Hunting with my 300 Weatherby for the first time

[oscar1975]

Weapons are very humble, I've got to have the rifles saving little by little. I love looking at them and look after them, have been slow to take them. Someday I'll hunt with them. Everything comes hehe.

Oscar.

 

[Oldtrader3]

That is true, Oscar, everything comes to those who wait. You have a really nice selection of rifles and calibers. Not fancy but certainly well built arms that will serve you well when you need them.

 

[FOTIS]

At least you guys can have them in Spain!


If Greece allowed them maybe I would be living there.

God I miss Crete!

 

[35 Whelen]

I like your bullet placement .................... that is a very very good place to dispatch a Whitetail Buck or any other animal for that matter! Great shooting.

 

[Desert Fox]

I like your bullet placement .................... that is a very very good place to dispatch a Whitetail Buck or any other animal for that matter! Great shooting.

Thanks 35 Whelen. I like to placed the bullet behind the shoulder on smaller animal but, on bigger and tough animal or on angling shot, I aim for the shoulder. You can visibly see all the bullet entry point on several animal on the picture.

The kudu was was making a full 180 degree turn from a dead run. It never did completed it's turn. The 230 grain TSX hit him square in the left shoulder.

The warthog thought he can hide in a tall grass. Big mistake.

Sharp angling behind the shoulder shot on a Zebra at around 150 yards moving away. The bullet exited the chest area.

480 yards shot on a coyote. That's an exit wound courtesy of the 300 SMK.

 

[SJB358]

Great pictures DF! Very nice!

 

[Alaska]

Nice deer!
I have a old 300 wby that i have used for 45 years. Great round! A few years ago i purchased a 257 accumark and been using 90gr Hornady GLX with H1000. Talking about a rifle that kills like lighting on Caribou! And very flat shooting and low recoil!

 

[nvbroncrider]

Nice buck and story. Your pics point out the diversity in topography and ecosystem that the N.A. WT hunter can experience. I have never hunted in an open area as that. It seems simpler but I know better.

Good story and pics.

Cat, hunting Whitetail in the Texas Panhandle is different than any where else... lots of open area and shot can be long. You need a flat shooting rifle and be ready to take a long shot if necessary. There's no way you can stalk to get close due to absence of cover.

Here's some more picture that I took from last year.

There's a reason they have towns in that area named Plainview, Levelland etc. I went to school in Lubbock and if you were hunting that area I agree you can't stalk anything you have to view them get a pattern set up and wait. Then there is the wonderful winds of the panhandle to dope. All I have to say there is good luck somedays you just can't shoot. I've seen days there where your dealing with 40-50 mph winds all day and then the dust storms they get are unreal.

 

[Desert Fox]

Just got my antler last Friday.