What was your last big game taken with

conor_90 said:
You can hunt wisent in Belarus but I’m not sure that’s related to a sustainable population.

I wonder what the deal with the small numbers in Spain and Western Europe is. Reintroduced?

Your classification scheme seems to jive with the historical British one if the shotgun shells are any indication: SG (small game) shells containing buckshot
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I know they reintroduced some to Holland not long ago....Wisent are often part of various European "re-wilding" schemes...I think its Poland that breeds them for export.
 
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Last big game animal was my 2023 whitetail buck with a Howa 1500 in 25-06 with Barnes TTSX 100gr.

I had a busy season mixed with a heavy workload an a first week of November move to our new house. That fall was pretty busy, passed a few deer during archery, I took a pronghorn antelope in Wyoming with the same rifle and an elk with a Weatherby Vanguard S2 in .300WM with Barnes 180gr TTSX. I helped my brother and father in-law during their annual trip to Saskatchewan. I shot a good whitetail buck after both my brother and father in-law took their deer (they're always my priority when they come to Saskatchewan to hunt) on my only 2 days available to hunt.
 
Last big game a whitetail doe, ruger American ranch 6.5 grendel with hornady black factory ammo 123gr eld-m. Last 14 head of big game over last 5 seasons plus 1 wolf with same ammo and cartridge and 3 different 6.5 Grendel's and 3 shooters under same roof. 10-420 yards, 165 yard average shot distance, 13 yard average recovery distance. Moose, black bear, bighorn sheep, whitetail deer and mule deer so far.
 
Whitetail doe with .270 win (of course, look at my name). 150 Speer grand slam. I saw her enter onto a point of land jutting into a lake and disappear from view. I jumped her from her bed and took a quick shot that hit high in her lungs and made she made it into the water. She was swimming and blowing blood when I finished her with a shot at the base of her skull. I know some will say you shouldn’t shoot at a swimming deer but she was going to die anyway. The only “unsporting” thing I did was push her from the base of the point, about 75 yds wide at base and 100 yds long. If she had made the water without getting hit she would be “home free”.
 
6.5mm 100gr TTSX from a 6.5x55 at about 3100 FPS and hit high shoulder. Did about as much damage as I would expect anything else to.
 
Last big game animal of the year in 2022 for me was a nice whitetail buck. Seen it bed with a hot doe (was actually the doe that gave away the location) and made a big long looping stock around a wood lot to play the wind and get in close and personal. I got to where I knew the two whities should be bedded and scoured the high grass to try and find them. The fidgety doe jumped up and the buck followed suit to cut off her escape. He presented a nice broad side shot at 40 yards on a hillside. My gun that day was a 358 norma, arguably "too much" gun, but one shot to the vitals and the buck went about 15 yards and just tipped over.
The stalk took about 40 minutes to get in place. The deer was greatly cooperative in that he slid down that little hill into the ditch right beside the trail where we could get the truck to him for loading. The grand irony of the whole venture, was that the two deer had bedded down within 100 yards, and plainly visible, from my parked vehicle. My grandson and I had parked the truck there an hour before daylight and walked a mile into a shooting stand on the property. We were halfway back to the truck, thinking the activity had ended for the day when we spotted the doe.
We could have just as easily stayed in the parked vehicle and tagged out, but what kind of story would that have made!
 
Actually used my Taiwanese-produced M14 clone on a moose in Nfld. Was up a bit of a grade. Standard irons. Was about a 20 degree uphill shot at, maybe, 75 yards. Used a Federal 168gr Sierra round. One shot into vitals & crumpled. Have used father's old, well-used, sporterised & scoped SMLE once. One shot from across a 100 yard bog & it dropped in it's tracks. I don't know how many caribou & moose he has taken w/ that over the years.

-John.
 
My most recent was a roe deer buck taken with a 200gr Hornady soft point from a Sako 75 in .35 Whelen.

I have a little private wood that I hunt in. It's about 120 acres. I'd walked pretty much all the way around it and was close to getting back to the truck, so I stopped to sit around for a bit on a picnic bench near the house. About half an hour later the buck walked past, only about 30 yards away. I gave it a quick whistle to make it stop and look - one shot to the heart/lung area and he was down. He barely kicked.

I gave the meat to the land owner. I can shoot there any time I like and didn't need it for myself.
 
Quebec bull moose with kel-tec RFB at 50m.
Bullet was my reloads : 165gr speer big game
43gr of D2495
Federal 210 primer
Remington case at 2500fps . It went very well , bang flop type of thing.
Bullet recovered against other side skin . Was a perfectly developed mushroom and in 1 piece
 
Whitetail doe with a Marlin 336 at about 75m. 160gr Hornady LeverEvolution, shot was quartering towards, entered front of chest just off her left shoulder and came to a rest in the ribs just behind the right shoulder. She took one jump and that was it.
 
Rob said:
I know they reintroduced some to Holland not long ago....Wisent are often part of various European "re-wilding" schemes...I think its Poland that breeds them for export.
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romania is using a reintroduction program with 3 different ways and none are coming from poland. they re using bisons coming from different areas and zoos. then keep them fr a while before releasing in the wild. they re releasing them in the carpathians but the problem is mainly not getting approval from local population that already had to deal with wolf and bear ...
 
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