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bullsi1911
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Used the Last Buck Tag
bullsi1911
ModeratorPosts: 12,073 Senior Member
was able to squeak away for ma trip to the hunting lease this weekend, and despite the warm temps and insane winds, was able to connect on one of the biggest cull bucks I have seen on our property. My son is going to be super mad at me for using the last buck tag while he was not there, but I had to whack him. While looking at him through the scope, it looked like he was a 3 point. And in western terms, he would be a 0x3.
So, I dropped the hammer on him. Shot stats- Distance: laser measured 130 yards. Gun- DPMS LR-308 (AR-10ish) in .308 Win with a Redfield 3-9x40. Ammo- Horandy Custom factory ammo with the 168Gr A-MAX. Shot Placement- Neck (foot was still not 100%, did not want to track him, and did not want headshot because I wanted the skull intact). Shot missed the spine, but cut the main arteries and trachea. Deer got about 50 yards away from where I hit him and fell of a damn cliff. Seriously.
When I got up to him I noticed he DID have a right side antler, and it might have just been broken in a fight. My hunting buddy (who has been a guide on some of the biggest game ranches around, and knows his stuff) looked at it, and his opinion is that it was a stub, and it has been rubbed a lot to make it look broken. But anyway, he was a darn big deer for this area.
Pics:
When I pulled the game cam pics, I got a selfie of him from a few days ago
You can see in the selfie and the full body shot that he had a knee issue. It was all swollen up, and when I was disassembling him, I found his knee was broken. But he moved around just fine- which was strange. No limping or anything.
No autopsy photos, because I basically cut his throat with a bullet.
So, I dropped the hammer on him. Shot stats- Distance: laser measured 130 yards. Gun- DPMS LR-308 (AR-10ish) in .308 Win with a Redfield 3-9x40. Ammo- Horandy Custom factory ammo with the 168Gr A-MAX. Shot Placement- Neck (foot was still not 100%, did not want to track him, and did not want headshot because I wanted the skull intact). Shot missed the spine, but cut the main arteries and trachea. Deer got about 50 yards away from where I hit him and fell of a damn cliff. Seriously.
When I got up to him I noticed he DID have a right side antler, and it might have just been broken in a fight. My hunting buddy (who has been a guide on some of the biggest game ranches around, and knows his stuff) looked at it, and his opinion is that it was a stub, and it has been rubbed a lot to make it look broken. But anyway, he was a darn big deer for this area.
Pics:
When I pulled the game cam pics, I got a selfie of him from a few days ago
You can see in the selfie and the full body shot that he had a knee issue. It was all swollen up, and when I was disassembling him, I found his knee was broken. But he moved around just fine- which was strange. No limping or anything.
No autopsy photos, because I basically cut his throat with a bullet.
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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interesting rack for sure.
Good shot!
AKA: Former Founding Member
Nice cull and nice shot!
Well, a nice shot would have been hitting the spine and dropping him on the spot. Not sure if I wiffed the shot or the insane wind drifted the bullet a bit. But, meat in the freezer.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
That's what I always thought/ knew as well. Not sure if they were related or not, but for either reason- he needed to be taken
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Deer down is meat in the freezer and a cull accomplished.
Since I do hunt near a fenceline, I have gotten more reliant on head and neck shots. Not that I can't track them over the li e, but I have no idea who might be hunting over there, and if they would shoot at movement.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov