.25 Cal (Quarter Bore) / Big Game Success - 25 Creed, 25-284, 25-06, 25 PRC, 25 SAUM

[sierracharlie338]

257 Weatherby Mag. Shooting 92grain Hammer Hunters at just under 3800fps. I have had more luck with this rifle than anything else.

Nice pic. What part of the country was that?

 

[steiney42]

Nice pic. What part of the country was that?

In northern CA along the coast

 

[eLightfoot]

257 Weatherby Mag. Shooting 92grain Hammer Hunters at just under 3800fps. I have had more luck with this rifle than anything else.

That is a toad ass blacktail!!

 

[rclouse79]

My son drew first blood with the suppressed 25-06 I put together. One shot with a 115rd Berger VLD at 533 yards and he never took another step. Exited high shoulder and left about a 2 inch diameter hole. He will be using the same rifle for his bull elk hunt next month. I have way more confidence in this setup than my previous 270 shooting a mono bullet

 

[sierracharlie338]

My son drew first blood with the suppressed 25-06 I put together. One shot with a 115rd Berger VLD at 533 yards and he never took another step. Exited high shoulder and left about a 2 inch diameter hole. He will be using the same rifle for his bull elk hunt next month. I have way more confidence in this setup than my previous 270 shooting a mono bullet View attachment 952132

Congrats to the young man! Those 115s are devastating.

 

[grizz19]

Well here she is boys. Finally got to pick it up out of California jail. Ended up going with a 25 creed. Tikka, Oregon Mountain Rifles 22 inch carbon barrel and ti break, with a Rostock. I have a maven RS 1.2 I will put on as soon as I get time.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Well here she is boys. Finally got to pick it up out of California jail. Ended up going with a 25 creed. Tikka, Oregon Mountain Rifles 22 inch carbon barrel and ti break, with a Rostock. I have a maven RS 1.2 I will put on as soon as I get time.

Nice. Let’s us know how it shoots

 

[Wapitiaddict]

My daughter shot this 4x4 Muley buck last evening. 25sst, 135gr Berger, 3070 mv. Bullet went through and through with excellent wound channel and exit hole.

Edit: The longer, more deserving story….this is a buck that we had seen a day before the opener while scouting 11 days prior. On opening morning he put the slip on us after we accidentally jumped him 50 yards from his bed and he disappeared in a small, but steep, ravine in a matter of a few seconds. All there was was some oak brush thickets, and then wide open sage brush on both sides of the ravine. But he went low and fast and took a side cut up the mountain that had just enough depression that we never saw him sneak out. In fact, he went so silent so quick right in front of us that I thought he had stopped in a thicket. It wasn’t until I went to push him out of it that I realized what he had done and was long gone. We nick named him the ghost buck because of how quickly and silently he disappeared.

Fast forward 10 days and an elk hunt and a bunch of rain in between, I thought there was a chance he may be back in the same area if another hunter hadn’t gotten him yet. We decided to hit the mountain early in the afternoon and do a big loop around, hunting along the way, but get up to a glassing spot that overlooked where we had seen ghost buck the couple of times prior late in the evening when I figured he might come out of his bed.

On our loop around up the mountain, we saw several groups of does but no bucks. Finally about 15 minutes before sunset we get close to the glassing spot I had in mind. As I glassed around and saw several group of does, my daughter had her binos up and suddenly explained, “I see a buck!” Yep, she out did dad and spotted a buck first! Sure enough, it was ghost buck. He was about 250 yards from the last spot we saw him. We got her lined up for a shot and she made it count! It wasn’t a perfect shot and the bullet hit a little further back than we would have liked, but bullet did its job and the buck only made it 150 yards before falling over. The shot was good enough! My daughter was unbelievable excited, and me even more so!

My daughter helped me quarter and debone the buck in the dark on the mountain with our headlamps. She held the legs and such as I quartered and trimmed the meat off. We loaded her MR Popup 38 (actually my sons that she was using) with a quarter and a backstrap. We then wrapped the head in a trash bag (just the head, not the antlers) and taped it up tight. This a trick I’ve started doing so that blood from the head doesn’t drip blood all over. She then packed the quarter out in her pack and held the head in her arms in front of her. It actually helps to balance out a young, small hunter with a heavy load on their back. At a little after 11pm we were down off the mountain and back to the truck. My daughter fully earned it! And great memories for both of us a for a life time.

 

[sierracharlie338]

My daughter shot this 4x4 Muley buck last evening. 25sst, 135gr Berger, 3070 mv. Bullet went through and through with excellent wound channel and exit hole.

That’s awesome congrats to you both!

 

[Wapitiaddict]

That’s awesome congrats to you both!

Thanks! I added a longer, more deserving story to the post above….