This is the third time I was able to get out hunting this season with my .50 Hawken using 80gr of goex topped with a lubed mini ball. Well I guess third time is a charm.
It was foggy in the hills and all I had seen were a couple of doe heading in the opposite direction. I was about disgusted with the conditions and was headed back and almost to the truck when in the mist looked like a figure in the trail. It was a buck with no regard for me, he just kept walking slowly away. I fast walked quietly to close the distance to about 60 yards and gave the buck a kissing sound. At the time the buck had presented me with the old "Texas Heart Shot". I really didn't want to gut shoot and risk a painful death but with the kissing sound he stopped and presented a quartering away shot I figured I would aim for somewhere behind the shoulder. With a boom and a cloud of smoke the deer laid where had been standing. What the heck, why didn't he run. Then I saw the wound. Head shot.
an unrelated note: It was the first time I had caught one of these Ringtail cat. Too cute, I had to let him go.