cloverleaf
Handloader
- Sep 10, 2006
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Some one suggested that I should post this in "Hunting" as its own post rather than Just in hunting pics. Im always up for a little extra publicity 
... The post copied from hunting pics:
Well - I really landed in the middle of some luck. Lots of it, trust me. When you work from a "rolling ground blind" (The crown Vic in the picture)the right critter has to step into the right place at the right time. So..... Last Saturday my Brother in law and I were on the road at 4:00 AM to cover the 120 miles from the big city to a spot in SW MN. Brother in law went with me since hes had a ton of health issues in the last year. Since we are both kinda messed up...We kinda talked each other into going hunting at all. Father in law sprung for the Liscence fee. How could we say no... Any way about 9:30 AM I caught a little bit of movement in the tall grass to the right of the car. In the time it took me to say "deer" to my BIL the deer had moved across the field alley where the car sat. from there a few more steps onto the plowed ground I was sitting next to and into my "shooting lane" defined by the car window. From there it was slow motion.... deer in the scope...dirt over his back....(Safety drummed into my head as a kid) dot on his chest, right behind the shoulder. One of those rare occasions when you see the Deer buckle as the slug hits. Then he disappears from the recoil but I'm back on him in time to see the blood running from his side as he made a 120 yard dash before piling up. Sorry for the crappy pics- I forgot the camera so I'm relying on the skills of others. Shot was about 60 yards with my "Moosberg" using a 12 ga.Federal trophy copper slug. I am so blessed and just dumb lucky. CL
PS- if you count the main beam as a point, He's an 8. My biggest to date. BIL law was pretty stoked too. All the sudden he was out of the car and hobbling into a ground blind in the rain for the remainder of the day. He told m later "it was nice to just be out and sit and just think about hunting...nothing else. Aint that the truth!
... The post copied from hunting pics:Well - I really landed in the middle of some luck. Lots of it, trust me. When you work from a "rolling ground blind" (The crown Vic in the picture)the right critter has to step into the right place at the right time. So..... Last Saturday my Brother in law and I were on the road at 4:00 AM to cover the 120 miles from the big city to a spot in SW MN. Brother in law went with me since hes had a ton of health issues in the last year. Since we are both kinda messed up...We kinda talked each other into going hunting at all. Father in law sprung for the Liscence fee. How could we say no... Any way about 9:30 AM I caught a little bit of movement in the tall grass to the right of the car. In the time it took me to say "deer" to my BIL the deer had moved across the field alley where the car sat. from there a few more steps onto the plowed ground I was sitting next to and into my "shooting lane" defined by the car window. From there it was slow motion.... deer in the scope...dirt over his back....(Safety drummed into my head as a kid) dot on his chest, right behind the shoulder. One of those rare occasions when you see the Deer buckle as the slug hits. Then he disappears from the recoil but I'm back on him in time to see the blood running from his side as he made a 120 yard dash before piling up. Sorry for the crappy pics- I forgot the camera so I'm relying on the skills of others. Shot was about 60 yards with my "Moosberg" using a 12 ga.Federal trophy copper slug. I am so blessed and just dumb lucky. CL
PS- if you count the main beam as a point, He's an 8. My biggest to date. BIL law was pretty stoked too. All the sudden he was out of the car and hobbling into a ground blind in the rain for the remainder of the day.
He told m later "it was nice to just be out and sit and just think about hunting...nothing else. Aint that the truth!
