Bullquest's 08' Montana Buck

[Bullquest]

Here's a few shots of my Montana buck. After arriving at our destination on Sunday afternoon, my buddy Randy and I went on an evening hunt in the National forest area as we didn't have time to get to our usual area till the morning. We seen a number of deer including a few smaller bucks, but decided to hold off.
The following morning found us on a ridgetop overlooking miles of coulees and ranchland.
We had spotted several smaller "basket rack" 3-points that were less wide than there ears. My goals on this hunt were to harvest a deer that was wider than its ears, long tined, and had decent mass through out. After walking this ridge for a few hours we stopped to look over this saddle below us. I soon spotted a decent buck. He was walking up hill away from us. After we both glassed him over and liked his width and height, I decided to take him. The only problem was I ranged him at 491 yards! I knew my bullet drop at that distance and had good shooting sticks, so I set up to shoot. After waiting for him to turn mostly broad side, I touched off my shot and he immediately dropped with a shot through the lung! My partner could hardly believe I had hit him and I was happy that I had practiced some some long distance shooting!
After walking down to the buck he was in the same spot but still alive. I finished him through the neck and then the work began.
A few days later we had both tagged out on whitetail does and our trip was complete, minus the 1100 mile ride home.

[cascademountainhunter]

cool eye gards. congrats!

[rosscrazyelk]

Nice.. congrads

[Muleyslyr]

Nice buck....love the split eye guard.

[arrowflinger]

Great job...................

[huntnphool]

Way to go Bullquest, love those brows he has.

[Buschingc]

Thats a nice buck.. Nice shot also.. Congrats..

[MichaelJ]

GREAT buck nice job!

Michael

[mikelonsford]

Nice job Kyle!

You better get in and show me some pics from your trip.  I better get out more, I didn't even know you and Randy were going to MT.  I figured after moose hunting you were done for the year.

Congrats to you and Randy!

Mike

[boneaddict]

You guys are smackin some good ones.  I NEED TO get over there.

[Slider]

Nice Buck!!! Congrats

[robb92]

Great buck!!!

[X-Force]

Congrats. You had a full hunting season for sure with the moose and now this guy. What brand of gun are you shooting? its a beaut.

[Bullquest]

It is a Remington model 700 LSS chambered for 300 ultramag. I had a muzzle brake installed because I was tired of the broken blood vessels on my shoulder after only 1 box of shells! I also had the barrel floated and dialed the trigger down to 3lbs.It's topped with a Leupold 3.5 x 10 x 50 vari x III. It do put some hurtin' on those deer!

[fc2038]

Congrats on your buck. Sounds like a good year

[Michelle_Nelson]

Nice Buck!  Congrats