GOT MY DEER

[BIGBOREFAN]

I shot a dandy 1 1/2 year old 6 point. Deer dressed around 130 lbs, had no brow tines and had good mass. The rack had a 12'' spread but was real high. I'm sure he was 1 1/2 because he had only his front teeth and no back teeth yet. He would have been a super buck in 2 more years, but with the hunting pressure on the edge of our property I had to take him. I shot him with my 300 WSM. Needless to say I put it away after I seen the exit wound. Could have put a softball thru the exit hole. Got the H&R 243 out, but I let it down. Missed, what looked to be a 4 point, he was following 2 does. He stopped behind some trees on a old logging road and I thouht he was a doe also. Well when he took of out the road I seen he had horns. I shot at him while he was walking pretty fast. It was a clean miss and he took off out the road. He stopped at about 125 yards and was in around some small saplings that I failed to see. At the shot he went up on his back legs and fell off the road bank. Now, I'm thinking I got him, Next time I'll shot till they do not move anymore. Any way I get uo and walk out the road and loss sight of him and hear a bunch of thrashing. Well when I got to were he was he was gone. I looked down thru the woods and see him running off. He stops and I killed a perfectly good 4'' sapling. He takes off. I look around were he fell of the road bank and found another tree with a hole in it and a small amount of white hair. I followed him for about 400 yards before he slowed down and started walking and lost his trail in the thick leaves. There was no blood what so ever and when he was running off he did not look hurt. So, I think after the bullet hit the tree a fragment of bullet hit his front leg and he rared up and fell off the road bank. Makes me feel bad but I did all I could do.


BBF

[Jeffery8mm]

congrats on your kill!!!!!!
At least you went and looked for your deer,  too many folks dont look if the deer does not fall where they shoot at it!!!
Good going
Jeff

[quickdtoo]

Been there, done it! Don't feel bad, just add it to the collective memory for future reference, interference brush can beat any of us, anytime if we don't notice it. When you are aware of it, a subtle sidestep may be all it takes to get the bullet where it needs to go.... Congrats on the nice buck!! :wink:

[BIGBOREFAN]

Thanks guys. They say if you learn from you mistakes your all the better for it.


BBF

[Airsporter]

I feel your pain.  Having not seen a single deer after five hard days of scouting/hiking (prior 30-yr hunting record was never more than 1 day!), I had an easy crossing shot at 40 yds. from an early morning ground stand. But the buck showed no sign of being hit so I immediately walked up to where he was when I shot, still expecting to see a spray of blood on the leaves.  

Nothing.  I was stunned.  Know I was right on him as the gun went off.  Was I shooting blanks or something?  Finally got my wits together and traced the exact angle of the shot, and there it was - a direct hit on a 2" stripped maple sappling. Damn.  

Congrats on the first one!

[Fred M]

Yester day I helped out a friend to get some meat. It was the first time in a hundred years since I killed a deer in the woods. The doe deer was running towards me on a trail stoped dead when it saw me and I saw the deer.

Up and bang was about as much time I had. The deer jumped off the trail and was gone out of sight. I walked the 50 yards to where I thought the deer was when shot. The deer was dead 25 feet from the trail. Shot through the heart with the 25Hunter and a 100gr Hornadt Interlock.

At first I thought  I  clean missed it.  The second deer I killed I had lots of time to shoot him in the neck at 175 yards in an open field. Nice big fat doe. We ended up with one buck and three does in our group.

My friend has lots of meat now. As a treat we had deer liver with bacon and onions. Clamato juice and beer mix to wash it down.

[safetysheriff]

Hey guys,

Congrat's on the deer that were harvested and on the deer that were properly followed-up as well.     I guess that's why it's called 'hunting' instead of 'getting'; we just never know for sure.

Good hunting with the season still left.

SS'

[Fred M]

safetysheriff.
Thanks. My hunting season is over except for released pheasants and Canada geese till the end of December. I love to do some more deer hunting in a warm clime like AZ or california .