First Black Power Buck
 

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FlDeerman

Dang nice - When? We can not hunt deer again until October - long dry spell til them...

anyway Congrats....

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What make of rifle is that? what was you load? And please, a little story about the adventure. Congratulations on a nice buck.

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Great Buck! Congrats. What is the story behind him? What is that tin can thing too?

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Thanks Cayugad,I couldn't get the darn picture to work.
I shot him Feb.19th.the rut or late rut was still on.That tin can thing is my homemade "smoker".If you wonder if Tinks smokesticks work,well there it is.The rifle is a 50 cal CVA Mountain Stalker,$69 at the time.The bullet was a Lee mini-ball 360grn 85grn Pyrodex loose powder.As for the smoker,he was coming in on a string.
Now for the turkey hunters,I had a flock walk by(we can't shoot them in our county,YET)I almost blew it when I saw five gobblers and a jakestanding around the smoker trying to figure out what in the heck it was.A puff of smoke would come out and the jake just wouldn't leave.I almost burst out laughing.

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Oh I forgot to add I was sitting on the ground,about 40 yards from the smoker and shot him at 67(range finder)yards.

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The reason I was curious about the rifle is I have one in .54 caliber, otherwise identical in appearance. I use Tink's 69 liquid scent during rut and I wish I could show the same results.

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The smoker is made of three vegtable cans JB welded.Hey I'm cheap.

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Way to go partner, Congrat's!

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that's really excellent!

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Hey, Whatever Works!!
Great Idea!

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FIDeerman - Welding cans together isn't cheap - using Duct tape is cheap (what I would have done) :D
Congrats on drawing first blood with your ML - hope I can do the same this year!

IM jaybe :)

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Nice buck, and I can understand about the the
picture. I got one in a jpeg file I've cropped it
chewed it stomped it cussed it moved it
filed it foldered it and it still says file too large
to upload in post. Anyway nice buck. Danny

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Well, here's what you can do to fix that. If you've got XP as your Operating System... open the windows explorer, navigate to where you've got the file stashed. Right-click on it, chose Send To/Mail Recipient (as attachment) - it'll ask if you want to resize it - chose to make it fit a640x480 window; that'll shrink it a bunch.

Or you can download a neat little picture shrinking app at http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe that will allow you to rezise one or a multitude of pics with a right-click. If you take a fairly high-resolution photo - say it takes up two megs of space - you can, by resizing to fit 1024x768 or smaller, shrink it to 100kb or so.

What's the limit for uploading photos, here? Maybe I'll upload that pretty 8-pointer I killed with my CVA this last November... can we link to other sites?

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hmmm... that didn't work... lemme follow the instructions...
Deer was taken with a .50cal CVA Staghorn, from a stand. Load was a 240gr Hornady XTP (.429) on top of about 90gr of TripleSeven. Hit at only about 30 yards, the deer stubbornly ran 75 yards, with a hole in heart & one lung. I'd thought about shooting the shoulder... but didn't want to ruin any meat (and did not)

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Catus I got mine from photo bucket,it worked great in the test photo forum but I couldn't get it to work as a post.You gave me some interesting ideas.

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Nice bucks....both of them.Congratulations! Good shoot'n and nice pictures guys. Thanks for sharing.

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catus.. I have that same rifle and shoot that same load with excellent accuracy. I never had the chance to shoot a deer with it yet, but always was worried about what kind of blood trail a load like that would give.

Did the deer leave a good blood trail?

thanks

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Cayagud asked about blood trail. I shot that deer from his left side, quartering toward me a bit.. aimed for & hit him at juncture of left shoulder & base of throat. I think he'd have dropped if I'd shot him in the shoulder, which I considered. He ran a 75 yards or so... I could just barely see through the trees where he dropped. I walked in a straight light toward him, not following the path he'd run on, so didn't see blood trail. But coming back I followed it... he left a bloodtrail like a firehose, all over the place. I went back the to spot where he'd been hit, and found a chunk of what looked like artery from heart/lung, a sort of y- shaped bit of tubing/large vein. the bullet blew through and did just fine. I'm convinced that good shot placement is the key (I've been a good shot, and I've been a lousy shot... all in the same season)

I'm thinking I'd like to try the 300gr .452 XTP; looking at charts, it appears to me that you gain downrange energy and likely penetration, and lose nothing by going to a heavier sabot with same powder. Of five deer I've shotwith XTP, three have run ways - those were all .429 bullets - and two have died RIGHT THERE, both of those to the .452 240gr version. One of those two was busted through the shoulder and would have fallen straight down not matter what I shot her with, I think. I took that shoulder shot because it was thick and early season, and I'd already missed - or lost? - a deer. Shoulder shot works, I think.

I'd like to try the 385 Great Plains on deer; I've only shot it at paper. I figure it MUST be more lethal than a light sabot, but I've seen some on this thread indicate that's not so. How many here have used both heavy conicals like the 385 Great Plans, and sabots, on deer? What were your experiences?

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Just playing with the pictures,better shot of rifle.

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I've shot 320 grain R.E.A.L. conicals with 90 grains of Goex 2f with excellent results in accuracy. Thanks for the report. I've shot 300 grain XTP's out of the rifle with real good accuracy.

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I had one of the CVA Bobcats in 50 cal. that looked alot like yours. Got it several years ago and killed a doe with a Buffalo Ballet. Went through dear from chest to hip. Deer dropped in tracks. I think I paid 79.00 for it. It did the job. Oh, by the way, congrats!!!!

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Two years ago I bought two Bobcats for my step grandsons.Other than a few VERY minor changes they are the same.
Thanks to ALL for the congrats!!!