Got some access to some great whitetail hunting land this year. Sat in a field and watched about 50 or 60 deer come and go. Assortment of does with fawns and small bucks. Absolutely no large buck in the zone I was hunting. But horns taste like crap and make a poor stew anyways, so not a concern to me!!
My hunting party all told 4 of us. Got a doe, a bambi, and 2 small bucks. Managed to get my deer pretty easily.
Was laying prone in a bit of trees. She was at 230 yards. Squeezed it off. Missed. WTF??
she spooked and turned at 240 yards. Aimed a blonde hair higher, squeezed it off. THWACK!! A hit!! Wasnt certain I had made a good fatal shot, she jumped and turned broadside at 250 yards, squeezed another off. THWACK!!!
She turned and ran off....jumped a fence and disappeared in some trees. I wasnt able to see her, but my wife who was in another corner saw her go into the trees and go down in a heap.
Walked up after a bit and started looking for a trail....Blood everywhere, a blind man could have followed it from space. She was about 15 yards into a copse of trees.
My 2nd shot hit lower lungs and would have been a fatal hit, the follow up shot turned her heart and the rest of her lungs into pudding. 120 grain Nosler Partitions did the job perfectly!!!
After deboning we got 37 pounds of lean meat off this doe. Very happy. Hope I can hunt there again. But a member of my hunting party may have blown it for me. A day I wasn't there he had shot a small buck, dragged it partway to the road, then drove into the farmers field without permission. Ugh.....
My wife with her .270 waiting for the deer to move in a bit closer....400 yards is too far for us HAHA!!
Me and my 2016 WT Doe at 250 yards with my Ruger M77 in 25.06
