Central Texas Deer Down
12-24-2011, 09:55 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5
Central Texas Deer Down
I shot this deer a week earlier with a .243, we trailed blood and nothing. A week later my grandson spotted the same 10 point and I had my .270 with us and completed the mission. When I retrieved this buck, I had shot low on him the previous week and he had a three inch dirameter hole on his left breast with meat showing, but a clean shot through the neck finished him off. It's amazing how tough these deer are. It's great to hunt with my grandson and teach him the sport of shooting deer.
Last edited by topbuck1; 12-24-2011 at 10:03 PM.
12-25-2011, 07:54 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central and east texas
Posts: 4,894
merry xmas...nice buck for around here fer sure..they are tough, thats why we dbl lung or neck shoot em. neck shot never fails, never even seen one run, but have heard of such things happen, but so far its just a myth to us.
hard to believe with a hole like that he survived, i saw a guy just graze a deer in the chest, looked like someone was carvin him like a turkey, but stopped after an inch, and he didnt go 50 yards...so i guess luck has a lil to do with those shots.
hard to believe with a hole like that he survived, i saw a guy just graze a deer in the chest, looked like someone was carvin him like a turkey, but stopped after an inch, and he didnt go 50 yards...so i guess luck has a lil to do with those shots.
