My gun is set up for long distance shooting and is "0" at 200 yards. we shot from a box blind and have a rest for the gun, we use a model 700  30-06 syn stock with a 3x9 scope left on #6 setting. 

This 11 year old daughter has informed her Dad she would like to go for turkey hunting this spring, and if all goes well a moose this fall! 
That deserves an  AT - A - GIRL!

This family from Maine is just what "we" here at MaineHunters.com like to see!

Congratulations to the Wagner Family for their great family and a terrific hunting season!

Matts Story
It was Youth Hunting Day, it was raining buckets! I didn't think we were going to go hunting.  I bugged my Dad until he said, OK! It was 9:30 AM and we headed out. We walked around and the deer walked out, right in front of us! My Dad looked at me and said, "It's up to you"? Because I had never shot a gun before. So.. I shouldered the gun and shot. I hit it! At least I thought I did? So, my father and I started looking around for it and we decided I had missed it, until we started to hunt again, when we found it 10 feet in front of us with blood running out of it's mouth. We thought it was doe, but after we waited 10 minutes before walking over to it to make sure it was dead, and it was, we noticed that it was a five point spike horn buck. We started to field dress it and my Dad called my Uncle Steve and he brought down his four wheeler and took some pictures. We through it on the four wheeler and drove it home.

It was opening morning, cold & foggy when Adam and his Dad, under the direction of Roger Lambert (Maine Guide Service) entered the pre-dawn woods.  At approx. 7 a.m.  Bell, a very large double bearded bull, spotted in an earlier scouting trip, answered the call and stepped into the picture at close range. Adam had instructions to take the first shot presented.  Bell, however, stood bradside with one tree protecting the vitals.  As Adam tried to calm his emotions and wait patiently (somewhat), he watched an unbelievable scene unfold through his scope. From somewhere in the mist charged a bellowing, threatening, even larger moose that ran Bell, a trophy moose by anybody's standards away.  Adam quickly switched targets and as soon as the crosshairs found the boiler room he squeezed off a fatal double lung shot.  In the excitement as B.O.M. turned to walk away Adam did fire an unneeded second round.  This incredible bull piled up somewhere in the mist from which he had come.  What a hunt!
 Congratulations Adam and his Dad, the "actual" permit holder.  Dad of the year if you ask me.
 Shot Monday, 10-07-02, at 7:20 a.m. in zone 7
approx. 1000#, rack-12x14, 61 1/2" widest point spread.
 Wow, see Adam's story in the next addition of the "Maine Sportsman".