I got lucky this morning and walkedinto a whitetail buck. He was75 yardout, uphill and quartered to me. When I first saw him I was not sure he was a buck.. it was just getting light and he was behind some young grand-fir re-growth. I really wanted to get the glasses out to look but i was afraid of the undo movement soI raised the rifle and dropped the scope on him - confirmed "buck" - slid the safety off and settled the scope in justwhat I thought was right behind his left front shoulder. I was shooting off-hand and felt I had a good hold so I pulled the trigger. The next part is the part I HATE - the wind was blowing in my face so when the gun goes off all I get to see is smoke - smoke and more smoke. I have no idea if I hit the buckI did not get to see the animals reaction - I HATE that... When the smoke cleared enough all I could see was several deermoving away from me tails high and waving good by... I have no idea which one I shot at, I have no idea if he is going with them or whether i might have got a bang flop - I really doubted that because he saw me move jst before the shot so his flight response was already in thereaction channels.

I decided I was in no hurry - I either got him or he was long gone... so I reloaded (all the time hating the smoke) picked out a couple of land marks where I thought he was - made my way up there. NO ANIMALnow you, well I begin to wonder... made a 10' looking for the shot spot but I did find blood - a very good spot on it on a piece of white birch laying on the ground... thank you for that. Just folled the blood trail up the hill about 50 yards and therehe be...

I was not happy with the shot placement butI really happy for the performance of thoseNoslers...

110 grains T7-2f - MMP HPH-12 Sabot - Nosler Partition HP.451/260 grain - Remington 209-4 primer.