mtnbkr
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Ok, I've only been hunting for 5 years now. :banghead:
This year, I finally broke down and got a treestand. I can never get comfortable on the ground and I'm too fidgety as well. Plus, where I hunt, the brush is thick at ground level and you can miss a deer sneaking on the other side of a blowdown or some thick brush.
Anyway, I'm in my stand (half mile up the mtn) at 6am and alternating between standing and sitting, while watching the thick bands of fog roll up the mountain towards me (it rained a lot the day before and that night, the sun was causing the air to warm, brining the fog uphill). After the last fog bank overtook me, I was getting ready to sit back down when I saw a medium sized doe browsing 50yds (so sez the GPS later) away, quartering away slightly. I take aim and put a shot through her her ribcage at about the middle, above her leg. The shot hit a rib, punched through a lung, clipped the heart, and exited a few inches lower on the other side. She ran 10yds, fell down, and thrashed for about 2 seconds. I waited 10 minutes and went to retrieve her.
The 6.5 swede did the job (140gr Sierra Gameking, 36gr Varget). It busted two ribs (one each side) and broke her offside leg (or maybe the shoulder, the "break" is high up in the leg structure). The exit hole was about 1" in diameter. My friend got his deer about half an hour earlier (we think mine was the 2nd one of the pair he saw), so we met up at the bottom 3rd of the mountain and used the cart to carry both to camp.
She's about 100lbs live weight (maybe a hair more), which is about average for a doe in these mountains. I didn't take any pictures because it was quite wet and I didn't feel like carrying a camera around.
Our "camp" got a total of 4 deer this season (camp ran a week and a half this year, I was only there for this weekend and a midweek day evening hunt). The "harvest was two bucks and two does. Not too shabby for seven hunters with various levels of experience.
I'm going out again this Friday. I can't wait.
Chris
This year, I finally broke down and got a treestand. I can never get comfortable on the ground and I'm too fidgety as well. Plus, where I hunt, the brush is thick at ground level and you can miss a deer sneaking on the other side of a blowdown or some thick brush.
Anyway, I'm in my stand (half mile up the mtn) at 6am and alternating between standing and sitting, while watching the thick bands of fog roll up the mountain towards me (it rained a lot the day before and that night, the sun was causing the air to warm, brining the fog uphill). After the last fog bank overtook me, I was getting ready to sit back down when I saw a medium sized doe browsing 50yds (so sez the GPS later) away, quartering away slightly. I take aim and put a shot through her her ribcage at about the middle, above her leg. The shot hit a rib, punched through a lung, clipped the heart, and exited a few inches lower on the other side. She ran 10yds, fell down, and thrashed for about 2 seconds. I waited 10 minutes and went to retrieve her.
The 6.5 swede did the job (140gr Sierra Gameking, 36gr Varget). It busted two ribs (one each side) and broke her offside leg (or maybe the shoulder, the "break" is high up in the leg structure). The exit hole was about 1" in diameter. My friend got his deer about half an hour earlier (we think mine was the 2nd one of the pair he saw), so we met up at the bottom 3rd of the mountain and used the cart to carry both to camp.
She's about 100lbs live weight (maybe a hair more), which is about average for a doe in these mountains. I didn't take any pictures because it was quite wet and I didn't feel like carrying a camera around.
Our "camp" got a total of 4 deer this season (camp ran a week and a half this year, I was only there for this weekend and a midweek day evening hunt). The "harvest was two bucks and two does. Not too shabby for seven hunters with various levels of experience.
I'm going out again this Friday. I can't wait.
Chris
