Hickory
11-29-2010, 05:10 PM
Went deer hunting this mourning .Did not see anything, so at noon started back to the house for lunch. Two hundred yards from the house all h*ll breaks loose back in the woods that I’d just left.
Six deer run out into the center of an eighty acre field and stop. They are out about 140 yards. I have my S&W 44mag sighted in for 100yds. I was using Lyman’s devastator boolit. I can’t get a shot at the biggest buck, so I take the shot on the smaller one. At the shot the buck jumps into the air at the same time I hear the splat of the boolit striking flesh. The larger buck and three does run away from the woods and the other two does run back towards the woods. The buck that I’d shot turned and ran after the two does towards the woods, but not very fast. After about 75 yards it stops straddled legged. It was facing away from me so I started walking in its direction. All of a sudden it slowly collapsed where it was standing, but it still had its head up. He was too far away for another shot. So, I crouched down and waited for it to die. After a few minutes its head went down and I figured it was only a matter of time until it expired. 15 minutes goes by and the thing just stood up and walked stiff legged to the woods. After 20yds. It collapses again. Good, I think , all the good stuff is about used up. Its head goes down again and stays there for another 12-15 minutes. I walk towards the deer slowly and make about 50yds. before the deer struggles to its feet again and starts for the woods. Still too far for a shot. It staggers into the woods and a single shot. I see he go down. I walk to the deer and the guy that shot it was in the process of gutting it.
The guy says, “When the deer stopped and you shot I seen it was hit hard and figured you had him.” But when it started back towards the woods there was no way I could get a shot with you out in the field.”
“When it got into the woods and out of your line of sight I finished it off.”
My boolit went into its chest and into the lungs.
He offered the deer to me but I declined because he was not gutting it to my satisfaction.
Six deer run out into the center of an eighty acre field and stop. They are out about 140 yards. I have my S&W 44mag sighted in for 100yds. I was using Lyman’s devastator boolit. I can’t get a shot at the biggest buck, so I take the shot on the smaller one. At the shot the buck jumps into the air at the same time I hear the splat of the boolit striking flesh. The larger buck and three does run away from the woods and the other two does run back towards the woods. The buck that I’d shot turned and ran after the two does towards the woods, but not very fast. After about 75 yards it stops straddled legged. It was facing away from me so I started walking in its direction. All of a sudden it slowly collapsed where it was standing, but it still had its head up. He was too far away for another shot. So, I crouched down and waited for it to die. After a few minutes its head went down and I figured it was only a matter of time until it expired. 15 minutes goes by and the thing just stood up and walked stiff legged to the woods. After 20yds. It collapses again. Good, I think , all the good stuff is about used up. Its head goes down again and stays there for another 12-15 minutes. I walk towards the deer slowly and make about 50yds. before the deer struggles to its feet again and starts for the woods. Still too far for a shot. It staggers into the woods and a single shot. I see he go down. I walk to the deer and the guy that shot it was in the process of gutting it.
The guy says, “When the deer stopped and you shot I seen it was hit hard and figured you had him.” But when it started back towards the woods there was no way I could get a shot with you out in the field.”
“When it got into the woods and out of your line of sight I finished it off.”
My boolit went into its chest and into the lungs.
He offered the deer to me but I declined because he was not gutting it to my satisfaction.