Boerrancher
11-03-2013, 09:02 PM
This weekend was youth firearms season here in Mo. Yesterday I spent all day out with my daughter and we didn't see a deer. I don't have my boy's custom rifle finished so unlike my daughter, he had to barrow one of mine. He chose my M92 Rossi in 45 LC because it is light and he can shoot it well. I have used it a time or two on whitetails with great success by pushing a Lee 452-255-RN with 11 grains of Unique.
We headed out before daylight and sat in the blind up on the ridge overlooking the 7 acre food plot. It was 20 degrees when we left the house and by 7:30 the boy wanted to head home. I convinced him we needed to check the bean fields and paw paw patch before we went in. I saw I deer in the brush at the edge of the big bean field and the back yard. I managed to get the boy about 30 yards away before the deer started acting a bit nervous. I told him to shoot it. I knew it was a buck but in the brush I couldn't tell how big it was there in the brush.
He pulled the hammer back and took a quick but careful aim and squeezed the trigger. I saw the deer stagger, then cut and run around the edge of the field and into the brush near the creek. I knew he was hit hard and the boy was worried that he had missed. I made him go check where the deer was standing to look for blood. He found some and I made him start trailing. At one point he couldn't find any blood and I showed him how to track with out blood. After about 30 yards he found blood at the fence. The deer was laying on the other side about 20 ft past it stone dead.
He walked up to it as did I and I told him he needed to count the points. I knew it was a nice one. It turned out to be the 8 point I had been seeing on my game cam. Not bad for his first deer and with a cast boolit to top it off. Here are a couple of photos.
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We headed out before daylight and sat in the blind up on the ridge overlooking the 7 acre food plot. It was 20 degrees when we left the house and by 7:30 the boy wanted to head home. I convinced him we needed to check the bean fields and paw paw patch before we went in. I saw I deer in the brush at the edge of the big bean field and the back yard. I managed to get the boy about 30 yards away before the deer started acting a bit nervous. I told him to shoot it. I knew it was a buck but in the brush I couldn't tell how big it was there in the brush.
He pulled the hammer back and took a quick but careful aim and squeezed the trigger. I saw the deer stagger, then cut and run around the edge of the field and into the brush near the creek. I knew he was hit hard and the boy was worried that he had missed. I made him go check where the deer was standing to look for blood. He found some and I made him start trailing. At one point he couldn't find any blood and I showed him how to track with out blood. After about 30 yards he found blood at the fence. The deer was laying on the other side about 20 ft past it stone dead.
He walked up to it as did I and I told him he needed to count the points. I knew it was a nice one. It turned out to be the 8 point I had been seeing on my game cam. Not bad for his first deer and with a cast boolit to top it off. Here are a couple of photos.
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