2006, 01:03:10 PM »
My 45-70 encore got me a nice 8pt. It's my first buck with any fire arm and its my 2nd deer with a handgun. He was still in rut, I rattled and called him in from over 300yrds out, here in Kansas the rut is over but he didn't know that. He finally gave me a shot at 35yrds, with a 4x scope it was hard to get on him, I was on a bluff about 30' over him and he was down wind, he ws walking through a thicket I tryed to get on him at 50yrds but he wouldn't stop, so I let him walk towards me, I had to swing my shooting sticks and wait tell he got past a tree. He stop for a second and I figured it's now or never, had to shot through a little lite brush, he was quartering towards me pretty hard so I took him in the neck and it came out the far shoulder, he droped like a ton of bricks.
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Re: 45-70 got bloody today
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2006, 01:09:55 PM »
Way to go, nice buck and with a hand cannon.  ;D
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Re: 45-70 got bloody today
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2006, 06:13:12 AM »
Hey, great job on a really nice buck.  I shoot .45-70's in a rifle and have wondered how it'd be in my Contender.  I've heard it's brutal.  What's your opinion?  I currently shoot an assortment of barrels on my Contender including .30-30 and .44... just wondering about the .45-70.  What bullet and load did you use?

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Re: 45-70 got bloody today
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2006, 12:27:10 AM »
nice buck congrats

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Re: 45-70 got bloody today
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2006, 06:43:41 PM »
Sure sounds like a good time to me. Congratulations on a nice buck.