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Good shot and deer in the freezer = A+. Seven day season = F-.
I have had one doe. I shot her in the chest at roughly 50 yds with my X06 she ran maybe 15 yds toward me before piling up.Has anyone else ever shot a deer and had it tun towards you?
Great rifle!I posted this in its own thread, but this thread is slowing down and if you like me you are missing the updates. I managed this one just after sunrise on opening day (11/1/19). 4 Showed up at the water I was hunting and I had to wait for them to arrange themselves so I wouldn't shoot more than 1. This one wasn't the largest of the group, but they were all about the same size and rack. In the desert where I hunt you take the best shot available/ethical when it arises. Or you may not see another for the rest of the week long season. 36 yards.
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This was the entry
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This was the exit
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Glancing shot on the heart and opposite side lung
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It was a fun hunt. Over too quick. Like normal, I was alone and had to load it in the truck by myself. I skinned it in the back of my truck and had it at the processors hanging in the cool room in 5 hours.
This one turned out to be a 'Dark Cutter' as they say in the meat cutting business. It must have had some stress in the 48 hours prior to my encounter with him. A little dry, but other than the darker red he tastes just fine.
Great rifle!
I have a few pics of our mid December duck hunt on reelfoot lake, union city, Tennessee.
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Bluebird skies and warm temps didnt help.
5 guys, 10 ducks
Hesitated to post this one as it was kind of a bittersweet sort of deal but she was part of my season so here she is. This doe started showing up around our barn lot at the end of Ohio's week long gun season. She was dragging herself around on 3 legs, never putting the front right leg on the ground. I didn't know for sure what happened, or when, I wasn't able to see any blood or obvious wound with a field glass. I was kind of working on the assumption that she'd been shot due to the timing.
Well I watched her continue to drag herself around and decline, showing up every other day or so for a month. She appeared to be maintaining her weight fairly well but wasn't moving any better and just didn't seem right. January 7th was the last day of our muzzle loader season and when I got up that morning just before sunrise I looked out the window and she was grazing around my neighbors pond. I watched for awhile, and she browsed right into my pasture fence, and then appeared to be "stuck" like she didn't know what to do with herself. One minute she would rear back like she wanted to jump the fence, then she'd give up and put her head down to eat. This would repeat a couple times and finally she would try to turn around, and practically fall over. Once she was pointed away from the fence she was off and browsing again, but as she ambled around she'd inevitably end up with her forehead against the fence again and then go through the awkward process of getting turned around.
Finally she got herself parallel to the pasture fence and it looked like there was a good chance when she got to the corner she would cut right across our back yard. I made my mind up I didn't want to watch her decline and die slowly over the rest of the course of winter, so I pulled my lyman great plains rifle out and loaded it and one speed loader. I went downstairs and when she had made it across the line, I put on an orange vest and put a cap on the lock of the rifle. When she was well into the yard and standing in the middle of the garden I stepped out the back door and shot her. 70yds with a .530 patched ball over 75 grains of pyrodex select. Took out both lungs and she went about 40 yds and laid down, and I finished her off with a shot in the neck.
Upon recovering her I found that she had a dry wound in her shoulder that was all scabbed over, about the diameter of my thumb and half an inch deep. Behind her ribs was a larger hole, and this one was seeping yellow puss. I peeled the hide back and the pocket of puss was very large and the meat was all a dark color. What little fat she has was very yellow colored. I didn't find any bullets or fragments but I didn't look very hard. I deemed her unsafe to eat and took her out and buried her. Cost me $32 for a tag, but I am glad not to watch her suffer all winter. View attachment 883650
Hesitated to post this one as it was kind of a bittersweet sort of deal but she was part of my season so here she is. This doe started showing up around our barn lot at the end of Ohio's week long gun season. She was dragging herself around on 3 legs, never putting the front right leg on the ground. I didn't know for sure what happened, or when, I wasn't able to see any blood or obvious wound with a field glass. I was kind of working on the assumption that she'd been shot due to the timing.
Well I watched her continue to drag herself around and decline, showing up every other day or so for a month. She appeared to be maintaining her weight fairly well but wasn't moving any better and just didn't seem right. January 7th was the last day of our muzzle loader season and when I got up that morning just before sunrise I looked out the window and she was grazing around my neighbors pond. I watched for awhile, and she browsed right into my pasture fence, and then appeared to be "stuck" like she didn't know what to do with herself. One minute she would rear back like she wanted to jump the fence, then she'd give up and put her head down to eat. This would repeat a couple times and finally she would try to turn around, and practically fall over. Once she was pointed away from the fence she was off and browsing again, but as she ambled around she'd inevitably end up with her forehead against the fence again and then go through the awkward process of getting turned around.
Finally she got herself parallel to the pasture fence and it looked like there was a good chance when she got to the corner she would cut right across our back yard. I made my mind up I didn't want to watch her decline and die slowly over the rest of the course of winter, so I pulled my lyman great plains rifle out and loaded it and one speed loader. I went downstairs and when she had made it across the line, I put on an orange vest and put a cap on the lock of the rifle. When she was well into the yard and standing in the middle of the garden I stepped out the back door and shot her. 70yds with a .530 patched ball over 75 grains of pyrodex select. Took out both lungs and she went about 40 yds and laid down, and I finished her off with a shot in the neck.
Upon recovering her I found that she had a dry wound in her shoulder that was all scabbed over, about the diameter of my thumb and half an inch deep. Behind her ribs was a larger hole, and this one was seeping yellow puss. I peeled the hide back and the pocket of puss was very large and the meat was all a dark color. What little fat she has was very yellow colored. I didn't find any bullets or fragments but I didn't look very hard. I deemed her unsafe to eat and took her out and buried her. Cost me $32 for a tag, but I am glad not to watch her suffer all winter. View attachment 883650
First muzzleloader deer on New Year’s Day. A good way to end the deer season and start the year with plenty of meat in the freezer. 250 grain Hornady sst and 95 grains of blackhorn 209. View attachment 883710
Has anyone else ever shot a deer and had it tun towards you?
Great start for 2020, five more weeks of whitetail season left
Yep. Introduced in early-mid 1900's, now they're everywhere.Have whitetails been transplanted there from No. America?
What is the rifle in the pic?Sunday afternoon I collected my trail cam cards and my climber that I had left on a tree.
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A card shows this guy prowling at night.
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Then I stopped by a good overlook where I sometimes catch a coyote out mousing, and I noticed this on the riverbank.
I think this beaver bit off more than he could chew.
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I might be stretching it to put this in the hunting thread, but I figured you guys would like it.
That's a ruger American ranch 7.62x39What is the rifle in the pic?