Hope everyone had a good day on the Hill. Dad and I had a great time even with the hard work.
The wind this morning was rough blowing first one way then another. I was afraid it was going to ruin the whole hunt. Several deer winded me and took off without offering a shot.
About 8:30 this morning I had made it almost to my favorite sitting log when I heard a buck grunt twice ahead and to the left. I froze and stood as still as I could. About 2-3 minutes later this fat little spike with a small fork at the top of his antlers came up out of the hollow and stopped next to an old snag of a log.
I had about 10 seconds or so to get the rifle up and get set for an offhand shot. As soon as the crosshairs settled behind the shoulder I squeezed the trigger.
He staggered forward about three steps then fell over the side of what we call the "HOLE" and proceeded to slide on the wet leaves all the way to the bottom of the nastiest place on the farm we hunt. Its straight down a Holler about 100 yards on a near 20% grade.
We slipped and slid and cussed our way down to him. The shot had been just right. It clipped the on side shoulder and exited square in the middle of the off side shoulder. All the deer plumbing in between was wrecked. The exit wound was about 1.5 inches in diameter.
We lost about a handful of meat. Gotta love that 120 NBT.
Oh, as an aside, the shot was right at 150yards. Not too bad for a fat, bald, half blind man like me shooting offhand.
Rifle Info: .280AI built by Mickey Coleman. 700 action, ADL factory stock, Shilen #3 barrel @ 23 inches. Leupold VX3 3.5-10. 120 grain Nosler BT H4350 @ 3,323 fps.
We whacked and got him packed and I started out. It was too steep and too wet to make it out that way with about 85 lbs( I'd say around 150 ish on the hoof) of deer on my back. After I properly busted my ass twice, I went all the way around the back side, up the facing ridge and down over the top back to the spot where I shot him.
We finally got back to the truck about 12:00.
This one is one the hardest jobs getting a deer out I have ever had.
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The wind this morning was rough blowing first one way then another. I was afraid it was going to ruin the whole hunt. Several deer winded me and took off without offering a shot.
About 8:30 this morning I had made it almost to my favorite sitting log when I heard a buck grunt twice ahead and to the left. I froze and stood as still as I could. About 2-3 minutes later this fat little spike with a small fork at the top of his antlers came up out of the hollow and stopped next to an old snag of a log.
I had about 10 seconds or so to get the rifle up and get set for an offhand shot. As soon as the crosshairs settled behind the shoulder I squeezed the trigger.
He staggered forward about three steps then fell over the side of what we call the "HOLE" and proceeded to slide on the wet leaves all the way to the bottom of the nastiest place on the farm we hunt. Its straight down a Holler about 100 yards on a near 20% grade.
We slipped and slid and cussed our way down to him. The shot had been just right. It clipped the on side shoulder and exited square in the middle of the off side shoulder. All the deer plumbing in between was wrecked. The exit wound was about 1.5 inches in diameter.
We lost about a handful of meat. Gotta love that 120 NBT.
Oh, as an aside, the shot was right at 150yards. Not too bad for a fat, bald, half blind man like me shooting offhand.
Rifle Info: .280AI built by Mickey Coleman. 700 action, ADL factory stock, Shilen #3 barrel @ 23 inches. Leupold VX3 3.5-10. 120 grain Nosler BT H4350 @ 3,323 fps.
We whacked and got him packed and I started out. It was too steep and too wet to make it out that way with about 85 lbs( I'd say around 150 ish on the hoof) of deer on my back. After I properly busted my ass twice, I went all the way around the back side, up the facing ridge and down over the top back to the spot where I shot him.
We finally got back to the truck about 12:00.
This one is one the hardest jobs getting a deer out I have ever had.
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