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The longest-ever recorded kill by a sniper in combat

Is shooting an armodilo about like running over a turtle on the highway with a truck<mass expolsion>?
Our draw system is kind of complicated. Example in my area it seems to take 4 years for a mule deer buck tag, 16 years for cow elk.
You can buy a bull elk tag though over the counter. Same deal with whitetails. I think you can get two whitetail tags per season.
Black Bears,wolves and cats are unprotected on on ranchland.
The animal rights wackos banned the Grizzley hunt.
Other areas in the province are completely different but in general if you want a great hunt you have to put in for an area that does not allow motorized vehicles<quads> .
 
Is shooting an armodilo about like running over a turtle on the highway with a truck<mass expolsion>?
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Yup. The bigger and faster the bullet, the bigger the explosion. We were shooting then one day with my buddy's 300 Dakota with 180 gr. (thin jacketed benchrest bullets) running about 3600fps! The 7mm STW is awesome on them too.

They "POP" just like a watermelon! The "shell" opens a bullet real fast.

Red semicircle on the ground about 30 feet across!

It would be a dream to pack an Elk out one day before I gets too old. :lol:
 
Northern Rancher said:
We'd gladly shoot more does if they let us-our deer numbers are getting too high here lately.
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The "Auto Insurance Lobby" keeps the pressure on the Game and fish board down here. I'm sure they would like to see all deer eliminated.
 
I hit the turtle by accident. It was on a turn and a car was coming in the other lane. It sounded like I drove over a land mine!
Dont you guys get sick of deer meat? One time for two years my wife and I basically lived off of deer meat. We ate it twice a day for two years. Now just the thoughts of deer meat makes us want to puke :lol:

With a pack trip for elk it really goes better with more people. If I go alone its just basically just my bed roll for camp.
With more people you can share the camp work. Example if one guy by himself did pack in a decent camp he would still just end up spending most of his time wrangling horses instead of hunting.
Takes a lot of horses to pack in a wall tent, camping gear, etc. Plus there is firewood to get and horses to look after. Its much better if you can get somebody thats handy to go with you.
Haha But the wrong type of hunting buddy is more trouble than its worth!
 
I"ve hit turtles before.....it's not a pretty site. But on another note.....lil box turtles if you barely clip them they'll sail clean over the barditch and clear the barbwire fence and land in the pasture on the other side.....

I"m kinda that way about deer meat too. I'll eat it, but for a couple three years there we had deer meat all the time, and it got to where I couldn't stand the smell of it while fixin it.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Just curious how far do you consider it to be an ethical shot at a deer. If wind is affecting you that much you must be reaching out aways. I like to stretch things out on varmints but I tend to like to 'hunt' deer till i get pretty close. Some of those hunting shows on OLN you might as well go shoot a steer out of your halfton. Ben have you ever shot a .338 Lupua-I was at Dakota Arms in Sturgis, South Dakota one time and they showed me a custom built one-it was truly a work of art.
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Deer are varmits.
 
MY brother in law lived off venison for a few years when he was a real young kid.. Won't touch the stuff with a tne foot pole now. Most of the guys who kill 20-30 does in a year will give them to a program like Hunters for the Hungry or they are set up with a bunch of families that can't/don't hunt due to time constraints or age or disability.
 
We eat 12-15 a year ourselves and no we never get sick of it-both Shauna and Ty are awesome cooks. The secret to good wild game is to trim ALL the fat and bone out of the meat. we usually cut the backstraps out for frying or barbequing then grind the rest for sausage or mix some baconends in it and make hamburger out of it. That first archery doe gets gobbled up pretty fast here in the fall. Ty's hunting buddy is the sausage maker(well one of several) in town so we eat alot of deer sausage too.
 
I always debone the meat and trim the fat. Still I cant stand the smell of deer meat anymore.
I also in an effort for varity used to make it into jerky myself. Haha Now Im sick of jerky. Haha Reminds me of those two years when thats all we had to eat!
The trouble with getting it made into sausage is that its so expensive to get made up you might as well just buy beef or pork sausage.
Honestly deer meat is only really good for dog food. I rough cut it up into about 25 pound pieces. Freeze it and use it for dog and cat food. I just give it to them raw.

Whats your favorite venison?
#1 for me is moose
#2 would be elk or antelope

You know its funny because I had always heard that antelope tasted like old sagebrush and jack rabbits. But that one that I had was really good.
 
I think antelope is better than white tail too! Never had it until last year but it's surely a lot more tender and a lot less stringy.
 
Here in Maine,
Your normal hunting license gets you 1 tag for a buck (white tail) and 1 tag for a bear. You have to apply to a particular district to get drawn for a doe. The same goes for Moose, it's a lottery. Although you can pay more and get more chances. It's detailed at the Maine Department of Fisheries and Wildlife website. I describe moose as tasting like lean beef. The one I shot in High School was young, 600 pound (gutted).

They tried to ban hunting bear over bait and with dogs 2 years ago, it didn't pass.
 
Black bears are a real pest. Especially up north. They destroy so much crops. Kill a lot of calves as well. Funny about that though because we have lots of them down here but they never bother the calves like they do up north. They also break into wooden grain bins.
The biggest problem up north is that there are just to many of them and they are really hard on the moose.
Mule Deer is the worst venison. Much worse than whitetails. You know a big part of it is shooting old bucks during the rut.
Moose meat is about the same as beef if its a younger bull. Its the same deal with Elk. A 2.5 to 3.5 year old bull is a lot better meat than an older bull.
 
Getting off the subject a little, but have any of you read the book written about Carlos Hathcock. Think its called Marine Sniper-93 confirmed kills, or something like that. There is also a follow up book, can't remember the name. Both are very good. He used to hold the record for longest sniping kill. Talks about most of his shots being around 800 to 1,000 yds. shooting a 30-06 with 180 grain bullet. I believe the rifle was russian made and the scope was an 8 power. Again, both books made for very good reading. Roper if you ever need a hunting buddy, and are willing to take a South Dakotan with you, I live for elk hunting, and definately want to try black bear hunting!
 
Sheesh alot people eat deer at our place and don't even know it's wild game. Poor tasting wild game is either not taking care of it right inthe field or else poor preparation.I've never shot a buck yet that you couldn't eat mulie or whitetail. I've got too little girls are pretty finicky eaters and they vacuum up mule deer along with the rest. as far as moose a young dry cow is the best eating for sure. Black Bear backstrap is pretty good eating too-the odd bad bear might take the odd calf but not on our place to my knowledge-I've seen them drinking at one end of the dugout while cows were at the other-a poor berry crop usually makes for some bear troubles. The biggest bear I everr shot was wrecking bins-tracked him by the piles of barley he was crapping out-nice colour phase squares right at 7 feet. BMR has got one of the biggest black bears I've ever seen mounted in his house-sweet deal.
 

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