bighonkinjeep
Senior Member
My annual family Bama hunt during the rut in January was fantastic as always this year.
After taking him to the range a few times in the past year or two I took one of my nephews on his first ever hunting trip. He didn't tell me about the solid gold horseshoe in his pocket.
I had him all set up with an old Savage flatback model 11 in .308 I set up for the kids. It's cut down to a 12" length of pull and chopped the barrel to 16" before it was threaded and braked, homemade cheek riser to put smaller heads in the proper position for the scope, a bolt lift kit to ease bolt operation, and a trigger job to ensure there's no guessing as to when during the trigger pull it's going to fire. He was shooting a .308 youth hand load consisting of Hodgdon H4895 (38gr) under a 125gr Hornady SST. (super mild recoil) I must say the kid shoots a pretty good group at 100 yards for a beginner.
It instantly dropped this big Alabama 175# 8pt like a light switch with a high shoulder shot. He had the green light on any deer he saw, but was really patient passing on several does and a smaller buck before this big ol dude appeared and gave us both the buck fever shakes. It was truly a great experience to share and one I'll never forget.
Big ol bucks have big ol backstraps MMMM!
I picked up the mount from Rack Shack Taxidermy in Coalville Alabama when I went over for a family dove shoot. Sheree did a fantastically lifelike shoulder mount. When i took the mount over to his house my nephew got a huge grin and started shaking all over again when he saw it. And THAT'S what it's all about. A Fantastic first hunt and a fantastic buck first or otherwise. One of my other nephews says he oughta retire on that big ol buck and save himself some agony LOL LOL
After taking him to the range a few times in the past year or two I took one of my nephews on his first ever hunting trip. He didn't tell me about the solid gold horseshoe in his pocket.
I had him all set up with an old Savage flatback model 11 in .308 I set up for the kids. It's cut down to a 12" length of pull and chopped the barrel to 16" before it was threaded and braked, homemade cheek riser to put smaller heads in the proper position for the scope, a bolt lift kit to ease bolt operation, and a trigger job to ensure there's no guessing as to when during the trigger pull it's going to fire. He was shooting a .308 youth hand load consisting of Hodgdon H4895 (38gr) under a 125gr Hornady SST. (super mild recoil) I must say the kid shoots a pretty good group at 100 yards for a beginner.
It instantly dropped this big Alabama 175# 8pt like a light switch with a high shoulder shot. He had the green light on any deer he saw, but was really patient passing on several does and a smaller buck before this big ol dude appeared and gave us both the buck fever shakes. It was truly a great experience to share and one I'll never forget.
Big ol bucks have big ol backstraps MMMM!
I picked up the mount from Rack Shack Taxidermy in Coalville Alabama when I went over for a family dove shoot. Sheree did a fantastically lifelike shoulder mount. When i took the mount over to his house my nephew got a huge grin and started shaking all over again when he saw it. And THAT'S what it's all about. A Fantastic first hunt and a fantastic buck first or otherwise. One of my other nephews says he oughta retire on that big ol buck and save himself some agony LOL LOL
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