While deer hunting this year I took along my T/C Contender with my 14" 6mm-225 Winchester barrel topped with a Weaver 2.5-8X28 scope loaded with 30 grs Varget pushing an 80 gr Sierra SSP bullet 2700 fps. I used it in one of my stands that sits on the edge of a logging road that you have to look right and left to see up and down the road. I place the Contender on a board I screwed down to the shooting rail on the right side of the stand with a sand bag on it. Deer cross the road from cut overs on both sides of the road between 98 and 120 yards on this side. The other side of the stand I place my rifle because you can see much farther. I had two doe and a yearling come out into the road at 115 yards and they started walking down the road toward me. The biggest doe was in front. I got behind the Contender and cranked the scope up to 8 power and got on this big doe. She stopped at 103 yards and acted like she was going to go into the cut over on the other side of the road. I really wanted a broad side shot but you take what you get. When she put her head down to smell the ground I placed the cross hair where her neck meets her body right between the shoulders and squeezed the trigger. BOOM and she dropped in her tracks. The other two ran up the road to where they had come out at 115 yards and stopped. The larger doe stopped and turned facing me with just a slight right angle and started stomping it's feet and bobbing it's head. It was like it was trying the tell the deer I shot to get up and come with them. I decided since you can kill two deer a day and the doe permits are unlimited I would just shoot this one also. I eased the pistol off my rest and proceeded to reload. When I snapped the action closed the deer snapped it's head to look my way and started stomping it's feet and bobbing it's head in my direction. Then it started looking back at the deer I had already shot. I then got the pistol on the rest and placed the cross hair a little high up on her neck to angle the bullet through the neck and down into the chest. I have had deer duck an arrow but never a bullet until now. At the same time as the gun fired this doe stomped it's foot and ducked it's head and I shot right over top of it.
Got one and missed one.
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Congratulations on your Contender doe. Nicely done! Too bad you didn't get the double.
JD338
Congratulations on your Contender doe. Nicely done! Too bad you didn't get the double.
JD338
longwinters
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Sounds like a good hunting spot. Congrats on a good shot. It sounds like you have the right set up for the Tender.
Long
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Good deal man!
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Yes this is a great spot to hunt. I killed 7 deer, 4 buck and 3 doe, out of this stand this year and my buddy has killed 4 so far, 2 buck and 2 doe. I have killed 3 deer and a fox with my Contender out of this stand in the past 4 years. Two deer a 6 point buck and a doe with the 6mm-225 Win barrel and one doe and the fox with a 10" 357 Mag barrel shooting a 180 Hornady XTP over 13.5 grs H-110. The doe was taken at 107 yards through the right shoulder and the bullet went through the vitals and was found just under the hide at the beginning of the off side hip with a text book mushroom. The fox was at 50 yards between the eyes.
