Hunter562yards
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I go elk hunting over on the western slope in colorado every year during the late season, and every year a huge herd comes thru the area and it's just a slaughter fest. I had taken my cow from this herd for the last two years, but the next year I wanted more of a challenge. So my dad and I separate from the main road and we are on this dirt trail for a couple hours, and eventually we get to where we are starting to lose daylight, so we stop so my dad can look at the GPS so we can get out of there. While he does that, I start glassing the hillside, and I see about 7 cows towards the top of the mountain. We wait there and watch as more come over the top to join the first ones. We check them with the range finder and it doesn't even register, I convince my dad to let us peruse them, and eventually he lets me. So we run towards them till they start to notice us, so we get to the closest cover we find (which is just a wimpy little cedar tree. I rest my .270 on a branch while my dad ranges them, and it says 562 yards. He tells me to pick a cow, and I tell him which one, and he says to aim it's body height above it, so I pull of my first shot and the cow flinches, but we can't tell if I hit her or not, and the herd is moving now and I pull of a second shot at the same cow. This time the cow doubles over and falls dead. We get up to the cow and as we are gutting it we find the holes. They turned out to be 3 inches from each other and in the same lung. That is by far the best shot I have ever taken with my savage .270, used a 130 grain bullet.