diamond hitch
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I wandered through our local sporting goods store today and exited extremely disappointed. The trend of small fast bullets I guess might work for the praries but certainly not in my experience for jungle hunting. A close friend of mine many years ago shot a buck with a 300 win mag. He shot a smaller bullet at well over 3000 ft/sec. About half of the deer was bloodshot.
We slowed those bullets down to about 2700 ft/sec and found we could eat nearly up to the holes without losing accuracy. I shoot a 7 mag with 175 gr roundnose bullet which Hornady no longer makes. I think I bought the last four boxes available. This year I found a tender cow bedded in a doghair thicket of 2 inch lodgepoles. I shot through the trees at 30 yds and killed her dead. We had to cut a path to get her out. It was too thick to get horses into her. I had no meat loss and no bloodshot. Frankly I was amazed but very pleased and I have killed a lot of elk. A very tender cow elk.
A few years ago I walked into a meadow and found 4 cow elk feeding in an Aspen swamp. I couldn't get a clean shot and waited 30 min for the elk to move. Three of the cows walked off and the last was still behind an aspen. I took a careful bead on the tree (about 4 inches in diameter) and shot through the tree and killed the elk on the other side. The tough part was where she fell into the creek. She was too big to move by myself so I placed a lariat over her head and pulled out with my horse. A much drier way to gut and quarter her up for packing. For you do it your selfers I did it by myself and rode the six miles to the truck. It is possible. Just a little slower as you get older.
If you hunt the jungles like me, I recommend a bigger gun and heavy bullets. It gives you an edge when the hunting is tough.
We slowed those bullets down to about 2700 ft/sec and found we could eat nearly up to the holes without losing accuracy. I shoot a 7 mag with 175 gr roundnose bullet which Hornady no longer makes. I think I bought the last four boxes available. This year I found a tender cow bedded in a doghair thicket of 2 inch lodgepoles. I shot through the trees at 30 yds and killed her dead. We had to cut a path to get her out. It was too thick to get horses into her. I had no meat loss and no bloodshot. Frankly I was amazed but very pleased and I have killed a lot of elk. A very tender cow elk.
A few years ago I walked into a meadow and found 4 cow elk feeding in an Aspen swamp. I couldn't get a clean shot and waited 30 min for the elk to move. Three of the cows walked off and the last was still behind an aspen. I took a careful bead on the tree (about 4 inches in diameter) and shot through the tree and killed the elk on the other side. The tough part was where she fell into the creek. She was too big to move by myself so I placed a lariat over her head and pulled out with my horse. A much drier way to gut and quarter her up for packing. For you do it your selfers I did it by myself and rode the six miles to the truck. It is possible. Just a little slower as you get older.
If you hunt the jungles like me, I recommend a bigger gun and heavy bullets. It gives you an edge when the hunting is tough.