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Old 05-29-2004 | 08:39 PM
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around here we dont have much long distance......and thats not my cup of tea anyway when it comes to hunting.....i have 2 shots.....one was a deer.....distance was over 100yds....probably 150 or so......we were doing one ouf our giant drives with like 10+guys....dont know how many were there that day.......we lined a hill and the drivers passes us.....i talked to the leader and he said be smart...turne around and watch us walk away....the deer are going to turn and run at you guys not away from us....i was thinking ya right they are going to go straight away....but this guy knows his stuff when it comes to giant deer drives and sure enough after the drivers got into the woods 300yds across the pasture a few deer came runing out.....i was the only one with a doe tag i think......mine was with one other small one....it got about 100yrds up the hill and about 125 out from the edge we were lined on....i stopped it while it was out there so there was no danger of the others up that way....they were all behind me at an angle.....bahhed at them....they stopped....thuhboom! the back end of the doe collapsed first then down the rest went...looked like the elk on "jerimiah johnson" for those who seen that flick....that was leaning against a tree......couldnt use the tree as a rest because the fence went though it and i couldnt back up far enough...so i pushed up against it to steady some of me.....i guess it worked...oh ya....gun was the mauser 98k in 3006 bullets were federal high energy 165 gr psp....the other was a squirrel.....i was sitting there after school on an oak ridge kinda dozing off a little.....just relaxing in the warm sun.....i heard a nut fall and knew it was a tree rat....sure enough i looked up and there was a tail flickering....really far down the hill......id say 75-100yds through the woods....i put the 4x scope on him....held about an inch about his head...squeezed off.....heard the gun.....then heard the bullet hit him......then heard him hit the ground after a 60ft fall into the litttle tiny creek.......wind took the bullet just right....took off part of the ear then went in the shoulder.......would been a perfect between the eye head shot if the wind didnt drift it........that was with a marlin 22lr.....with a cheap tasco 4x scope.......
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