Author Topic: No it was'nt with a crossbow. (Read 900 times)

jh45gun · « **on:** October 28, 2004, 10:23:27 PM »

WI T zone hunt going on right now today was the first day. Archery, Gun or muzzle loader can be used. We I shot a small doe tonite with my 30/30 94 using one of my handloads for it. One shot one Kill. It was not a huge deer but I like to tease my friend in Texas telling him that our small deer rival their large deer. Of course that always gets a rise out of him but he did admit southern deer are smaller for some reason? That true guys I do not know I have never hunted down south. One tag down and 3 more to go my regular gun tag and a T zone tag and my archery tag. I can use the T zone tag and my gun tag in the 3 days I have left to hunt if I want to fill them. I would at least like to fill the T zone tag and use my gun license for black powder season after the regular season but that depends on the weather if we got a lot of snow I doubt if I could handle it walking in the deep snow. Still want to use my crossbow to fill the archery tag also but have some time to do that. I will concentrate on that the week before our gun season the deer should be in the rut yet and hopfully I can get a shot that connects.

GaryL · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2004, 03:31:24 AM »

Congrat's on the doe, meat in the frezz. Monster Buck will be next

jh45gun · « **Reply #2 on:** October 30, 2004, 09:05:22 PM »

Well it was not a monster Gary but I shot a 5 point Fri evening with my Encore 308 Pistol. Shot him in the neck as I was using a cast bullet load and not sure on how it would work so I figured a neck shot would drop him. It did like a ton of bricks but then as I walked towards him he lumbered off but not well. I could tell he was hurt bad as he would go a few yards and lay down again and when I would try to get close for a other shot he would move again for a couple of yards and lay down again. It was getting dark and a storm was coming in so I wanted him down. So I put a other in the neck and that put him down for good. A couple of other hunters helped me get him out of the woods so that was nice as I told them I was disabled. That is why I could shoot a buck in a T zone anterless only hunt as disabled permit holders can shoot either buck or doe. Well now it is back to the crossbow and the muzzle loader as I will not shoot any more with a modern gun this season and since I have not killed a deer yet with a muzzle loader will use that for the regular season and the muzzle loading season and if I do not get any thing else I am satisfied this year as the last couple of days have been lucky. I do wonder about the cast load in 30 cal if a jacketed bullet in a more powerful load would have put him down for keeps the first time though he was hurting bad I could tell that buy the way he kept wanting to lay down. I do not have any qualms about using cast in a larger caliber but never used a 30 cal cast until now. I guess from now on I will stick with jacketed factory loads or reloads that equal factory as I can shoot factory loads with out no recoil problems. The only reason I used the cast loads is I had the gun sighted in for them and I had some on hand. I got the buck but was a bit concearned about him getting up again after a neck shot that was dead center in the middle. Though the second one did him in just like that. Jim

GaryL · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2004, 05:08:21 AM »

Congrat's again, big or small a buck is a buck....more meat in the frezz.
You have me lost when it come's too guns of any type as I have not used any as of 1972.

I had a 30-30, 308 Win, 20gage. couple 22's one over and under 22/410 but lost interest as never seemed to have the time to go hunting. My fault should have made time, sold them all and a few years later got into archery and have never looked back.

Still own a 22 cal and one small hand gun and that is it. Good Luck fer the rest of the season

jh45gun · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2004, 10:12:48 AM »

Thanks Gary. This five pointer was a nice average size WI buck I suppose a year and a half or two years old. I like the guns and the archery hunting and I like to shoot guns for fun when not hunting. Got into reloading shooting cast because it is the only way I can afford to shoot except for 22's which are cheap.

tkstae · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2004, 10:52:39 AM »

Congrats on your Deer. Keep up the good work. Wish I could get fired up about rifle season, but after taking my first with a crossbow, I doubt that it happens. May go out with my 54 cal. if the mood strikes. Best of luck to you the rest of the season.

jh45gun · « **Reply #6 on:** November 01, 2004, 05:02:48 PM »

Yea now that I have gotten meat in the freezer it will be the crossbow again when I can get out and the muzzle loader for the regular gun season and for the muzzle loading season if we do not have a ton of snow so I cannot get around.

Mohawk · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2004, 07:13:44 AM »

Your small deer DO rival our big deer! :grin:

jh45gun · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2004, 12:23:59 PM »

Mohawk, I have heard that small bodies but still large racks but never knew about the small body thing wether it was fact or some one joshing me. Jim

Mohawk · « **Reply #9 on:** November 10, 2004, 03:08:23 PM »

My last "big" doe field dressed 91 lbs. My largest antlered buck, a 11pt. killed near Sonora Texas field dressed 112lbs. Pretty average for most of Texas. At least we can get 3 to 5 per season.

jh45gun · « **Reply #10 on:** November 10, 2004, 08:02:36 PM »

Yea 2 little ones equal a big one! :grin: So as long as you can shoot several you are ahead of the game. Same here in WI we have more tags than we used to to fill also. Though I deer go a bit farther up the scale in size. After I read your post I saw where the farther north you go the larger the deer. Has some thing to do with battleing the cold ect.

Mohawk · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:29:23 PM »

Either that or overpopulation. Central Texas alone goes over 2.5 million.