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Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Stephen Borud - 11-18-2017
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I will let Gunner tell the story.
Another fine kill with PP Bullets.
Stephen
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Gunner500 - 11-20-2017
Stephen, many Thanks again for posting pics my friend, I gotta say we hunt some amazing animals with their sheer need to reproduce, exert dominance and survive.
This brawler buck had already completely broken off his right main beam with the two or three points on it, his left main beam was broken off close to the end with the point behind it broken off too, he didn't have much head gear left to fight with, but, at the conclusion of my 4th rattling sequence, he busted through that brush looking down his nose with his head and ears laid back ready to MMA with the first thing he saw.
About 30 yards out, he suddenly stopped kinda quarter broadsided and put his nose in a scrape, hunched up like he was hiking a football and pee'd in the scrape, I already had the sights of the 45-110 Bull Gun on him, he turned his head to look back from the direction he came and BOOM, the bullet struck him where the neck joins the shoulder to exit low ribs on his left side, DRT, I didn't hit the spine, but must have shocked it enough to interupt his logistic function ;] the lungs were bloody chum chunks upon dressing.
I was blessed to be part of this great adventure,, I thanked the buck and God, dressed him and pulled him down about 150 yards to an old dim log haul road, walked back down the mountain to get my ATV at the North end of the pasture, rode up and loaded him up, could not have loaded him without dressing him first, really long heavy mature buck.
BTW, humping those bull barrel Sharps rifles up the mountain will quickly seperate the men from the boys, at 55, hope I still have at least a few years left.
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Stephen Borud - 11-21-2017
What a great hunt. It’s nice seeing other hunters out using these guns for what they were made for......efficient killing.
It just never gets old does it?
Stephen
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Kurt - 11-21-2017
There is nothing that gets the hunters adrenalin running harder then seeing a scrapper like that coming to answer a challenge of someone in his domain.
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Rowdy Rick - 11-28-2017
Nice buck! Made even better with using a sharps! Good shooting, happy to see more hunters out there using BPCR guns.
Rick
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Gussy - 11-28-2017
Nice buck!!
Slow and steady, mostly slow. That's how I pack that heavy cannon up the canyon. No rush to get there and a few breather breaks on the way..... and I'm about 20 yrs older than you
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Gunner500 - 12-24-2017
(11-21-2017, 11:08 PM)Kurt Wrote: There is nothing that gets the hunters adrenalin running harder then seeing a scrapper like that coming to answer a challenge of someone in his domain.
You bet Kurt, I just wanted to see what whipped this broken antlered buck and gave him a few deep neck wounds.
I'll be back on them first light in the fall of 2018.
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Gunner500 - 12-24-2017
Thanks Rowdy Rick, I did manage another African Safari this year, was able to kill a giant Cape Eland bull and an old blue black Sable bull, the Eland was bedded and shot in the right ham from 60 yards with my 50-90 Sharps and a 750 gr grease groove bullet I cast myself.
The skinners found the bullet in the front of the bulls left shoulder, that's near nine feet of penetration, the bull dropped his head at the shot and never thought about getting up, the bullet still weighs 743 grains.
The broadside shot on the Sable bull at 97 yards blew through him like he was made of cardboard.
Another fine year of hunting with Sharps rifles, 40, 45 or 50 Cal, they simply get the job done.
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Gunner500 - 12-24-2017
(11-28-2017, 07:06 PM)Gussy Wrote: Nice buck!!
Slow and steady, mostly slow. That's how I pack that heavy cannon up the canyon. No rush to get there and a few breather breaks on the way..... and I'm about 20 yrs older than you
LOL, 10-4 Gussy, glad to know I'll still be humping a bull barreled Sharps rifle for 20 more seasons, I'll take that.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Everyone, have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
RE: Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck - Kurt - 12-24-2017
Well Gunner nine feet of penetration through tough muscle and probably a grass filled stomach using the .50 sure dispels the notion that the .50 does not penetrate.
Good going!!
Kurt