Larry in SD
Handloader
- Nov 8, 2004
- 426
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To start off with this was a heck of a morning. I had to work till 2:30AM, came home went to bed and was up at 5:30AM to get ready to go hunting. We went into the White Rock Lake Bottom the north entrance of which is 11 1/2 miles from my house. We ventured down into the White Rock Lake Bottom about 2 1/4 miles (this area is 4 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide that is either farm land, rice cane and hay meadows).
We got into position on the south edge of a big meadow right at shooting time. This is the area where we saw some deer yesterday but were in the wrong position to get a shot. At any rate only having 3 hours of sleep I kept dozing off. When I would start to snore my grand daughter would tell me I was going to spook the deer.
At about 9:45AM or so we headed out. I told my grand daughter I am not going to be any good to her if I keep dozing off, we'd go home and hunt this afternoon.
We meandered our way out of the White Rock Lake Bottom and as we neared the old groove about 1/4 mile south of the old town of White Rock SD I told Kenzie we could see a deer here. Sure enough I spotted a Doe and a Fawn. Kenzie only has Antlerless Deer Tags so this was a good thing. We snuck into shooting position and Kenzie made a 50 yard shot. 2 years of Rimfire Bench Rest Shooting at the Indoor Shooting Range must have paid off as if I would have put a target on the side of that doe for an aiming spot for Kenzie to shoot at, she would have had a dead center bullseye.
At the shot the doe ran about 30 yards, slowed and stopped. As the doe stopped she took about 2 steps backwards and collapsed. After a few high 5's the chores commenced. Kenzie and her little brother Alex helped with the field dressing chores. This was a nice young fat doe (probably had her first fawn with her) and should be great eating.
I must apologize for not having any photos. Kenzie misplaced her cell phone, I left my good camera in the work vehicle and when we finally got home I learned the batteries are dead.
For the record the Rifle Kenzie used is my Wife's Remington Model 700 SPS Stainless-Synthetic that we had shortened the Barrel on to 18 1/2" with a Bushnell Trophy XLT 3x9x40mm Riflescope. The load was taken straight from the Hodgdon Web Site under their Youth Loading Data, 125gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip loaded with a reduced load of H-4895. This load is super mild in recoil and quite slow for muzzle velocity but it indeed did the job it was intended to do. This makes a great handling package at 7 1/2 pounds with the scope & mounts and 4 rounds in the magazine.
Larry
We got into position on the south edge of a big meadow right at shooting time. This is the area where we saw some deer yesterday but were in the wrong position to get a shot. At any rate only having 3 hours of sleep I kept dozing off. When I would start to snore my grand daughter would tell me I was going to spook the deer.
At about 9:45AM or so we headed out. I told my grand daughter I am not going to be any good to her if I keep dozing off, we'd go home and hunt this afternoon.
We meandered our way out of the White Rock Lake Bottom and as we neared the old groove about 1/4 mile south of the old town of White Rock SD I told Kenzie we could see a deer here. Sure enough I spotted a Doe and a Fawn. Kenzie only has Antlerless Deer Tags so this was a good thing. We snuck into shooting position and Kenzie made a 50 yard shot. 2 years of Rimfire Bench Rest Shooting at the Indoor Shooting Range must have paid off as if I would have put a target on the side of that doe for an aiming spot for Kenzie to shoot at, she would have had a dead center bullseye.
At the shot the doe ran about 30 yards, slowed and stopped. As the doe stopped she took about 2 steps backwards and collapsed. After a few high 5's the chores commenced. Kenzie and her little brother Alex helped with the field dressing chores. This was a nice young fat doe (probably had her first fawn with her) and should be great eating.
I must apologize for not having any photos. Kenzie misplaced her cell phone, I left my good camera in the work vehicle and when we finally got home I learned the batteries are dead.
For the record the Rifle Kenzie used is my Wife's Remington Model 700 SPS Stainless-Synthetic that we had shortened the Barrel on to 18 1/2" with a Bushnell Trophy XLT 3x9x40mm Riflescope. The load was taken straight from the Hodgdon Web Site under their Youth Loading Data, 125gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip loaded with a reduced load of H-4895. This load is super mild in recoil and quite slow for muzzle velocity but it indeed did the job it was intended to do. This makes a great handling package at 7 1/2 pounds with the scope & mounts and 4 rounds in the magazine.
Larry
