Headspace Mysteries!

[wildcat junkie]

What is your gun, chambering and bullet of choice? ( let me guess, fixed 4x glass )

 

What do you have for a rest on the tripod stand?

Home built custom Oberndorf style Mauser sporter based on Yugoslavian VZ500 intermediate length LR M98 action & exceptional military 98K barrel tuned down & crowned to my spec's by Dennis Olsen. The barrel is 23 1/2".  All up weight loaded W/4 rounds W/scope & sling is about 7 1/2#.

 

8X57-IS loaded to 30-06  pressure spec W/.323 200gr Sreer Hotcore bullets @ 2730fps. 3300 ft # of muzzle energy. + of - 3" MPBR of 270yds. Sub 1/2 MOA accuracy for @ least 3 shots is routine for that load.

 

3-9X42 Kahles Scope. Kahles is the oldest continually operating optics manufacture. They have been manufacturing optics in Austria since 1898. Karl Kahles was killed in an allied air raid strike on the facility in WW II.They were manufacturing some sort of optic sights for the 3rd REICH. Kahles developed the 1st practical variable power scopes.

 

I wedge my elbows on the adjacent rails of the right corner of the tripod leaning into the corner. There is an upright for the roof that I sometimes can also use for steadiness, depending on the angle of the shot. I ALWAYS use whatever I can for a steady rest of some sort. The only shooting lane currently over 100yds is directly @ 12:00. I haven't failed to make 1-shot kills from that stand @ those distances since 2001. I can consisitanly hit a grapefruit sized target @ 250yds shooting off the rails of the tri-pod. Around 28 deer, about 17 of them bucks, have been killed from that stand by myself & 1 other hunter since 2001.

Edited January 11, 2015 by wildcat junkie

[Lawdwaz]

Home built custom Oberndorf style Mauser sporter based on Yugoslavian VZ500 intermediate length LR M98 action & exceptional military 98K barrel tuned down & crowned to my spec's by Dennis Olsen. The barrel is 23 1/2".  All up weight loaded W/4 rounds W/scope & sling is about 7 1/2#.

 

8X57-IS loaded to 30-06  pressure spec W/.323 200gr Sreer Hotcore bullets @ 2730fps. 3300 ft # of muzzle energy. + of - 3" MPBR of 270yds. Sub 1/2 MOA accuracy for @ least 3 shots is routine for that load.

 

3-9X42 Kahles Scope. Kahles is the oldest continually operating optics manufacture. They have been manufacturing optics in Austria since 1898. Karl Kahles was killed in an allied air raid strike on the facility in WW II.They were manufacturing some sort of optic sights for the 3rd REICH. Kahles developed the 1st practical variable power scopes.

 

I wedge my elbows on the adjacent rails of the right corner of the tripod leaning into the corner. There is an upright for the roof that I sometimes can also use for steadiness, depending on the angle of the shot. I ALWAYS use whatever I can for a steady rest of some sort. The only shooting lane currently over 100yds is directly @ 12:00. I haven't failed to make 1-shot kills from that stand @ those distances since 2001. I can consisitanly hit a grapefruit sized target @ 250yds shooting off the rails of the tri-pod. Around 28 deer, about 17 of them bucks, have been killed from that stand by myself & 1 other hunter since 2001.

 

Sounds like a heck of good shooting gun that lands a bullet in the right spot with some ass behind it!  Driven by the Wildcat Junkie of course..........

 

 

I have never had a Kahles,  only had one Zeiss.  I did shoot a friends 6.5x284 that had a Kahles on top, nice glass!

 

You mentioned a roof, was that a typo?    Sounds like a winner..........commercial built?  Any pics?

 

It sounds like a great location by all the success, you must have that prevailing wind in your face?

 

[wildcat junkie]

Sounds like a heck of good shooting gun that lands a bullet in the right spot with some ass behind it!  Driven by the Wildcat Junkie of course..........

 

 

I have never had a Kahles,  only had one Zeiss.  I did shoot a friends 6.5x284 that had a Kahles on top, nice glass!

 

You mentioned a roof, was that a typo?    Sounds like a winner..........commercial built?  Any pics?

 

It sounds like a great location by all the success, you must have that prevailing wind in your face?

 

It is a Cabelas Tri-pod that I bought in '99. 40" X 40" platform & swivel seat. The roof was more of a sun shade. It was fabric. I picked up a couple of "cover sheets" from the local lumber yard. They are the top sheet used to protect the pallet from damage. They usually have some minor scratches & such.They can be had for the asking or very cheap. I made roofs for the tri-pod & a similar design ladder stand that has a bench seat.

 

The stand is located about 45yds into the woods from an inside corner of one of my hay fileds. It faces due west W/the long shooting lane @ 12:00. I shot this 3 1/2 YO buck in '09 near the end of the lane, about 230yds. 142# dressed, very run down from rut.

 

This one in '05 @ about 250yds, right @ the end of the lane, another 3 1/2 YO buck. 168# dressed.

 

 

 

There is a 100yd shooting lane @ about  1:30-2:00 that covers about 30yds of horse trail. That is where I shot this year's buck. I'm guessing 4 1/2 YO from the way the bases splay out. When I get the jaw bone back from the taxidermist I will verify his age. 43" + heart girth, about 290# dressed.

 

The 200gr .323 Hotcore cleaned his clock from a straight on hit just above the brisket.

 

The top of thye heart & about 1/3 of the liver were gone, the lungs came out in chunks.

 

There's an 80yd shooting lane @ about 2:45. This young man killed his 1st buck in that lane from the tripod in 2010 W/my M700 Mtn Rfl DBM 7mm-08.

 

Finally there is a 75yd lane @ 9:00. I shot a 219# dressed weight 4 1/2 YO 4-point right at the end of it in '04. That is the M700 CDL in .280 that I used to have.

 

I want to get some PIX from the stand of all of the shooting lanes & from the lanes back towards the stand.

[Lawdwaz]

My, hasn't this thread taken a detour. 

 

Great pics and bucks! 

 

I'd love to see pics of the stand, to & fro.