Grendel99
12-05-2013, 11:13 PM
I have been having my best hunting season ever. I've shot 4 does, 4 bucks, a hog, and a coyote. One doe, one buck, and the coyote were shot with rifles but the rest were with handguns (I love to handgun hunt). I shot my first revolver deer (a doe) and revolver buck this year while using my own cast bullets, and I posted about those earlier in the season. This past weekend was a couple more firsts as well. I doubled on bucks with my revolver and shot my first big boar. I have shot a good many hogs, but just never was able to connect with a big boar until this weekend.
I went hunting Saturday morning with a friend and it was nice and cold with just a little bit of wind. I was in my ground blind in an oak bottom with a tiny little stream running through it. I got in and settled about 45 minutes before light. With the sun slowly coming up, but not enough light to see anything really, I could see an outline of a deer 30 yards in front of me eating corn. It was too dark to tell what it was but I could see through the binoculars that it did not have a rack. It seemed very nervous and was walking in circles. Then it threw its tail up, ran off, and started blowing! When it ran off, there was another deer I couldn't see, that ran away with the first one. The wind was perfect and I had been in the stand for almost 45 minutes already being perfectly still and quiet. Not sure what spooked those two deer and I thought my hunt was pretty much ruined for the morning. It was quiet until about 8 am. I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I was reading a book and didn't even hear the deer come in. I looked up and there was a buck standing 30 yards away! He was standing there, eating corn and directly facing me. He stood there for several minutes without moving, which I thought was a little strange. He stayed in the same spot for almost 10 minutes without moving except for his head and neck. He was a nice wide 6 point and I decided to take him. He finally moved a little to one side so I had a very steep quartering shot. I placed the crosshairs on his shoulder and sent a cast hollow point into him. He dropped at the shot and then kicked around and almost got back up. He was laying down but his head was up and looking around. I thought I goofed the shot and was about to put another bullet into him when his head started to slowly drop until it hit the dirt and then he was done. The bullet didn't exit and I really wanted to see how that cast HP did. I looked everywhere when we were skinning it and couldn't find it! I even cut the stomach open and went through it. I thought it fell out somehow when we were skinning or it was in the intestines somewhere. Well, I was butchering up the meat at the house the next day and while cutting up one of the hams, I found it in his knee! The bullet did really well considering it went through one shoulder, pretty much the entire length of the deer, and busted up his leg as well. The bullet was a Lyman 429640 cast of wheel weights with some tin. http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-917-1386214213582_zps16796b8e.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-917-1386214213582_zps16796b8e.jpg.html)
As I was sitting there still shaking from buck fever and just enjoying the moment, I see movement to the left and a little doe comes walking into the opening. She slams on the brakes when she sees the downed buck and starts freaking out. She stomps her foot and keeps bobbing her head and then slowly walks off. I thought to myself, well the deer are still moving so maybe I will see something else if I move that buck. So I moved the buck behind my blind out of sight from the corn and while doing so, scared off the small doe who was still hanging around. Another hour goes by and I hadn't seen anything and neither had my friend, so we decided to call it a day. He sends me a text, telling me he is own his way to help drag out my buck. I start getting my stuff together and was making a decent amount of noise and was about to get out of the blind when movement caught my eye. Another deer was coming to the corn from straight back. I quickly texted my friend to not come back to my blind. It turned out it was a button buck and when I was looking at it through the binoculars I saw more movement behind him and antlers! The button buck came right into the corn without a second thought, but the buck behind him was much more cautious. He circled around and then slowly came in from the side. Something didn't look right when he was in the thick trees and when he came out into the opening I saw why. His whole main beam above his brow tine was busted off on one side. He also had a darker coat and looked older. When he turned broad side at 35 yards, I dropped him with another cast hollow point from the .44 Mag Super Blackhawk Hunter. I had two bucks down within an hour! I've never shot two deer in the same day before, much less two bucks. http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-11175-1385848560029_zps157b0616.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-11175-1385848560029_zps157b0616.jpg.html)
When skinning out the first buck, both his legs and some ribs on one side were broken and starting to heal over. Looks like he was hit by a car and explains why he didn't move around much when I saw him. He also had a puncture wound in his neck (fighting?) and he had several wounds on his body. I also found several shotgun pellets in him while skinning, but they were small, like number 2 shot. The other buck's ear was slit all the way down to his head and he had these big worms in his head. They looked like big maggots, about an inch or so long and about a quarter inch thick. Never seen anything like that before. The buck must of been hurt from fighting when he broke his main beam, was probably in some serious pain.
The next day I went hunting with another friend. It was an afternoon hunt and was VERY quiet and still. It was eerie how quiet everything was. I was hoping he would get something (turned out he didn't even see anything) and I sat in a stand where the feeder wasn't working and didn't think I would see anything. I wasn't planning on shooting another deer unless it was a huge buck but would shoot a hog if one presented itself. I hadn't seen a thing, but had a deer come up behind me and down wind and busted me. I didn't even know it was there until I heard it blowing and then tear off through the brush and never saw what it was. Thirty or forty minutes before dark, movement catches my eye just to the left of the feeder. It was a hog, a decent sized one too, inching his way out to the empty feeder. I didn't think he would hang around very long seeing as there wasn't any corn and there hadn't been for several days. Soon as I saw enough to shoot, I put a 140gr Berger into his shoulder and he dropped. I was using a fireform load for the 6.5-270 JDJ Encore pistol and the shot was about 80 yards. The hog was a big chocolate brown boar that weighed 198 lbs and the bullet destroyed the shoulder on the entrance, turned his lungs to mush and exited behind the off shoulder. I was surprised the Berger made it all the way through that big hog. Obviously I didn't use cast on the hog, but it happened the next day after shooting the bucks and I wanted to share. For a size comparison, I'm 6' 6" tall. Here is the hog: http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-13031-1385953848641_zps1e4178bc.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-13031-1385953848641_zps1e4178bc.jpg.html)
I went hunting Saturday morning with a friend and it was nice and cold with just a little bit of wind. I was in my ground blind in an oak bottom with a tiny little stream running through it. I got in and settled about 45 minutes before light. With the sun slowly coming up, but not enough light to see anything really, I could see an outline of a deer 30 yards in front of me eating corn. It was too dark to tell what it was but I could see through the binoculars that it did not have a rack. It seemed very nervous and was walking in circles. Then it threw its tail up, ran off, and started blowing! When it ran off, there was another deer I couldn't see, that ran away with the first one. The wind was perfect and I had been in the stand for almost 45 minutes already being perfectly still and quiet. Not sure what spooked those two deer and I thought my hunt was pretty much ruined for the morning. It was quiet until about 8 am. I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I was reading a book and didn't even hear the deer come in. I looked up and there was a buck standing 30 yards away! He was standing there, eating corn and directly facing me. He stood there for several minutes without moving, which I thought was a little strange. He stayed in the same spot for almost 10 minutes without moving except for his head and neck. He was a nice wide 6 point and I decided to take him. He finally moved a little to one side so I had a very steep quartering shot. I placed the crosshairs on his shoulder and sent a cast hollow point into him. He dropped at the shot and then kicked around and almost got back up. He was laying down but his head was up and looking around. I thought I goofed the shot and was about to put another bullet into him when his head started to slowly drop until it hit the dirt and then he was done. The bullet didn't exit and I really wanted to see how that cast HP did. I looked everywhere when we were skinning it and couldn't find it! I even cut the stomach open and went through it. I thought it fell out somehow when we were skinning or it was in the intestines somewhere. Well, I was butchering up the meat at the house the next day and while cutting up one of the hams, I found it in his knee! The bullet did really well considering it went through one shoulder, pretty much the entire length of the deer, and busted up his leg as well. The bullet was a Lyman 429640 cast of wheel weights with some tin. http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-917-1386214213582_zps16796b8e.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-917-1386214213582_zps16796b8e.jpg.html)
As I was sitting there still shaking from buck fever and just enjoying the moment, I see movement to the left and a little doe comes walking into the opening. She slams on the brakes when she sees the downed buck and starts freaking out. She stomps her foot and keeps bobbing her head and then slowly walks off. I thought to myself, well the deer are still moving so maybe I will see something else if I move that buck. So I moved the buck behind my blind out of sight from the corn and while doing so, scared off the small doe who was still hanging around. Another hour goes by and I hadn't seen anything and neither had my friend, so we decided to call it a day. He sends me a text, telling me he is own his way to help drag out my buck. I start getting my stuff together and was making a decent amount of noise and was about to get out of the blind when movement caught my eye. Another deer was coming to the corn from straight back. I quickly texted my friend to not come back to my blind. It turned out it was a button buck and when I was looking at it through the binoculars I saw more movement behind him and antlers! The button buck came right into the corn without a second thought, but the buck behind him was much more cautious. He circled around and then slowly came in from the side. Something didn't look right when he was in the thick trees and when he came out into the opening I saw why. His whole main beam above his brow tine was busted off on one side. He also had a darker coat and looked older. When he turned broad side at 35 yards, I dropped him with another cast hollow point from the .44 Mag Super Blackhawk Hunter. I had two bucks down within an hour! I've never shot two deer in the same day before, much less two bucks. http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-11175-1385848560029_zps157b0616.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-11175-1385848560029_zps157b0616.jpg.html)
When skinning out the first buck, both his legs and some ribs on one side were broken and starting to heal over. Looks like he was hit by a car and explains why he didn't move around much when I saw him. He also had a puncture wound in his neck (fighting?) and he had several wounds on his body. I also found several shotgun pellets in him while skinning, but they were small, like number 2 shot. The other buck's ear was slit all the way down to his head and he had these big worms in his head. They looked like big maggots, about an inch or so long and about a quarter inch thick. Never seen anything like that before. The buck must of been hurt from fighting when he broke his main beam, was probably in some serious pain.
The next day I went hunting with another friend. It was an afternoon hunt and was VERY quiet and still. It was eerie how quiet everything was. I was hoping he would get something (turned out he didn't even see anything) and I sat in a stand where the feeder wasn't working and didn't think I would see anything. I wasn't planning on shooting another deer unless it was a huge buck but would shoot a hog if one presented itself. I hadn't seen a thing, but had a deer come up behind me and down wind and busted me. I didn't even know it was there until I heard it blowing and then tear off through the brush and never saw what it was. Thirty or forty minutes before dark, movement catches my eye just to the left of the feeder. It was a hog, a decent sized one too, inching his way out to the empty feeder. I didn't think he would hang around very long seeing as there wasn't any corn and there hadn't been for several days. Soon as I saw enough to shoot, I put a 140gr Berger into his shoulder and he dropped. I was using a fireform load for the 6.5-270 JDJ Encore pistol and the shot was about 80 yards. The hog was a big chocolate brown boar that weighed 198 lbs and the bullet destroyed the shoulder on the entrance, turned his lungs to mush and exited behind the off shoulder. I was surprised the Berger made it all the way through that big hog. Obviously I didn't use cast on the hog, but it happened the next day after shooting the bucks and I wanted to share. For a size comparison, I'm 6' 6" tall. Here is the hog: http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy182/Albatross926/photobucket-13031-1385953848641_zps1e4178bc.jpg (http://s790.photobucket.com/user/Albatross926/media/photobucket-13031-1385953848641_zps1e4178bc.jpg.html)