Fiance's new elk killer! SHE SCORED!!!

[norsepeak]

Turn around time is loooong, but the quality is worth the wait.  I ordered here rifle the first of Jan. and just got it last week.  So if I were to have something done for next season, I would probably order it pretty soon.  I can't emphasize enough the quality is the finest anywhere in the country.

[addicted]

does APS have a web site

[Sagedawg]

Addicted, he dont have a website according to his post at LRH. Says if he ever puts one up he'll never get any guns built.


  Sage

[norsepeak]

What sage said.  He told me that he is by himself, doesn't want to hire anyone to help because he is a perfectionist and doesn't want the quality to slip with someone else doing the work.  He said if he did any advertising at all he would be so back logged it would take years to get a customer a rifle so he doesn't do any advertising and it still take about 9 months for a custom.....ya gotta wait and pay for quality!

[addicted]

sounds like a winner. i wish i was around to pursue his talent.

[270Shooter]

 :drool:That is one cool rifle. Great caliber choice also. I'm a lefty too, I thought about a Savage but I chose the Browning A-Bolt .

[norsepeak]

She got to shoot it for the first time yesterday.  After a couple to get used to it, she shot about a 2" group with it...a little more practice this next week and she should be down under a 1".  Good enough to smack a big bull!

[norsepeak]

final update before elk killing time.  Went out this afternoon and shot at 300yrds.  She was able to shoot a 3 shot group at just over 1 MOA.  That should be more than tight enough to smack a big bull!  Rifle shoots awsome, no recoil and is light and comfortable to pack.  Once my dies show up we will have a load for it and should be able to hold .5 MOA with it.  Thank you Kirby!

[norsepeak]

Second to the last day that we could hunt, so we decided to take anything with horns after a rookie mistake cost her a very nice big bull a week earlier.  Oh well, we've all been there!  Anyway, we went up high, and right after daylight we were on a ridgetop glassing and I spotted this guy with 5 cows feeding across a canyon at 631 yards.  After deciding it was too far to shoot, (about 1.3 seconds) we came up with a game plan on how to close the distance.  We took off on a death march down to the bottom of the canyon, and up the other side skirting just inside the timber and down wind.  I had to try hard to go slow and help her keep her heart rate down, she was very excited.  When we got up to where they had been feeding, of course they were gone.  So I looked around and found their tracks heading back east into the timber.  So I took off following their tracks while she went over the top of the ridge.  After about 40 yards, I looked through the trees and spotted another meadow up ahead, so I hustled up to hopefully catch them in the meadow.  When I got to the meadow the cows came trotting into the meadow from above with the bull following.  They all stopped in the meadow about 50 yards out.  I was watching the bull wondering where my fiance was when just above me in the trees I hear that magic sound.  Kaboom! I watch and see the bull hunch up and rear up on his back legs.  He took about 3 steps and fell over stone dead.  Her first bull!  Not the trophy we were hoping for, but he'll fill the freezer nicely.  Now off to the mission unit to find a big muley for her.

[DeKuma]

Tell her great job and congratulations!  New killer did well!

[hunterbuilder]

Congrats to your fiance on a nice spike. Good luck on that mission muley tag!

[billythekidrock]

Congrats

[billythekidrock]

LOL
huntnfool. Beat me.

[huntnphool]

Congrats NP. I did my best to fix that pic but the brim of her hat hid her face just a little too much to bring it out without it looking bad. You can delete it if you want, just thought you might like to see it a little better.

[bowsandhose]

congrats to her