tddeangelo
Handloader
- May 18, 2011
- 2,023
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The Winchester zapped a decent little 7pt yesterday morning....
I shot him at about 70 yards, 28 min before sunrise in a dark little hollow. I was blinded by the muzzle flash, lol, and had to wait three long hours to go look for him (outfitter where I'm at asks us not to look for blood till after 10AM, and I shot him at 7:10AM). I couldn't see what happened after the shot, just that he wasn't laying there when the pretty spots faded from my vision.
I found where I shot him, and there was a LOT of hair, several bone fragments, some bits of meat, and some blood. Generally, when I've found such sign, it's from a bad hit and the deer isn't found. I found sparse blood and followed it 40-45 yards to a quite dead deer. The bullet hit half-way top to bottom on the chest and hit tight to the back edge of the leg/shoulder crease. Very clean kill, just not a DRT.
The 150gr BT made two beautiful holes in the rib cage going and coming.
I have till Sat. evening to kill up to two more, so we'll see if I can't zap another one or two.
I shot him at about 70 yards, 28 min before sunrise in a dark little hollow. I was blinded by the muzzle flash, lol, and had to wait three long hours to go look for him (outfitter where I'm at asks us not to look for blood till after 10AM, and I shot him at 7:10AM). I couldn't see what happened after the shot, just that he wasn't laying there when the pretty spots faded from my vision.
I found where I shot him, and there was a LOT of hair, several bone fragments, some bits of meat, and some blood. Generally, when I've found such sign, it's from a bad hit and the deer isn't found. I found sparse blood and followed it 40-45 yards to a quite dead deer. The bullet hit half-way top to bottom on the chest and hit tight to the back edge of the leg/shoulder crease. Very clean kill, just not a DRT.
The 150gr BT made two beautiful holes in the rib cage going and coming.
I have till Sat. evening to kill up to two more, so we'll see if I can't zap another one or two.