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Offline NamOb

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« on: November 21, 2005, 07:15:17 AM »
Just bought a new T\C Encore with a 15 inch .243 Win Barrel Nov. 6., I put a Bushnell 2X32 scope on it and it is an Awesome gun!!
Dropped a big doe from 130 Yards out Saturday Afternoon. This gun is going to be alot fun.  :P

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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2005, 09:03:47 AM »
congrads on the doe,
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2005, 09:58:34 AM »
Handgun hunting is a blast. :D Congrats on the doe.  :-D
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2005, 03:49:45 PM »
Got me a nice, young , juicy doe tonite (88# field dressed) with my 15" 7mm-08 Encore using Hornady 139's. About 75 yards,  exit hole on far side rib cage the size of my fist. Burris 2x scope. Now, for a buck!
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2005, 04:23:03 PM »
did you have to track her or was she D.R.T.?
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She fell where she stood.
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2005, 01:48:43 AM »
I hit her in the neck right above the shoulder and she dropped like a bag of bricks. She did not know where it came from.
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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2005, 03:27:29 AM »
Poncaguy,


I hit a nice size buck in the mid-neck just in front of the shoulder (quartering toward me) Saturday and he dropped without a step.  It was a close shot since he was only about 10 yards away.


Expected to roll him over and find a large hole on the other side but the Remington Core Loct bullet was mushroomed and at the base of his sternum just under the skins as I prepared to gut him.

Weird bullet action but it sure put him down where he stood.

Congratulations on your harvest.  Knowing what I know now, I sure wish I had taken my .44 mag Encore rather than the .270 rifle.  Would have been an easy pistol shot at that distance.

Mike
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