Orchard6
11-30-2015, 09:42 PM
Deer season started out pretty slow around here this year. Not near the deer movement as I've seen in the past. I've only seen 1 set of horns all firearms season and it was just a lil' fella with some small spikes. So since I wasn't seeing any horns to Oooo and Ahhh over I decided to fill the freezer!
The first doe I took popped out of the swamp I overlook at about 30 yards broadside. I put the front sight of my Rossi 92 on the top of her front shoulder and touched it off! Bang flop right there and she was down for the count
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I stayed in the shed for a while just to see what else may come along and out popped another doe larger than the one I already had down but she wasn't sticking around long enough for a shot so I took care of the deer I already had down.
A few days later the big doe I had seen before made a fatal mistake of assuming I wasn't in my shed, boy she was wrong! She came out of the swamp some 80 yards west of me with a few other does but there was no mistaking her as she was quite a good bit larger than the others. She walked straight towards my location to about 40 yards when she just started to quarter a little to the south. I put the sight just ahead of her left shoulder as with the angle she was on that's where my instinct said to put it. I squeezed the trigger and I had another bang/flop on my hands! This little "pip squeak" .357 sure is getting good at laying them out! Both were shot with a Lee 358-158 rnfp cast of acww, pc'ed and unsized over 17.6 grains of Lil' Gun with a velocity of 1925 fps over my chrono.
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Now that the freezer is full I hope to see some horns during muzzleloader season!
The first doe I took popped out of the swamp I overlook at about 30 yards broadside. I put the front sight of my Rossi 92 on the top of her front shoulder and touched it off! Bang flop right there and she was down for the count
http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w548/orchard6/Mobile%20Uploads/D330EEFB-8351-460C-87CF-B9FE62A4C9D6_zpsssmiyvwc.jpg (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/orchard6/media/Mobile%20Uploads/D330EEFB-8351-460C-87CF-B9FE62A4C9D6_zpsssmiyvwc.jpg.html)
I stayed in the shed for a while just to see what else may come along and out popped another doe larger than the one I already had down but she wasn't sticking around long enough for a shot so I took care of the deer I already had down.
A few days later the big doe I had seen before made a fatal mistake of assuming I wasn't in my shed, boy she was wrong! She came out of the swamp some 80 yards west of me with a few other does but there was no mistaking her as she was quite a good bit larger than the others. She walked straight towards my location to about 40 yards when she just started to quarter a little to the south. I put the sight just ahead of her left shoulder as with the angle she was on that's where my instinct said to put it. I squeezed the trigger and I had another bang/flop on my hands! This little "pip squeak" .357 sure is getting good at laying them out! Both were shot with a Lee 358-158 rnfp cast of acww, pc'ed and unsized over 17.6 grains of Lil' Gun with a velocity of 1925 fps over my chrono.
http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w548/orchard6/Mobile%20Uploads/A35502B8-4FBF-4077-BFD4-7F5757121212_zpsdrhxs5kx.jpg (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/orchard6/media/Mobile%20Uploads/A35502B8-4FBF-4077-BFD4-7F5757121212_zpsdrhxs5kx.jpg.html)
Now that the freezer is full I hope to see some horns during muzzleloader season!