Silentstalker
Handloader
- Jun 2, 2011
- 638
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Just returned from beautiful Wyoming! My brother and I have been up three times this year trying to fill our elk tags. The first two trips were on the archery hunt.
This was our first year hunting the general season tag. My brother missed a bull on the bowhunt.
I did not get a shot until Sunday. I was shooting my Weatherby Backcountry chambered in 270 Win with 150 gr. Nosler Partition handloads which I developed with help from many of you.
We spotted this bull with his cows about 9 am working their way up a ridge to bed. We closed the distance to 560 yards and we ran out if time as they were heading into the timber.
I set my scope, set my rifle on my big pod and slowly squeezed the trigger. I hit him about mud way up the chest a couple inches behind the crease. He only went about 30 yards and was done.
The Partition passed completely thru the bull and obviously did its job. I could not be more happy.
This bull was 4.5 miles from the trailhead and it took my brother and I a full 24 hours to get him back to the truck. Here are a few pictures.
This was our first year hunting the general season tag. My brother missed a bull on the bowhunt.
I did not get a shot until Sunday. I was shooting my Weatherby Backcountry chambered in 270 Win with 150 gr. Nosler Partition handloads which I developed with help from many of you.
We spotted this bull with his cows about 9 am working their way up a ridge to bed. We closed the distance to 560 yards and we ran out if time as they were heading into the timber.
I set my scope, set my rifle on my big pod and slowly squeezed the trigger. I hit him about mud way up the chest a couple inches behind the crease. He only went about 30 yards and was done.
The Partition passed completely thru the bull and obviously did its job. I could not be more happy.
This bull was 4.5 miles from the trailhead and it took my brother and I a full 24 hours to get him back to the truck. Here are a few pictures.
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