Shot with her 270…130 Nosler Ballistic Tip pushed by 54 grains of H4350.
The deer was 345 yards away and quartering away slightly…I told her the drop and wind drift, she did the rest…dropped him with one shot.
I’d say she’s off to a great start!
I should add that she’s not new to shooting…she’s been active in shooting all her life, especially in the last 12 years since we got married…but she started hunting just last year.
She’s lethal with that 270 out to about 1/4 of a mile.
Congratulations on having a wife with that capability. So honestly… who is the better shot? Since teaching my gf to shoot, it’s forced me to focus on the basics. I can’t stand to think of her being a better shot than me.
Congratulations. That’s perhaps the longest first shot at a first deer I’ve heard of…I hope she had a great experience and will now be your lifelong hunting partner.
Better shot? She’s catching on quick…earlier today I caught her looking at ballistics charts for the 270…I asked her what she was up to, she answered “I figured I’d need to know the drops and stuff myself eventually…so make me a range card to put on my stock”.
The proudest moment a teacher experiences…is the moment when his student becomes the teacher…I hope she does one day beat me in a shooting match.
Her fundamentals are perfect…all she needs is a more intimate knowledge of ballistics…and that just takes time.
When she first decided she wanted to hunt…she did the research and decided on the 270 all by herself…I was thinking 25-06 or 7mm-08, but I had no argument at all against the 270…the rifle, I bought from a friend…its a rifle I have owned twice before (he and I trade back forth a lot)…its an older Remington 700 (1990 or so) with very few rounds on it, maybe 250 or so…that friend bought it new.
A good friend of mine just traded her .308 bolt gun that she never shot, for a nice 7mm-08. It’s a Remington Model 7, and will make a great deer gun as well. Very light, very handy, and should be really accurate with good handloads.
I’ve always been interested in trying the 7mm-08…for years…but I’ve never owned or even shot one.
I have no doubt that it is a fine round…well balanced, and probably the best offspring the 308 ever produced.
When news of it first came to me I sorta liked the 260…always been a follower of Jim Carmichael (he lives near me)…but later decided it just wasn’t hardly enough in my opinion…needs more speed I think…something like a necked down RCM (Ruger Compact Mag) would have been better…but that’s only my humble opinion…I know many really like the 260 as it is.
For a light kicking, flat shooting 400 yard deer rifle…I’ve always liked the 25-06, I was shooting one way before they were popular like they are now…ammo was hard to find, but it shot so sweet I kept it anyway…my first true “high powered rifle”, and it was a match made in heaven…that easy on the shoulder, flat shooting rifle taught me how to shoot.
The only downside is they need plenty of barrel…at least 24".
Yup, I think that 6.5 to 7mm range is very interesting. That same friend I mentioned has a nice collection of 6.5 mm Swedish Mausers (as in a safe full of them). I hope she gets a nice deer like your wife did with her new rifle.
If that’s her first deer, are you folks going to mount the head? That’s a tradition for a lot of families - including mine.
No…she said she’d wait until she got at least a nice 6 point to mount one…it’s funny really…all the hunting I’ve done, and deer I’ve killed…and there ain’t one single deer head in this house…yet! I killed some nice bucks years ago when there were more mature deer around here, I didn’t have the $$$ to mount them then…I was only 12 when I killed my biggest buck so far…he was a real nice 140+ inch 8 point, dressed 192 lbs…that’s a monster for northeast Tennessee private land hunting.
I have pictures and a couple of really nice bucks, but no mounts…we both agree, that needs to be fixed.
