This Tuesday was the second day of our combined buck and antlerless season. I was sitting in the blind at 9:30AM when four deer bounce into view. One older doe with two fawns barely out of spots and a middlin’ sized doe.
When that lone doe stopped at 41 yards I put the crosshair of the 2.5x Leupold Compact mounted on my T/C Katahdin.45-70 on her shoulder and loosed a 350gr NOE flat point boolit at 1,950fps. She jumped straight up and hit the ground running. I found her 25 yards away, 1/2” entry, 1” exit and heart reduced to a handful of burger.
That makes about six deer over the years with NOE’s copy of Ranch Dog’s bullet and it is boring. One and half inch groups at 100 yards from several rifles and venison in the freezer when you pull the trigger. I can live with “boring” at my age