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Post by elkman1310 on Dec 2, 2016 18:41:05 GMT -5
Most of the guys that hunt long range use a pair of space masters on a set of brackets or some use Kowa highlanders or some of the big Chinese glasses. I have a pair of 25x100mm Oberwerk which are really good for the money.
The space masters in the picture belong to me and the have a pair of 15x long eye relief eye pieces which work very well. Some guys use 22x wide angle eye pieces and some have 25 power. You need higher magnification when there is no snow. finding a brown deer on a brown mountain a 1,000 yards away is really tough when we don't have snow.
Ontop of the bracket glasses I have a red dot mounted between the spotting scopes this is used for showing the location of what your looking at. This way another shooting can walk up and look at the red dot to check a reference point so they can also find a deer or bear quickly. Two guys also have the range finder mounted on the same bracket.
  
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Post by hillbill on Dec 8, 2016 4:58:39 GMT -5
that has to be a blast!
very unique hunting for sure.
how do you get them down off the mountain?
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Post by elkman1310 on Dec 16, 2016 17:45:24 GMT -5
Sorry I didn't post sooner been down in Virginia. Well this is a team effort. We do two things we lock the gun and one set of glasses on the spot where the deer is laying. Then who ever killed the deer plus one other hunter goes along over. We use walkie talkies to guide them into the deer. These mountains are steep!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I is a real job to hike up and some times down. if the deer is killed near the top of the mountain. there is a gas well road we can drive on that gets you to the top of the mountain then you can slowly walk down that is the preferred method.
We never have been able to hunt this mountain range before. But three years ago they drilled natural well pads all over the tops of our mountains. They open the roads during hunting season only since this is state forest land. We were lucky enough to have enough snow to cover the ground for the second week. It is hard to see a brown deer on a brown mountainside or 1/2 mile away. I posted that we killed a really good 9pt buck on the last day at 1850 yards. That is the longest kill we have ever made in Pa. Conditions have to be just right to do that we were able to see where the bullets were impacting and my buddy killed the buck on the 3rd shot. That 300gr Berger tore that deer up it had a 1" exit hole. We saw 5 bucks that were didn't get any shooting on. They always stop behind a tree and branches or they don't stop at all. You really need to watch the animal and see if it is ready to take a step or not we never shot at a moving deer. Most people have no concept of what is really involved in taking a animal at long ranges.
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