Ranch Dog
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My dad at 86 years old is still out there hunting whitetails. The last couple of years I have sat with him to make sure everything goes well but mainly just to enjoy the outdoors with each other as we both know that there are a lot more years now behind us than there are ahead of us.
My dad has had a bit of a rough go with the hunting last year and at the start this year but he told me he wanted to get one more freezer load of meat because he wasn't sure he would be up to it next year. He missed a good South Texas 11 pointer during the first week and I could tell it really bothered him. Immediately after the miss we had some very nasty frontal weather move through that I thought we should sit out. After two days the weather cleared and we went to a blind for a very pleasant afternoon sit. About an hour before dark a young 10 point came with along. Typically I would have had him pass on this deer as he is a long ways from the potential he will reach in a couple of years, but I don't know if my dad has a couple of years or if he would want to continue hunting this season as he seems tired. I told him it looked like a real nice deer to me and to shoot it if he felt the same. He did.
My dad is using the Glenfield 30GT chambered in 30-30 Win that I gave him about 8 years ago, shooting the Ranch Dog TLC311-170-RF pushed along by a max load of BL-C(2). The deer was at 80 yards and my dad hit the buck just across the top of the heart, slicing through the aorta and destroying the bottom half of both lungs. The bullet knocked the buck off his feet and he kicked in place twice and that was it.
This is our 50th hunting season together! I'm very lucky!
For your bullet heads, the TLC311-170-RF is my original 30-30 Win bullet that was labeled the TLC311-165-RF back before I corrected some of the designations to reflect a truer weight.
Cartridge OAL: 2.430"
CCI 200 LR primer
35.3-grains of BL-C(2)
2160 FPS
My dad has had a bit of a rough go with the hunting last year and at the start this year but he told me he wanted to get one more freezer load of meat because he wasn't sure he would be up to it next year. He missed a good South Texas 11 pointer during the first week and I could tell it really bothered him. Immediately after the miss we had some very nasty frontal weather move through that I thought we should sit out. After two days the weather cleared and we went to a blind for a very pleasant afternoon sit. About an hour before dark a young 10 point came with along. Typically I would have had him pass on this deer as he is a long ways from the potential he will reach in a couple of years, but I don't know if my dad has a couple of years or if he would want to continue hunting this season as he seems tired. I told him it looked like a real nice deer to me and to shoot it if he felt the same. He did.
My dad is using the Glenfield 30GT chambered in 30-30 Win that I gave him about 8 years ago, shooting the Ranch Dog TLC311-170-RF pushed along by a max load of BL-C(2). The deer was at 80 yards and my dad hit the buck just across the top of the heart, slicing through the aorta and destroying the bottom half of both lungs. The bullet knocked the buck off his feet and he kicked in place twice and that was it.
This is our 50th hunting season together! I'm very lucky!
For your bullet heads, the TLC311-170-RF is my original 30-30 Win bullet that was labeled the TLC311-165-RF back before I corrected some of the designations to reflect a truer weight.
Cartridge OAL: 2.430"
CCI 200 LR primer
35.3-grains of BL-C(2)
2160 FPS
). He was still hobbling pretty good. We were hunting in some pretty country with the truck just below the rim of a 10K acre bowl of antelope heaven. I stepped outside of the truck to watch the sunrise and a train traveling along US90. The setting with the mix of rugged mountains, plains, & sky was very breathtaking and I remember asking our creator to give my dad a break today as he was going to need it in this rough country that I absolutely love. I heard a shot out to the east so I climbed back into the truck and told dad that it was time and slowly started to ease up where we could see over the rim. Normally, I would have been flatter than a rattler but I wanted my dad to really take in the view as he had never been on this ranch.
