took my son deer hunting
11-20-2011, 05:11 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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took my son deer hunting
I posted a couple weeks ago asking advice/opinions on the range with a .50 inline shooting a 250gr bullet w/60gr fffg Goex.
Took the boy hunting for the youth season opener yesterday, but stepped the powder charge up to 70gr fffg Goex.
We had one deer show itself, and the range was pushing it at about 90 yards, but I told him if he felt he could make a good shot go ahead and try. We were in a ground blind and I had a folding chair positioned so he could use the back as a rifle rest. When he finally got a good clear shot at a good angle he touched it off and the deer dropped in it's tracks!
Turned out it was a bit high, but it spined the deer and anchored it. Another round to the head ended it quickly.
Took the boy hunting for the youth season opener yesterday, but stepped the powder charge up to 70gr fffg Goex.
We had one deer show itself, and the range was pushing it at about 90 yards, but I told him if he felt he could make a good shot go ahead and try. We were in a ground blind and I had a folding chair positioned so he could use the back as a rifle rest. When he finally got a good clear shot at a good angle he touched it off and the deer dropped in it's tracks!
Turned out it was a bit high, but it spined the deer and anchored it. Another round to the head ended it quickly.
11-21-2011, 12:30 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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90 yards with open sights, that's good shooting. Although he should consider himself lucky he hit the deer so high. Lower and I think you would have been in for a long tracking job. Why not put a scope on that rifle for him?
11-21-2011, 02:37 AM
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I didn't plan on hunting that blind, and expected to get him much closer to a deer, but things didn't work out the way I planned.
Yes, he was lucky to a large extent, but the weak link wasn't his ability, it was the rifle's performance.
I'm thinking of getting him his own rifle next summer, probably a youth model. The CVA Wolf with the shorter stock is my top candidate right now.
All my good rifles are sidelocks and not easily scoped, and the couple inlines I have aren't really all that good, so a new one he can call his own might be the answer.
11-21-2011, 06:35 AM
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It's a Traditions rifle, but I can't remember the model. Just the name Traditions is enough to keep me from ever buying another. I've had 3 rifles of that brand and all have fallen far below my expectations.
11-21-2011, 09:42 AM
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Congratulations to the young man WABI.
Actually, a shot into the liver and just under the spine will anchor a deer just about every time. That seems to be a very common area of shot placement for young shooters. The eye and mind seem to want to naturally place the sight in the center of the body. It takes a conscious decision to move forward to just behind the shoulder.
Actually, a shot into the liver and just under the spine will anchor a deer just about every time. That seems to be a very common area of shot placement for young shooters. The eye and mind seem to want to naturally place the sight in the center of the body. It takes a conscious decision to move forward to just behind the shoulder.
