Great opening weekend in Texas!

Had a great 4 days of hunting on our lease south of Seguin..

We are an MLD property and so our rifle season starts Oct 1 for does and bucks start November 1.  We arrived Wednesday evening and were all really excited to get out and hunt!

We all went out Thursday morning and saw activity but no shooters.

I decided Thursday to hunt a new area that had some long range potential with the blind out on the middle of a field tucked under a tree.  Took out the 6.5 Creedmoor and took a doe at 350 yards with Hornady 143 ELDX.

Running my Southern Precision Rifles 6.5 Creedmoor that I have ran out to 1k many times, I have absolute confidence in this rifle. Golf balls at 500 yards and clay pidgeons at 1k!

  • Defiant Deviant Action
  • McMillan A5 stock
  • Huber Concepts trigger
  • Nightforce 5-25×56 Actar F1 Mil C reticle
  • Nightforce Rings
  • Mueller Rifleworks barrel at 22″
  • Crux Archangel
  • Badger DBM
  • Hornady 143 ELDX

 

Leica Geovid HD 10×42 Rangefinding binos are awesome as well.

 

Saturday morning my buddy Jason shot this nice wide 10 point!

Saturday night it was my turn!

I used this rifle.. a semi custom built around a Tikka CTR 308

Barrel chopped to 16 and threaded

  • McMillan Game Hunter carbon stock
  • Steiner Tactical 3-15
  • Talley rngs
  • Crux Nemesis 30
  • Mountain Tactical DBM
  • Hornday 178 ELDX

https://tacticalgunreview.com/mcmillan-game-hunter-stock-tikka-t3/

 

Great weekend of hunting

Been kind of a slow year with about 97 trillion acorns dropping and the deer just don’t need to move much to eat..  While I still haven’t nailed my “trophy” we still were able to put a doe in the cooler, bag a good cull buck which I donated the meat to Texas Hunters for the Hungry program.  Good to get another clean kill on a new rifle project with the 7mm08, gaining confidence for sure.

David got a nice doe with his trusty 6.8

Opening weekend!

Well, it was the weekend every deer hunter craves, opening weekend!  A timeless tradition passed down for generations. While we are on an MLD property and actually started rifle hunting the first of October, “trophy buck” season started Nov 1st for us.  We took Thursday and Friday off for a 4 day weekend.

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