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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2012, 12:58:19 PM »
Lots of difference between steel/paper and hair. I've personally have witnessed guys that can punch paper totally blow it on animals time and time again. Some even in this thread. :chuckle: Bears shot in the foot/paw, deers briskets split. :o


Good luck with Boo-Boo. :tup: You running the Sierra's?

 :yeah: is probably the one in this thread

cant win em all i guess, but i heard high post counts make up for it  :chuckle:
I started dry heaving and gagging so bad. I about puked up my daily dose of Redbull.
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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2012, 01:33:41 PM »
Lots of difference between steel/paper and hair. I've personally have witnessed guys that can punch paper totally blow it on animals time and time again. Some even in this thread. :chuckle: Bears shot in the foot/paw, deers briskets split. :o


Good luck with Boo-Boo. :tup: You running the Sierra's?

 :yeah: is probably the one in this thread

cant win em all i guess, but i heard high post counts make up for it  :chuckle:

I'm flattered by your constant  attraction to my posts Fuzzy. :tree1:  ;)

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2012, 01:51:56 PM »
Shooting from 3/4 mile....not much hunting involved there. Good luck though with your shooting!!

Just a different type of hunting. Its all good. Get out there and hammer a bear! Good luck!
snipering bears  :chuckle: good luck, sweet gun, I wish I had somewhere to shoot out that far, not that I'd be any good at it but would love to try
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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2012, 02:23:37 PM »
Lots of difference between steel/paper and hair. I've personally have witnessed guys that can punch paper totally blow it on animals time and time again. Some even in this thread. :chuckle: Bears shot in the foot/paw, deers briskets split. :o


Good luck with Boo-Boo. :tup: You running the Sierra's?


Speaking of post following, im willing to bet the majority of this one has nothing to do with the OP.

Kinda funny how you just show up.......  :dunno:
I started dry heaving and gagging so bad. I about puked up my daily dose of Redbull.
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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2012, 02:41:48 PM »
Lots of difference between steel/paper and hair. I've personally have witnessed guys that can punch paper totally blow it on animals time and time again. Some even in this thread. :chuckle: Bears shot in the foot/paw, deers briskets split. :o


Good luck with Boo-Boo. :tup: You running the Sierra's?


Speaking of post following, im willing to bet the majority of this one has nothing to do with the OP.

Kinda funny how you just show up.......  :dunno:

I'm everywhere hotrod!  :chuckle:

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2012, 02:43:42 PM »
Post following...........never heard of such a thing.....


Hows the lawn Hammer?

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2012, 02:57:09 PM »
Post following...........never heard of such a thing.....


Hows the lawn Hammer?

I'm working on it! Sent my John Deere 4300 to the doctor because of how much I've been working on it. Should have it back this week, maybe. :) Those three point hitches aren't so tough. :chuckle:

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2012, 03:02:03 PM »
Good....good to hear.

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2012, 08:18:53 PM »
Love the comments. Lojack, never shot one over 200 yards before of the 24 I have brought home, so yeah, thought I'd try something a little different this time! B-hammer, just the opposite for me...kill lots of game but cant hit steel at 100 yards...LOL! JTP, maybe if Jr and I dont succed this weekend, we should plan a trip when your not so busyy? Maybe with your "steel and rock" ability and my lack pof, we can bring "Boo-Boo" home?? LOL! Seriously, sorry you'll miss this weekend to hunt.  And "Fuzzy" well, keep 'em coming! Love it buddy!
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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2012, 08:42:22 AM »
mountainman, that would be great. I'll have to shoe horn some time in at some point as I have 2-protégé's that I've promised to take hunting this season so I don't think I'll get any animals on the ground myself.
 

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2012, 09:22:25 AM »
I would be very impressed seeing someone make a kill shot on a live animal at 1500 yards though. Whats the flight time of a .338 at that distance? Gotta be long enough for a bear to take an unexpected step or two...resulting in a foul shot. Too many risks involved in a shot that far for me to chance wounding an animal. But would love to see someone pull it off.

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2012, 04:27:18 PM »
100 yards is a long shot for me on a bear
 
guess I don't spend enough time in the wide open areas looking for those herd bears  :chuckle:

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2012, 04:37:23 PM »
We are going to putt up the road and pop a few grouse while we look for an adult bear.  I think I will wait til it cools a bit more before I decide to get after the bear, but I wont pass on the right one either. SHot guns and hand cannons for now, got lots of time, can hunt every day.   :tup:

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2012, 05:02:34 PM »
I would be very impressed seeing someone make a kill shot on a live animal at 1500 yards though. Whats the flight time of a .338 at that distance? Gotta be long enough for a bear to take an unexpected step or two...resulting in a foul shot. Too many risks involved in a shot that far for me to chance wounding an animal. But would love to see someone pull it off.
Here is a  short video of Shawn Carlock showing the possibilities of taking the long shot on animals.
While not quite 1500, the basics are the same and with the proper training and equipment, 1500 is doable.

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Re: Getting ready to smack a bear this weekend!
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2012, 06:47:20 PM »
Great shot but 480 yards or so short of 1500.

 


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