deer shot

[jmarriott]

Originally posted by Lilred
I'll just throw this porcupine in ya'll bloomers.....how many deer over the years ya'll heard that got kilt by a 22lr? That question is just bein sarcastic....cause the answer is more than anybody would want to admit.

My grandfather told me of a guy that poached deer spotlighting with a 22 mag. Slight pop noise, drive away, come back 3 hours later on foot with rat terrier, drag deer to road, walk to truck, pick up at road. Must have killed them with chest shots cause he always let them set for 3 hours. My gandfather hated that guy and said he stole traps and dogs. He also hand a number of great upsate new york racks in his card room.

With the decoy deer used now to control this unlawful behavior I bet he would get busted.

Pistol hunting with guy who is a great shot, He had a small buck with a messed up rack on one side and he took a head shot at 15 yards with a 44 mag. He hit right under/behind the eye. The deer ran off straight toward my stand 1/2 a mile acrossed a huge corn field jumped the fence at 120 yards and stood there pawwing at the wound. I had a good rest off a 20 foot ladder stand and placed what i thought was a great shot into the deers shoulder with a T/C in .35 rem because he went down and only pushed with his back legs into the woods 1/8 mile away.

When we finally trailed this buck down it crossed a creek and backtracked awhile before dieing next to a large tree stump. I guess some deer go father than others because other then being a bit low my shot hit the chest and both legs just under the shoulder and the exit side leg was broken almost missing. I wish he had shot the lungs as that deer would not have got out of the field to my stand. To hard of a retrieval as the climb at night out of that bottom was a nightmare.

No head shot ever take by me after that. but this is a handgun/shotgun state.