Great deer guys, maybe i can add to this next week, ml season starts wednsday, im excited. But for the ones that used 250 shockwaves, what were the blood trails like. Been a lot of posts about this and who better to ask then the guys that actually got a deer with the bullet?

Here's mine. I shot him with my TC omega with 110grains of Black Mag 3 and my 330 grain extreme elite HD. Literally did a couple of 360's and then a face plant to the ground. Total tracking job--20-25 feet. Here is my future hunting buddy looking on at home. Now when he see's a deer on tv he says..."daddy got."

Paul

Here she is. Shot her at 34yds with a CVA Wolf loaded with 295gr powerbelts and pushed by 95gr of 777 powder. She went about 10 yards.

Six point from the first week of PA's 2006 general rifle season. .45 cal Penna flintlock rifle w/ 55 grns of fffg behind a patched round ball. Just have no interest in modern arms.

That's a great photo AK. The scenery around you is GREAT!

My first with a smokepole. Opening day Ohio gun season. Used a T/C Encore with a 250gr shockwave and 120gr FFg Goex. My cat, in the upper left hand corner didn't quite know what to think of the doe.

ADD Boy,
I use the 250 SST ML same as the shockwave non bonded. This yrs deer dropped in his tracks. Never moved, in and out of the lungs. Last yrs deer double lung high and ran 70 yrds. No major blood for 30 yrds, but good hair and slight spotting. Both not untypical of in and out bullets. Everyone keeps taking about bullet expansion, but it you hit ribs in and out you should never recover one. I have shot some deer @ 1/4 away w/ XTP's that have not exited but the expansion was awesome. I still have the doe bullet. I'll shoot a pic some time.

AK in PA,
Real nice pic. Like the fog w/ the tree pattern too! Which make rifle are you using w/what sights?
Also isn't it true your only allowed flint in your ML season w/ round ball and now Hornady PA conicals?
Thanks, SHills

I get the same reaction here in Mo using a blackpowder gun during gun season and I laugh as well. It gets the job done and I'm hunting so what. Great looking deer up there in NY. Here's my doe this year. 2 (50 grain) pyro pellets with a 250 grain bonded Shockwave at 70 yards.

Gotbuck,
You had me busting up as I had to do a double take. Look @ your shoe! I didn't see you were kneeling!
Real nice doe! She is a big'un for sure. Like your camp too!
I have a few real nice areas to hunt thatI found whenI moved from FL to NY. I try to add one every other yr in case one dies out. Been pretty lucky.
OK buddy, your trailer has got me beat! HOW OLD? I'll post a pic of my camp. I got my trailer as a haul it away special in a gully w/ standing water. The farmer let me have it as every time he looked @ it it made him mad. I had to chain saw out the trees to get it clear and he had a friend take hisend front end loader and hauled it up the hill. I had to get new bearings and tires to move it home. It was more disgusting than you can imagine, 40 garbage bags later w/ rubber gloves and respirator. Took several months to clean it up. It even has LH treads on the hub on the left side. It is a 1970 15' box. It looks nice now.

Yea I'm lucky too, I even have power..
SHills

Your trailer looks nice. My uncle's was bought new in 1972 and has been parked here ever since. There are special areas we don't walk as we fear of falling through the floor as it sags. There are field mice in there but they never bother us only go after the food and such. We all check our hunting boots each morning just in case one happens to crawl in. We always have a laugh when we arrive as we can never figure out how they climb the walls and crap on the shelves each year. Needless to say the wives don't ever want to come which is the way we like it. We have no power only propane lanterns/stove and a kerosene heater. Water comes from jugs we fill and the crapper is an old outhouse. It's simple and the deer never mind as we kill deer every year on this 5 acre piece of land. That's right 5 acres with 3 of us using a 30-30, 12 guage and me with the 50 cal smokepole. We have a drainage ditch at the property line and we all shoot down into it when the deer shows up to go from the farmers field to the water hole. It's one sweet setup.