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VonGruff
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Special goat hunt.
      #155746 - 08/03/10 06:52 AM

I suppose every hunt is special in its own way but this one in particular for me was the culmination of years of planing and work in bringing it all together. This was an outing for my 7x57 with all the desirable bits together and blooded as a single unit.
Rifle is a built on 1908 DWM with Rigby style aperture sights and a cast 160gn bullet with the front 65gn soft for expansion, and run at 2415fps it certainly does that. Had hunted this bullet (and reported elsewhere) but with the rifle scoped for the ocasion as the aperture stem was away to be worked on at the time. Hunting mate was using his tika 270 - 140gn interloct - 4-16, as a single shot as he had recently lost the magazine.
We got onto a mob of goats at 570yds (my Leica 1200) and stalked in to as close as we had cover for then waited as they were also coming closer. At 143 yds, with a rest on a day pack, I took the first shot and it was all on. My last shot was at 185 yds as the remainder climbed out and dissapared over ridges. All shots after the first had been offhand and all up I fired 6 shots with 4 goats on the ground. Surprisingly enough the single shot 270 had almost the same results.

This was my first one down.



At home ready to be dressed out.



Rifle although the aperture sight has now been blued.


The cast softnose. You can just see the join line where the soft nose and the hard shank meet.


Von Gruff.

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ovny
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Re: Special goat hunt. [Re: VonGruff]
      #155751 - 08/03/10 07:27 AM

Good game pieces to prove my future 300 Weatherby Magnum caliber rifle.Congratulations on the four you've accomplished.

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Homer
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Re: Special goat hunt. [Re: ovny]
      #155763 - 08/03/10 09:41 AM

G'Day Fella's,

Good to see you have been having a bit more luck than myself Von-Gruff!
I thought this may have been this past weekend until I went back and seen the date that you posted this.....
Nothing wrong with those Cast Bullets!!!

Unusual kind of Brindle color of the Goats!

HooRoo
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VonGruff
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Re: Special goat hunt. [Re: Homer]
      #155771 - 08/03/10 11:29 AM

Homer, this was yesterday morning so right up to the minute report. There were between 20-30 in the mob and the brindle colour was in the majority with a couple more into a speckled grey and a few with brown in the mix. Seemed to be a mob of young billies and is the first time I have seen them mobed like this.Just back from dropping them at the butcher after I took the haunch and loin chops. Will get the rest made into sausages and mince. We are away after rabbit at the end of the week so will give the 20 a bit of a workout.

Von Gruff

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NitroXAdministrator
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Re: Special goat hunt. [Re: VonGruff]
      #155801 - 09/03/10 02:41 AM

Quote:

Just back from dropping them at the butcher after I took the haunch and loin chops. Will get the rest made into sausages and mince.



Should be nice eating.

You are lucky you can in NZ get a butcher to do this. The butcher has to visit my farm to do work, its a no no to take meat/game to them.

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Homer
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Re: Special goat hunt. [Re: NitroX]
      #155914 - 09/03/10 09:55 PM

G'Day Fella's,

Sorry Von Gruff I now realise that I looked at your date of Registration!
OK, I'm a Silly Duffer!!!

So, Well Done!!!
And all I seen for the weekend was a bit of pig sign and about 30 "Skippy's"!
We have had real good rain, so the only sign was fresh but I couldn't locate the Owners of the Sign in residence!

But Thats Huntin, eh!!!

HooRoo
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