Hunter Ed Incentive 245&247

[Rainier10]

Congrats sir! Them 215 bergers are nasty medicine on muley bucks

I shot my first deer 25 years ago with a gun. Went to archery the next year. I’m not a “gun guy”. I was out there with my bow hoping for a close shot and had an of the shelf cabelas package rifle and scope. I was confident out to 200 yards and iffy on anything beyond that. @opdinkslayer can give you guys the specifics on his rifle. I think you are pretty familiar with the rifle too Karl. What I know about the rifle and bullets was they did their job. When I got on the ground that stock fit great to my shoulder and eye. It was rock steady on target. This sight picture was crystal clear. It was dialed to the correct yardage to just put the cross hairs where I wanted to hit. The trigger was so smooth and easy to pull. There was hardly any recoil and I watched the buck in the scope just nose dive as the bullet entered just behind his left shoulder right where I was aiming low in the chest and completely KO’d the opposite leg. It literally took him to the ground right where he was. He was dead in 2 seconds. No thrashing, no death kick while on the ground.

That gun was a stone cold killer and I was just any other idiot that could have pulled the trigger. I’m sold 100% on custom setups.

[jae]

Nice work!
Congratulations on a great Buck.

[Rainier10]

Couple more photos

[cbond3318]

That’s a really cool buck. Congrats!

[Rainier10]

I know score is gonna come up. My mark was 160 or better all along. Trash, stickers or droppers would trump all of that. The right experience would play a toll as well.

This buck looked right at 160 or bigger. I had both of my buddies there, they had been gone the past three days of the hunt. OPdinkslayer and his son had sat on this deer for over an hour in the cold snow waiting for us to get there. I loved the mass of this buck. I loved that so many people had been and were involved in this hunt. I didn’t want it to end but everything seemed right and I pulled the trigger.

I will get it officially scored. We aren’t pros but our unofficial attempt came up with 158-162 gross. The 158 was using a string to measure with and you loose an inch at the bases with the string getting in between burrs. When we used a flexible tape and got more precise with all measurements rather than quick numbers we came with 162.

I will come back with an official score in January but I think it is fair to call it the 160” buck I was looking for without any arguments.

[Skyvalhunter]

Good Job Rainier!! I like the bases on that old boy..

[trophyhunt]

What a deer, congrats man!!  I shoot 190 bergers out of my .300, it destroys animals.  Great job!

[Rainier10]

I’ll get a better pic of the bases later today.

They were painful to hold onto for pictures. Just gnarly bases.

[Woodchuck]

Congrats sir! Them 215 bergers are nasty medicine on muley bucks

215 bergers? He clearly beat it to death with a log. 
Awesome buck man. Congrats.

[NOCK NOCK]

Awesome buck. Love the gnarly bases. Congrats. Sure is fun country to hunt with snow on the ground.

[Buckhunter24]

Really nice buck did you load that bull pac up?

[X-Force]

Pretty buck. Congrats and thanks for giving back to the hunting community

[Mfowl]

Fantastic buck! Congrats! Thanks for sharing the hunt!

[Ironhead]

Great Buck, Congrats!

[Widgeondeke]

Congrats sir! Them 215 bergers are nasty medicine on muley bucks

215 bergers? He clearly beat it to death with a log. 
Awesome buck man. Congrats.

I was thinking he shot the tree and dropped it and broke the bucks back 

Congrats on a hard earned and great buck