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Old 10-09-2010 | 11:09 PM
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smokeblower
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Default Gold Dots strike again!

I had an opportunity to go on a blackpowder quota hunt here in south Georgia this weekend at a place that is really known for holding hogs moreso than deer. I was only going to be able to hunt the second morning of the three day hunt, so me and a friend drove over and set up near a place that we typically jump hogs. I crossed over three sloughs and set up on a small ridge with two nice water holes and acorns falling all around. We walked in just as day was breaking and I had been there for only a few minutes when I heard movement to my left...coyote. Well I let him go by hoping that something else would come along. A few minutes later, a big drove of turkeys comes by. Not long after that I catch movement to my right and see a deer feeding through the cypress flat in front of me. The deer moves behind a group of large cypress trees before I can get the scope where I want it so I wait for him to come wout the other side. When he does it is at a hard angle moving away from me, but finally turns just enough for a shot at about 60 yards. I was using 95 grains of 777, a black harvester crush rib sabot, and a 300 grain .452 gold dot bullet. The deer never budged. I was a little suprised though that the bullet did not penetrate completely - I found it logged in the offside shoulder. I recovered the bullet, but left it in the back of my friends truck. If he still has it on Monday, I will post a pic of it. This is certainly not the biggest deer in the woods, but is pretty typical of our swamp deer.
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