Your favorite trophy and the rifle that took it?

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chuck nelson

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I'm curious about the favorites out there. There are many reasons why a trophy is a favorite and some are hard to determine. If you had to pick one what would it be and do you remember the rifle you took it with, or is that something that really doesn't matter. I'd like to see them be absolutely yours though. Most of us have unforgetable memories of being with family and close friends when they connected on a fine animal, but lets make this thread about your favorite.

Mine is a Bighorn ram I took a couple of weeks ago. He's been several years comming and the journey has be fraught with alot of super memories as well as heartache. He isn't the biggest ram on the mountain, but with a 7% resident success rate, I know how hard they are to come by.

I took him after a full day of hard hiking with my semi custom Winchester Model 70 30-06, and took him late enough in the day to force me to shiver all night under a rock before being able to make it out the next morning.
 
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I took him after a full day of hard hiking with my semi custom Winchester Model 70 30-06, and took him late enough in the day to force me to shiver all night under a rock before being able to make it out the next morning.
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Now THAT I respect!

As for my favorite trophy... It would have to be the 9 point whitetail that I shot outside Tracy N.B., it took me the whole day from 8:05 am to have him hanging in my buddies wood shed. I've never forgot the effort required to complete that hunt! The rifle used in that hunt is long gone, I see them as tools and I'm not really attached to them... So long as I have a rifle, I'm happy...

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Jay
 
Mine would have to be the my first whitetail buck a 4x4.It was taken with my Remington 700 BDL LH 30.06 back in 1986.Also took my only elk with it (a cow) in 1997.Bought the rifle brand new on Dec./1983 and still own it.Bought a Browning 7mm-08 micro hunter LH this year so the .06 might sit in the gun cabinet this season.
 
My favourite trophy from here is this moose I shot last year, about 250 yards with 168 gr TSX handloads fomr my Sako AV 300 Win mag
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My favourite total trophies are this Kudu and Gemsbok fom my trip to Africa. the kudu we climbed a mountain and hiked allong the back spine of it for about 1.5 miles to take a 200 yard shot across a canyon with abotu a 30 MPH cross wind. The gemsbok was easy, but I looked at hundreds of them over the ten days. Both animals were shot with the same combo, but in Africa it wore it's beautiful walnut stock.

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Nice ram by the way, and I'm sure the night on the mountain was worth it.
 
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Mine would be a nice 10 point whitetail taken with my 270 Abolt LH. It was only at about 50 yds so anything would have done the job, but that was what I had with me that day.
 
Well, i spent the first seven years of my hunting career craving a speed goat, and i got drawn and connected on this one 15 minutes int othe season, collecting the first "big game" kill with my 280 Rem Chambered M77MK 2 Ruger

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But the nearest to my heart has to be the Black Bear i dropped this spring, with a ruger of the same variety, but in 338 win mag.(hope to top this one with an elk in a week or so) The first year i sat on the stands in this area for 4 days without a single bear sighting. It took alot of convincing to get me to go back to this spot the next year, but i eventually did, hoping i wasnt wasting time or money. I sat on the stand, and had a real nice blonde sow with 2 cubs on her the first night, hell of a shooter if the cubs weren't there. (In alberta, cubs have to be older than a year, and these were, but some times morals are higher than the law) This sow was super nice, and stayed on the bait all night, keeping all others at bay. The next night yeilded nothing, and the third and final night was looking like it was a bust too. I had a video camera along, taping for a friend who likes to put video together of our hunts. The thunder cracked right on top of me and i decided a tree was not the smartest place to be. Plus, if i got the $3000 video camera wet, i might catch ####. So i took the cmaera equipment back to the truck and started to drive back to camp in a wicked downpour. I called my fiancee to express my disghust with my wasted time and told her i was screwed without a miracle. Just after hanging up, and i mean immeadeatly after, the clouds parted and the sunset came out again. That truck turned around right there on the logging road and i headed back to my stand. Not 15 minutes after being seated, a black mass made its way through the poplar whips and to the bait barrel. Safety came off and scope came to my eye. He stepped out into the clear and paused for a sniff. With some man made thunder, a 215 grain sierra game king anchored him on the spot at 30 yards (yeah too much gun, i know, but the 338 had been mine for 4 years without a game animal to it's credit) I am smiling right now as i recount this to write it, cant wait till the rug is done.

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The most favorite, not really the trophy was the company, last time i got to hunt with a my cousins on a screw around fun day, where shooting a deer was the last thing on my mind and, the last of the season !
tapped this one with a 7 mm RUM Just a great day to be in the woods with family
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My favorite and most memorable was in deer camp, I Used my Grandfathers hunting rifle a 308 99c savage, and took this pair on the exact ground he stood when I was a boy watching him with the same rifle in hand, By far I will never forget it
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This one was cool to with a very young new memebr of the hunt club Win M 70 264 WM westerner with bags of chips, lol pop, jelly beans gum and ear muffs LOL you name it LOL!
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this always sounds corny, but, my favorite was my first deer:)
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somebody told me it was too bad about the little drop tine spoiling the look, but i like it, i'm not sure what would cause it though?
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if you look into the hole it looks like a small flat depression:confused:
 
well its easy for me as my favorite hunt was my 2nd moose hunt but it was my first moose 300yds,on top of a high hill,one shot to the neck and down he went,...60"5/8 rack and 2 days to get out of the bush (2 miles back in bush,NO BIKES)....but what a trip.
thought i would add last years bow hunt for bears first bear with a bow ..no that is fun......
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cant figure out how to add photos....will add when wife gets home....LOL
 
I guess my favorite trophy would be my first elk, taken a couple weks ago

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shot him with my Remington 700 stainless fluted 30-06, first kill for that rifle actually
 
I used this Rifle, a 270 Win in a M70 Winlite 3-10 3200 B&L.
It has survived being stolen by Indians, doused in the Mountain River NWT, skidded Down Spionkop Ridge Alberta,as well as finished off several wounded critters.
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I took this whitetail with the loading of 130 gr sierra BT 320 yards

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This hunt was special as well since I had just finished chemotherapy a month after taking him
 
This is my favorite trophy which was shot a few weeks ago with my favorite rifle. He's a 6X7 and my first elk.

The rifle is a 9.3X62 that I had built last yea on a Brazilian M1908 Mauser 98(big surprise there) that has been lapped and squared. It has a 21" King barrel, Dayton-Traister trigger, M70-style two-position safety, 1" Pachmayr Decelerator pad and a Talley barrel band. The rifle weighs in at 8 1/4 lbs empty and scoped.

The scope is a Leupold VX-I 2-7X33 matte with a customized rear base that accommodates the receiver hump.

I carved the stock and did the slow rust bluing.

With the light weight, short barrel and barrel band, it is about the handiest rifle I've ever owned. And it's very accurate.

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Mine was this year with my first bolt action rifle - a .280 Remington M700. Over the past 14 years, we have become a good team. It sits now as a semi-custom and shoots 140 accubond's very, very well. I have been seriously shooting this rifle and others at long range for about 4 years now.

Anyways, it all came together on August 27. I was heading back to camp from a long day in some basins farther up the range. Dropping into our basecamp basin, I found some rams high on the ridge. I snuck across the open alpine bowl in plain sight (more or less, and leaving my backpack behind as a decoy). I managed to work into 512 yards and took my best ram to-date. This 9 1/2 year old, heavy full curl ram. All that practice really paid off and the .280 once again confirms it's place as my # 1 rifle/cartridge !
 
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