Post by bluedot on Nov 29, 2017 23:45:34 GMT -5
I'm sitting in a wooded edge watching a field, looking at where a scrape is on the other side. cloth folding "camping" chair with arms, the gun is resting on a Primos Trigger Stick tripod. 10 min before last light I glance to my left and see 3 does in the field. Dang, where did they come from? I twist around, move the trigger sticks & the rifle. Grab the range finder just as a bigger, darker deer walks out into the field. Little ones are at 200 yd, but I gotta grab the binoculars because I have to shoot a doe before I can shoot a buck. "Earn a buck" county.. Well, that large deer is a doe, but she's busted me, looking right at me from about 230 yds. I hurry, put the binocs down, get on the gun and give it a fast squeeze before she busts out the way she came. All 4 deer run into the woods. Oh great, did I blow the shot?
Got a flashlight, can't find any blood. Went to the edge of the woods, can't find any blood. Walk back and forth grid searching in the woods for about 75 yds each way from where I saw them run into the woods. Finally find this doe about 50-60 yds into the woods. The red spot on her shoulder is the entrance, the bullet came out right aft of the last rib on the other side. No blood trail whatsoever, none at all. If I would have given up looking like some guys, the coyotes would have had dinner. I found her 1/2 hr after I started looking.
Dang near killed me dragging her out. I got lucky and the landowner came home and he called his neighbor that has a bucket on his tractor to get it in the truck bed. I had to drag her about 350 yds.
Once on the scale at home she dragged the needle to 139 pounds.
Why no blood? Got me. The entrance was a hair lower than the exit, When field dressed, the top of the heart was not there - the heart was no longer connected to any of the arteries/veins. She ran about 100 yds before piling up.
.243 pushing an 85 grain Barnes TSX bullet @ 3250 fps. Gotta hit the sack and get back out there tomorrow morning. This makes #6 for the season, I kept the one 8 point and I will keep this one, the rest were given away to people that could use them.
Dang. If anybody with admin privileges can resize the picture, go ahead, that is beyond my pay grade. This is just how imgur has it.