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First day hunting report
bullsi1911
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Opening weekend was last weekend, but I had family stuff to attend to, so my first day of hunting was today. Decided to take the 450 Bushmaster upper with the CVA Scout 243 pistol as a backup.
Got to the blind early this morning when it was still ‘cold’ (42 degrees), and took a nap.
Way before legal shooting light, some deer were “blowing” very near by. No idea if they could hear, see, or smell me, but I thought that was all I would have come in.
I leaned back and went back to my nap.
After day light broke, a couple deer came into the feeder. Mostly small does, but then a cull-eligible 6 point came in. He would have been a big 4 point but he had these small crab claw points way out front on his rack. Probably 3 years old... he should be culled.
but he would not present a shot. The 1x scope on the bushmaster upper was not giving me the view I needed to thread my shot through. The millet scope on the CVA pistol was fogging up in the wet weather. So... I let him walk, thinking “this is how you get skunked”
in just a few minutes, a huge 8 point walks in following a mid sized doe. I line up on him, and let the 250 grain Hornady FTX fly.
(one thing I want to say here. I am going to be upgrading the scope on my setup. The Millet 1X I have is great ringing steel or hitting nice bullseyes on the range. But when you need to pick a shot through grass, around feeder legs, in low light and foggy conditions... it is nice to have some magnification to pick the anatomy you want to hit).
The buck was quartering to me, and the bullet hut the point of the shoulder, and exited just to the rear of the off side shoulder, complete pass through, and from the limited view of the chest cavity I had, it seemed to obliterate the heart and seriously shred the lungs. The deer ran about 30 yards in “rear wheel drive” and got his rack hung up in some holly brambles and expired.
This is guy was a beast. Heavy, and well muscled. Probably about 4 years old
Now I’m back in the blind to see if I can get a deer with an iron sighted handgun!
Got to the blind early this morning when it was still ‘cold’ (42 degrees), and took a nap.
Way before legal shooting light, some deer were “blowing” very near by. No idea if they could hear, see, or smell me, but I thought that was all I would have come in.
I leaned back and went back to my nap.
After day light broke, a couple deer came into the feeder. Mostly small does, but then a cull-eligible 6 point came in. He would have been a big 4 point but he had these small crab claw points way out front on his rack. Probably 3 years old... he should be culled.
but he would not present a shot. The 1x scope on the bushmaster upper was not giving me the view I needed to thread my shot through. The millet scope on the CVA pistol was fogging up in the wet weather. So... I let him walk, thinking “this is how you get skunked”
in just a few minutes, a huge 8 point walks in following a mid sized doe. I line up on him, and let the 250 grain Hornady FTX fly.
(one thing I want to say here. I am going to be upgrading the scope on my setup. The Millet 1X I have is great ringing steel or hitting nice bullseyes on the range. But when you need to pick a shot through grass, around feeder legs, in low light and foggy conditions... it is nice to have some magnification to pick the anatomy you want to hit).
The buck was quartering to me, and the bullet hut the point of the shoulder, and exited just to the rear of the off side shoulder, complete pass through, and from the limited view of the chest cavity I had, it seemed to obliterate the heart and seriously shred the lungs. The deer ran about 30 yards in “rear wheel drive” and got his rack hung up in some holly brambles and expired.
This is guy was a beast. Heavy, and well muscled. Probably about 4 years old
Now I’m back in the blind to see if I can get a deer with an iron sighted handgun!
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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That's not how you get skunked.
Mike
N454casull
I almost shot this doe just because it was such a perfect presentation on the new redhawk.
But, I just watched her instead
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Odd thing- when I went to track the deer, there was not a drop of blood on the ground. There was fur, and a couple of chunks of flesh, but no blood. When I was looking for blood, I found this:
that is the poly tip from the Hornady FTX bullet. it was about 10 feet back from where the bullet exited the deer
platform wise- I love hunting with a lightweight AR platform. Only thing I’m going to change is get a shorter primary mag since the converted 30 rounders take up a lot of space that is not needed. That and the afore mentioned scope upgrade. Maybe doing another 1-4x
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
very nice. Congrats!
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
John 3: 1-21
I see the parent case is the .284 Winchester, very versatile case for wildcatting, and my favorite 7MM round!!
Maybe it's just me, but it seems the .284 Winchester is more popular as a case for wildcatting than it is in its original chambering. I have a .284 and a .284 wildcat, and like them both.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
"The Un-Tactical"
But I am really looking forward to the bratwursts!
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Life member of the American Legion, the VFW, the NRA and the Masonic Lodge, retired LEO