NOE buck

[Friends call me Pac]

Filled my last buck tag for the season. Saw he was limping badly and I am glad I could end his pain. He had a break or a bullet wound just above his knee, you can see it in the pic. About a 70 yard shot.



This is the 5th buck I have shot over the last 3 years while using my Rem 700 in 30.06 loaded with a NOE 311165 RF. I am impressed with the boolit and 4895 load. I have a 100% recovery rate so far. The longest tracking job was a 6 point I shot this year that went close to 100 yards, most have been dead right there or less than 20 yards.

[skeettx]

Well done
Great picture
Thank you for sharing
Mike

[Winger Ed.]

Good job.

Ya did it a favor. He needed to go.

I've shot a couple like that over the years.
I think they broke their leg getting caught/twisted into a tangle when jumping over a 4 or 5 ft high wire fence.

[white eagle]

good going
nice work and now as they say the work begins

[444ttd]

nice buck!!!!

[missionary5155]

Good afternoon and Congratulations !
Another corn cruncher who will be good to eat.
Mike in LLama Land

[shortlegs]

Nice deer. Glad that you used a boolit to take him. He should be excellent table fair!

[TCLouis]

And that was how much 4895?
H or I ?

[Jedman]

Congrats ! Nice buck.

Jedman

[winelover]

Congrats on the buck. What zone are you in? I'm in Zone 3 and modern gun season ended, December 1st.........been back to bow for the last two weeks. The second three day muzzle loading starts tomorrow, here.

Winelover

[Tripplebeards]

You did it a favor. I’m sure that deer would have rather been taken out by a bullet then be chased down by a pack of coyotes and ripped apart. I finished a forker years ago that had a broken front foot with my muzzleloader. It look like somebody shot it just above the hoof. It had a hole in it you could see through and was turning black like the knee on yours.

[AlaskaMike]

I'm guessing you haven't been able to recover any bullets? I'm curious what kind of expansion you might be getting.

[725]

Well done. Also interested in the load data. H or I and how much.

[Friends call me Pac]

Congrats on the buck. What zone are you in? I'm in Zone 3 and modern gun season ended, December 1st.........been back to bow for the last two weeks. The second three day muzzle loading starts tomorrow, here.

Winelover

Zone 9 3 days left if you include today.

[Friends call me Pac]

H4895 29gr with 1 gr dacron filler. 50:50 pure lead and wheel weight mix

[Friends call me Pac]

Only recovered 1 bullet. It can be seen in the link below. The rest have all been complete pass throughs.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...r-w-NOE-311165

[smoked turkey]

Good job on the deer and using a boolit makes it a little more special I think. I also use 50/50 mix for hunting and find it does a fine job on deer and bear. I looked back at the boolit you recovered and it was perfect as far as expansion is concerned. Mine this year was from a 311291 in a .308. That boolit is a little more "pointy" than I like for hunting but it did a wonderful job on the 6 point. I didn't recover the boolit, so all I have is the result (dead deer-ran 20 yards) which speaks pretty loudly to me.

[merlin101]

I've never recovered any of MY bullets but for three years in a row the deer that I did shoot all had .22 bullets in them! One had one round in the neck and the other two where shot in the hind quarters. Two had healed good and the third was fresh and slightly infected.