easy45
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Carlos Viagra said:
I hope yours wasn't as close as mine, mine was only standing 50 yards away
How many shots have you taken?
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I hope yours wasn't as close as mine, mine was only standing 50 yards away
Brisco Darlin
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3 times on same doe in the span of about 30 minutes. that was the dumbest deer i'd ever seen. my wedge pin popped out of my mz going in. I had paracord wrapped around the barrel to hold it still. finally got it on the third time. it just had to get across the creek i was sitting by.
We went to AEDC in around 77....not sure exactly but close....of course it was shotguns......we all shot at deer with those things like shooting at doves.......and never hit the first one. I shot at one deer at 20 yards and missed.........somehow?.......then she ran and stopped at about 50 yds......missed.............somehow??.....then she ran and stopped at about 75 yards ........missed somehow???.............then she stopped at 100 yards............started thinking the ammunition was more valuable than wasting it on misses and i watched her casually trot on off ........this happened to all of us but not as bad for anyone else as me. I was using a rifled barreled ithaca deer slayer.....but i didnt/couldnt slay a gnat!!!! Still laugh about it quiet often. I had never seen so many deer just stand on a greenfield like that in all of my life. they were all over the roads and it was an awesome experience for several of us totally green horns of the whitetail world. Memories for a life time!!
So far 2 shots 4 deer...killed 2 with my toyota.....got nowhere to go with my shooting but down....
Hope the car's kills goes down too...
Hope the car's kills goes down too...
Bottom Hunter
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I always love telling this story......
back in the mid-seventies, i was sitting on a tree limb (yep, on a tree limb) facing the HNWR boundary sign. It was very icey and snowy.....
Not long after daylight I heard the ice cracking behind me , turned in time to watch two large does step ou in the field, heading back to the refuge.
Less than a minute later, I hear more ice cracking and a very wide, massive, dark racked buck stepped out. Still one of the best bucks I have seen ...even after almost 40 years.
The next few moments were blurry then, and remain that way in my mind.
I fired one shot at the buck, standing still at about 40 yards, broadside......I have no idea why, but he ran across the field and not back in to the timber.....four shots later, he stopped, on the opposite side of the field taking a moment to look back at me...lol. I loaded one more shell in to the 30-06, aimed just over his back and fired.
I got down, unexperienced at tracking deer and frantically searched for blood. I saw none. I walked over to where he had stopped and saw no blood there either.
Three days later, a local WO called the landowner and told him that he found a buck dead on his property, within a half mile of where I was. I and the landowner's son drove out there and met the warden. he took us to the deer....
It was huge eight pointer, not tall, but wide and very heavy.
I could not say for sure if the deer was the same one that I shot at, so I couldn't in good conscience claim the deer....
I was 17 years old at the time and even though I wanted to claim the buck, I just couldn't.
Maybe if I had gone and got help to track the deer, we may have indeed found him that day.....again, I was very young and knew very little about anything that had to do with deer...
I have no proof it was the same deer even though both were heavy, brown racked deer.....and not too far from where he entered the woods after my last shot and in line with the way he seemed to be headed.
Sometimes I wish I had claimed the deer, but then again, I'd hate to have someone else's deer on my wall.....the deer fell not too far from the boundary line and we could not tell which way the deer came from before dying.
Inexperience definitely costed me a very large mature buck....
back in the mid-seventies, i was sitting on a tree limb (yep, on a tree limb) facing the HNWR boundary sign. It was very icey and snowy.....
Not long after daylight I heard the ice cracking behind me , turned in time to watch two large does step ou in the field, heading back to the refuge.
Less than a minute later, I hear more ice cracking and a very wide, massive, dark racked buck stepped out. Still one of the best bucks I have seen ...even after almost 40 years.
The next few moments were blurry then, and remain that way in my mind.
I fired one shot at the buck, standing still at about 40 yards, broadside......I have no idea why, but he ran across the field and not back in to the timber.....four shots later, he stopped, on the opposite side of the field taking a moment to look back at me...lol. I loaded one more shell in to the 30-06, aimed just over his back and fired.
I got down, unexperienced at tracking deer and frantically searched for blood. I saw none. I walked over to where he had stopped and saw no blood there either.
Three days later, a local WO called the landowner and told him that he found a buck dead on his property, within a half mile of where I was. I and the landowner's son drove out there and met the warden. he took us to the deer....
It was huge eight pointer, not tall, but wide and very heavy.
I could not say for sure if the deer was the same one that I shot at, so I couldn't in good conscience claim the deer....
I was 17 years old at the time and even though I wanted to claim the buck, I just couldn't.
Maybe if I had gone and got help to track the deer, we may have indeed found him that day.....again, I was very young and knew very little about anything that had to do with deer...
I have no proof it was the same deer even though both were heavy, brown racked deer.....and not too far from where he entered the woods after my last shot and in line with the way he seemed to be headed.
Sometimes I wish I had claimed the deer, but then again, I'd hate to have someone else's deer on my wall.....the deer fell not too far from the boundary line and we could not tell which way the deer came from before dying.
Inexperience definitely costed me a very large mature buck....
AlabamaSwamper
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Who knows.
Dog hunting in Alabama in big clear cuts on either sex days back in the mid to late 90's with two clips can cause a man to go through some ammo.
All I will say is I've shot 9 or more times at a single deer twice in my younger days.
To say that place was overrun with deer would be an understatement.
Dog hunting in Alabama in big clear cuts on either sex days back in the mid to late 90's with two clips can cause a man to go through some ammo.
All I will say is I've shot 9 or more times at a single deer twice in my younger days.
To say that place was overrun with deer would be an understatement.
horn master
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I've emptied my quiver of 6 and was looking for one more arrow. I know I could have killed if I had one more arrow. This was between 15 and 30 yards! LOL
Nhill
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I shot 5 shots at a buck with a muzzleloader as he very calmly walked across the field. I checked my cheap scope after that to find that it was off two feet to the left at 50 yards.
JCDEERMAN
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Back in the early 90's, I pulled the hammer back on my black powder and pulled the trigger probably 40 times. Gun wouldnt ever fire. It was at LBL and still to this day one of the biggest bucks I have ever seen in the wild. Then the percussion cap can fell off my lap and landed on the ground. He was 45 yards and I just put my gun back on my lap and watched him. Started glassing him....he had 11 points. I was sick.
Got back to camp and to prove to the guys my gun wouldnt fire, I pulled the trigger and it SHOT!!!!!
Got back to camp and to prove to the guys my gun wouldnt fire, I pulled the trigger and it SHOT!!!!!
HOOK
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I have never taken more than two shots and that was one time.
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