Buckmaster7600

I don't wear synthetic materials while hunting in cold weather. From head to toe everything is wool. Different brands but most of it is silent predator. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck my trucks all packed heading out tomorrow after work. Good luck everyone! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While sitting I have never killed a mature buck between 9-3. While tracking I have killed most of them between 10-1. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well that was a sh!t show! I have been seeing a lot of deer on an edge of an old grown up pasture. Last night I woke up and it dawned on me I used to have a stand in the corner of it so I decided I would get in early and hang a stand, well wasn't near as easy as I anticipated I should have pulled the plug immediately but I'm hard headed and had to cut about 40 branches of a tree that had blown down on top of my old tree. Hopefully there is a deaf buck around here somewhere! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Although I'm younger my body is destroyed from sports, manual labor and too many deployments. I hate lifting weights it something I don't enjoy at all but when I got to the point I couldn't do the things I wanted to a couple doctors for my back and shoulders and they all recommended the same things core workouts and light weight high reps. I don't do anything heavier than 35lb dumbbells 5x's a week and I feel better than I have in years. Everything still aches and hurts but not as bad as it did. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does it have a hard taper? You might have enough if u cut it to 17 or 18"? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Juice ain't worth the squeeze. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Compass Country by dale wood. Big woods hunting camp hunting at its finest. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tonight is an emotional sit. I'm in my fathers favorite stand, the stand I killed my first deer from. It was his stand and after I killed my first one I never asked him to hunt it again because it is a great spot but very very close to beading area and easy to mess up. It's been over 15 years since I have been in this stand last. I can't count how many times I have helped dad drag deer that he shot out of it. He's been gone almost a year now and it hasn't gotten any easier. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would seek help from a professional after the season, don't bother them now you're tagged out and they're busy. You have an issue somewhere and it's not the broadhead or too light of arrow. Something is out of wack. I agree that whisker biscuits can hide some tune issues. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What kind of bow is it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you have a scale to see what you're drawing? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you have a scale to see what you're drawing? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depends, you can bandaid a terribly tuned bow by shooting mechanicals. Easiest way to tell is sight in with field points and put a big fixed blade head and shoot it. If it's out of tune you will know. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It will do fine, I wouldn't go shorter than 20" but that a personal rule and 18" would also work great. Going shorter than 20" is something you have to really want because it's not without drawbacks- noise, balance, loss of velocity, etc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hate mechanicals and won't shoot them, something is strange, either your bow is way out of tune or there is a can out of time "depending on brand of bow." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you decide to go with 338 or 358 this is the guy to use have used him for several rifles and everyone is perfect. http://www.35caliber.com/8.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why not rebore your barrel? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sure it would be "fine," but it would not be my choice and if you're buying a rifle for this purpose why settle on "fine." With modern ammo there isn't a bad choice. As someone who lives to hunt big woods and stays awake at night thinking about guns and load data and the perfect rifle combination I feel it's hard to beat a 18" barreled 308 when all things are considered. If it wasn't for my penetration criteria it's what I would hunt with a lot more. Yes with the right hand load you could certainly get by with a 243, but getting by doesn't seem like what you are after. From someone who has cabinets full of short barreled rifles I think you're off by over 100fps on your guesstimated velocities. Now it's impossible to tell because all barrels are different but I think you would be closer to 2650-2600 with a 120gn bullet. Now if you had 18.5" I think 2750 would be reasonable but those 2 inches are your biggest velocity drops. For instance I have a 16" 270 that I can't to get over 2700fps with a 130 gn bullet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I suggest a 308 with an 18-20" barrel in the action and rifle you prefer. I am a big fan of pumps because I want a fast follow up shot and it's what I'm comfortable with. Balance is more important than overall weight but I like to be under 8lbs loaded. here is my rifle that fits your bill to a T 35 whelen "started as an 06" 18" barrel tikka t3 2-7 leupold. 6.6lbs loaded shoots 1" groups at 100yds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't know how you intend to hunt or what shots you are willing to take and those are essential pieces to the puzzle. Me personally my cartridge selection is based on 2 critical components. I want a bullet that will give me an entry and an exit at any shot angle. I want to have the ability to shoot 200yds. Now the 200yd part is easy just about any rifle cartridge will kill a deer at 200yds the other one is the roughy. My favorite deer cartridge on he planet is a 7mm-08 but it won't go end to end of a deer. What I have found that works the best for me as a tracker and still hunter in the big woods is 225gn Barnes tsx at 2450-2700fps out of a 358, 35whelen, 35 rem mag. My ADK buck last year weighed 228 dressed and I had a bullet go corner to corner entered butt cheek exited from shoulder with excellent expansion it just doesn't get any better than that. All that being said if you will be sitting and only willing to take broadside or quartering to shots about any cartridge will work. Here's an article you might enjoy. https://www.bigwoodsbucks.com/gallery/articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/174/how-to-pick-the-perfect-tracking-rifle Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Most 338 bullets are designed to expand at higher velocities than you will ever see in a 338 federal especially with a short tube Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

First I'll say I won't own a new Ruger 77 I hate the new safeties. A 260 with a 16" tube wouldn't be my first choice my personal rule is nothing under 30cal with shorter than a 20" barrel and as many on here know I love short barrels. My suggestion trade the 243 in and find a good used Remington pump. My suggestion within your options is have the 243 rebored to 358 Winchester and have the barrel cut down to 16". 338 federal suffers from bullet selection. STAY AWAY FROM THE RCM, brass is getting impossible to find, my 338 RCM is a killer but I rarely shoot it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I'm in a stand just passed 26hrs without sleep. Gonna sit for the first hr and make sure I don't have to kick the same jack off out of my property for the 3rd ur in row. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk