Doesn't look like there's much going on here so thought I'd throw out some comments and see it I could get something started.
Hunting was good here in S.E. Montana this fall. I managed to collect a nice buck antelope with my custom .25-06. Used a 100 gr. Hornady at 3300 FPS. A heart shot from 220 yds. over Stoney Point sticks.
Filled my mulie doe tag with a 40 yd. lung shot from the .30-30 Contender using a Nosler 150 gr. BT at near 2000 FPS. It was a good stalk and a perfect shot, text book hunt.
Filled my first whitetail doe tag with the same load above in the .25-06. From a sit using the sticks again the bullet dropped her at 178 yds., another heart shot. These sticks are getting a lot of use. From a sit they work great!
My second WT doe tag was filled with a real neat stalk through a noisy forest on a very windy day. The shot was taken after a real slow sneak at 30 yds. with a cast 240 gr. at 1600 FPS from a Contender .44 using a TruGlo red dot sight.
And, lastly, the very best of all... the filling of my WT buck tag. It was a real classy shot. It was just like an old Winchester or Remington calendar. I was hanging over a rocky cliff with the same old .25-06 to take a super nice buck 279 yds. distant, far below in some heavy blow-down timber. The single shot was perfect. It angled through his chest for a perfect heart shot, flopping his off-side leg high as it broke the shoulder on it's way out. He ran 35 yds. and slammed into a fallen log. It was a great hunt with a great shot to end it. The 5 hr. extraction like to killed me though. But he was worth it. A real nice buck; 5 X 6, 20 inches wide, massive beams (6 inch bases!), and 176 lbs. field-dressed. He was a real beauty. A hunt I'll never forget!
How did the rest of you fare this year?