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My son took his first deer today
bullsi1911
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Details to follow. 70 yard shot, CZ-527 in 7.62x39 with a 125gr Sierra Game king handload through the shoulder. Ran 30 yards and piled up.
Very proud, and he is very happy with his first deer
Very proud, and he is very happy with his first deer
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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-Mikhail Kalashnikov
"The Un-Tactical"
Reuters, Dec 2020.
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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Get out out to the blind at about 3:15 or so, and get set up. We know that a real nice 8 pint has been showing up around 5 or so, so we settle in to wait. The kiddo opens a bag of Goldfish crackers, and is munching away when two small “cull” bucks (one spike, one asymmetrical 4 point) come in to the feeder and are acting real spooky and sniffing the air, then run off. Lesson learned- deer can smell Goldfish... and they don’t like it. We close up the bag and hope that wasn’t our chance at deer for the evening.
Not much later, two doe come out of the brush and start nosing around in the grass. The kiddo starts getting excited and sets up the rifle. I set up my rifle to be backup when I hear him whisper “a buck is coming in!” From his angle, he can see it, and I can’t. His six point comes out, and he whispers “can I take this one?”
”If that’s the one you want, yes.”
I’m looking at him through the scope on my Henry 45-70, and waiting. “Are you going to shoot this one?”
”Yeah, but his shoulder is behind the feeder leg”
I smile inside that he is picking his shot and has the patience to wait for the right one.
Finally, the deer steps forward and presents a perfect broadside. The kiddo breaks the shot, and I see the impact hit the shoulder and the buck pull up the leg and start to run. I hate tracking deer, so I drop the hammer right before the buck makes it into the trees...
”click!”
what the everloving ..... happened? I cycle the lever, and hear the kiddo run the bolt on the CZ almost as fast as I did on the Henry’s lever (another proud papa moment- he kept on the gun, and ran the bolt like a damn champ!). Kiddo wanted to go chase immediately, but I thought him that we wait, let him lay down and don’t scare him now or he will run to the next zip code
I find the 45-70 round on the floor of the blind. Light strike on the primer. Now I need to find out what the hell happened there.
After about 5 minutes, we started to track. It was very hard to find a trail, just little tiny blood spots. I find one good spot, and I’m looking for the next when the kiddo says “I bet he went behind that tree there”
I did not really put any stock in that wild guess, and probably just grunted and nodded while trying to find the next little speck of blood.
Kiddo comes running back “HE’S RIGHT THERE!!”
The deer had run only about 30 yards total. Piled up right behind that tree like the kiddo guessed.
Did not get any autopsy photos, but the bullet entered the shoulder and totally destroyed it. Hit bone, the chest cavity was shredded as the bullet looked to have fragmented, heart was gone, lungs shredded, and there were two exit points. One behind the other shoulder, one right in front. Best guess it the bullet broke in two after hitting the bone, and the bone fragments and bullet parts shredded the heart and lungs. I was surprised by the damage from a lower powered round like that.
Just got back from taking the head to the taxidermist to get it European mounted.
I could not be prouder.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
I also shoot that caliber in the woods deer and hog hunting and have been very happy with the performance.
Thats awesome bullsi!! A great memory you and your son will always share. The first of many happy hunting trips.
In all honesty, I think you would’ve felt prett bad if you put a bullet in your son’s first deer. Looking back in life, I don’t think he would’ve felt like it was truly his.
Reuters, Dec 2020.