Kind of ashamed to admit this but in my younger days I was helping a dude look for a buck he had shot and lost in a cutover the night before. We jumped another buck in the cutover and he shot at it twice. He wanted me to shoot at it and I just threw my rifle to my shoulder off handed and got way out in front of him and high as he was running off and squeezed off. The deer dropped.

We ranged it with a rangefinder a little while after that and it was 600+ yards. It was stupid blind luck and I had no business shooting at that deer and neither did the guy who was with me.

I've killed several out to 300 with my 7 mag.


"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."

-- Archibald Rutledge