Shooting a little deer like that should be grounds for immediate revocation of one's man-card . . . if he ever had one.
I resemble that remark. ….!
I grew up hunting in that area… lived in Anniston.
Alabama , instead of stocking northern deer like Georgia and other states chose to capture deer in state to stock under the presumption they would b3 better adapted to the geographic environment. Most came from the Stimpson Wildlife Management Area in S. Alabama.
In 2003, I was working in E. Georgia, near Augusta. I went hunting on the Corp. Of Engineers Prop North of Lincolnton. It was a frosty morning on Saturday after Thanksgiving. I was slow walking up dry lake bed along Lloyd Crk with my .35Rem Marlin. I spotted movement ahead about 80yds distant and raised my scope. A nice (I thought) 8pt buck stepped into my field of view. Spread was wider than his hips and symmetrical. I put the crosshairs on his shoulder and pressed the trigger. He did a back roll flip away at the impact of the 200gr Corlokt loaded to 2,300fps and disappeared. A fog ball hung in the air as hot blood mist formed a vapor cloud.
I was elated till I walked up on it and saw that it looked just like the photo except it wasn’t piebald. Slightly bigger 8pt rack too. I walked back to my Jeep Cherokee to get a drag rope and left my rifle. I returned, field dressed it and started back to the jeep.
As I approached my jeep, I was met by a man and his wife who appeared astonished by the deer. His wife kept looking at my 4” Ruger Security-6 I had on my belt in a SafariLand thumb-break holster.
She commented to her husband after I drug past them and nodded. As I passed, I heard her say “wow! He shot that big deer with a pistol !
I couldn’t help but laugh!!
I didn’t correct her…..
I think it dressed about 80lbs…..
It was Carma pay back for teasing a hunter in Lincoln Co. the previous season as I picked up his 8pt buck by all four feet out of his Jeep as I was confiscating it, for not blaming him for not tagging the deer as it wasn’t a “real deer”, but a miniature “Carolina” deer, as we called them…
But there sure are a LOT of them, over there…
The next season I got three does on opening day with a .223… (I’d retired, and was first opening day I’d hunted in 25years…