first buck of the season

After a early morning rise at 5 am, and in the box blind by 5:40 am, still dark out, cloudy and cold at 37 degrees. Waited for dawn to break and several spikes, does and a few young bucks with antlers less than 8 points were seen, but passed on them. 15 minutes later, saw a 10 point cull buck walking up towards a few does and he spooked them, glassed him for a bit and it seemed a nice dandy buck that can put meat on the table. Took out the GAP 6.5 Creedmoor with 143 ELD_X and peered through the ATACR and the buck was a bit spooked for some reason, but kept facing my direction, and I felt the need to put one in him fast before he could hightail it out of there, so I held a steady bead aimed for the neck at 180 yards, and it was a bang flop. I said a small prayer thanking the Lord for my first buck of the season. The 143 ELD-X hit exactly where I aimed and shattered the neck bone and made a nice exit.

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Excellent! Congratulations on a fine buck. Guess the Creed works, after all!

Congratulations. That is a fine buck. Your rifle and your load delivered for you.
Dan

Thanks Mike and Dan

That is a pretty buck! Congrats! CL

Good looking buck, congrats. The bullet performed well too.

Nice clean shot !

Thanks fellows.

Good deal! Congrats!

Nice buck Mark, congratulations.

JD338

Congrats on the buck Mark! Way to go and excellent shot...

Congratulations! Nice buck.

A nice buck with a well placed shot. Dan.

Thanks guys for the kind words. Cheers.

Nice shooting!

Nice buck that’s a beauty!

Thanks everyone. Great to see that 143 ELDX perform for the first time in my rifle. I would do it again.