Milk & Cookies

[Buffalobob]

Well, here I am in Wyoming antelope hunting by myself. It is beyond my understanding why I went to all the trouble of raising two kids if they weren’t going to help me when there is work to be done. Every morning I get up at 4:30 and cook my breakfast and then drive to the hunting site and spend 15-20 minutes unloading all my gear by myself and setting up the rifle. I even have to do all the spotting, ranging and camera work as well as the shooting.

So after doing all of that work you would think that at least one of them would be there to handle the other half of the work which is hauling them back to the truck, skinning them, and cutting them up to put in the cooler. OH NO, that is not the case. The deerslayer, she is in school and my lazy son is down at Camp McCall for three weeks of milk and cookies and roasting hotdogs around the campfire every night. I lead a hard life and retirement is just a lot of work with no kids to help with the work. Nobody ever gives me ice cream and a night-night story in the evenings

So here I go to haul in the small antelope that I shot at 1006 yards with a 240 Weatherby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nW-TWS8rk0

And here I come up the hill all by myself doing all the hard work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWgr...eature=channel

Two days later--- Here is a heavy buck I have hauled out from about a mile back in after shooting it at 535 yards. There is no one to grab the horns and no one to grab the legs and throw him up onto the carrier but me. Where is everybody when I need some heavy lifting done?




Here is a video of the buck!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkGVo...eature=channel



Congratulations on making it through Selection!!!
Go get your foot x-rayed and see if it is stress fractured.

Love

Dad

[Habu-MFFI 175]

Yep seems like you have worked em hard and they run gun shy on you now days. Telling you they have other priorities I bet.

Great looking goat. Congrats on some nice harvest.

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[JJ_BPK]

Congratulations,, Cecil B. Da-Cookie-Monster,

You deserve a BPOC (big pile of cookies)..

What did the rack(s) score??
Where?? BLM land?

I B Jealous.....

[SF_BHT]

Good looking antelope..

Congrads to your son in his first Big step into the Brotherhood....

I know you are proud of him......

[craigepo]

Did you say "1006 yards"? Wow. That's a shot. I must know more, i.e. what type of scope, bullet, wind conditions, etc.
I'm not sure if, here in Missouri, there is a place where someone could shoot 1000 yards! Amazing.
Sorry for the overflowing curiosity. Former 18b.
By the way, you must be so proud of your son. It would have been great if he could have been there for that hunt, but you have clearly done a helluva job raising him(I have a feeling he has been on at least a couple of hunts with his dad before).

Buffalobob,

Let me know when you want to visit southwest Wyoming, we've got plenty of goats and elk, in fact you can shoot all you want. My mother quotes, "damn critters are running a-muck, eating my vegtable garden and flowers".

I'll send my little guy out with you, age 8. He has plans on being an 18D, his knife skills are impressive for a young age.

My older boy is interested in ammo, reloads and tying flies. I think he'll migrate to 180A.

WD

[Buffalobob]

Craigepo

Sorry about the delay in replying. I have been up on the Manti LaSal chasing elk.

The rifle has a 30 inch 1-8 twist barrel and shoots a Berger 115 grain bullet very well. It is trued FN mauser action with a Timney trigger in a Joel Russo stock. The scope is a Leupold VIII longrange 6.5-20X 50mm. To make 1K shots on antelope requires practice with your rifle. In the gun section of this forum is a post by me about my kids shooting F-class at 1K. I also shoot myself. As far as wind goes what I do is get up well before sunrise and drive to a place where I know there will be antelope at and beyond 1K and I set up my gear and wait for daylight. Most days in Wyoming you will get about an hour of very low winds right at daylight. So you need an antelope in the correct place when you have a level of wind that allows the shot -- usually less than 5 mph and hopefully around one mph.

This type of shooting is not happenstance. I work hard to get and make such a shot. If I was just interested in killing antelope I could fill the truck up in one day with antelope shot at ranges under 400 yards.

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by Buffalobob

.... I shot at 1006 yards with a 240 Weatherby.....

BB,
What kind of case life do you get with that beast?

[Buffalobob]

What kind of case life do you get with that beast?

Usually a case is ruined on the first shot. it is loaded supper hot. Too hot to shoot if outside temperatures get over 80 degrees. I never practice with it and it only gets fired 10-15 times a year. I have a 308 for practice.

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by Buffalobob

Usually a case is ruined on the first shot.

Zut alors!
How much case prep goes into those little gems?
What do you figure your expected barrel life to be (# of rounds)?

[mark46th]

I know what you mean about kids- Mine actually is earning a living and starting a family! I tried to talk some sense into him once but to no avail...