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While Hunting in Maine with my old Thuddy-Ott-Six loaded with VOR-TX® Ammo ,I came across a small stream and started to walk across the rocks. About midstream I spotted a nice Buck comming along for a cool drink of pure Maine spring water.
Just in back of the Deer was the biggest Black Bear I have ever seen. I considerd which one to shoot and desided that if I placed the shot just right I could take the Buck and the ballistics of the Vor-TX would carry clear thru and hit the bear smack between the eyes.
I took careful aim and Bang. Both of those fine game animals dropped on the spot. However the bucks antlers snapped when he fell and knocked a partridge out of bushes and the bear let go of a fine Salmon that he had just clawed out of the brook.
I did slip on the rocks and was a bit wet but was able to dry off from my campfire and enjoy a fresh Salmon fish supper thanks to being able to get the fire going by using the Vor-Tx box and my spark flint.
Only thing is now I cant get the $10 rebate without the box. Oh Well; It was worth it.
Hope this story helps encorouge some folks to try hunting in Maine with those fine Barnes Bulletts.
Capt Walt Gibson
Master Maine Guide
Capt@WickedGoodOutdoors.com
Here’s a short video of a bull I shot at 322 yards. He went 4 feet before falling over and kicking his feet in the air. Never saw an elk do that before!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFP6TeezZc
Just returned from a deer hunt on Kodiak Island Alaska.
With just one rifle to take thru the airlines from Anchorage I chose my large ring Mauser 338 win mag with a Leupold 3×9. Before the hunt i sighted in with the out of the box Vor-Tec 338 225 gr ammo at 25 yards and verified my range card out to 300 meters. Sighting in the rifle at that distance gives an 11inch drop at 400 mters giving me plenty of gun for close up surprise grizzly bear or distance beach dear from the back of a 90 foot boat on anchor.
The 1st morning 2 bucks were on the beach (while the boat was anchored) at 175 yards and 189 yards, both 1 shot one kill in the ten ring.
The second morning there was a group of 6 deer which when i ranged them with my rangefinder there only one buck at 368 meters. My range card said to hold 8 inches high. I waited for my breath and heart beat to bottom out while the rifle laid on the hand rail of the boat and pulled the trigger to see the buck drop in his tracks and the crew on the boat yell like they witnessed a touchdown.
I hand load Barnes Bullets for a lot of friends. Now I tell them to just by a couple of boxes and shoot with complete confidence of consistent accuacy and terminal ballistics. “Don’t run you’ll only die tired”
Thanks for the great job
john Godsey
Well I just finished up another hunt and took a spike buck with the 300 win mag and the 165 grain Vor-Tx loads. It was no great display of shooting skill at 100 yards or so, but the 165 grain TSX tipped bullet easily pentrated 2 feet of deer and didn’t ruin alot of meat in the process (just the ribs in one side). I tried to kill a large buck but they were laying up in heavy timber and nearly impossible to get up on. I had to come home with some meat (per the instructions of the “little woman”) , so in the interest of self preservation I shot this little guy a couple of hours before I broke camp and came home. He eats good just like the wife likes. This week it’s off to Colorado for 4th season elk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0U3bubc4AU
Just finished this years 4th season Colorado elk hunt and killed a 6X5 that was trotting away at 250 yards or so. One shot that angled from behind his shoulder and exited the far shoulder put him down. Seems to be a new trend in the last two years I’ve used these Vor-Tx 300 win mag 165 grain loads. Everthing goes down with one shot. I’m giddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLPCAYfewc
I had all my gear packed and prepared for a moose hunt in Maine this November. Included in my grip was my Marlin 444 sighted in with Barnes Copper Solids. I had always imagined my moose hunt taking place in the thick evergreen forests of northern Maine.
Just a couple of days before I headed east from Buffalo a good pal offered that I should take his Colt Light Rifle in 30.06 sighted in with Barnes Vor-Tx. He was correct in saying that the 444 just couldn’t reach out quite so far as the 30.06. Of course too the Colt had some mojo going for it since he’d used it in Alaska in October to take a dandy moose. I never expected to even take the Colt out of the case.
Long story short on opening morning we ended up finding an excellent moose standing on the far side of a potato field. My guide saw the Marlin in my hand and sent me back to the truck for the 30.06. I brought it back to the field along with a bipod and set up to wait for sunrise. When I could see which end was which I took aim just behind the front shoulder. That shot produced no result. Naturally I repeated the shot with – oddly – the same result. By now the moose was moving away so I asked my guide just how far away he was. His reply was that he didn’t know since his range finder maxed out at 400 yards! For my third shot I held the crosshairs even with the top of his back and squeezed off the shot. The big guy took three steps, went down, and didn’t move again.
The bullet was recovered and had clearly performed exactly as designed. We figure the shot was every bit of 450 yards. I am surely thankful for the opportunity to use the rifle and appreciative of the engineering Barnes put into the Vor-Tx. Bravo !