D4570
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There has been some chatter about the 6.5 Grendel pros and cons.
Well, the little Grandaughter uses one and loves it and is good with it.
It's light for her to carry and has very light recoil. Her opening day hunt:
FOG, RAIN, Snow! Need I go on?
Cold, crappy, and muddy, but the show must go on.
It's a 150-mile one-way drive to the ranch we were hunting, the last 50 miles is on gravel then mostly dirt, typical Montana hunt.
We were into a lot of deer all the way up, on the roads, in the ditches and I swear some were jumping out of the roadside trees.
This would be a 4wheeler hunt, no other option.
5 minutes in Josie sees a deer. We stopped yesterday and picked up whitetail tags. The grass is too tall to sit and shoot off sticks, she had to stand and shoot across the handlebars of the wheeler. I never had her prentice like that so she had to figure it out as she went. The deer don't mind you when you are on the wheeler but they get nervous when you get off. Then she had to pick one out another first there were 7 does standing broadside to her. She picks one This is her longest shot to date 215 yards. I whispered to her to line up on her back, she did, the gun goes bang the deer goes down and tries to do a handstand, falling 10 feet from where it started. YUP one down.
We gutted, loaded it and put it in the wheeler trailer, and gushed on.
Maybe 15 minutes later we see two more, Did you know a wet deer is about impossible to see even when there laying in short grass? We stop and put the glasses on them, one was a buck, not a big one, and maybe her smallest to date but she was wet and miserable and said she wanted to take it.
OK, another first this one was 250 yards and standing next to a near impenetrable bunch of Hawthorn bushes. Again standing using the handlebars, no whisper this time she had it figured out, BANG. But the deer did not fall in the spot. It bucked and dove into the brush, dang.
We drove to the spot and could see blood spry all over, we had to crawl in almost on our bellies to find it. Maybe 15 feet but no way to see it from the edge of the brush. Kind of like hunting Back east.
Anyway, we tied a rope on it and pulled it out with the wheeler. At 250 yards the bullet dropped 4" and just behind the shoulder blade then through the lungs and top of the heart then out the off-side shoulder blade. Dang good shot.
I got a doe tag to try to get a pistol deer with the 45colt. We saw a ton within 30/40 yards to bad the Blackhawk was still in the truck miles away.
Sara had two doe tags to fill and she did. She wanted to shoot a big whitey but we did not see the one she wanted. Bear crap everywhere but no bear seen. We did see a white wolf on the property next to where we were hunting, no shot or we would have tried.
Well, the little Grandaughter uses one and loves it and is good with it.
It's light for her to carry and has very light recoil. Her opening day hunt:
FOG, RAIN, Snow! Need I go on?
Cold, crappy, and muddy, but the show must go on.
It's a 150-mile one-way drive to the ranch we were hunting, the last 50 miles is on gravel then mostly dirt, typical Montana hunt.
We were into a lot of deer all the way up, on the roads, in the ditches and I swear some were jumping out of the roadside trees.
This would be a 4wheeler hunt, no other option.
5 minutes in Josie sees a deer. We stopped yesterday and picked up whitetail tags. The grass is too tall to sit and shoot off sticks, she had to stand and shoot across the handlebars of the wheeler. I never had her prentice like that so she had to figure it out as she went. The deer don't mind you when you are on the wheeler but they get nervous when you get off. Then she had to pick one out another first there were 7 does standing broadside to her. She picks one This is her longest shot to date 215 yards. I whispered to her to line up on her back, she did, the gun goes bang the deer goes down and tries to do a handstand, falling 10 feet from where it started. YUP one down.
We gutted, loaded it and put it in the wheeler trailer, and gushed on.
Maybe 15 minutes later we see two more, Did you know a wet deer is about impossible to see even when there laying in short grass? We stop and put the glasses on them, one was a buck, not a big one, and maybe her smallest to date but she was wet and miserable and said she wanted to take it.
OK, another first this one was 250 yards and standing next to a near impenetrable bunch of Hawthorn bushes. Again standing using the handlebars, no whisper this time she had it figured out, BANG. But the deer did not fall in the spot. It bucked and dove into the brush, dang.
We drove to the spot and could see blood spry all over, we had to crawl in almost on our bellies to find it. Maybe 15 feet but no way to see it from the edge of the brush. Kind of like hunting Back east.
Anyway, we tied a rope on it and pulled it out with the wheeler. At 250 yards the bullet dropped 4" and just behind the shoulder blade then through the lungs and top of the heart then out the off-side shoulder blade. Dang good shot.
I got a doe tag to try to get a pistol deer with the 45colt. We saw a ton within 30/40 yards to bad the Blackhawk was still in the truck miles away.
Sara had two doe tags to fill and she did. She wanted to shoot a big whitey but we did not see the one she wanted. Bear crap everywhere but no bear seen. We did see a white wolf on the property next to where we were hunting, no shot or we would have tried.
