bbearhntr
Handloader
- Apr 10, 2011
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My wife and daughter are both first year hunter education graduates so this is the first year hunting that I have turned my focus away from my own endless pursuits of whitetails. This is also the first year that I have rolled any of my own ammunition. So last weekend was the opening week end of gun season here in Wisconsin and my wonderful bride and I managed to convince my mother that she needed to spend a quality weekend with our children. This presented the two of us with a rare opportunity to spend some alone time together :shock: ....so we went hunting :grin: ! Opening morning my wife and I have parked our rear ends on a hillside in an area we have never hunted before and before long a doe and 2 fawns are chased to us by shots on an adjacent property. They run to within 30 yards and stop. The large doe is behind a very large oak tree trunk while the fawns are on either side of her. As we are waiting for the doe to take one more fatal step one of the fawns busts us and they all high tailed it out of there. DANG. We sat together the rest of the weekend but without any more opportunities. So I head off to work for the week monday morning telling her we will try again on thursday when I got home. While I am at lunch monday I get a phone call from my better half and she sounds as giddy as a school girl. She said, "I got one!"....
I said, "One what?"
She said, "A deer!!!"
I said, "What?" :shock: :shock: :shock:
Then she told me that after she put our son on the school bus at 11:30 am, she decided to go hunting by herself. She hopped on the four wheeler, drove to the top of the hill, loaded her gun, and crawled up in one of my tree stands. As she was putting her hat and mittens on, a large doe and two other smaller ones were slowly walking toward her. The large doe was quartering toward her at about 100 yds and she setlled the cross hairs on her front shoulder. Bang... flop!! Her 120 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip, launched from her 7mm-08, smashed through the front shoulder and lodged into the off side shoulder. I couldn't believe it so she sent me pictures. I am very impressed with her and the bullet. She said the lungs were shredded. Good thing her grandpa lives next door, she needed help gutting and draging but not shooting. :lol:
I said, "One what?"
She said, "A deer!!!"
I said, "What?" :shock: :shock: :shock:
Then she told me that after she put our son on the school bus at 11:30 am, she decided to go hunting by herself. She hopped on the four wheeler, drove to the top of the hill, loaded her gun, and crawled up in one of my tree stands. As she was putting her hat and mittens on, a large doe and two other smaller ones were slowly walking toward her. The large doe was quartering toward her at about 100 yds and she setlled the cross hairs on her front shoulder. Bang... flop!! Her 120 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip, launched from her 7mm-08, smashed through the front shoulder and lodged into the off side shoulder. I couldn't believe it so she sent me pictures. I am very impressed with her and the bullet. She said the lungs were shredded. Good thing her grandpa lives next door, she needed help gutting and draging but not shooting. :lol:
congratulations to your wife. I'm sure that was a bit of a shock for you to hear.
