Indiana shooter
11-27-2015, 11:35 AM
First off I'd like to thank everyone that helped me out along the way rather directly or indirectly. 44man, thanks for your time and research on load data that helped me "tune" my cast loads so that I fell confident using a handgun past "archery range". As well as showing me that a non-expanding boolit with a wide meplat can be just as deviating as a HP. Thanks to popper for your research into alloying copper with the PB. Larry Gibson, through many of your post you have helped me understand much of this art. Bangerjim, you post on powder coating allowed me to jump right in to PCing with confidence. Along with countless other that has saved me many years of trial and error as well as keeping me safe wile I explore my own path.
This year has been a bad one for me. We have been working 70-80 hours a week since February. That has left me little time to hunt as I normally would, couple that with the fact that I lost my primary hunting grounds because of Idiots I am way behind on my usual quota.
Wednesday morning I got off work and headed straight for the woods with my trusty SBH bisley hunter chambered in .44 mag. After fighting traffic I finally made it to the woods around 9 O'clock and settled in for a long hunt. The morning and midday was uneventful other then a couple of squirrels that I enjoyed watching play. After working all night I gave in to my exhaustion and fell asleep sometime around 3. I awoke to something crashing through the woods. When I found the source of all the commotion I saw a doe running full sprint across the bottom. I was unable to get her to stop. Seconds behind her was a small 6 pt buck giving chase. I whistled and got him to stop in an opening about 50 yards off. I cocked the hammer and searched for the dot in my UltraDot, but to no avail. Amongst all the excitement I had forgotten to turn it on :oops:. I reached up with my left hand and set the brightness setting to 4. Placed the dot on his chest and squeezed the trigger. The deer kicked hard and ran off into the thicket.
I waited 45 minutes and gave chase. After walking to the last place I saw the deer I quickly picked up on a very obvious blood trail. I tracked the deer only 40 or so yards into the thicket and found my deer laying at the end.
The boolit struck him in the chest traversing through one lung, liver and gut before exiting just in front of the ham. The load was a 265gr RD from a NOE that was an alloy of 95 Pb/3 Sb/2 Sn PCed with HF red loaded over 22.5 gr of H-110.
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This was the exit hole.
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Definitely not the biggest deer in the woods but he'll eat good.
This year has been a bad one for me. We have been working 70-80 hours a week since February. That has left me little time to hunt as I normally would, couple that with the fact that I lost my primary hunting grounds because of Idiots I am way behind on my usual quota.
Wednesday morning I got off work and headed straight for the woods with my trusty SBH bisley hunter chambered in .44 mag. After fighting traffic I finally made it to the woods around 9 O'clock and settled in for a long hunt. The morning and midday was uneventful other then a couple of squirrels that I enjoyed watching play. After working all night I gave in to my exhaustion and fell asleep sometime around 3. I awoke to something crashing through the woods. When I found the source of all the commotion I saw a doe running full sprint across the bottom. I was unable to get her to stop. Seconds behind her was a small 6 pt buck giving chase. I whistled and got him to stop in an opening about 50 yards off. I cocked the hammer and searched for the dot in my UltraDot, but to no avail. Amongst all the excitement I had forgotten to turn it on :oops:. I reached up with my left hand and set the brightness setting to 4. Placed the dot on his chest and squeezed the trigger. The deer kicked hard and ran off into the thicket.
I waited 45 minutes and gave chase. After walking to the last place I saw the deer I quickly picked up on a very obvious blood trail. I tracked the deer only 40 or so yards into the thicket and found my deer laying at the end.
The boolit struck him in the chest traversing through one lung, liver and gut before exiting just in front of the ham. The load was a 265gr RD from a NOE that was an alloy of 95 Pb/3 Sb/2 Sn PCed with HF red loaded over 22.5 gr of H-110.
154285
This was the exit hole.
154286
Definitely not the biggest deer in the woods but he'll eat good.