Have to tell someone, today after work i went down in the hollow in back of where i live to hunt deer for 45min before dark. I grabed my new savage striker in 7-08 with a vortex scope for the job. Well after about 20min i see a deer about 300yds away, get it in the scope and i see horns. With only 3 days left in the season i decided if its a legal deer im going to take a shot. When he gets to about 200yds i see four points on the right side, legal deer. He started working his way to me and at 154yds he started to go into the grapevine thicket. Now or never, i put the crosshairs on his chest and squeezed the trigger, BANG, i forgot the brake was on and boy is it loud. The deer just started to trot away, did i hit him? After my ears started to come back i walked down to where he was and i find blood, lots of it. After about 30yds there he was,a nice 8pt, hit him right in the hart. He will feed my family this winter. thank you, i know im long winded.
Hunting & Fishing first pistol deer
- Thread starter ollie
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Good job, but we need pics or it couldn't have happened!
What bullet? Scope?
Good job, but we need pics or it couldn't have happened!
What bullet? Scope?
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ollie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have to tell someone, today after work i went down in the hollow in back of where i live to hunt deer for 45min before dark. I grabed my new savage striker in 7-08 with a vortex scope for the job. Well after about 20min i see a deer about 300yds away, get it in the scope and i see horns. With only 3 days left in the season i decided if its a legal deer im going to take a shot. When he gets to about 200yds i see four points on the right side, legal deer. He started working his way to me and at 154yds he started to go into the grapevine thicket. Now or never, i put the crosshairs on his chest and squeezed the trigger, BANG, i forgot the brake was on and boy is it loud. The deer just started to trot away, did i hit him? After my ears started to come back i walked down to where he was and i find blood, lots of it. After about 30yds there he was,a nice 8pt, hit him right in the hart. He will feed my family this winter. thank you, i know im long winded. </div></div>
It is fun isn't it? Took a deer last year with my Encore pistol. Loved it so much I used ty exclusively this year.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ollie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have to tell someone, today after work i went down in the hollow in back of where i live to hunt deer for 45min before dark. I grabed my new savage striker in 7-08 with a vortex scope for the job. Well after about 20min i see a deer about 300yds away, get it in the scope and i see horns. With only 3 days left in the season i decided if its a legal deer im going to take a shot. When he gets to about 200yds i see four points on the right side, legal deer. He started working his way to me and at 154yds he started to go into the grapevine thicket. Now or never, i put the crosshairs on his chest and squeezed the trigger, BANG, i forgot the brake was on and boy is it loud. The deer just started to trot away, did i hit him? After my ears started to come back i walked down to where he was and i find blood, lots of it. After about 30yds there he was,a nice 8pt, hit him right in the hart. He will feed my family this winter. thank you, i know im long winded. </div></div>
It is fun isn't it? Took a deer last year with my Encore pistol. Loved it so much I used ty exclusively this year.
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I'd love to pistol hunt someday. Can you post some pics of you rig?
Great write up too
I'd love to pistol hunt someday. Can you post some pics of you rig?
Great write up too
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Need pics!
Need pics!
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Had a Striker chambered in 308 and killed lots of deer with it several years ago. Congrats on doing it the hard way!
Had a Striker chambered in 308 and killed lots of deer with it several years ago. Congrats on doing it the hard way!
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Great job, 4pt must be out west in PA.
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I should've had my first pistol deer this year as well but he ninja'd me coming in closer than I could draw, so smashed'm with
the rifle.
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I do, however, second the need for a pic.
Great job, 4pt must be out west in PA.
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I should've had my first pistol deer this year as well but he ninja'd me coming in closer than I could draw, so smashed'm with
the rifle.
.
I do, however, second the need for a pic.
