This is one of them shots where i didn't see a thing after the primer popped. The bullet made quite a WHACK when it hit; i figured it hit the deer good without anything i saw. When i went looking for it in the tall grass & bush, i found it right away, with blood right there; i don't think it moved at all. Autopsy results say it bled out from lung, and maybe elsewhere; was paralyzed by neck injury.

Sometimes looking at the country we walk in, makes us kinda almost wish we could write a poem about it....................er maybe not.

It is usually very difficult and frustrating for me when i have to hunt the prairie. It is also shocking when one stumbles upon deer real close, in wide open country that is oblivious to you being there. It took me 8 day to to fool this deer but i really just stumbled into it. When one thinks about it, hunting the prairie is almost like hunting timber; go slow, hunt with the breeze in face, and go super slow when approaching a new vista, where deer could be standing or sleeping or feeding just inches out of sight.

The extreme may be shooting pretty good right now; last time out was very fun. Time may be too tight to remove scope, mount sights, and sight it in to be ready by the 18th. Actually, i can't really see rear sights, and i have been remiss in finding a peep sight to fit the rifle. I think more shooting with the scope will be better instruction.

That small hole made by the bullet exiting the neck was a great surprise to me. I was almost convinced i forgot how the deer was standing when hit by the bullet. I wanted to make the entrance the exit and versa-visa, but i can clearly remember the shot, holding the crosshair just behind the shoulder, and the deer was most certainly looking away, not toward me.