2023 Big Game Success Thread
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Rausch
Hammer Time Executive member
Gday rausch
Thanks for the write up ( it’s definitely worthy like the other 2 you mentioned) & letting us into your world
I’ll second GL & only add on ones bucket list try & do the hardest hunts while you still can
Once again thanks for the write up & pictures are beautiful along with the truth on what happens sometimes with shots not connecting , top notch sir
Oh any vital pics
Cheers
Thanks Farleg. Unfortunately no vital pics. I was in a hurry to keep my “vitals” intact! I know where 2 shots hit and that there maybe a bullet in on shoulder. I’ll skin the quarters tomorrow and see what there is to see. The majority of the time I use the gutless method to quarter them so I don’t even see the insides. I also didn’t think getting more blood on me in griz country was a good idea!
I forgot to add into the story that the boss ran into said grizzly bear at 50 yards the next morning in the timber. He’s a young maybe 3 year old boar. Super blond like a bull elk and his face and neck were covered in fresh blood. Fortunately it wasn’t from my elk and we got him packed out just fine!
Rausch
Hammer Time Executive member
Thanks!
I shoot the 235 HH. Dikembe is custom built on a rem 700 action. Proof carbon fiber barrel. Trigger tech trigger. The stock is custom tiger maple with an ambidextrous thumb hole that I designed as I like right handed bolt but shoot it left handed because well why not!?!? It wears a vortex strike eagle 5-25x50 and a homemade suppressor that adds another 11” to the length. I’ll post a pic.
That is the old suppressor in this pic which is 2” shorter than the one it has now.
Farleg
Hammer Time Executive member
Thanks rausch
Completely understandable & all cool
Nice add to the story
Side note
I’m guessing if a grizz or any predator gets to your kill you’ve just lost your freezer meat as your tag is it for you guys
Cheers
Rausch
Hammer Time Executive member
I believe the FWP would issue you a new tag if you had proof. The caveat would be if you had the antlers you’d have to turn them in to get your tag back. A few years ago I killed a bull with sarcosystosis. The biologist deemed it unfit for human consumption and offered me a new tag if I turned in the antlers as well. There was only a couple days of season left and I was finished hunting anyway so I kept the antlers and incinerated the meat at their direction.
Rausch
Hammer Time Executive member
I’ll find it tomorrow and post it. I know that my old load is posted in the spreadsheet using N560. Now I shoot n565 and have to use a drop tube but I get more speed and less pressure. I also switched to Peterson brass.
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235 HH
85.5 gr N565
Fed 215 GM
Coal 3.485
3003 fps
2/8 t crimp
Petersen brass
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Rausch
Hammer Time Executive member
Correct
les
Hammer Time Executive member
Rausch - Thanks for sharing so much of your hunt. It was awesome! One thing Farleg might not realize is that to a grizzly bear a rifle shot is the dinner bell. On my Montana hunt 14 years ago, I shot an elk and 20 minutes later I saw a grizzly down wind standing on his hind legs winding me. Not a pleasant feeling!Gday rausch
Thanks for the write up ( it’s definitely worthy like the other 2 you mentioned
I’ll second GL & only add on ones bucket list try & do the hardest hunts while you still can
Once again thanks for the write up & pictures are beautiful along with the truth on what happens sometimes with shots not connecting , top notch sir
Oh any vital pics
Cheers
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Given the legal ramifications nothing good comes from such encounters.
Grizzlies are intelligent opportunists. Routinely taking kills from cougars, and other bears. One sub adult boar in Yellowstone was known to have killed 6 elk before being able to feed. The others being taken by bigger bears.
In at least one study with collars a grizzly followed hunters from their vehicle unobserved except for technology.
We need seasons to re establish top of the food chain. No longer (if ever) are they an endangered species.
GPS study tracks grizzlies as they follow hunters
An ongoing study that has eight Montana grizzly bears outfitted with GPS trackers could bring some unnerving news to hunters.
www.foxnews.com
LightTheTower
Hammer Time Executive member
Five does taken at my deer camp on this opening weekend of rifle season. Three of them with Hammers. Mine was 75 lbs. at 65 yards. 131 gn HHH @ +/-3000 fps. She jumped, went about ten yards, arched her back, then fell over. Impact was a little low, but organs were demolished and exit wound was large. First 2 pics entry, second 2 exit.
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Farleg
Hammer Time Executive member
Thanks Les & Carl a very interesting critter
I passed up a polar bear once ( not in real life ) took a tag out for black bear in bc but they weren’t about as sleep time came early the Indian guides I was with said & today I’ve got no hope of ever getting back to see those critters on the ground
But forever intrigued with those critters
Cheers
I passed up a polar bear once ( not in real life ) took a tag out for black bear in bc but they weren’t about as sleep time came early the Indian guides I was with said & today I’ve got no hope of ever getting back to see those critters on the ground
But forever intrigued with those critters
Cheers
LightTheTower
Hammer Time Executive member
Other two hammer kills were my brother’s. 151 AH @ +/- 2750 impact velocity. Here’s THAT story! He had a 100 lb doe in his sites, probably zoomed in too far, so he didn’t really see the 70 lb doe walk up behind her. He shot. Both does disappeared during recoil. A few seconds later one of them staggers out of the trees with a front leg broken down low. He shoots her again just as she stumbles away from him. He and a buddy followed her blood trail back into the woods and back out to the initial point of impact. Can’t figure out how he missed the one he was aiming at and broke the leg of the one behind her. I went back with him and we did a little more investigating. Turns out he made a perfect shot on the bigger doe, and bullet broke the smaller doe’s leg after exit. First two pics are of smaller doe dropped with high, going away shot. Next pic is exit of bigger doe, then entry, exit, heart, and entry inside, exit inside. Sorry, pics came in in a different order.
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LightTheTower
Hammer Time Executive member
Yeah, that’d be a better place to hit her than where I did…Gday Ltt
Nice & thanks
Looks like your pointing to the off switch in this picture
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Cheers
LightTheTower
Hammer Time Executive member
I should’ve put these in the terminal performance thread… sorry.
Farleg
Hammer Time Executive member
riceman
Hammer Time Executive member
Moving individual post to different thread, haven’t been able to do that. At least yet.
riceman
Hammer Time Executive member
You can post it on that thread also.
Then if you really wanted it removed, that can be done. But can be on both if you want also.
