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Hunting & Fishing 587 Mulie

jwp475

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Jun 11, 2005
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Here are a few pictures of my Mule Deer hunt this year
As the title indicates I got one at 587 yards


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The rifle is my 338 Lapua firing 300 gran SMK at 2791 FPS
 
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My rifle is built on a Rem-700 action fitted with a Seekins Detachable Box Magazine. The barrel is a Rock Creek that is carbon wrapped by ABS. The scope is a S&B 5X25 PMll. The load is 92 grains of H-1000 behind a 300 grain SMK. loadto an over all lenght of 3.860"
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cinch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nice deer! What brake have you got on your shooter? </div></div>


The brake is made by Defensive Edge as was the rifle
 
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Nice deer. Where do you hunt? A group and I are going out near Terlingua for Mule deer in 2 days. My father-in-law has a place we go to every year.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mauritz45</div><div class="ubbcode-body">great pics of a great hunt. how long is the barrel and what does yor rifle weigh??-cam </div></div>


The rifle is built on a Rem-700 action with a 30" Rock Creek barrel, carbon wrapped by ABS. The bottom metal is Seekins detachable box magazine. the magazine will accept a 3.9" over all loaded length.



Another photo of the land scape


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I even pushed a few cows to a new pasture



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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: IAK</div><div class="ubbcode-body">jwp475, how do you like the zeiss PRF? I was trying to decide between that and the Leica CRF 1200, and ended up ordering the Zeiss. </div></div>


The Zeiss range finder belongs to Ridge and he realy likes it


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cbosshog79</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I may be too much of a newbie but what is the calculator thing in the first picture?

By the way, good shooting! </div></div>


That is a hand held computer with the Ex-bal balistics software program for real time info
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The rifle is my 338 Lapua firing 300 gran SMK at 2791 FPS</div></div>

Ya think thats enough for deer
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Nice shootin.