Ron,
I too had an amazing one shot kill with a 270! I'll like to hear your story if you would?[/quote][/quote]
Ray... here's the story.......
Back in the Autumn of 1965, we were hunting on a 640 acre (one square mile) farm homesteaded by my hunting buddys (Marks) Grandfather and still owned and farmed by Marks Dad located out in the middle of Nebraska near Comstock. Mark had been raised out there and was well-known and well-liked by all the neighbors, so we could hunt anywhere we wished without a problem.
Early one afternoon, hunting about a half mile from the house, I walked around the edge of a circular-shaped bowl dotted with a few bushy clumps of tangled, stunted trees and brush maybe 20 feet in diameter. As I passed one clump, I looked down the 15 feet into the semi- darkness and saw two pairs of eyes staring back at me.
I picked up a rock and threw it into the clump near the eyes
and out popped two medium-sized mule-deer, a fork-horn buck and a doe.
The doe disappeared into another clump, but the fork-horn made a bouncing bee-line for the edge of the bowl, maybe 100 yards away
running the way mule-deer run when theyre not too frightened, but have decided to leave the area.
Noticing the not-too-fast departure of the little buck (maybe 125 lbs) and having hunted mule-deer in the past, I glued the 4x fixed-powers cross-hairs on the bouncing deers body and followed him along
and waited, finger on the 20 year old .270 Winchester Model 70s trigger.
Sure enough
just as I had seen other mule-deer do & anticipated this one might do as well
as the fork-horn bounced up the side of the bowl and made it over the top, he stopped just leg-down on the far side of the rim and looked back at me with his legs below the rim, but his whole body still showing above the rim to find out if I was pursuing him.
THAT was what I was waiting on
and I put the crosshairs on the center of his rib-cage just behind his shoulder and squeezed off a round
and heard a satisfying WHACK as the bullet hit home.
Later, I realized that the shot was only about 100 yards and the rifle was sighted in about 2½ inches high at that range
so the bullet hit a bit high
taking out the tops of both lungs and breaking the spine resulting in a true bang/flop shot.
The little buck fell where he stood
and 45 minutes later, we were cutting the steaks out of him for the evenings supper. I want you to know that those steaks out of that corn-fed buck were DELICIOUS
as good as any prime VEAL Ive ever tasted
and the venison steaks had a surprising amount of pure white FAT surrounding them indicating this buck had eaten a generous amount of the corn in the fields surrounding Marks old homestread.
As it turned out, that was the BEST venison Ive ever eaten
bar NONE! And thats the story behind the bang/flop shot with the .270 Winchester
an excellent choice as a long range deer and antelope rifle
and a reasonably decent elk and moose rifle with a well-placed shot using a 150 grain bullet at reasonable ranges. :-)
Strength & Honor
Ron T.
