Reminton 870 Fully rifled. Federal premium Hydroshock Sabots. I have shot several deer with these slugs. They are nice.

What I still cannot understand is how she flipped, started kicking, and then got up and walked off. I guess it is possible she only hit it high in the back. I didn't bleed like I had hoped, Obviously.

there are several things we should have done differently. Have her put another round in her is one. But I had never seen one do what this deer did and then just get up. She acted like she was just doing her final kicks. Or I would have had her reload. When I took the gun from her the deer had only moved 10 yards from the shot, this was after a minute of two, I pulled the slide on the 870 back slow as I knew she would spook if I did. The shell did not come completely out and I had to remove it to load the next one. By the time I got this done she had walked off.

We waited 20 minutes and got down. I checked and we had pretty good blood at the shot and up to where she stopped. Ifollowed a little farther and backed out. waited 2 hours and went back and the rest is in th posts above. My hands feel raw from all the thorns. I took one through my boot. I spent hours on my hads and knees at and around the last blood. I searched every possible trail from there for blood. I then walked through all the thick stuff I could find. We searched and searched.

I told the neighbor and he is going to look on his property today. They were out hunting so I didn't venture onto there place. I have no clue. I have lost deer myself in the past and it sucks. But it realy sucks with it being my daughter shooting it. I have a little hope my neighbor will find her.

My daughter is taking it pretty well. She is upset a little but not so much she wants to quit. I wanted to get across the point to her that if you shoot you owe it to the animal to do your best to recover it. I did that in this case I believe. Unfortunatly, the fact remains I don't realy know if the deer is dead. I guess it is possible she just hit realy high and through the deer for a loop. ?..?.?.


Anyway, if we don't find her today the coyotes will have thanksgiving early if she did kill her. My daughter wants to go out again soon whitch I am glad. We need to let the area rest a while as we walked all over it. It is raining pretty good today so I think all our scent will wash away.

Jason