Missed a Great Buck-Got Consolation Prize
11-23-2012 | 04:23 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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From: Comance county, OK
Missed a Great Buck-Got Consolation Prize
Gun: .50 Encore
Scope: Zeiss 4X32
Powder: 100 grains of 2F Pinnacle
Bullet/Sabot: 250 grain Hornady SST in black sabot
This morning my son and grand daughter Katie headed for our place in Garvin county. We were about three miles from the place when Katie yelled: "Grandpa, look out." A huge ten point buck was standing on the left side of the road: As the buck made his first leap; i beeped the horn, got on the brakes hard and we missed that buck by about three feet.
Our goal was for Katie to kill her first deer today. Put Katie in a blind with her dad overlooking a game plot while i sat at my shooting bench were i have very seldom seen deer. Sat there until about 07:00 when a doe and fawn crossed the field at a high rate of speed. Also seen the rear end of a deer on the neighboring property about 300 yards away.
At about 07:30 i caught movement as doe came up the hill. She stopped 25-30 yards away, quartering to. I quickly aimed and fired. The deer went down and did not kick. The bullet hit in front of the right shoulder and exited to the rear of the left shoulder.
i don't like quartering to shots and avoid them like the plague unless the animal is very close.
Wish Katie had killed that deer. She will have another chance tomorrow morning.
Scope: Zeiss 4X32
Powder: 100 grains of 2F Pinnacle
Bullet/Sabot: 250 grain Hornady SST in black sabot
This morning my son and grand daughter Katie headed for our place in Garvin county. We were about three miles from the place when Katie yelled: "Grandpa, look out." A huge ten point buck was standing on the left side of the road: As the buck made his first leap; i beeped the horn, got on the brakes hard and we missed that buck by about three feet.
Our goal was for Katie to kill her first deer today. Put Katie in a blind with her dad overlooking a game plot while i sat at my shooting bench were i have very seldom seen deer. Sat there until about 07:00 when a doe and fawn crossed the field at a high rate of speed. Also seen the rear end of a deer on the neighboring property about 300 yards away.
At about 07:30 i caught movement as doe came up the hill. She stopped 25-30 yards away, quartering to. I quickly aimed and fired. The deer went down and did not kick. The bullet hit in front of the right shoulder and exited to the rear of the left shoulder.
i don't like quartering to shots and avoid them like the plague unless the animal is very close.
Wish Katie had killed that deer. She will have another chance tomorrow morning.
Last edited by falcon; 11-23-2012 at 04:57 PM.
11-23-2012 | 06:17 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Northern Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Congrats and like Cayugad said it'll be Great Eating, there's always another day for the other one who got away that's what keeps us comming back.
I also avoid quartering to shhots, actually I wont take one again. I had 2 bad experiences with quartering to shots, one only took out 1 lung and I had a time getting that deer but finally did, the other was a quartering chest shot at 30yds, the same only got 1 lung. This one did'nt have a happy ending, I jumped the deer once then again and backed off as I saw it go back down and gave it awhile. When I returned it was expired where it laid but the Coyotes already went to work on the hind quarters in just less than a hour. A lesson learned about quartering to shots for me that hard way, way back in the day.
(BP)
I also avoid quartering to shhots, actually I wont take one again. I had 2 bad experiences with quartering to shots, one only took out 1 lung and I had a time getting that deer but finally did, the other was a quartering chest shot at 30yds, the same only got 1 lung. This one did'nt have a happy ending, I jumped the deer once then again and backed off as I saw it go back down and gave it awhile. When I returned it was expired where it laid but the Coyotes already went to work on the hind quarters in just less than a hour. A lesson learned about quartering to shots for me that hard way, way back in the day.
(BP)
