My daughter shot a doe with the MOA 260 Rem. Shot was right at 81 yards. One shot with the 120 grain NBT was all it took.
This is my daughter's second deer. she shot a large bodied buck last year. She is now 14 years old. I also had my 9 year old boy with me (not hunting yet) for the first time deer hunting. I had glassed a doe back in the timber about 300 yards away. but because of cover there was no way to make a shot and we had been watching her for about the last 15 minutes to no avail. We set up just inside of some trees that looks out into a wheat field. The fence line on the other side is 220 yards directly in front of us. As you began to go down the fence line you can shoot to about 270 or 280 yards. The field goes further each way but it would not be safe to shoot furhter than that to the right or the left. It was getting almost to dark to see the doe that was in the timber and she wasn't coming our way, when all of sudden I looked to my right and I saw two does (There was three all together but we only saw two at first) that had come in from behind us and to our right about 50 yards (there were trees that blocked both our and deer's view). They were slowly angling accross the field where they would come almost directly in front of us. Both kids eyes were huge because neither of them were expecting deer to come out where they did. Wind was in our favor and I whispered to Kristen to take the first doe when she stopped walking. When she first saw the deer she slowly began to change the angle of the MOA to prepare for a shot. The deer stopped and I kept expecting a shot when all of a sudden the doe started moving again. The doe went about another 15 yards then stopped. The MOA barked and the doe went down within 5 feet or so of the shot. She was more excited/ruffled over this shot than she was at the buck shot last year in lower light in CRP grass and at twice the distance. There is just something about deer being closer to making you get more excited. Well, she is a happy camper to say the least and so is Dad. She told me last night she now wants to get a buck with a good set of antlers. She had a competition with a couple of other boys at church who challenged her who would be the first one to get a deer this year. Of course she uses a handgun and they use a rifle and are a grade ahead of her. I feel sorry for those two boys. She already called one and rubbed it in last night. When the pics come in I will post them.
Yes, I'm a proud pappa!
Ernie
