Whitetail down! **PICS ADDED**

Well I headed out last night in the evening to try and get a buck for the freezer. Bumped a cow/calf on the way to the field and when I got to the field there was 3 whitetail does in the field, two of which were reared up on their hind legs fighting. :D Got to the blind and hunkered down and waited for dusk.

A cow moose fed out, kept me entertained watching her for a few minutes. Then I noticed a deer entering the field to the east of me, behind the blind. I glassed it and noticed it being a whitetail doe, then another and another and yet another doe/fawn came out of the bush. Four whitetails quickly fed out into the center of the field. Then I noticed a fifth deer in the field by the field edge. Checked through my 10x40 Nikon Monarchs that it was indeed a medium sized buck. Decided due to my empty freezer that this guy had picked a bad day to get an alfalfa snack :D

Swiveled around and got ready to shoot. Cranked the VXII 3-9 up to 9x and got the crosshair on him. He was quartering towards me slightly at approx. 150 yards, so I put the sight slightly in front of his near shoulder and squeezed the trigger. As per every good trigger pull I never felt the gun go off nor did I feel the recoil. I just heard a solid THWACK and the buck reared up on his hind legs, backpeddled a step, then flipped over on his back and dissapeared in the tall alfalfa.

Here's a pic of the view from the blind
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here's the view of how I walked up on him
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6.5 Panther m700, Leupold VXII 3-9x40, 130 gr. Barnes Triple Shock X @ 2840 fps
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the internet hunting and shooting legend himself
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The 130 gr. Triple Shock entered right in front of the right shoulder, took a nice crease out of the top of the heart, exited between two ribs behind the offside shoulder.
 
nice thats a hell of alot bigger then my little one i got last saterday lol
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HAHAHA i love the first person veaw looks cool.
talk to ya all later
Riley
 
yep first kill, hopefully of many.

Im always impressed on how this 260 Rem kills game. this is my 4th deer taken with this cartridge. always bowls them over like they were shot with a 300 mag :D
 
I love my Nikons, pretty nice optics for $400, nothing like Swarovski or similar, but not bad for general hunting. I have no negative things to say about them. :D
 
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