I took a 115lb (dressed) doe yesterday, the 1st deer I saw after 8 days in the bush. The new .308 proved itself worthy and for the 1st time there were no old timers around so I went through the whole process myself: shooting, recovering, dressing, and hanging, and pulling out the tenderloins.
I think I'm happier about the guns performance and my proving that I'm able to deal with the kill alone than the fact that I put meat in the freezer. This was only the 3rd dear for our three camps that cooperate, I think it was slow because the land is littered w/oak trees but the mast crop failed this year so they must have moved onto greener pastures.
Gotta go, have to clean up the Tikka and put it away, finally it can sit in the gun cabinet without having an inferiority complex about being the only gun in there that hasn't harvested anything <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
"guns aren't for killing people, guns are for killing dangerous and delicious animals"
- Homer Simpson