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How long did it take for your first elk?
My Dad didn't hunt so it wasn't until my second year of college in 1965 when one of my roommates took me deer hunting near his home in NW Colorado. I shot a spike muley buck that year and went back with him the next year with both deer and elk tags in my pocket and shot a 5x5 bull the first... -
2023 Archery Roosevelt
Me too! I've got a couple dozen Rocky Mountain elk antler sets hanging in the trusses in my garage, and I guess I could go on a DIY Roosevelt hunt in Washington or Oregon, but I think I would have to win the Lottery to afford a Tule hunt. -
Tape at the end of barrel?
It's been several years since you posted this, but I just saw it... On one of my antelope hunts years ago in eastern Montana I shot a buck which blew the tape off the muzzle of my riflle. I didn't re-tape it because I was done hunting and was just going to walk back to my truck to get my game...- buffybr
- Post #116
- Forum: Fresh Tracks+
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Beginner-Mountain Goat Hunting
Congrats on your goat. Looks like he took a nasty fall.- buffybr
- Post #58
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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How important is it?
I agree, speed kills. And for the same weight bullet, the one traveling at the higher velocity will have more energy to transfer, and an expanding bullet will transfer more energy than a fmj bullet. Colorado hunting regs specify that a pistol bullet must have at least 500 foot-pounds of energy...- buffybr
- Post #140
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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How important is it?
Most lead shot is alloyed to make it harder which reduces the deformation of the lead pellets for denser shot patterns and so the pellets retain their velocity for longer distances. The lead core of copper/core bullets us pure lead that is softer and conforms to the bullet shape better than...- buffybr
- Post #128
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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How important is it?
The reason that the ballistic tip bullet kills drastically better than a fmj bullet is that the ballistic tip bullet expends most or all of it's energy inside the animal where a fmj bullet just zips through the animal and expends it's energy in the dirt on the other side of the animal. Very...- buffybr
- Post #124
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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How important is it?
You're an Engineer??? A bullet's Energy is determined by it's Velocity squared and it's weight. It's the bullet's Energy that makes it expand and causes tissue damage.- buffybr
- Post #122
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Beginner-Mountain Goat Hunting
I drew a goat tag in Montana the first year that I applied. I waited to the later part of the season for them to have longer hair before I went hunting them. When I finally went, the snow was a foot deep where I parked my truck, and over knee deepon the top of the mountain. I saw a nice...- buffybr
- Post #26
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Barnes lrx question
I don't see the value in shooting the same bullet from 3 different rifles. Usually each rifle will like a certain bullet better than others. You could probably shoot the same load in your two .30-06s, but your .300 Wby is completely different. I shot my first elk back when I still lived in...- buffybr
- Post #14
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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How many miles?
When I had horses I'd usually pack in a camp with them, then hunt a mile or two on foot from there. I shot 5 of my last 15 elk less than 400 yards from my back door. -
First truck and current truck.
My first truck was a '72 Ford F250 that I bought back then. I drove it until the fall of '96 when I bought a new '97 F250 diesel. Back then diesel was $0.75 a gallon. I put a snowplow on my '72 truck in 1979 and from '96 to about 5 years ago I just used that truck to plow snow. I replaced it...- buffybr
- Post #110
- Forum: Hunting Rigs - Truck Talk
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Grizzly Bear Deterrents while Backpack Camping (increased safety while sleeping)
I hunted for many years in the mountains north and west of West Yellowstone, MT, hunting for elk, moose, and bighorn sheep. Some years I used my horses and packed a camp back in the wilderness, other years I camped at the end of a Forest Service road. The only camp that was visited by any...- buffybr
- Post #44
- Forum: Backpack Hunting
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300 prc for baited bear
I wouldn't say a .300 PRC is overgunned for black bear, but, I've shot two black bears with my pistols. Both were spot and stalk, less than 30 yards, and both were just about DRT shots. One with my .45 acp 1911 with a 220 gr hard cast lead bullet, and the other with my Ruger .44 mag with a 250...- buffybr
- Post #48
- Forum: Other Big Game
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7mm08 140BT for elk?
Not my first choice, but put in the right place (just behind the shoulder) should work. On my first South African hunt I used a borrowed 7mm RM with 140 gr Ballistic tips I had one shot kills on several animals including a Kudu, Blue Wildebeest, and a Gemsbok. I shot one pronghorn antelope...- buffybr
- Post #23
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Rock Chucker and/or Turret Press
You're right! My Hornady/Pacific 366 shotshell presses are Progressive, my 450 Dillon is a Turret press.- buffybr
- Post #15
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Pedestal Mount
Good buck and a nice looking mount. Most of my pedestal mounts don't have any habitat. I like the way you have yours. -
Favorite Pronghorn States
I shot my first pronghorn when I lived in Colorado 50 years ago. Shot one in Wyoming 20 or 30 years ago. A fun hunt and a lot of antelope, but hard to draw a tag, and non-resident licenses are too expensive. I've lived in Montana for almost 50 years, and until the last 10 or so years, drew a...
