2014 Hunting Pictures

Well, I can I guess, its a little embarrassing but I am not bashful LOL. First I will take a hit on my load :). I shot this deer with my AR15. 64 grain Nosler bonded performance, 24.8 grains of varget with cci br4 primer. 70 yards standing broadside. Blew the heart completely apart. He went maybe 30 yards on a clean fast kill. After seeing what the load does on hogs, I had all the confidence in the world with it on deer at this range. That said, I went 1 day. The year prior I went to the same spot and harvested a big MN doe. I was with my same pal both times. We got to the field edge and I gave him the choice which end to sit, since I got the deer there last year. He says,"I aint going back to that worthless spot!" So he stayed in my stand I had last year. I walked to the other end of a 20 acre picked corn field. Plopped my rear end on a bucket, in a ground blind. Wind was ideal. Rut was on. It is a small spot with a big cattail willow slough. No trees but some small ones on the fence line. I had my back to one of them as a real nice ground cover. I was there maybe 10 minutes and had to take a leak bad. So I rest my gun against the tree, bent down on my knees and began relieving the preasure if you get my drift LOL. Mid stream I look up and out of the cattails comes a nice doe on the jog. And right behind her was Brutis. No time to zip up, reached back and grabbed the p shooter, and shouldered it, still on my knees with junk out :). He stopped about 65-70 yards and looked around broadside. After 30 years of deer hunting, gun and bow. I know exactly where the ticker is located. I put the leupold 3x9 vx 2 on the center of the ticker, let my breath out and squeezed off a round from the Rock River ATH's 2 stage trigger. He doubled up in a hunch, sprinted 30 yards and dropped dead. The loads I created are solid sub 1/2" MOA at a hundred yards so I as said was totally confident in the ability of the gun. It did the same thing with good sized hogs prior to deer hunting. So that was my one and only day I hunted last year. A whole 20 minutes LOL. My buddy is still pouting about his stand choice :). He had a front row seat to the whole ball game :). It cost me 500 bucks in 20 minutes. Getting a semi sneak full shoulder mount. He dressed out at 226 lbs. Big boy.
 
Man, that adds a whole new twist to "letting it all hang out!" Good job; and it is a great deer. You managed to stay focused and it paid off. (y)
 
Very nice buck! Congratulations. You did really well. The AR-15, in good hands, is a very competent deer rifle.

It just messes with our traditional hunter minds... Being a plastic poodle shooter and all... :wink:

Regards, Guy
 
I agree 100% Guy. I gave a friend some of my loads in Texas and he shot a bunch of hogs with them first as I was skeptical at first myself. I believe he shot in the neighborhood of 20 of them. All were recovered, and the furthest one went was 45 yards. Pretty much the same as any slug deer or rifle or bow kill deer I have harvested since I was 12, 36 years ago. We had some years where we could harvest 4 and we party hunted. So I cant count how many that is any more. Only a few with nice shots dropped in their tracks. And they were with 3 1/2" lightfield slugs 12g at close range. 1 separated the head almost completely from the deer at 5 yards LOL. Flipped the deer over backwards, and not a wiggle :). Heart, double lungers, what ever. Most go a little ways. It was not until I got the hog data that I said OK. I got photos of the damage done to the flesh of the hogs. Man I tell ya what, it had to hurt. I find this gun heavy to carry however. And it will most likely end up just a yote gun. Ordered a new .308 :) The match barrel is no doubt a very accurate rifle. But the thing is a pain to tote, and hard to sling up. Stand hunting its fine for them short range shots.
 
Here is one from 2014, this is Jay, he is a young man that loves hunting. He was drawn for my home area and his dad called me to ask for info on where to hunt IE ...landowners area ETC. I told his dad to meet me on a certain day and i would give them a tour and get him a deer that would be worthy of harvesting.
Long story short they met me on that morning and we hunted that day but found nothing worthy of taking. The next day we found this guy and decided to get after him......First shot hit the antler as you can likely see in the pic....second shot HAMMERED him from the custom built 280AI and it was Game Over....
 

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That is a heckuva deer for anyone, let alone for a first deer. Congratulations to the young man. Good on you for escorting him and his dad.
 
Very good stuff possum. That is a monster buck and a heckuva great thing you did for that boy and his pops.
 
Thanks guys, I have as much fun showing a new hunter around as I do when I am hunting for myself.
 
DrMike":3nlpq8qf said:
Super headgear! Excellent. What's the story on this buck?

If you mean the one with Muldoon.....I hunted him for six days until he screwed up and walked out in front of a 308 Winchester! :grin: (y)

Here's the mount:

Kanbrute by Sharps Man, on Flickr
 
Yup! I meant the deer in the picture that Muldoon posted. They do screw up, eventually.
 
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