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Had some fun up the cabin the past 4 days. Yesterday afternoon walking down the camp road to get to where I wanted to be I spied this doe up on the hillside about 75 yards up standing behind a tree staring down at me. Jake can tell you I was shooting about a 60* up slope. I set the top of the post just behind her right leg pulled the set trigger and touched off the shot. I couldn't hear or see anything until the smoke cleared. Then I saw her sliding down the hill directly toward me. She finally stopped only 15 yards away stone dead. The shot was so steep uphill that the bullet hit right where I was aiming, took off the top of the heart and shattered the left shoulder before exiting. It was a 370 gr 11mm paper patched bullet launched by 70 gr of Goex FFFg with a felt over wad.
Also saw two buck, one a little basket rack 8 point and one BIG 8 point with good mass, spread and high tines. Too bad my tag was for anterless only.

Splendid shot, bronko!

And the most guaranteed way to see game is not to a) have a tag for that specific animal or b) not bring a weapon---nothing like seeing a nice buck in the woods. Guess you'll be back!

Good thing the shot was up hill and not down hill. I would not want to drag one up those mountains lol. You know they're steep when it hurts your neck looking up them.

Nice shooting Clem. Any bear running around?

-Jake

Saw some sign but no bear. I even sat on my gut pile until dark hoping one would smell it and come in but no dice. Bob had a Dr appt tomorrow and with it raining all day today we decided to pack up and come home. I have to go to Philly to pick up my daughter and grandkids at the airport anyway. We went to church on Sunday and the pastor said that some guys he was talking to didn't see any deer but saw 3 bear. So they're surely around.

Well done old man. :party0005: Congratulations.

Clem, WAY TO GO!!! Unfortunately, it looks like I'm going to miss out on our early ML season this year. Last Tuesday I had a Kidney Stone attack. Turns out I had a 7mm size stone stuck in my urinary track. Seems like i had to go to the bathroom every 45 minutes or so. Just today I had a little over two hr surgery where they pulled the stone out and found another one in my kidney that they also removed. Now I have a stint in me so I can urinate freely and sometime next week they'll remove it. I'm hoping they will put me to sleep or heavily sedate me. The one time I had a stint in I was awake and I won't go into details but they couldn't get it out and wound up putting me to sleep the following week. I'm dying to get out with my TC Renegade with my 45 GM LRH bbl and my 350 gr Gould bullets. If I can't get out, I'll use my Renegade during our regular Rifle season and late ML season in Bucks County where you can use Percussion

Ed

Congrats! :party0005:

bronko congrats & what a nice doe, always good to have some meat in the frezzer.can't wait till our muzzy season. i'm thinking about using the muzzy for our reg gun season too. not sure yet. got jake some private property to hunt on out here in lorain county.

congrats to you

Thanks to all. Because of the warm weather I had to go and cut her up last night. I could not believe the damage that cast bullet caused. I sure would have liked to recover it and see what it looked like. The right side where the entrance was it hit a rib bone square and blew a chunk of it somewhere and left about a 1"+ hole. Blood halfway down the rib cage and the back half of the right shoulder. After clipping off the top of the heart it smacked dead center into the left shoulder blade and blasted about a 2" hole through it before exiting out the hide. I mistakenly stated in the original post that the bullet was 370 gr. They are actually 392 grs.when cast with pure lead. My goodness - I wouldn't hesitate to use the load combination on anything on this continent if this is typical of the devastation it causes.

45cal MLs with 350-400gr lead conical and a mild load is a deer whacking son of a gun. It dont beat yah to death but will flatten any deer that ever walked. I would use a 400-460ish grain on anything with hooves and never feel under-gunned.

Well done!! I know you have wanted to clobber one for a while now with that bullet.

I totally agree with you. I use to shoot my 465gr conicals out of my 451 White's. I love that bullet and still do. The deer hated them though. Grin However several years ago I started casting the 330gr Gould HP bullet from Lyman for my young grandson as I knew there would be less recoil, plus Doc White highly recommended that bullet. My 8yr or 9yr old grandson at the time shot and dropped his doe at about 45-50 yds with a light load of 50gr of 777-3F with that Gould bullet. Using Pure lead my bullets come out weighing around 346gr. Since that time and several deer later all of my grandsons have harvested deer using loads of 65 or 70gr of 777-3 or Swiss 3F. All with the same results, deer were either DRT or in a short distance. The damage those bullets do inside is devastating. That Gould bullet has now become my favorite bullet for deer,

Nicely done! Still waiting for November 2 for me.

Yeah Ron and thanks. You got me hooked on these bullets. I've been playing with them for about 2 years + now using different diameters and over powder wads. Its really satisfying to get an animal with one of your own bullets.
An earlier post shows the last group I shot with them. Ed's bullets hoot really good too. But making your own adds to the enjoyment.

great shooting

Bronco - AWESOME Dawsome!!! nice to see success

Congrat's and figured I'd let everyone know I'm still here. Hope all is well with everyone, looking forward to all your post.

Great shot on the nice doe.

Shots cant't be any more perfect then that.. Great shot and congratulations

Way to brother :party0005:

SD.

Congrats
 

Nothing better than a day hunting with a traditional smokepole. I have killed a lot of good does with my .50 but haven't got a buck with it yet. Muzzleloader season in Indiana is after firearms season so everyone usually has their buck by the time muzzleloader cones in. I really enjoy hunting with my muzzleloader more than my other guns even if I just kill a doe or two. I also have a .36 that I hunt squirrel, rabbits, groundhogs with. Nothing better!

Wow, NICE shot!! Congrats!