Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Andrea S on September 18, 2015, 04:55:18 pm
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Hey guys! Thought I would throw this in the off-topic board for those who wanted to see. I bowhunted these sheep with my osage self takedown for two and a half hard days, put in over 30 miles of hiking, but ran out of time and favorable weather so I ended up taking her with the rifle. The write up of my hunt is here if you would like to take a look. (http://"http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=54140.new;topicseen#new")
(http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w337/andreasmithmt/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1442518827890_zpsi0u2phfp.jpg) (http://s521.photobucket.com/user/andreasmithmt/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1442518827890_zpsi0u2phfp.jpg.html)
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Congratulations! Josh
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That's a pic I'd like to be in one day, it just wouldn't be as good looking 😄 seriously congrats that's an accomplishment
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Thats a nice sized critter there, should keep you eating well for the winter. Congrats :)
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This may be primitive archer but that's pretty cool regardless of weapon. Congrats! BA rifle too!
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Great kill!!! Awesome
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That's a pic I'd like to be in one day, it just wouldn't be as good looking
You are too hard on yourself, bubby. You are every bit as pretty as that ewe!
Was wondering what you were up to! Apparently, you have been a busy young lady.
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Congrats.
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Ewe are so funny JW
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Congratulations on a great hunt. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
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Congratulations on the successful hunt!
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GREAT story - well done Young Lady ! Bob
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My son lived in Montana and has hunted the Missouri breaks, that's tough country. Congrats on your sheep.
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Excellent post, I have a Yin-Yang love of selfbows and custom rifles. I would be interested in the specs of that rifle definitely not an off the shelf purchase.
Congrats
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Correct you are sir, that rifle is my baby that I built up piece by piece. This ewe was actually the first animal I've taken with it - I just built it up this spring. It's a 6.5x47 Lapua, with a custom fluted Bartlein barrel, accurized by GA Precision, Timney trigger, Boyd's stock (nothing special there but I liked the grey wood and the tactical shape has a vertical grip that I shoot better than a traditional hunter profile, as well as a handy dip in the back that seats my Bipod Buddy rear support), Vortex Viper PST first focal plane scope. I run an aluminum anodizing line so the orange bolt knob and Talley scope rings were custom colored by yours truly. I shoot Berger 140gr bullets in front of 36 grains of Varget powder. It's a three-quarter minute gun on a bad day, usually closer to half-minute. It's a pleasure to shoot and it means business. I shot the ewe at 183 yards, and actually had to dial the scope down because it's zeroed at 200 yards. Couldn't have walked up and poked her in a better spot, it was a pretty perfect shot, slight quartering away but didn't ruin much of the offside shoulder.
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Remington 700 action though? Woulda been better if it was a savage. ;)
Why the 6.5x47 though? And at 183 that would've only been what, a half inch high which it's a .5-.75 MOA gun so that woulda been just a flyer high? I coulda been sighted at 183 and still played with that scope though. The PST is on my dream build set up.
Much more into sniping then primitive archery my few years in the army
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I was trying to find a pictograph photo of a bighorn
I could post and welcome you to a long line of folks
that had there sights set as you did yours.
Bighorn sheep petroglyphs at Inscription Canyon, California (http://Bighorn sheep petroglyphs at Inscription Canyon, California)
I have been here and other places the sheep are cameoed
on the canyon walls. I bet there are some in the Breaks too.
Zuma
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Rem 700, it's actually the action from my fiance's first hunting rifle he got when he was 12, so it technically has a lot more critters to its name than just my sheep.
Yeah, it was completely unnecessary to dial that scope down, but if you can, why not pick the flea on the hide of the critter you're aiming at? It's so interesting though, after chasing critters all season with a bow, when the rifle came out, I was cool as cucumber. None of the jitters or nerves I had last year when I only rifle hunted. It felt like a gimme, just rock solid- I wonder has anyone else experienced that difference? I may start a thread in Shooting and Hunting to ask how their rifle experiences have changed once they've started bowhunting.
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Congrats on the ewe.. Breaks is tough but beautiful country
Thanks Leroy
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What a beautiful animal. Congratulations on your success.
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I wouldn't compare myself to a cucumber but I will say looking down the arrow at a doe is the same or better adrenaline rush as through the scope at a nice 10 pt. A does through a scope is much less intense.
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Love it,nice job on a beautiful animal. :)
Pappy
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Andrea,
Congratulations on the ewe, you done good.......really good! Did you spend as much time prettying up your new bow as you did detailing the rifle? ;)