The last few months have been very eventful. During Bow Season I shot this Antelope at 50 yards. It was large enough to make Pope and Young.
I shot him with my friend Todd and my little boy Zach.
Todd and I tracked him until 2:00 AM.
It was an awesome hunt.
The Rifle hunt went even better. I saw a lot of big deer. My little brother Gregg even came down for a visit.
The last night of the Mule Deer hunt I shot this pig. I was with my friend Todd again and we decided to split up just as we were walking away from each other I spotted him a little over 600 yards away. It was 10 minutes from dark so I decided to go for it. Before you get critical remember that I am probably one of the best shooters in the world. A 600 yard shot is do-able with my skills and a flat shooting gun like a 300 Ultra mag. Uncle Rick the Physicist criticized my shot saying that it was impossible.
We had a series of emails and I would like to share them with you.
My first Email said:
Dear Rick,
Shot a nice buck the other day.
Hit it at a little over 600 yards. (Yeah I had a witness.)
Enjoy, Dave
Rick wrote back:
That's bullshit...no one takes a shot at 600 yards. You may have hit the state of Wyoming at 600 yds. I call your witness a liar. :) Nice deer though!!!! It;s awesome when you can run them over with your truck.
I wrote back:
The guy that I was hunting with had a rangefinder that maxed out at 500 yards.
I was shooting a 300 ultra mag. With 180 grain Nosler accubond bullets. The ballistic coefficient is around .5o5. The muzzle velocity was chronographed on my reloads at just over 3350 fps. There was no wind. As I had my scope set at 12X and adjusted the parallax to over 500 yards. I aimed 2.5 ft above the top of his back for the second and killing shot. I won't tell you about the first shot that I missed and saw how low it hit.
I will tell you about the second shot that went right through his heart.
You’re a physicist, do the math. I don't know if they have a coefficient for bad ass in your equation but I suggest you find one.
Love, the greatest hunter in the world.
Dave
Rick wrote back:
Dave you are right. I wouldn't doubt that you are the greatest hunter in the world. I thought you were all talk until I went fishing with you and you made me look like a complete fool with your fishing skills. You out fished me in every sense of the word.
I've never seen anyone come close to your natural abilities of just being a man.
I count myself lucky to be in your presence.
You are my hero.
With the greatest love and respect,
Rick
If you find yourself among the doubters please read my email as if you were Rick.
Here's my Buck:
Hunting season has been awesome. I am nearly done. I still have to kill an elk and a few birds. Ive had hunts this year that people wouldn't even dream of having, but no hunt in the world would compare October 30th, when my wife gave birth to our little girl Allie. She weighed 8lbs, is very healthy and a good baby.
Cindy is healthy and beautiful. You would never guess that she had a baby a week ago. I'm a little sore but doing Ok.
This is our little girl:
I'll post more pictures when I get a chance.
I hope everyone is doing well. I love you all.
Dave
7 comments:
Did Rick really send that 2nd email? Doesn't sound like him.
Anyway, AWESOME!! Way to go!!
As for Allie, she is so beautiful. Scarlet has a few hand me downs - I'll stick it in the mail tomorrow. If you don't recall, the shirt says, "I Love Wyoming Cowboys." It is a size 12 months, perfect for Wyoming newborns.
She's a beauty! Congratulations. I am so happy to hear all went well with baby and mom.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Rick wrote that back. I think he looks up to me a lot.
When he came and visited, I was going through his stuff when he wasn't around and I noticed that his pillow case had a scanned photo of me holding a big fish.
The photo was over the caption:Go big or go home.
It's really flattering to have someone as accomplished as Rick look up to me.
Congrats on your sweet new little one! She is adorable! By the way this is your long lost cousin Angie! It is good to see you and your family are doing well!
Angie,
Thanks for stopping by.
Just a fair warning, my site has been known to make its readers dumber.
You are baaaaack!!!! Love the hunting tales...they've been greatly missed.
Your baby is the cutest! Congratulations. Time goes by way too fast...I swear I just heard Cindy was pregnant. How is she doing?
Ricky Sixx is so jealous of your skills....poor guy.
Oh my heck! I thought that Zach got in my cosmetic bag while we were staying at your house. Now I know why your lips were so red....
For Christmas I'm going to send you your own make-up kit!
Aunt Cindi
p.s. BTW I'm missing some personal items.
Well, first off, what a beautiful little girl...she looks just like her mom!
For the record, here is my second email:
Dear Big Game Hunter Deadshot Dave,
I'm glad you got an Antelope. I don't know Pope or Young, do they fish around Sheridan or just hunt? You two were out quite late. Are you grounded?
I am really glad that you got to show Gregg some big deer. Cindi and I see big deer all the time. We usually go to Yellowstone National Park also. We use 8x12 field glasses. What do you guys use? I hope the two of you took some really cool pictures of the wildlife. Did you get a chance to see Old Faithful? Please post some of the pics from your trip. Especially the Buffalo.
I did take your suggestion and searched all of my physics books and the coefficient of "badass" always comes out to a null value. Weird, too, I checked the math like five times.
Well, as always, you are my hero. Those game farm hunts are usually successful and I'm glad yours was a success too!
with the greatest love and respect,
ricky sixx
P.s. Bengay will take away your soreness.
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