Author Topic: Ultra's first deer (Read 463 times)

lostsniper308 · « **on:** November 06, 2005, 05:34:54 PM »

Well i got a deer. Kinda felt bad cause through da scope the "doe" looked just that even after a few minutes of staring at it scope and eyes from 40 or so yards away. Turned out to be a button buck

and to stack more on a actual doe had come in 1st was standing or bedding outside my engagement zone. The dude along with me gave me the signal to take the shot but i shoulda watched closer i think. To top it off the bullet went in just perfectly behind the shoulder low lung high heart, but it took too long to expire and to my horror the bullet had deflected off something within the deer and exited the gut with some entrails poking through the exit wound. criminey

I just copied this from my post on Thehunterslife.com but this i typed

Da hunter .308 performed perfectly btw and even my uncle used it while i was warming up inside.
We was party hunting so my tag wasn't used and someone else took the deer, this means i get another shot...litterally.

hellacatcher · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2005, 12:47:56 AM »

Don't fell bad that happen to me last year the doe I thought was for freezer meat was also a button so young the antlers were still under the skin. Like my daddy said you can't go up and see till you shoot them....Congrats on the deer. It still a hoot.

myarmor · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2005, 01:13:40 AM »

Same here, glad to hear you got one. As for the small buck...it happens. Yeah you don't feel crazy about it, but it happens. I like the meat of Does better, but a young buck tastes better than an older mature one.

lostsniper308 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 07, 2005, 06:17:58 AM »

yea them nubs of antlers were invisible through the scope. I haven't had to dress a deer yet either and i dread that.

aulrich · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2005, 07:09:16 AM »

Don't feel too bad about about taking a fawn, depending on the local recruitment rate, that fawn had somewhere around a 3 in 10 chance of making it through winter, so a manegment perspective it was not that bad of a deer to take regardless of gender.

From a meat perspective it's a good news bad news thing, great eating just not alot of it. When I was new to hunting mule deer on the prairies I shot a few fawns myself, I took a while to learn how to judge an antlerless deer and then I had to learn the disciple to pass on shots unless it really was a "last chance"

What bullet were you using it seems kind of odd for a 308 to perform like that, but true bang flops are rarer than you think. They may drop right there but it can take some time for them to actually expire.

Mac11700 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2005, 07:18:02 AM »

Congrats on your deer...and like others said..bang flops don't always happen...no matter what caliber your using....blood and guts stink...no doubt about it...and being a-little squimish is normal..just wear some disposable gloves..and if the smell is getting to ya...one of those nose plugs like kids wear when swimming will help...but if your going to do this on a regular basis...you'll need to get use to it...My father always said.."If you kill it...you clean it... and you eat it..." It's a mind set really...and you'll learn to use your nose for spoilage...

Mac

Norseman112 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2005, 09:33:58 AM »

I wouldnt feel bad about it ...things happen and its hard to tell sometimes if its a buck. So don't be hard on yourself and enjoy that tender meat.

Norse

lostsniper308 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 07, 2005, 01:02:20 PM »

alright i'll try to let it go. I'll somehow clean a deer one way or another i promise that. As for the bullet Q it was a 165gr Speer BTSP with 44grs of Varget.

mjbgalt · « **Reply #8 on:** November 07, 2005, 01:15:23 PM »

dont worry about it man. no one wants to be up to their elbows in guts.

i have shot a lot of animals and when i shot a rabbit with my .204 ruger (long story :roll: and that v-max did its job, that fist-sized hole in it and the guts hangin out grossed me out too. no one likes that, and there sure as heck isnt much you can do about how long it takes to die.

you do your part and you do the best you can to live and hunt ethically. thats all you can do.

-Matt