My Second (So Much More Successful) Hunt

[G37]

Yep good writing/relaying of the story... I think what helps with the read is the brutal honesty. It would have been easy to embellish the story but you wrote it as it happened. Congrats!

 

[dangertree]

Yep good writing/relaying of the story... I think what helps with the read is the brutal honesty. It would have been easy to embellish the story but you wrote it as it happened. Congrats!

X2 (and some letters)

(though I did laugh with the 10 shots = gong show comment )

 

[dumbdawg]

Holy VietKong! you took this bear hunting???

(sure you're not from ontario? )

we would NEVER use such little mags
but congrats on a fine group hunt
now get back out there and do it right this time

 

[eltorro]

we would NEVER use such little mags
but congrats on a fine group hunt
now get back out there and do it right this time

Yup. We'd have used the 10/22 to do the same job. Banana clips.

 

[2fat2fly]

X2 (and some letters)

(though I did laugh with the 10 shots = gong show comment )

Kinda reminds me of a whitetail hunting experience near Yorkton..."comence shelling"...and they were serious.

 

[open-sights]

Awesome H/A, hunting definately has a learning curve, you covered a few of the basics right off the hump. Congrads on your bear and good luck on the next.

 

[dave_t73]

Nice job HA. If I were to write about my first successful hunt it'd make you and your boys sound like pros....

Maybe you made mistakes, but we all did in the beginning and you seemed to have learned a lot from it. That's whats important.

 

[dieseldog6]

Nice story! IIRC, you had that 30-06 in the EE for a bit last year. Did you keep it at least partially due to the sentimental value? Perhaps there was a certain someone looking over your shoulder. . .

Maybe I'll see ya at a TacRifle shoot this summer and you can recreate "the final moments" of the hunt.

 

[Big JD-From the hills]

what what internal organs were destroyed with the .06?

 

[Homesick Alien]

Nice story! IIRC, you had that 30-06 in the EE for a bit last year. Did you keep it at least partially due to the sentimental value? Perhaps there was a certain someone looking over your shoulder. . .

Maybe I'll see ya at a TacRifle shoot this summer and you can recreate "the final moments" of the hunt.

You know, I kinda had the same sort of thought...who knows...definitely glad I kept it now...

 

[Homesick Alien]

what what internal organs were destroyed with the .06?

The lungs were basically jelly, the heart was kinda torn up. The stomach and a few other things looked like jelly too. The liver was pristine. The muscle/fat and bone in the neck were pretty much shredded, too...

And of course the brain, which would ooze out through the top of the head if you pushed on the bone fragments from the 7.62

 

[Homesick Alien]

Like I posted earlier I recovered the 30.06 bullet from the neck...

Bottom

Side

Top

 

[todbartell]

good performance

what bullet is that?
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[Buzz]

So...7.62x39 is adequate for bear defense?

 

[Homesick Alien]

good performance

what bullet is that?
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Federal PowerShok 180gr 30.06 as fired from a Zastava-made mauser-action

So...7.62x39 is adequate for bear defense?

Yup!! And having the assurance of 5 quick follow-up shots in a compact semi is nice, too...