Well, there's not much to my side of the story really. While Petey was out looking for lost antler, I spotted 2 deer coming off the top of the mountain through the big eyes. Olspark and I watched them for a few minutes as they settled down apparently thinking they were safe from those nasty hunters who chased them from the top. The lead deer stopped under a hemlock broadside and Olspark hit her with the Geovid at 1100 even. I put 28.5 MOA elevation and 3 MOA right windage on. The wind was hardly moving where we standing but we were having issues debugging it all morning as Petey eluded to. With the Leupold on 20x, I settled the crosshair center body at the back of the front leg and squeezed the shot nice and smooth. The little 140berger hit her 4th rib from the back taking out both lungs. It went completely through her and she jumped and run down the mountain about 50 yards or so. She stood there for a second then flopped over.
It was a pretty neat moment when Olspark says "she just fell over" to be honest. The retrieve was a lot nice than I'm used to as well as we drove to within 300 yards of where she was laying. No chest waders, big rope, torrent streams to cross!
All this being said, the 6.5x284 did it's job although in honesty, that's probably about the outer limit for this gun. I only run my chart to 1200 yards, not because I think I can't hit it, but because I've only got 750ft lbs of energy at that distance.
By the way, the other deer hung around long enough for us to get out the video camera and wait for Petey to get back and shoot
12-11-2008, 01:18 PM
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